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Be specific.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/07/26 11:30 PM
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They improved. Sexism against men not improving while sexism against women improving suggests, to me, that society doesn’t properly deincentivize sexism.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/07/26 04:09 PM
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I don’t believe attitudes towards men have shifted whereas attitudes toward women noticeably shifted. Pretty skeptical myself.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/07/26 02:47 AM
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A key part of how these LLMs are trained is using curated, high-quality data at the end of the pretraining stage (where model learns knowledge via a massive corpora of text). This is called annealing, and it improves the model’s intelligence by significantly reducing the probability of degenerate outputs (e.g. 2 + 2 = 5) in favor of quality outputs (2 + 2 = 4). This data consists of research papers, carefully processed textbooks, synthetic data (content generated by the model via prompting), and…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/07/26 08:05 PM
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Can you please cite your sources? The evidence I'm finding suggests that there are many cases in which multiple women are impregnated by a single man in these skewed sex situations. Just to add the source I already provided: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167268122002591: 4:1 female-to-male ratio, high out-of-wedlock births, polygamy tolerated https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014292120302117 : Shows German women of the WW2 cohort married later and …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/07/26 04:34 AM
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I would argue that women have not transcended their gender. They instead rely heavily on gender norms that already gave women a significant amount of social freedom. Consider this: in most societies, women have generally always been a protected class. It’s just that in the present era, they managed to shed away many of the reciprocal obligations—childcare, domestic labor, and so on—because societies in developed nations have advanced enough that those roles have been subsumed (e.g. by technology…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/07/26 08:45 AM
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When short-term goals precede long-term goals, and the people are going to pay for it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/07/26 03:36 AM
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> Feminism was meant to be about breaking down gender barriers but it falls into the trap of traditional gender expectations. Per the Seneca Falls Declaration: That inasmuch as man, while claiming for himself intellectual superiority, does accord to woman moral superionty. it is pre-eminently his duty to encourage her to speak and teach. as she has an opportunity, in all religious assemblies. That the same amount of virtue, delicacy, and refinement of behavior that is required of woman in the so…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/07/26 03:07 AM
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No, that's a completely different argument. I am saying there are certain factors that incentivize(d) certain decisions by institutions. It should not be treated as a moral analysis. Treat it as a statement operating in the same lens of, "In times of severe famine, many see cannibalism as a necessary action for survival."
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/26 04:46 PM
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Equality demands symmetry. Any movement fighting for asymmetry is not fighting for equality.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/26 05:06 AM
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I think we are talking past each other though we’re talking about the same general concept. I am not referring to biological determinism as a form of fate—I am instead suggesting that there is a strong default that societies (and institutions in this case) tend toward because of biological realities. I would argue that selecting boys because they will become useful for violence is still a form of expendability; they are instrumentally valued, yes, but also treated as replaceable enough to waste …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/26 04:08 AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/26 03:49 AM
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Very convincing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/26 03:41 AM
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> different perceptions of male expendability. I'm not sure there are different cultures that differ on this particular aspect. As an amateur, I researched this across many cultures historically. As far as I could tell, they all fundamentally treated men as expendable in labor and violent conflict. On a micro-level, I'd say you get effects derived from the macro importance of women. To a significant degree, it was also historically the case that physique mattered a lot. 12-year-olds would likely…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/26 12:10 AM
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I have added counter evidence to my comment. And yes, it absolutely has everything to do with my comment. Tradition is key here! Societal change takes a very long time to occur.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/07/26 11:52 PM
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Consider this: women aren't inherently better parents but societies operate as though it is true--it's just an evolution of how women had historically played an important societal role as caretakers while men worked. "A man protects his wife and kids" is a common social pressure. And to your point: evidence shows that out-of-wedlock births increased around that period in countries with a downfall of available men (e.g. Russia, Germany). Following WW2, for instance, the share of nonmarital births…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/07/26 11:45 PM
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Yeah. I don’t think the Chinese government would generally allow something like this as they try to avoid tension between their citizens.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/07/26 06:13 PM
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My opinion: Population growth—and thus amount of industry or talent—is constrained by the population of women, not men. From a society-centric perspective, men are fundamentally expendable in a way women aren’t.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/07/26 06:11 PM
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Per Wikipedia, this is the final death tally: > 156 people were killed in the strike; the victims included 120 students (73 boys and 47 girls), 26 teachers (all of whom were women), seven parents of students (four men and three women), a school bus driver, a pharmacy technician from a nearby clinic, and a six-month-old fetus.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/07/26 04:49 AM
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It's also a way for them to move goal posts. It doesn't matter whether it happened today or five hundred years ago—it's completely orthogonal
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/07/26 03:38 PM
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Nobody should be above the law. Nobody should be below the law.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/07/26 10:49 PM
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"Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal supporter; prudence -> hesitation, specious -> cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question incapacity to act on any. Frantic violence became the attribute of manliness; cautious plotting a justifiable means of self-defense. The advocate of extreme measures was always trustworthy; his opponent…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/07/26 10:20 PM
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It's like colonialism in a sense—silence the other'd group so that only you can speak for them and thus push any agenda you want. To destroy the system, we need to put our voices out there.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/07/26 01:29 AM
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I would love a meta-analysis on how replicateable studies founded on feminism are. I suspect they tend to be less replicateable.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/07/26 05:30 AM
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If you go on r/politics right now, you can see the femosphere in action about Platner with the rape allegations. I’m like, “Am I on r/conservative with the way these people are talking about a group of people (men)?”
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/07/26 05:26 AM
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Yeah. I mean, if you actually look at the numerous societies throughout history, feminism is kept alive by traditional gender roles. Societies have generally always tried to look after women to ensure they had comparatively good lives within the zeitgeist. The patriarchy myth is literally ancient—“women must be protected from men.”
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/07/26 04:27 AM
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A claim that relies on distortion to survive is a claim that shouldn't survive in the first place. Or in other words: reality doesn't need to be manipulated to exist.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/07/26 08:22 PM
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Young men are generally feeling frustrated in a way that previous generations of men haven’t been—probably because of how blatantly radicalized young women (and generally, feminists) have become. But the apathy even is so astounding. It reminds me of attitudes toward Israel and Palestine prior to the past few years—people generally didn’t give a fuck and backed Israel by default.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates03/07/26 12:37 AM
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You know that school that got hit in Iran? Everyone was talking about the girls. Well, the majority of the deaths were actually boys in a 2:1 ratio…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/07/26 04:10 AM
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I’ve consolidated a variety of known logical fallacies feminists use to make their ideology unfalsifiable. The original statement is the bailey: "We call for women and girls to be placed at the center of rescue efforts and immediate humanitarian response." When challenged, they retreated to the motte: "It's UN Women's account, it's allowed to mention women, it's a specialized agency, it shouldn't talk about men." The motte is then used to act as though it justifies the bailey—that having a manda…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/07/26 04:08 AM
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I think it's dangerous to claim that there aren't some aspects of society in which women weren't treated worse than men simply because they were women Just to clarify, that wasn't what I was trying to say. I was trying to say that there's a lack of concrete, unbiased evidence that history was about men oppressing women. Men had also been treated worse than women in some aspects, which I think is too often missed.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/06/26 05:34 PM
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Feminism has always been defined in terms of women's advocacy/supremacy. That it ever meant equality is a revisionist lie. Try reading the Seneca Falls Declaration. Notice how everything wrong is because of "He?" Would a movement about equality not also mention the ways women disproportionately benefited from gender roles so as to advocate for men's rights? In other words, the premise has always been, "Woman is the moral creature. Man is the despotic ruler." Even framing a lot of what feminists …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/06/26 01:37 AM
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> Also, I'm terrible with history and names whether past or present, which makes it hard to respond to "No True Scotsman" fallacies of "real feminists don't try to deny men's rights". I’m skeptical that this has ever actually worked. Feminists have a repertoire of 100+ different logical fallacies to fall back to which conveniently allow them to push another fallacy whenever you push back on one of them. It is like trying not to drown dozens of meters in an underwater cave by thinking you’ll some…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/06/26 08:17 AM
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I strongly believe that humans work best when we can peacefully debate differing perspectives.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/06/26 08:37 PM
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This is actually why I prefer talking to people on the general right. I can’t think of a time in recent history where I’ve been attacked by someone on the right. Sure, argued, but seldom ever any ad hominem attacks. I wonder if it’s because right-wing people are more open to ideas, though, or that I’ve been taught to see open-minded people as right-wing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/06/26 05:44 PM
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And any example in which feminism benefited men was indirect; never intentional. This is the hierarchy of human value within the feminist model—men do not deserve assistance. If they had more leverage, you can bet your ass that they'd 100% worm in exclusion clauses targeted at men (as if they haven't already).
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/06/26 09:46 PM
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It's called "poisoning the well." By preemptively discrediting a person or category of person, feminists can make their framework unfalsifiable. Examples: any man who criticizes feminism is inherently suspect because of his "male privilege;" any critique of feminist claims is "right-wing" or "anti-woman;" any woman who is critical of feminism is a "pick-me" or has "internalized misogyny" due to indoctrination by the "patriarchy." All assumed; all detached from a valid premise. All designed to de…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/06/26 09:19 PM
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Yes.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/06/26 07:24 AM
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If it weren't for the fact that most people hide their Reddit histories nowadays, I would've created a bot to crawl through their histories to regurgitate what they themselves said back at them.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/06/26 08:47 PM
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So, I'm just briefly looking into this, but it seems to be related to how training data used for these embedding models--which is what's responsible for semantic search nowadays--strongly correlate misandry with violence against women. This is likely because "misandry" in academic literature often appears in relation to "harm" caused to women (e.g. manosphere). And academic papers tend to be weighed heavily by these model makers because it's assumed that they're higher quality than the general i…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/06/26 06:18 AM
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I didn’t because these patterns transcend centralized political or economic systems. These patterns have existed for at least as long as kinship-based communities and continue to exist to this day. Take for instance hunter-gatherer society—it was a practical necessity that men hunted while women gathered. Looking at it through a lens of natural selection, any society in which women were responsible for hunting is far likelier to go extinct because population growth would slow down or eventually …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/06/26 11:56 PM
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I encourage people to read this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates/comments/1rwq451/genderbased_discrimination_in_history_is_taught/ That men had generally one-sidedly oppressed women is a complete myth. Men and women were discriminated against in different ways.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/06/26 12:53 AM
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What’s crazy is that the market revolution properly began the gender wars in the U.S. when many men were upset at women for driving wages down (because they their own families to feed)… but that was because the wealthy guys wanted cheap labor rather than because they genuinely cared about whether women were somehow inherently inferior. We teach this about race, but somehow not for gender. Fucking ridiculous how the moral most feminists get is that men just saw women as cheap labor, when the actu…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/06/26 12:51 AM
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Reading what you consider "sexualization," I think we might be operating on different definitions. To me, "sexualization" is how the audience is motivated to interpret a certain character within the given context, and whether they are given the freedom to interpret the character as anything more beyond superficial sexuality. In other words, if they evoke arousal, are they still fully-realized characters with their own independent agendas, personalities, and perspectives? If not -> sexualized (ch…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/06/26 06:56 PM
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Hi! I appreciate the respectful response. I can see how some people might feel uncomfortable with sexualized depictions of their own sex in media, but I would contest that the industry outright avoiding it is worse because it then treats the female body as inherently sexual, which we know is not true based on how there are cultures where these aspects are not seen as sexual. For example, in pre-colonial South Asia, showing breasts was not deemed immodest. Rather, it was seen as a natural part of…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/06/26 05:58 PM
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Didn't you know that women are universally victims of men in every way possible? And so heterosexuality is actually an instinctual desire for violence against women? /s
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/06/26 02:19 AM
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It’s also ironic. > so my opinion is not allowed? could just as well be: > so attractive female characters are not allowed?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/06/26 01:41 AM
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I'm not sure, but my only guess is that it's criticism directed towards how a lot of modern East Asian beauty standards emphasize youthful, cute appearances. But some Westerners, who don't know what young adult East Asian women look like, often get up in arms over it as though it symbolized pedophiliac desires. I think a recent major example is Evie from Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. Edit: And I guess you could make a point about they only care when it comes to women, but not to men.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/06/26 01:33 AM
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I think it's hard to truly tell how women feel about attractive characters in video games. Most of the research was explicitly framed with a feminist angle from the beginning, and are therefore highly biased. The aforementioned meta-analysis in my post found that many of these studies were poorly designed, and that correlations largely disappeared in studies with better designs. At the very least, there is evidence to suggest that women do prefer sexualized/attractive female characters when give…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/06/26 10:38 PM
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It did. People like attractive characters. That's why Morrigan was dressed that way. And it's also artistic intent considering the archetype her character represents.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/06/26 10:29 PM
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I did. Research found most men and women prefer playing as attractive female characters. And attractive != sexy. It may be obnoxious to you, but that's more of an individual preference rather than something that could provide a rational basis for why the entire industry must swing to the other extreme. Both can exist. Again, it's about not suppressing an artistic direction. NOT that we should go all in on sexuality. Because both are natural dimensions of the human experience.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/06/26 05:37 PM
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Just to clarify, I'm speaking about "attractiveness" in general and not specifically "sexiness." For example, there is this Chinese MMO called Where Winds Meet which is predominantly attractive male and female characters. And it actually has a huge female demographic for that reason, making up 54% of the total playerbase (I was surprised by this at first).
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/06/26 04:27 PM
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Is it related to East Asian beauty standards?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/06/26 04:17 PM
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FWIW, I actually don't think EVE has unrealistic curves. I've known women who had a similar physique naturally. Rare, but not super rare.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/06/26 04:15 PM
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Yeah. In the reverse case—where a game is full of hot, sexy dudes—I'm actually just happy that women (and non-straight guys) have the option to play that game if it's something that appeals to them. I feel like it's more egalitarian to let people make these decisions for themselves.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/06/26 04:06 PM
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The Supreme Court is currently packed with corrupt MAGA jesters and you need four justices in order to approve a petition, so this was a pretty expected result IMO.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/06/26 03:37 AM
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Choose one: “But X, Y, Z … (moving the goal post)” “Okay, but which sex is raping people the most?” “You’re caring too much about the language. Man up.” “Well, if you care about it that much, why don’t men fix the definition?”
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/06/26 05:08 AM
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Not all “progressive” political views are the same. Let people civilly disagree. It’s healthy. (Someone can reasonably view the use of “far right” as a meaningless catch-all label, just as someone can reasonably view the use of “woke” as a meaningless catch-all label.)
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/06/26 05:53 AM
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There is also the fact that the military complex targets men as their primary demographic for normalization/justification of offensive wars both in the military and out via public opinion campaigns. And on a social level, teaching boys that aggression and stoicism are traits of masculinity. This can explain why there is sometimes a gap between the genders. (Somehow, I can imagine a feminist moving the goal posts and responding with: “Well, the fact that they don’t advertise to women is actually …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/06/26 04:38 AM
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More importantly... you only need one man to impregnate many women, but it doesn't work the other way around. Society has been structured around this reality for as long as humanity has been around. If there was a society where the gender ratio of combatants was equal, then that society would eventually be wiped out/outcompeted/conquered by other societies who have larger numbers because they kept all the humans capable of giving birth (women) safe in the domestic sphere. And if you think about …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates31/05/26 10:44 PM
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Women and men seem supportive of wars at generally equal levels (varies based on the poll and war), destroying the illusion that women are somehow being dragged by men into war.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates31/05/26 10:41 PM
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I wrote a post touching a little bit on this not that long ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates/comments/1rwq451/genderbased_discrimination_in_history_is_taught/
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/05/26 05:18 AM
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Then don't comment.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/05/26 11:26 PM
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You didn't read the post, did you? "Women" is used 42 times. And it's great to know where your priorities are if you're making a bad faith comment rather than actually intellectually engaging with the content.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/05/26 11:22 PM
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Exactly. Those infants were probably watching Andrew Tate in the womb anyway.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/05/26 10:35 PM
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Maybe the infant boys should’ve just said, “No.” Women can’t say “no.” So really, it’s men’s fault. /s
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/05/26 06:43 PM
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Which still boggles my mind, because gay men are not different from straight men apart from sexuality. But I guess I answered my own boggled mind--they view men as innately sexual-driven beasts.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/05/26 08:39 PM
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To be honest, I low-key get your friends. I (male) was sexually assaulted/harassed in high school by a female upperclassman in my class, and as a guy there was no system given to me that could prepare me for that experience. The fact that I got aroused from it even though I didn't want it really fucked me up in that moment. I think she was just trying to flirt rather than be creepy, but it still felt awful. Whenever I bring it up, I'm still like, "Haha, yeah. Funny, right?" even years later beca…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/05/26 07:27 AM
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How do you reason with someone whose entire belief system was never built upon reasoning in the first place? I genuinely don't know.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/05/26 07:22 AM
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Political voice has also historically been linked to military participation. Women got the right to vote without needing to offer their bodies to the state.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/05/26 09:07 PM
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Even in Israel, I believe it's predominantly men who are sent to the front?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/05/26 09:05 PM
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Because they don’t see men’s problems as problems. They see men thinking they have problems as the problem. Think about flat Earthers. They could literally just go and see a rocket take off. They can go on an airplane and see the horizon isn’t straight. Yet they still find 99999 justifications for why that doesn’t prove the Earth is round. They don’t start from the premise, they work backwards from the conclusion.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/05/26 07:17 AM
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"Close" is relative. Because of the ethics of any such research on humans, probably not in our lifetimes.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/05/26 07:11 AM
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Because culturally: Women = pure (semantically clustered with virginity, innocence, naivety). Native Americans were described as effeminate as victims of European conquest, for example. Men = impure. Men literally codified laws on this principle in order to protect women from men. It's legit internalized sexism.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/05/26 07:01 AM
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I can't recall which year it was, but prior to #MeToo, a CDC report found that men and women experienced rape at about equal levels. Of course, this is only if you count MTP as rape. There might be some minor double counting there. After #MeToo, reports of women being raped went up while reports of men stayed more or less the same. We need #MenToo.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/05/26 12:26 AM
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Well, the boys must really like all the shex they're getting so it's different /s
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/05/26 06:06 PM
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Republicans are anti-Republic.
/r/MensRights11/05/26 07:35 AM
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As a 'murican, all their parties seem to be conservatives wearing trench coats.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates07/05/26 08:05 PM
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The more I study history and compare it to the present era, the more I’m convinced that feminism is not the utopian/egalitarian movement it positions itself as but rather simply the natural evolution of a species that has consistently valued the conditions of women over the conditions of men on a systemic level. Historically, the mutual obligations between men and women were roughly equal, so from a certain simplified perspective, it is perhaps arguable that feminism transformed sex-based discri…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/05/26 04:57 AM
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I think one of the saddest things to see is that even projects dedicated to addressing such a traumatic event, like Foregen, barely get any funding. If every man in the West gave a single dollar, imagine what they could do with that?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/05/26 08:17 PM
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It's the same thing as there being a fire and saying, "Phew. Thank God only the autistic people died."
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/05/26 05:48 AM
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Feminists who don’t practice misandry are the actual radical feminists.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/04/26 05:40 AM
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Ah, I got it mixed up. She influenced the CDC. https://www.preventconnect.org/2012/02/cdc-on-use-of-sexual-coercion-in-nisvs/#:~:text=In%20developing%20the%20sexual%20violence,items%20to%20represent%20sexual%20coercion. https://violenceresearch.wvu.edu/executive-board/research-associates/mary-koss The UN does legally recognize MTP as rape.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/04/26 03:57 PM
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It's not just the UK but in most other countries and the UN. In the UN,it was led by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_P._Koss
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/04/26 01:17 PM
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That's steering too close along the line of logic for: "If they didn't want to get raped, then they shouldn't have done X."
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/04/26 01:11 PM
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Other porn websites (including the Hub) do the same thing. You can't search for "sleep" but videos can be titled as such. I don't really like this as a solution at all since it harms legitimate creators while not solving any underlying problem. Because, like on those other sites, people will just find new words to tag the same thing... IMO, it would be better to instead require that anyone who wants to do sleep porn start/end their video with them giving consent and/or restrict uploading of it t…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/04/26 09:32 PM
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IMO, the above person’s comment is not one made in good faith nor is it one that helps get anywhere. One could equally ask, “Prove it’s nonconsensual.”
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/04/26 11:17 PM
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It's an opinion not a claim. And I already gave one of the reasons I hold it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/04/26 02:36 PM
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The likelihood of it being fake are very high because: a) A site like Motherless is legally obligated to report blatantly illegal content like rape to authorities. While there are server operators willing to service websites that offer "gray market" content, they will not touch anything blatantly illegal with a 1 mile pole (e.g. child pornography). And therefore, Motherless has an incentive to take down clearly infringing content and AFAICT they are actually proactive about it. b) Because of the…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/04/26 07:00 PM
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Ah gotcha, yeah that would be sketchy.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/04/26 02:48 AM
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That's why, IMO, the way feminism has been integrated into society is just a repackaging of how men and women have been historically placed in society: Women as pure angels (btw "effeminate" historically had the duality of meaning someone who is pure/innocent) while men are sinful creatures unable to control their own desires who must be tamed.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/04/26 01:35 AM
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That's one possible factor, but not necessarily the only one. Another factor is that the idea of being raped implies desire. It's a very BDSM-adjacent kink. And I think both sexes enjoy it in roughly equal levels. Femdom, for instance, has a lot of the same components. It's defined by a loss of agency—ergo, rape and sexual assault/harassment.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/04/26 01:30 AM
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Uh? What are you on about? Troll?
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/04/26 01:22 AM
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I'm curious--why did it make you feel uncomfortable? If my partner asked me for something like that, I'd be fine with it personally.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/04/26 12:07 AM
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Also, I'm pretty sure most of the "sleep rape" porn is basically just repackaged surprise morning sex. On these sites, they may try to make it seem real but it's fake.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/04/26 11:53 PM
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It could also be argued that Buddhism and adjacent religious/spiritual practices (e.g. Taoism/Shintoism) encourage a discretely different worldview that emphasizes deep understanding of the human experience and psychology. Even if they are not practiced as much as they used to be, the cultural influence has downstream effects. In comparison, the West lost much of its secular philosophy (e.g. from the classical world) until relatively recently because it was heavily associated with atheism/pagani…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/04/26 11:58 AM
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So frustrating how this is not seen as a fundamentally sexist violation of bodily autonomy, but abortion is, even though the former has a far more likely chance to cause permanent injury or death. FFS can't we just agree that violating human rights is bad.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/04/26 03:14 PM
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Could you clarify what you mean? If you're referring to the latter half of your comment, I didn't reply because I don't immediately have any data to assess that possible explanation. Personally, I think that it's related to a loss of identity in a hyperindividualist society that's been perpetuated by the loss of third places in lieu of online activity--dominated by algorithms and without the social cues that make us feel as connected as we are when interacting with people IRL. In the West, peopl…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/03/26 12:37 AM
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Yeah, but all I would be doing if I was just rewriting would be rephrasing everything, and that's just not adding value. The source writing was entirely mine and human-written, and after the LLM brought everything together, I did extensive editing/rewriting myself. I think some people imagined I asked an LLM to write everything. In reality, it was something like: "Here is a list of posts and comments I have made over the years on Reddit. Please encapsulate them into a single, coherent post with …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/03/26 12:10 AM
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That was not the assertion that was made. The assertion is that female-coded hardships are institutionally and socially recognized as gender discrimination, and male-coded hardships are not, leading to a one-sided narrative. The post repeatedly reaffirms the idea that it is not quantifying harm repeatedly throughout. The tl;dr is also very explicit on this. I am genuinely unsure where you got this idea from (it is like me saying 2 + 2 = 4 and you hearing 8 + 1 = 13). > And everyone knows that th…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/03/26 05:59 PM
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Please read the note carefully. The majority of this writing began as my own and was further edited by myself. For instance, the entirety of the introduction and information about Greece/Rome were solely written by me. Having a blanket disdain for any use of AI is understandable but it's also disrespectful to impose that belief upon others. LLMs are tools just like anything else. Edit: Dunno why you decided to block me over this... That's just frankly incredibly immature and puritan but alright.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/03/26 01:06 AM
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You are right that it's possible the bias was injected, likely unintentionally, during post-training. Post-trained models also have more skewed biases. The paper ought to have used base models that have not undergone post-training and are more reflective of their pre-training dataset.
/r/MensRights26/11/25 06:03 PM
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That place has basically turned into menslib-lite with their recent moderators.
/r/MensRights19/11/25 05:57 PM
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If it's misogynist for women to not have received adequate medical research in certain areas, then it is misandrist for men to not have received adequate medical research in certain areas.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/11/25 05:07 AM
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Yeah, hopefully Mamdani can work on this in NYC at least. I heard from a friend about how one time, when he was a kid and they weren't well-off, his dad got hit with a significant fine for declining a customer because the requested destination was really far and he would've had to return home pretty late (his dad, who was working those 80-100 hour/wk shifts, hadn't wanted to miss out on his birthday). The customer was a woman if that matters. No empathy.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/11/25 05:57 AM
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Yes. How dare those men, who work 80-100 hours a week to support a family they are barely able to spend time with, be so oppressive! It is unjust to the children, who are robbed of a childhood spent with their father; the mother, who constantly worries about her husband's safety and must work hard to take care of him and their children; and the father, who barely knows the children he is sacrificing so much for.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/11/25 12:38 AM
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During the primary for the Democratic candidate for 2028, I'll likely vote for him (pending further research). He is the only one that is, at this moment, making a substantial effort in reaching men. I'd be concerned if some other misandrist candidate went and leads to a Trump 2.0 scenario.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/11/25 04:28 AM
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People will think you're misogynist for being a man and bringing to question any aspect of feminism. They do not care about terminology because they are logic-and-terminology-blind—you are either with them or against them. Think about how they give zero fucks about needlessly alienating men—those who are otherwise supportive of women's rights—with their continued attacks on men as a sex.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/11/25 03:48 AM
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It borrows Marxist principles and bastardizes them.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/09/25 04:10 AM
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And they scoff at the idea of the horseshoe theory.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/09/25 07:17 PM
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That is not sufficient evidence to make a claim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization#Hasty_generalization and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic#Media Think about how many millions of normal male-female gym interactions happen every day versus how many videos there are of women doing such a thing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/09/25 05:50 PM
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Oh nah, as a certified gym rat I just had to clarify that point. It's annoying even as a guy when you get judged for what you wear as if it's to flaunt your body or for some other reason pertaining to the viewer. I genuinely empathize with women in that respect as it's an experience that I share, and so I wanted to push back against that angle. Wasn't commenting on the rest of your point. I'm also not sure what you're referencing, but almost none of the women at the gyms I've worked out at have …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/09/25 03:18 PM
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> tight-fitting “gym” clothes accentuating particular curves Okay, as a gym-goer, those types of clothes are actually just much more comfortable to work in. Even guys who do a lot of leg day will wear tight shorts/pants because they're designed to conform to the way the body moves along a wide range of motion. Flabby clothes can also get in the way. At least at the gym I go to, most guys and girls have noticeable asses and legs. It's just how it is from working out the muscles. But women just na…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/09/25 04:05 AM
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Yes, and also that it takes away the transformative power of art. I'm getting a little philosophical here, but I think that good art can hold a conversation with the audience. Bad art tells people what to feel, which people generally don't like. Pushing an agenda creates bad art.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/09/25 10:15 PM
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I felt this way. Stellar Blade was a breath of fresh air exactly for that reason—it allowed the art simply be. The art is allowed to exist in service of itself. I think there's been in a trend in the West especially to make art conform to agendas, at which point I feel like it has lost its value. Woke does exist in the way that conservatives describe it, IMO, and it is justifiably annoying. I think it is separate from work being done to promote equality as the social norm.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/09/25 03:42 AM
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"would they ever, though?" It's always boggled my mind how one could allow hatred towards their fathers, uncles, brothers, cousins, sons, etc. It's something that I partially blame on Western individualism ("fuck you I got mine").
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/09/25 03:37 AM
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Definitely.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/08/25 05:49 PM
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I went to a college that had an agender public bathroom. It was weird at first seeing women. Then, it wasn't. Idk it doesn't feel that deep. We're just taught that something that is really normal is actually weird, when it isn't.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/08/25 03:13 PM
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And then you got us AuDHD clowns.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/07/25 03:07 PM
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Reading through the other posts on Reddit, damn. All of them are literally okay—rather, supportive—of the fact that this is discriminatory because men=rape. Wtf.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/07/25 05:31 AM
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They're not even trying to figure out how he got popularity amongst young men.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/06/25 12:47 AM
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TBF a lot of guys would like this too (about hot women approaching them). Just, y'know, we should get rid of the pretenses.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/05/25 06:28 AM
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Exactly. This is what I essentially captured in my own comment here though your definition is not as precise. Masculinity and femininity are not the problem. Perceiving divergent behavior as abnormal/unnatural and a violation of the social contract is the problem OP should actually be concerned about. When there ceases to be an issue with diverging, then masculinity and femininity exist in a neutral state. Don't conflate the two.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/05/25 11:20 PM
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How so? It is self-contained within the definition: "certain behaviors, roles, and cultural expectations that a society assigns to individuals primarily by sex."
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/05/25 07:23 AM
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Please read my comment once more, then. > Masculine and feminine are concepts defined by anthropology as certain behaviors, roles, and cultural expectations that a society assigns to individuals primarily by sex. From there, the anthropological definition of "gender" is derived. They are intended to be neutral terms as the meaning of masculine and feminine vary from society to society. One culture's masculinity can be another culture's femininity, and vice-versa. Sometimes, a society may possess…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/05/25 07:10 AM
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You haven't proven to me that they are bigoted. Is it bigoted to state that the sun is bright? You are attacking pattern recognition and categorization. > Almost nothing humans do is actually connected to their gender with anything else than outdated social conventions This is demonstrably false. Research has consistently found that gender plays a significant role in behavior among other facets of the mind. Off the top of my head, mental disorders often present drastically differently between me…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/05/25 07:08 AM
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Is your "masculinity" the same as my "masculinity?" You're assuming a lot to make your argument, and many of those assumptions can be demonstrably falsified. Furthermore, you are incorporating the same logic used in systems that perpetuate epistemic injustice -- essentialism and ethnocentrism.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/05/25 07:00 AM
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It has nothing to do about tradition. It is simply how it effectively is, and there will always be some things that are inherently masculine or feminine because they are attached to biological functions. Whether something is offensive or not is entirely up to your perspective. Arguing that masculinity is inherently antagonistic to being "male" on the premise that it is inherently inegalitarian assumes that all expressions of masculinity necessarily perpetuate inequality. Masculinity can and does…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/05/25 06:55 AM
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Masculine and feminine are concepts defined by anthropology as certain behaviors, roles, and cultural expectations that a society assigns to individuals primarily by sex. From there, the anthropological definition of "gender" is derived. They are intended to be neutral terms as the meaning of masculine and feminine vary from society to society. One culture's masculinity can be another culture's femininity, and vice-versa. Sometimes, a society may possess an official class who practice the mascul…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates26/05/25 06:00 AM
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Anecdotal. I was told this by a senior Google employee after asking about it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/05/25 05:24 PM
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Outdated. People are now using LLMs to submit thousands of applications.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/05/25 07:55 AM
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This isn't r/philosophy
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/05/25 11:00 PM
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And women are presidents in more conservative countries. You're assuming that power is unilaterally or primarily dictated by sex. Unless evidence proves the claim, you cannot state it as fact. Bangladesh: Khaleda Zia (Prime Minister: 1991–96, 2001–06) and Sheikh Hasina (Prime Minister: 1996–2001, 2009–2024) Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto (Prime Minister: 1988–90, 1993–96) India: Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister: 1966–77, 1980–84), Pratibha Patil (President: 2007-2012), Droupadi Murmu (President: 2022-pre…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/05/25 12:27 AM
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Hmm. I'm curious, but have you thought about talking about these thoughts with a therapist? Feeling isolated is a very intense experience so it might help to have someone you can talk to about how you feel and why you feel that way. It might help you create an authentic connection with someone where you don't have to feel isolated for who you are -- even if it's a therapeutic relationship.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/05/25 04:16 PM
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Okay, so I slightly take back what I said. While the diagnoses themselves face the same stigma, women can sometimes have an advantage from pre-existing societal attunement to female emotions. For example, professors may feel more inclined to cut female students more slack than male students.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/05/25 03:22 AM
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In my experience, it sucks equally for both sexes. It hasn't been shown to me that women are treated any better.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/05/25 11:14 PM
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It's not biological because the definitions of feminine and masculine are reversed (compared to the Western definitions) or exist without distinction in some cultures. There are also other factors -- e.g. femininity is different based on your class.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/05/25 07:58 AM
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99% of feminists seem to think men are oppressors or don't hold each other accountable for such beliefs. I've heard feminists say "both men and women must be lifted up simultaneously" and invalidate male issues in the same breath.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/05/25 07:52 AM
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It's not bygone. ADHD and autism remain underdiagnosed in women and overdiagnosed in men because the criteria are largely based on studies of the disorders on male-majority populations. Arguably, there are still a lot of men with those disorders who are not diagnosed so I'm not sure if "overdiagnosis" is really the right description... I have the presentation of ASD more common in women and you do not get a foot into the door to be diagnosed if you don't visibly present as autistic. Women will t…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/05/25 06:15 AM
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Anime:
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/05/25 05:59 AM
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> Or done a few tests on a selection of examples with various levels of toxicity to evaluate the ability of the model to classify effectively such things This was already done by the model authors. The model used was tested against https://huggingface.co/datasets/Paul/hatecheck/viewer/default/test?row=51 They also had 20 annotators go through their own post-train test suite consisting of synthetic/real-world cases and measure agreeability between the model and human evaluation.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/05/25 06:16 AM
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The source dataset used for training the classifier is here: https://github.com/bvidgen/Dynamically-Generated-Hate-Speech-Dataset The model is here: https://huggingface.co/facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target First of all, I didn't read the paper and I'm just responding to your comment. There isn't necessarily a problem with using text classifiers. Because "toxicity" is an inherently human-defined concept, there isn't an objective way to measure classification performance. But we can…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/05/25 04:49 AM
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I believe there is value in allowing people to open up to you about past traumatic experiences, but I became more hesitant about allowing it with women unless they were close friends of mine or we already clicked. I feel a lot of women take it for granted that they can share their traumas to men and don't attach as much value to it as it actually holds. Like, if you share your negative experiences to me, I should be able to do the same to you.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates04/05/25 07:28 AM
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Sometimes I read through the comments on r/politics and I shake my head when I see an obligatory, "Look at how men want to control us!" on certain posts. Yes, the people who are making these policies are often men. Yes, some of these politicians are seeking to curtail rights of women. Yes, there almost certainly is some group of people (both men and women) who support such policies. Is there something inherent about being a man that creates a desire for control over women? Absolutely not. I foun…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates02/05/25 04:03 AM
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Homophobia is deeply cultural in ways that go beyond gender. It might be a taboo because it summons the devil-equivalent or something.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/05/25 04:38 AM
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https://youtu.be/0GykDf4Ztvs?t=7023 is pretty relevant here
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/04/25 06:41 AM
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"It's not misandry if it's against fragile male egos." I think that's how a lot of them have rationalized it, which is crazy to even feel is acceptable if you call yourself a social progressive...
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/04/25 06:29 AM
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Masculinity, to me, is associated with struggling to create a better tomorrow even if the entire world does not stand with you. Femininity, to me, is associated being supportive of the happiness of others in addition to your own to make the experience of life for everyone more vibrant. My father grew up extremely poor and lived in a country suffering from a one-sided war, and later as a teenager went to do labor in another country to support his family. He literally lifted himself from the boots…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/04/25 12:15 AM
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I don't recall the study so take what I say with a lot of salt, but I believe most male prostitutes in Germany (I think) do it with other men.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/04/25 03:59 AM
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Stoicism did shit to him. He feels like a completely different person after he really got into that.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/04/25 06:37 AM
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Unironically PewDiePie. He's shifted his content a lot in the past few years.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/04/25 05:09 AM
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What is the "patriarchy" to you, and how does it help you understand the struggles of men? Relatedly, why does it feel important to you that people interpret the struggles of men through the lens of the "patriarchy?"
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/04/25 03:23 AM
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Women are important too. It's not really about men supporting men. It's about people supporting people, and how as a subcategory, men can be supported.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/04/25 03:23 AM
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Feminism itself seems oppositional to psychology as a whole, in my opinion, for attempting to systematize certain traumas as inherently and entirely factored on gender with only a loose attempt to incorporate nuance through "intersectionality." In comparison, psychology advocates for understanding patterns of behavior within individuals. I don't want "vibes" to determine how we treat people.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/04/25 01:56 AM
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Yeah, I don't get how she is supposedly a good advocate for men when her work is basically, "The patriarchy harms men too."
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/04/25 01:47 AM
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I'd bring up that moment in the beginning of the movie, Inception. People will unconsciously isolate ideas that they view as intentional and external -- coming from other people and not their own -- but will only be able to internalize ideas if they believe it's coming from within. Psychologically speaking, I believe there is a mechanism where once someone becomes defensive, the conscious part of their brain has a reduced ability to regulate emotional responses. So consequently, the situation be…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/04/25 11:50 PM
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There is a reason AI is taking off with "gooners." They are learning that they receive an illusion of intimacy from their AI girlfriends whereas they feel unwelcome on the dating scene. And they'll take the former over the latter.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/04/25 05:27 AM
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https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/135977571/EJP_Gender_Postprint_AAM.pdf Meta-analysis of studies on gender differences on loneliness over the past few decades concluded that male and female loneliness rates were very similar. I would interpret that as 50-50. I would also generally caution against comparing results from different studies unless you find that they used methodologies designed to be compared with other studies -- and even then, you need to check that they are actu…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/04/25 03:30 AM
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You don't. You can't change someone's mind when they are so entrenched in a belief. The only thing it will do is entrench them further as they have chosen to completely shut out any potential openness to hear an opposing thought. Instead, it would be better to focus on the people who aren't so entrenched or are apathetic to the issue IMO.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/04/25 03:25 AM
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He does a good job of encouraging men to seek therapy if they have legitimate issues and offers empathy to his audience, but he also offers advice that reinforces certain unhealthy ideas such as red-pill-adjacent philosophies. He also gives me the vibe that he's only empathetic for the camera. He is a disappointment to the mental health field in many ways, in my opinion, especially for condoning figures like Trump who are the antitheses of any good society.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates06/04/25 03:22 AM
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At present, research suggests that women are also struggling with loneliness at rates that are about equal to men. I think it is true that men struggle to form friendships with other men, but I'd say it's a similar situation for women to form friendships with other women. The difference is that women have a lot more resources -- and resources that are disproportionately tailored towards them. In therapy, for instance, I feel that treatment heavily emphasizes on what works for women. And therapy …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/04/25 11:14 PM
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10 years later: Why are Gen Alpha men turning right? Who could have possibly seen this? Let's ask 5 women to find out why! Boys, like anyone else, want to be seen rather than compared to these caricatures that are completely detached from their reality. The larger issue is that the people pushing for these policies are so extremely entrenched in their beliefs and equate their way as being absolutely moral, and that consequently any opposition is immoral by definition. They don't want to compromi…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/04/25 09:38 PM
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https://www.maennergewaltschutz.de/en/situation-demand/ (Funded by German government)
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/04/25 09:31 PM
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Probably voted for Trump and deserved it for being misogynistic /s
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/03/25 02:04 PM
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You argued that they are inherently sexist. I showed they are not. You also showed confusion as to what it means to identify with a gender/pronouns, and I gave you a anthropologic definition. From what I gave -- by definition, gender is literally a social construct. There's no biological reason why women should wear makeup and men shouldn't, etc.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/03/25 12:11 AM
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In anthropological terms, masculinity and femininity refer to societal norms, rules, and expectations a culture has that usually align with each sex. For example, in the West, it is masculine to appear strong and feminine to be emotional. "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies" by Margaret Mead explores how even in one region, there was a culture for each of the following (relative to Western ideas): - The definitions of masculinity and femininity were swapped. - Both masculinity and …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/03/25 10:41 PM
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Gen Z men grew up, likely as young as 5/6, experiencing a pervasive sense of ostracization simply for their sex. They were being told they could be sex offenders, rapists, etc. before they even hit puberty and began to see girls sexually--or if they're not attracted to women to begin with. It is human nature--as natural as getting angry when someone slaps you out of nowhere--to retaliate in some shape or form. So, you have young men who aren't mature enough nor equipped with the right tools to n…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/03/25 11:57 PM
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Most of the white women I've interacted with felt... weird. It really does feel like feminism enables racism and sexism for them--even the "woke" ones don't walk the walk when it comes down to it. Like, I've heard more fetishization based on race from white women than men. And there's the subtle sense they feel superior to you if you're not white. And I feel like most feminists who support misandry and the patriarchy narrative are white women too. Which is ironic since they have more privilege t…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/03/25 09:27 PM
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Therapy training and research also heavily emphasizes the presentation of certain mental conditions in women rather than men, at least according to HealthyGamerGG.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/03/25 05:44 PM
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This is why I mostly read East Asian fiction since it's close enough to Western content while still having a healthy amount of quality stuff written by men. I am curious why the discrepancy exists, and I suspect without evidence that it may be due to financial insecurity. How can you find the time to write when you're working 60 hours a week? And I think a lot of young men are seriously concerned about that as a legitimate future waiting for them especially in such a turbulent socioeconomic peri…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates25/03/25 03:31 AM
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Honestly, like, I actually find people on the right to be far easier to talk to. Like, in my experience even talking to MAGA supporters, a lot of them are willing to be respectful with you if you're willing to talk to them respectfully. I might find them delusional on some points, but at least they're not rabid-kinda hostile. This is almost never the case with feminists. They'll assume the worst about you from the start.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/03/25 01:53 AM
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I don't think I can agree with this sentiment. From what I can tell, the roots of feminism is based in the perception that men are a privileged class who are incapable/opposed to advocating for and understanding/empathizing with women -- as to do so would be to eliminate the privilege they get from oppressing women as a whole. There might be an extreme feminist bloc, sure, but I think feminism as a whole encourages extremist thinking and this is evident even in the typical feminist. When feminis…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/03/25 10:23 PM
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To the Europeans here -- is racism against South Asians prevalent any more than any other race? I assumed it was an American thing.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/03/25 03:36 AM
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I'm sorry for calling you rude, then. I had been under the impression you'd been acting in bad faith.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/02/25 06:16 PM
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50501 is a movement dedicated to peacefully opposing the current administration for behaving in autocratic ways that violate the U.S. constitution and other laws, and for harming relations with foreign partners/allies.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/02/25 06:07 PM
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That user sounded a little rude when I attempted to explain the view of why men may not feel represented. I'm not hung up on the idea that women are leading the movement -- and before that post was deleted I understood where the guy was coming from even if I didn't necessarily agree or disagree with it. But after it was deleted, it brought me over to become iffy about activism led by feminists (men or women, I have no problem with women -- nor POC as someone who is POC myself). I just generally …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/02/25 06:02 PM
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The reason why figures like Jordan Peterson have accrued a following is because they actually are highly empathetic to the challenges men face in a world that many men feel is otherwise unsympathetic to them. In some ways, they are positive role models. Many of them encourage vulnerability and even seeking therapy which have traditionally been at odds with Western masculinity. However, aspects of their approaches as well as other views are problem in ways that I don't think need to be reiterated…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/10/24 04:09 PM
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Feminism intersectionality is in my opinion another form of misunderstanding men. It views the problems that men face as the fault of the patriarchy and treats male issues as less important than female issues. In fact, in my experience usually if you bring up issues men face, feminists latch onto perceived female inequality in what you say rather than considering the actual male issues. In my eyes, it lacks the holistic understanding and perspective necessary for it to be an effective conceptual…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/10/24 10:23 PM
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It doesn't align with my personal experience particularly as someone who has interest in understanding women's perspectives, engaging in those spaces, and reading popular fundamental feminist literature. Anyone who identified as feminists and blamed radicalism for the perception that they are misandrists, would under that same breath engage in the same behavior. I don't even think it's intentional. Feminists genuinely lack self-awareness. Their perceptions of men are not empathetic -- they are v…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/10/24 05:17 PM
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