TheRedArchive

~ archived since 2018 ~

YetAnotherCommenter Archive

View 65 posts and 8,957 comments by YetAnotherCommenter on TheRedPill subreddit and various other subreddits related to The Red Pill community.
Search in:
In subreddits:
More
Filter by year/month:
Upvotes Title Category Author Subreddit Date (UTC)
689

YetAnotherCommenter/r/PussyPassDenied09/01/23 10:57 AM
488

Social IssuesYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights16/11/24 05:03 AM
263

Social IssuesYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights22/04/26 07:08 AM
159

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights14/01/14 08:54 AM
148

ProgressYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights02/07/20 11:50 AM
106

IntactivismYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights09/06/26 03:06 AM
89

Social IssuesYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights16/10/15 08:41 AM
77

CMVYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate28/10/18 03:11 AM
75

Blogs/VideoYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights05/07/14 07:00 AM
72

CMVYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate17/09/17 07:09 AM
71

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights01/04/13 03:13 PM
63

Legal RightsYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights18/06/24 03:37 AM
58

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights14/02/14 03:33 AM
42

YetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate30/04/18 02:25 AM
41

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights09/02/14 11:50 AM
34

YetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate12/12/18 01:26 PM
34

DiscriminationYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights16/01/17 11:23 AM
33

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights01/02/14 10:26 AM
32

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights10/10/14 06:08 AM
32

Social IssuesYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights17/09/17 06:54 AM
31

FeminismYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights14/08/24 04:30 AM
30

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights12/12/13 02:58 PM
28

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights19/08/14 05:26 AM
28

DebateYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate10/04/25 11:21 AM
28

Anti-MRMYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights29/09/15 04:50 AM
27

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights29/07/13 01:31 PM
27

Social IssuesYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights09/07/18 08:27 AM
27

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights08/11/13 11:10 AM
25

Social IssuesYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights25/04/15 02:29 AM
24

DebateYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate04/09/24 06:26 AM
21

Social IssuesYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights28/08/15 06:26 AM
18

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights22/01/13 08:22 AM
18

DiscussionYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate26/11/14 02:03 PM
18

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights15/06/13 05:17 AM
17

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights19/12/13 07:52 AM
17

CMVYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate01/01/22 08:30 AM
17

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights10/01/14 01:17 PM
15

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights18/10/14 08:47 AM
15

YetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate10/02/15 10:05 AM
14

DiscussionYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/18 11:40 PM
14

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights25/11/13 09:23 AM
12

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights28/02/14 05:55 AM
12

DiscussionYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate11/11/14 11:31 AM
11

Social IssuesYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights07/07/17 02:27 AM
11

FeminismYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights20/01/16 10:12 AM
11

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights17/08/14 02:49 PM
10

Social IssuesYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights13/09/21 12:07 PM
10

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights13/01/14 10:48 AM
9

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights02/12/12 05:21 PM
9

Edu./Occu.YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights13/05/15 12:05 AM
8

FeminismYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights26/06/17 07:51 AM
6

DiscussionYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate14/08/24 12:21 PM
6

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights17/10/14 02:36 AM
6

DiscriminationYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights14/12/16 10:44 AM
4

Off-TopicYetAnotherCommenter/r/AllPillDebate21/07/23 10:25 AM
4

YetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate08/10/18 06:33 AM
1

YetAnotherCommenter/r/PussyPass02/11/22 09:05 AM
1

DiscussionYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate27/11/21 11:22 AM
1

MR Blogs/VlogsYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights07/06/14 11:18 AM
1

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights23/04/13 02:11 PM
1

Social IssuesYetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights30/07/17 04:59 AM
0

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights24/05/14 02:18 PM
0

YetAnotherCommenter/r/MensRights23/04/14 09:01 AM
0

CMVYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate28/11/21 03:54 AM
0

Question for RedPillYetAnotherCommenter/r/PurplePillDebate04/09/24 04:25 AM
Showing the 1,000 most recent of 8,957 comments.
Upvotes Comment on Subreddit Date (UTC)
13

The idea that males should have short hair and females long hair comes from Prussian culture IIRC. Its a clear case of an arbitrary social construct. Tons of societies accepted men wearing long hair. That said, I do agree that modern notions which ridicule male vanity etc. exist, and they likely have something to do with the "men must center women and provide for and protect them, they need to sacrifice themselves for females" mindset.
/r/MensRights09/07/26 06:04 AM
30

Exactly. The differences between the sexes is real, but subtle. The Danish term - "the little difference" - is accurate. Men are overt. Women are covert. There is a difference, but it isn't Mars-Venus.
/r/MensRights08/07/26 12:06 AM
32

I just meant society acts like they’re including men in that when they’re really not A very fair assessment. Gender role liberation? Only for women. Body positivity? Only for women. Sex positivity? Only for women. "Its okay to be vulnerable and share your feelings"? Only for women. "You deserve encouragement, empowerment and positive reinforcement"? Only for women. etc.
/r/MensRights28/06/26 02:18 AM
3

A deliberately adversarial team that's there to challenge the results so as to strengthen the rigor of the eventual findings.
/r/MensRights28/06/26 02:05 AM
1

Russian gas is very cheap and actually increased the countries industrial output though. You're neglecting to factor in Opportunity Costs, as well as the strategic weakness caused by dependence. the transition to other alternative sources of gas was more expensive And who made the policy decisions which made these other sources of gas more expensive, hmmm? Continental Europe could easily have cheap and abundant energy, completely under their own control (thus avoiding dependence on Russia), if t…
/r/MensRights28/06/26 01:31 AM
29

Some women are innately resentful of anything that distracts male attention from them (i.e. they see it as encouraging men to decenter women). They invade the hobby space in order to "re-center" women. A similar, but softer, version of this is that some women just authentically like male attention so they go to "where all the boys are." When the hobby becomes a big business, there's a financial incentive to become involved. When people can become famous and prominent by attaching themselves to a…
/r/MensRights28/06/26 01:26 AM
1

There always going to be mistakes made though... True, but trivially so. Of course all governing elites will make mistakes. No one has ever said otherwise. But the elites of Europe have systematically attempted to undermine democratic accountability... something that is meant to hold elites responsible for said mistakes. And again, this is Men's Rights. If the men of Ukraine are the ones bearing the costs of the mistakes of Europe's leadership class, that is a serious matter. I'm finding it rath…
/r/MensRights28/06/26 01:08 AM
2

From some simple research it says shes not opposed to nuclear energy in the short term as a transition into renewables and has also opposed the use of Russian gas as an energy source... ...a stance she only publicly came to advocating well after the Energy Transition was in full effect... i.e. she already contributed to the damage, and whilst she tried to backpedal, the damage was already done. And again, her own personal beliefs aren't really the issue. The point is she advocated Europe making …
/r/MensRights28/06/26 12:53 AM
3

Yes Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine and is annexing whatever piece of land it manages to decimate and conquer because of Greta Thunberg... Thunberg and her environmentalist forebears/collaborators (such as Merkel) pushed for Germany's energy transition, which rendered Germany dependent on Russian natural gas and gave Putin incredible leverage over the Continent. At the same time, the rise in energy prices hastened de-industrialization, which reduces Europe's ability to have a sufficiently…
/r/MensRights27/06/26 10:10 PM
19

Most men I know in real life don't read much. Which is a stark change from historical patterns. Question: why? Women clearly love reading more. And that has a downstream effect on their academic outperformance over men. (because reading is more abstract compared to playing video games) That's very debatable, especially when video games often involve a lot of text as part of them (both spoken and written). Reading is also not "more abstract" - video games are often complex systems that require sy…
/r/MensRights27/06/26 12:54 AM
26

Ukrainian men are having to fight an EU Proxy War that is only necessary because of annoying EU women like Merkel, von der Leyen and Greta Thunberg (all of whom are partially responsible for the situation the EU is currently in). Yet again, men clean up women's mess. To be ENTIRELY fair though, the EU should've gone after Russia in 2016, when Crimea was first annexed. The refusal to do so was a failure on the part of Obama and David Cameron. So those men are to blame as well.
/r/MensRights26/06/26 11:46 PM
99

ask young men what they want Even if they did, they'd refuse to give that to young men. The publishing industry made itself 100% Chick Lit/Clit Lit entirely of its own volition, driven by a "diversity" ideal that worked out to "everything is written for leftist Karens, by authors who are members of our Pet Identities." They voluntarily shrank their own industry even though they were told multiple times this is precisely what would happen. Turns out that so-called "diversity" actually homogenized…
/r/MensRights26/06/26 11:42 PM
2

...And yet the conclusion that will be drawn from this incident is "we don't shame, humiliate, bully and ostracize social-misfit males enough."
/r/MensRights24/06/26 10:25 PM
0

I'm biased as a libertarian myself, but libertarians are without question the most consistent on equal treatment between the sexes and not publicly subsidizing the feminist-industrial complex. Also, most libertarian men are non-chads (they tend to be nerds). So they don't fit very well into traditional molds.
/r/MensRights23/06/26 10:26 PM
1

I don't think you're directly addressing the article. I'm addressing the publication's long history of endorsing a theory of parenting pushed by an organization called "Them Before Us" (an advocacy research organization that's basically all about trying to prove same-sex parenting is bad and puts the feelings of adults above the interests of the child - they're also anti-surrogacy, which is a position that aligns with Radfems). They've done so in multiple articles before and cited this organizat…
/r/MensRights23/06/26 10:21 PM
2

Indeed. But the data set is still quite small and unfortunately the topic is politically sensitive, which means it is hard to do large-scale quantitative research at this current point. I expect this to change over time, but right now, going by the research I've read, the only robust conclusion backed by large data sets that isn't the subject of big controversy is "two parents are better than one." Over time, we'll get more data, so we can properly compare single dads to single moms, single dads…
/r/MensRights23/06/26 12:18 PM
-5

Replace "summarize" with "restate" or "list" if you like. Yet you still haven't even attempted to interrogate or challenge a single one of my claims.
/r/MensRights23/06/26 11:34 AM
9

That's not implausible. Could two dads, with either a surrogate mother or a (theoretical) artificial womb, theoretically produce comparable parental outcomes to an opposite-sex couple that adopts (or uses surrogacy or an artificial womb)? That's a completely fair question to ask. It cannot be rejected out of hand. In addition, if it is shown that this is possible, it would be a boon to men's rights. For one, it would disprove the idea that men are inferior parents or somehow incompetent around c…
/r/MensRights23/06/26 10:28 AM
-7

My point should be obvious, and if you have a serious critique for any of my points you should make it rather than say "bending over backwards." But to summarize my core four claims: The Federalist is pushing a tradcon line that implicitly sets up parental alienation and privileges mothers by having the father as the "bad cop" parent (this also enables a specific kind of abusive mother - the one that abuses her children using the father to commit proxy violence). The Federalist's tradcon line th…
/r/MensRights23/06/26 10:22 AM
-9

This is just tradcon gender essentialism masquerading as men's rights. Trying to remove males from parenting IS a bad thing. On that, they're right. The idea that males or male-typical traits are useless is pernicious. But the idea that "all children need a mother (implied: a nurturant caregiver who is biologically female, lacks gender dysphoria and is the 'good cop') and father (implied: a careerist breadwinner who is biologically male, lacks gender dysphoria and does the shouting and punishing…
/r/MensRights23/06/26 08:27 AM
15

Imogen, You're going to receive a lot of skepticism. I've been on the receiving end of mistreatment by feminists too, including cyberstalking, so you're going to have to do something to earn trust. That said, your-kind-of-feminism doesn't offend me at all. It doesn't have significant institutional power in any part of the Western world I'm familiar with, though. I'll keep my list of concerns brief. ALL of men's problems in today's world really can be boiled down to one thing: Women have liberati…
/r/MensRights22/06/26 09:42 AM
4

Most "transmisogyny" is really misandry (based on sex, not gender). British TERFs see transmen as victims of sexist men, and transwomen as the ultimate example of sexist men. Whatever extremes exist on the "SJW" side of the debate (and there are many), we shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking that TERFs are ever going to be on our side.
/r/MensRights22/06/26 12:26 AM
19

And yet Victoria is the state that has the "Ministry for Male Behavior Change." It seems that it is females who need to change and stop misbehaving. But tell that to Victoria's feminist government.
/r/MensRights13/06/26 03:53 AM
5

Do you mean outgroup bias towards women, like they favor them? Yes, exactly.
/r/MensRights13/06/26 12:00 AM
5

There's extensive literature on the so-called "Political Business Cycle" and there's little evidence that unemployment is correlated with partisan choice. Again, tariffs are something that the left was most fond of across the entire world. Trump is an anomaly - a rightist protectionist (although his tariffs seem to follow a weird geopolitical logic rather than classic protectionism). I don't like those tariffs, but he hardly invented tariffs and the history of tariffs and trade protectionism is …
/r/MensRights12/06/26 11:59 PM
7

Data please. And the left has enacted many tariffs before. History did not start with the Trump Administration.
/r/MensRights12/06/26 04:39 PM
3

Tell that to the dictionary. When I talk about "dictionary definition X" the people who write the dictionary control the definition.
/r/MensRights12/06/26 09:07 AM
20

At least the “left” does better on the economy so I have more income to deal with any crisis. That's extremely contestable, to say the least. European economies are more left-leaning than the USA, but they have lower social mobility and higher costs of living, combined with higher taxes even on the poor (most European welfare states are funded by regressive consumption taxes - i.e. the poor are often funding their own social services). Once you adjust for this, "left-leaning" economies don't loo…
/r/MensRights12/06/26 07:08 AM
167

Their definition of masculinity was healthy, too ‒ sacrifice, strength, responsibility, leadership. Note that this is said right after the following: young men are delaying traditional milestones ‒ marriage, children, full-time work, college. So, men are realizing masculinity requires sacrifice and responsibility... and delaying traditional milestones (i.e. choosing not to live up to traditional responsibility) at the same time. This suggests that more and more men are concluding that living up …
/r/MensRights12/06/26 07:01 AM
5

Agreed, but I'll note one thing: Normal men are also prone to tribalism, just as much (it just isn't based on sex, they organize around other things). And an outgroup bias towards women, which normal men generally have, isn't fair either. Extreme fairness, impartiality and non-tribalism is mostly found among the "nerdier" type of man. Meanwhile, ruthless machiavellianism is very much found within the "sociopath" kind of man.
/r/MensRights12/06/26 06:57 AM
16

Duke clearly learned nothing from the Lacrosse incident. I wonder... how many of those Identity Studies degrees are purely about prestige and signaling within a class hierarchy? As in "yes, I can afford to get a purely useless degree that poisons my own mind and the beliefs of society as a whole, and still get a cushy professional job, this proves how I'm from such a well-off background!"
/r/MensRights12/06/26 06:17 AM
24

She's a feminist in the "dictionary definition" sense (i.e. believes both males and females are equally human and deserve equal treatment under law). She's feminist in the same way most people on this subreddit are feminist. I don't know why most women are moving Left. Its a mixture of machiavellian self-interest (especially among professional-managerial-white-collar women), ingroup bias, fear that their abortion rights are under threat (and whilst in some places in the US this happens to be tru…
/r/MensRights12/06/26 06:14 AM
14

Not on a consistent basis. But at least the classically liberal (or libertarian) wing of the right believes in strict equality under the law between the sexes, which eliminates (or at least substantially mitigates) several critical sources of female privilege, and due to being methodologically individualistic is immunized against feminism. Meanwhile, there's really no historical leftist ideology that hasn't ended up subverted by feminism. Even tankie-grade Stalinism and high-minded classical Mar…
/r/MensRights12/06/26 06:08 AM
3

I don't even blame feminism per se. I blame the traditional gender roles that feminism actually preserves, despite claiming to be against. My position is not that feminism is the problem, but that feminism falsely claims to fix the problem when it actually has further entrenched the problem. Feminism is an epiphenomenon of the problem.
/r/MensRights11/06/26 07:59 AM
2

Cultural baggage/cultural branding/positioning is the primary issue. That, plus some MRAs are tradcons. Also, there are SOME LWMAs who believe we can "socially reconstruct" women/femininity (along the same lines feminists believe we can do this with males/masculinity). I don't fit neatly into either group because I hate tradcons and tradcon-ism, whilst at the same time being on the libertarian right. I do believe there are many examples of gender norms that are clear arbitrary social constructs,…
/r/MensRights10/06/26 01:00 AM
25

My commentary on this is incoming... EDIT: This is a disgusting piece of work by two female journalists who are shaming men attempting to heal from irreversible nonconsensual genital mutilation. Apparently, opposition to the butchery of baby boy's genitals, and attempting to restore this, is a sexist plot from the "manosphere." "men are bonding over their fascination with foreskins" Ahhh yes, the Code Pink shaming tactic. Trying to make it "sound gay." The irony is that a lot of pro-circumcision…
/r/MensRights09/06/26 03:06 AM
6

Thank you.
/r/MensRights07/06/26 09:27 AM
30

the pheminazis (who are largely closet rainbow ppl) I have to disagree with you here. The reality is actually the opposite. In my experience, MOST feminists are of the following groups: Males who are white-knights desperate for women's approval and attention. Some of these might claim a bisexual or nonbinary identity as a political thing, but they are exclusively-or-mostly heterosexual and don't actually suffer Gender Dysphoria. Straight women whose feminism is highly motivated by a desire to ma…
/r/MensRights07/06/26 04:28 AM
0

I'd disagree with your characterization of a Swedish minister as "right-wing" - only a tankie would be able to make such a description. A more accurate description is "establishment Social-Democrat." I guess you could say that is "small-c-conservative" by Swedish standards, sure, but its pretty milquetoast, and economically centrist (by the standards of the economics profession, its actually the leftest you can get whilst still maintaining respectability). Indeed, that is what is truly shocking …
/r/MensRights06/06/26 11:38 PM
12

A lot (not all) women see femininity as a special indulgence just for them, so they see men who enjoy feminine indulgences as a potential threat. On some level they know the gender system gives them many benefits, often subsidized by men. So they want to keep the gravy train going, shame men for breaking the rules, and demand the "having their cake and eating it too" version of equality that runs the world today.
/r/MensRights06/06/26 09:59 AM
3

Most world leaders and people in positions of power also have high levels of responsibility and stress. Leadership is often a burden, not a benefit. This is why many women choose against living a life of exclusive stringent careerism. Even if most leaders are male, most males aren't leaders. Men who are outliers aren't a representative sample of men. Also, "leader" males don't identify with or relate to non-leader males. The average male gets no benefit from the higher-ups. Leader males aren't t…
/r/MensRights06/06/26 05:46 AM
14

Agreed. "Incel" has become the new emasculating insult du jour. The irony - feminists claim to be against gender roles but all of their insults have a subtext that mocks men for insufficient manliness. There's also a Threat Narrative aspect. A man who expresses a relatively minor disagreement with extremist anti-male ideology gets dismissively/patronizingly mocked with "whatever, bro" (implication being he's just a dumb unenlightened dupe of the patriarchy). But the more the man becomes vocally …
/r/MensRights06/06/26 04:45 AM
3

I know. And right now I am sad and need a hug.
/r/MensRights04/06/26 03:54 AM
-3

I know the answer is psychological gynocentrism, I just don't want to be blackpilled like that. Swallow those black pills. We literally live in a world where the police will let a man die if a psychopath-who-happens-to-be-a-minority accuses him of racism (see Henry Nowak, Say His Name and demand everyone take a knee because of him). I fail to see any path to improvement that doesn't involve the imposition of substantial costs on various other demographics. To be clear, I do not like this. But ou…
/r/MensRights04/06/26 02:45 AM
3

I have Asperger’s too. I think it brings a tendency to think very analytically and to have a strong sense of justice as a result. I think we might be some of the most likely men to realize how fake women as a group are Agreed, although some might say that the 'sperg ideas of what constitutes being "fake" and what constitutes being "honest" are too extreme... but, well, that's normies and their lies and fakeness. And then they blame us for not getting it.
/r/MensRights30/04/26 12:31 PM
9

Anyone else feel this? Initially trusted women way more, but then realize how nasty many women can be? Yes, and completely. It took me a VERY long time to understand this as well, thanks to my Asperger's and society's deliberate obfuscatory social norms. Disclaimer: Going forward I will be generalizing. Please keep in mind that when I talk about "men" or "women" I'm speaking in terms of "MOST (members of that sex)," of course exceptions exist. Women will be extra kind to your face, they'll claim…
/r/MensRights30/04/26 11:50 AM
13

Who is the Carpenter person? A particularly nasty toxically-feminine pop/R&B performer. Her songs, to put it politely, do not portray healthy or positive relations between the sexes. Should I care? You could not-unreasonably suggest she helps perpetuate/propagate cultural misandry. That said, I agree it is silly to think "if we get rid of the bad pop-culture-for-women, we get rid of the bad attitudes." The attitudes have to pre-exist in order for commercial pop culture to start catering to them,…
/r/MensRights29/04/26 01:23 AM
11

Do these studies only look at overt homophobia or do they take into account covert homophobia too? Not to mention that 10% or women identify as LGBTQ compared to roughly 6% of men. That's because the costs of LGBTQ-identification for women are much lower. Female bisexuality is thought of as "hot," too. That stat just proves female privilege, not that females are less homophobic.
/r/MensRights29/04/26 12:19 AM
7

They'll come at ya accusing you of being homophobic and against LGBT+ rights, when ya say that you dislike the pairing/ya like a different pairing. Despite that they put every crazy homophobic stereotype in their mostly badly done fan works. This is why the slashfic fandom is what red-pilled me. Yes, some women actually do support equality for sexual minority males. In practice however, a lot of women who claim to be supportive of male sexual minorities just like having a few purse-dog toxically…
/r/MensRights29/04/26 12:17 AM
2

Heightism is real, and huge amounts of women perpetuate it, but you specifically said feminists and not most women. These are different sets of people. That said, I 100% agree that the majority of women, including the majority of women who claim to oppose gender roles, still insist on male partners that generally fulfill all the standards of traditional masculinity, including being tall.
/r/MensRights28/04/26 02:14 PM
2

I agree, except I absolutely know why I'm getting downvoted. Some people on this sub just want revenge, and adopt pro-life beliefs to rationalize it. I totally get the desire for revenge, but I'm not going to give into it for this particular issue. I don't believe that the human 'self' begins at conception, I think many people who claim to believe that just want to punish people who "fornicate," and abortion also sometimes saves men from nonconsensual fatherhood. So in my view, legal elective ab…
/r/MensRights24/04/26 12:48 PM
-3

Why do you support murdering babies? It isn't a baby for a good part of the pregnancy. Men don’t get to walk away from the financial obligations. Women don’t get to walk away from the results of their own actions. That's an argument for Legal Paternal Surrender (an argument I entirely agree with), not an argument against abortion. Do I resent feminists for demanding abortion-on-request-at-any-stage-for-any-reason-and-government-funded whilst being against LPS (except Karen DeCrow, who pioneered …
/r/MensRights24/04/26 03:48 AM
-3

Disagree on the abortion question (at least for the vast majority of abortions, which happen in the early stages of the pregnancy), but I agree on everything else.
/r/MensRights24/04/26 03:30 AM
1

The state of Victoria (part of Australia) has that. Fuck Victoria.
/r/MensRights23/04/26 05:50 PM
1

It's certainly less abnormal than I'd like.
/r/MensRights23/04/26 05:01 PM
5

It isn't. Source: I'm Australian. Women are a legally privileged class in this country.
/r/MensRights23/04/26 04:34 AM
18

I have come to the conclusion that women want men who are a little odd or different to learn how to conform, or suffer. This is why they make fun of lonely men. I have come to the same conclusion too (although really, all normies want this, but the sexes act differently in how they make it happen). It is social persecution of the socially atypical male.
/r/MensRights22/04/26 01:46 PM
168

So.... No mention of women doing the same thing, despite them doing the exact same thing. Assuming the men are doing this because of some evil desire to "control" their girlfriends. Again, what about the women dating AI boyfriends/husbands? This is particularly galling because recently, when ChatGPT updated their AI model to be less 'sycophantic' there was outcry from female users who claimed that ChatGPT was "killing their boyfriend." It is clearly not JUST men who like the idea of an opposite-…
/r/MensRights22/04/26 07:32 AM
2

It is choosing the same product geared for women (because men and womens needs are different) and being upcharged for it. And is this a problem? First, if men and women do have different needs, it is fair to presume the cost of the female-geared product isn't the same as the cost of the male-geared product. And even if this is not true, you're forgetting the reality of economic subjectivism. The market price of a product is what other people will give you for it. Women are not passive victims of…
/r/MensRights22/04/26 02:12 AM
2

Presumably feminine hygiene products aren't subjected to "pink tax" analysis because there's no "equivalent product for males." But economically, let's say there's pink tampons and other-colored tampons. If women are willing to pay more for pink tampons, that makes the pink tax their fault.
/r/MensRights22/04/26 01:18 AM
26

female specific issues such as the pink tax exist , in part , due to to capitalism aswell The "pink tax" doesn't exist. Women are just willing to pay more to get a "gender-affirming" product. The pink tax is ultimately their own fault.
/r/MensRights18/04/26 01:12 PM
41

There might be real male-specific issues, however when it comes to rape and murders in a relationship, women are totally over-represented amongst the victims. In many jurisdictions, rape-of-men-by-women isn't acknowledged as rape but treated as a separate thing (often called "made to penetrate"). This impacts the rape statistics. A lot of these male specific issues (such as male loneliness) are due to a combination of capitalism and toxic masculinity, they don't stem from the bad behaviour of wo…
/r/MensRights18/04/26 01:08 PM
28

Remember men, 1 in 3 (yes, ONE IN THREE!!!) men who do a paternity test ARE NOT THE FATHER in Canada. Let that sink in. To be entirely fair, the kind of men who seek out paternity tests likely have some sort of reason to suspect infidelity from their partner already. So there's a selection effect at play here. Consequently, we can't presume that 1/3rd of all Canadian children are the product of infidelity.
/r/MensRights15/04/26 09:37 AM
1

Is it paranoid when there's a long-demonstrated pattern of people-like-her being abusive to male children? The correct analogy is not "normal guy hits on a cutie at the bar, let's suspect he's a serial killer." The correct analogy is "guy who we know is a diagnosed sociopath and who has more than one restraining order against him hits on cutie at the bar, let's suspect he might (even if unintentionally) do some harm to said cutie."
/r/MensRights08/04/26 11:39 PM
3

Short reasons: Self-interest is a hell of a cognitive bias when it comes to motivated reasoning. A lack of familiarity with what most significant feminist theorists believe(d). Historical cherry-picking. On a few occasions, some feminists DID advocate for things that incidentally were egalitarian or benefitted men, and so these things are highlighted. A genuine, if irrational, belief that women actually are (including in the modern west) subject to widespread collective oppression on the basis o…
/r/MensRights08/04/26 07:06 AM
2

Housework is not paid and therefore less valued. It's compensated "in kind," and since there are markets for people who can provide the same thing (maid/domestique services + cooking), as well as markets for what stay-at-home partners receive for what they do (accommodation, gifts/assets bought specifically for their personal use, etc), we can quite easily calculate the financial value received by stay-at-home partners. Also "this thing isn't compensated specifically with money and therefore it …
/r/MensRights08/04/26 04:15 AM
3

Does she ever tell stories about a very special and innately precious Prince who the Princess is obliged to kill for, financially support, and risk their own death for? If not, she's doing a bad job at gender-swapping.
/r/MensRights08/04/26 03:55 AM
3

The issue is a mother who is actively trying to "reprogram" a male child, through the lens of an ideology that is actively hostile to and contemptuous of males. Boys playing with whatever they want, be them feminine-coded-figurines ("dolls") or masculine-coded-figurines ("action figures"), is totally fine. But is Gavin's wife respecting her child's wishes... or is she trying to remold the child's preferences? And feminist childrearing can be outright abusive, and (ironically enough) end up reinf…
/r/MensRights08/04/26 03:50 AM
0

I was deferring to the language use of the person I was replying to. There’s really nothing to suggest gender roles are patriarchal or that women play no role in influencing them. I partially agree. Certainly, women co-create the gender roles and the idea that men just arbitrarily set them up how they are is ridiculous. But historically speaking, official leadership roles in formal organizational units has typically been given to males (or a subset of them) over females. This definition of "patr…
/r/MensRights05/04/26 08:05 AM
8

Typically, Americans stick to the stigma that men cannot be abused. But I do not believe this is a fault of feminism. The Duluth Model was created by feminist researchers (and its own creator, Ellen Pence, has now rejected it and accepted it is full of confirmation bias), and that model is used by DV services themselves to deny services to men whom have been abused (often they accuse the man of pulling a DARVO and being the "real abuser who's just trying to revictimize the woman he abused"). The…
/r/MensRights05/04/26 06:11 AM
4

Originally "toxic masculinity" meant traits society pushed men to adopt that encouraged them to act in a destructive-to-self or destructive-to-others fashion. Feminists will cite this definition but they've in-practice redefined "toxic masculinity" to mean "any behavior from a man that inconveniences, doesn't center, or gasp criticizes or disagrees with me." I do agree that "masculinity" is used as a social control method though. And the feminist attempt to "redefine masculinity" is just another…
/r/MensRights05/04/26 05:28 AM
5

But I'm wondering if some people are anti-abortion because they want to punish feminists. It's more about punishing fornicators than feminists. After all, some American conservatives are now demanding men pay child support from the moment of conception. Meanwhile, this same subset of conservatives (who, thankfully, are not all conservatives) also oppose Harm Reduction methods like teaching kids about contraception. Because, once again, they are not opposed to people suffering negative consequenc…
/r/MensRights04/04/26 08:25 AM
3

You could easily have, beneath the same Minister, separate departments addressing specific needs of each sex. The real problem would be preventing such a department from getting hijacked by feminists (like we see happening even in the private sector, with Movember).
/r/MensRights16/03/26 03:03 AM
1

IIRC, what the index does is rate "equality" exclusively in terms of inequities-which-disfavor-women whilst ignoring inequities-which-disfavor-men. So they don't literally give extra points for instituting laws which are sexist against men. They just ignore those entirely when measuring "gender equality." And any inequity that favors women/disfavors men is also discarded.
/r/MensRights15/03/26 09:29 PM
1

There's kind of an irony. Many feminists stridently insisted there were no sex typicalities and that it was all nurture, so women could "man up." But what we've seen is institutions becoming more feminized, in the name of feminism. A common (and incorrect) criticism of feminism I see here is that it is making women more masculine. But is it? Last I checked, feminism seems to be enshrining and encouraging Toxic Femininity instead.
/r/MensRights15/03/26 09:16 PM
1

I disagree with the core premise of the article where it says women are incapable of leadership or facts That's not what the "Great Feminization" thesis implies. The argument is basically that normie/average/typical women have a social-relational style that doesn't fit well with the goals of certain institutions. There absolutely are women who aren't normie/average/typical. In addition, the kind/s of MEN who excel at facts and leadership are generally not normie/typical/average men either.
/r/MensRights15/03/26 09:13 PM
1

What do you mean by "right-wing"? The problem is that "right-wing" thought is actually more intellectually diverse than left-wing thought is, because the "right" is everything rejected by the "left." Even if you define "leftism" as the belief that "social hierarchy is unnatural and undesirable," that leaves THREE different potential "right wing" positions (natural and desirable, natural yet undesirable, unnatural yet desirable). So you're going to have to specifically state what flavor of "right…
/r/MensRights15/03/26 08:35 PM
2

Your feelings are valid and rational. Society deserves your rage.
/r/MensRights15/03/26 06:31 AM
2

The biggest force attacking the culture was the pedophilic elite. You're consistently trying to avoid disaggregation. No, there is no single unified elite. There are multiple individual elites and groups clamoring for elite status who compete against each other in order to get it. The Epstein network is real - it is a thing - but it was most likely a Mossad honeypot operation intended to cultivate Israeli influence over American society and government. And not every elite in America was part of …
/r/MensRights14/03/26 11:44 PM
4

Translation: you don't have anything you can actually cite. "The billionaires" are not a united class with harmonized interests or political beliefs. If you think Alex Soros and Elon Musk have the same politics or same interests, you're deeply misguided. And plenty of groups have "bot farms," including groups allied with the left.
/r/MensRights14/03/26 11:30 PM
3

Not trying to derail or be in bad faith. Unlikely, given a brigade is occurring. I’m just saying this isn’t a left or right problem at all. But the biggest force attacking the cultures and prospects of 'spergy dudes is the left. This has been true for roughly the past 20 years. The crimes of the Christian Right are well in the past. But you continue to show your lack of knowledge by saying things from the past rather than from recently. LOL. This is a demented attempt to change the temporal goal…
/r/MensRights14/03/26 11:28 PM
3

USAID fed starving people and the cuts went there Evidence please. Cite it. Not to mention you're acting like the only thing USAID did was feed starving people. This is ridiculous. DOGE identified plenty of things USAID was doing that had nothing to do with feeding starving people (including things like funding new media startups in European countries). By your logic, I can say that the only thing the US military does is humanitarian work in the aftermath of natural disasters, and therefore any …
/r/MensRights14/03/26 11:22 PM
5

The left took over Silicon Valley? Yet they all voted for maga in the last election. History doesn't stop at the most recent electoral cycle, and SV's biggest VCs aren't representative of all of SV (plus, most of those big names are moving away from SV). Take the entire Obama-Biden eras into account. Look at what was happening inside these corporations for years even at the middle and lower levels. Look who was being employed, look what policies were introduced and enforced, look at how SV resid…
/r/MensRights14/03/26 11:19 PM
1

Agreed entirely. From the "nerd culture wars" to the attacks on (and left's steady turning against) Julian Assange (clear 'sperg), to the clear in-practice-rejection of neurodiversity (despite the in-theory embrace of it) make it very clear what is happening. Its a mixture of make-work program (the normies with useless degrees want to come into 'nerd' industries due to the lucrativity), and cultural/economic/political revenge against us. We disrupted the National Security State (hence the attack…
/r/MensRights14/03/26 11:13 PM
1

Apart from the fact that DOGE is hardly alt-right (it's closer to a libertarian than an alt-right program), OP was saying that the manner in which the criticism was made was the issue. If you want to criticize a specific cut made by DOGE, name the cut and explain why that cut is bad. Don't mock the social mannerisms of the person who made the cut.
/r/MensRights14/03/26 11:00 PM
3

The problem is a societal one. Not another left vs right culture war problem. Except the left have done far more damage to nerdy/awkward men's prospects and subcultures. Colonizing Silicon Valley, taking over nerd subcultures etc, all leftist initiatives. The right even at its worst have done nothing even remotely that damaging, and all of the right's attacks have easily been worked around/circumvented. In addition, there's another issue: the left claims to believe in diversity including neurodi…
/r/MensRights14/03/26 10:58 PM
3

I think the cuts that led to real deaths The vast majority of those cuts were to academic boondoggles (that supported academics, not poor people) or to "economic development" programs that mostly worked out to subsidizing highly-politicized artists in places like Ireland (not an impoverished country). Not to mention, one of the most potent criticisms of DOGE is that it underdelivered by a factor of ten. So what is it? Did those cuts work out to mass-death blood money? Or were they trivial and ha…
/r/MensRights14/03/26 10:52 PM
81

Yeah. The women are framed as victims, not gold-diggers. Also, the article suggests that the women who are more open to sugaring have more Borderline Personality Disorder traits. There's been a long campaign to delegitimize BPD and to say the notion itself is either sexist or that BPD is really just Complex PTSD caused by childhood trauma... in other words, she's not crazy nor should she be expected to practice basic adult emotional regulation, she's a victim of abuse. I mean, yes, childhood tra…
/r/MensRights14/03/26 12:03 PM
1

Note how the entire article is all "some people engage in nonmonogamous relationships - women biggest victims." The article isn't wrong to say that the relationship in question is a clear case of androcentric polyamory, and that the man who demanded it used progressive ideology to get his way. But the fact is that the reverse pattern also exists: women who aren't actually poly but are using progressive ideology to demand that the prudent-yet-unsexy man she has a relationship with accept her slee…
/r/MensRights14/03/26 10:45 AM
2

It’s pretty clear that the true priority in poor countries is the parents desire to have children that are obligated to look after them in old age. I have to agree with this, and I'm an economist myself and familiar with Becker's work (although I'm not familiar with this specific equation). From what I read in OP's post (maybe I'm wrong here), Becker is modelling children as effectively a form of consumption. However, if having children were a matter of consumption, we wouldn't see the consisten…
/r/MensRights25/02/26 07:08 AM
10

They need to be driven out of business purely as an act of retaliation. At the very least they should be driven into a situation where they have to sell off their "boy" IPs and are forced to retreat to focusing on their real core audience - young children and young women. In theory they could make good entertainment for teenage males but they simply refuse to do so out of spite. They don't want to provide entertainment for them.
/r/MensRights25/02/26 06:00 AM
3

No, we need radical education reform. And not just for boy's sake (although that is part of it). Anything short of Montessori is child abuse. Teacher's Unions must be abolished. School Choice, whilst necessary, won't fix everything (too many parents will send kids off to abusive schools). The idea that "we need to prepare boys for school" is frankly misandrist. It's saying "boys need to be pre-emptively broken so they fit into authoritarian institutions and don't Rock The Boat." The school syste…
/r/MensRights25/02/26 03:58 AM
3

No one is going to openly say they're ethnic nationalist. The big problem with these "crypto-" arguments is that they're unfalsifiable. And if a politician has (for example) several policies which work against the secret goals they're alleged to have, those policies just get excused as "window dressing/diversion to give the politician plausible deniability." So in other words, nothing the politician can do will actually disprove the charges... a policy that works towards the alleged secret goal …
/r/MensRights18/02/26 11:11 AM
1

They want to cut services for everyone. They claim to want "welfare for British men and women" but the guy always go on about cutting welfare. If you stop non-citizens from accessing welfare, you by definition reduce expenditure on welfare. If you increase the efficiency of the welfare system, you by definition reduce total expenditure whilst maintaining the current levels of output (i.e. amount of welfare that gets to the beneficiary). It is perfectly possible to "cut welfare" without reducing …
/r/MensRights17/02/26 02:34 AM
0

How the hell will an ethno-nationalist party help men's rights? I've read Restore Britain's policies and I see no ethno-nationalism. The policy is to enforce existing immigration law, deport those in the UK illegally and get rid of the "indefinite leave to remain" status (which allows non-citizens to access the UK safety net). None of these are racial or ethnonationalistic. None of the proposed changes he makes to immigration policy are "racist" (i.e. predicated on race). Tons of people who woul…
/r/MensRights17/02/26 02:30 AM
1

Could you perhaps give a link to Restore Britain's policy on family courts? I couldn't find it on their website.
/r/MensRights17/02/26 02:17 AM
32

Just don't be a creep Unfortunately, "creep" has been shown to be a subjective classification, and many women (not all women) will consider the same behavior from an ugly or 'spergy man "creepy" but from a handsome man will consider it "cute." In addition, "creep" as a category package-deals two different things... "I found this interaction weird, awkward and off-putting" with "this man is CLEARLY A FUCKING SEX OFFENDER PUT HIM IN JAIL NOW." Some (again not all) women maliciously conflate the tw…
/r/MensRights16/02/26 04:27 AM
1

They won't care. SAM is an initiative of the Democratic Party, which is basically the party of normie women. Normie women are (due primarily to widescale cultural infantilization and coddling and pandering) too enthralled by their own lizard-brain instincts to give a fuck about men, particularly men who suffer on account of their sex. To the normie woman lizard brain, such a man is not worthy of concern because Men Must Be Strong In Order For Her To Respect Them As Worthy Humans. Unless some ver…
/r/MensRights16/02/26 01:09 AM
7

"Person's name is in the Epstein Files" =/= "named person had sex with someone underage." The Epstein affair is truly horrific, but obviously not everyone he talked to at a party once (or something else relatively trivial) fucked minors trafficked by him. We need to start demanding context when we hear "he was mentioned in the Epstein files!"
/r/MensRights14/02/26 09:10 AM
16

Your first paragraph is absolutely valid and we can see the statute. However, whilst I agree the atrocious statute was evil, the OP is asking for evidence of whether or not women ended up in insane asylums disproportionately (so presumably at a larger share than their population percentage). The statute you cite is not evidence that this was the case, merely that married women were denied equal protection of the law by this statute. As for your second paragraph, that's just feminist mythology. A…
/r/MensRights11/02/26 07:01 AM
11

Advocacy for the interests, rights, status and position of women, typically premised on the idea that women are the oppressed sex. Most forms of feminism absolutely insist that it is women whom are the oppressed sex, and think "both sexes suffer in different ways" isn't an acceptable feminist position.
/r/MensRights10/02/26 07:56 AM
31

I'm on the political right myself but I need to ask... is the new PM going to do anything to help men in Japan? I mean if she's defending freedom for anime artists to make porn that pisses off feminists, that's a good thing (both from a classical liberalism angle and a men's interests angle). But perhaps you could detail some specifics as to what she plans to do that is good for males?
/r/MensRights10/02/26 12:04 AM
6

Indeed. Specifically a bigotry towards male homosexuality. Conservatives who love lesbian porn but rant about "those fags"? Homomisandrists. The assumption that gay men are sexual predators but lesbians aren't? Homomisandry. Radfems who think lesbianism is a radical stance for women's rights but gay men are misogynists for denying affection to women? Homomisandrists.
/r/MensRights09/02/26 11:47 PM
4

I wonder how the two interplay. Does the homophobic man dislike me for being gay but like me for being a man, or does the homophobic woman like me for being a man because she wishes she could sleep with me but dislike me for being gay because now I have made her pride unstable and brought to life her insecurity? The argument that I generally incline towards is that women-who-objectify-gay-men do so out of basically a desire to have the ultimate Beta Orbiter. Even gay men are sometimes prone to c…
/r/MensRights09/02/26 11:28 PM
23

You're totally right about the paradox. Radfems said "marriage is oppressive to women" and even "heterosexuality is oppressive to women" so MGTOWs gladly withdrew their wedding rings and oppression rods. Radfems complain. Radfems talk about bodily autonomy... but scream at men exercising their own. The paradox's obvious irrationality suggests, to me, there's some underlying evolved mechanism at play. Basically, the feminine lizard brain sees men-disengaging-from-women as a threat to women's happ…
/r/MensRights08/02/26 10:48 PM
9

Yes, I'm aware that many of the early feminists embraced the same Scientific Racism that was commonly believed by the intelligentsia at the time.
/r/MensRights08/02/26 08:27 AM
22

I totally feel your pain. The simple reality is that when women write slash/yaoi, 95% of the time they write an extremely heteronormative relationship dynamic. I've written about this before (see https://www.reddit.com/r/askAGP/comments/1q55mjj/two_kinds_of_slashyaoi_fangirl_fujoshi/). I think they're "gaywashing" their ultimately-conventional sexual desires as a way of dealing with the conflict between feminist ideology and those desires. Having two (nominal) males act out the conventional dyna…
/r/MensRights08/02/26 07:22 AM
150

Bisexual here, and I'm glad you've realized the depths of women's homophobia. The feminist movement hijacked gay rights back in the 70s and made it a lesbian-feminist-dominated movement with men under female supervision. Straight women objectify gay men all the time and act like they're "allies" just because they flick their beans to yaoi. The minute a gay man stops being a purse dog to her, she becomes as homophobic as a stereotypical redneck.
/r/MensRights08/02/26 05:50 AM
1

The Pentagon shouldn't support Scouting America or any other similarly-situated organizations. Full stop.
/r/MensRights08/02/26 05:45 AM
8

I'm a libertarian (i.e. free market classical liberal) so that gets me classified as "right wing" despite the fact that my social views are quite radically opposed to tradcons. Here's the thing: there is NO unified "right wing" ideology. There is NO common denominator between "right wing" thinkers in terms of their actual beliefs. Compare Ayn Rand and Adolf Hitler. They had literally the opposite position on every single substantive political and philosophical issue, yet both get called "right w…
/r/MensRights08/02/26 04:56 AM
4

You could fairly argue that, in the aftermath of rape, males have sex-specific needs. This is particularly true in a society which has a lot of (sometimes unfair and unreasonable) sexed narratives surrounding that crime.
/r/MensRights11/01/26 10:41 AM
0

The logic doesn't follow. "Women doing X is easy therefore it is immoral, men doing X is hard therefore it is admirable" simply makes no sense. There are plenty of very easy things that are completely morally insignificant, or even virtuous to some degree. Meanwhile, something can be very hard yet still evil... it isn't easy to become a totalitarian dictator and retain power for a long time, but few people would call it morally admirable (even if it does show some sort of skill, sure). In additi…
/r/MensRights10/01/26 10:20 AM
9

If I'm wrong, post the actual curriculum content. And on top of that, how can we stop radfem teachers (of which there are many in UK public schools because the teacher's unions are woke left as fuck) peppering their own commentary into the lesson? What sort of emotional reaction that feminists wouldn’t like are you describing? It should be obvious. Out of one corner of their mouths, feminists habitually say "men should be able to share their feelings." When men do so in ways that inconvenience o…
/r/MensRights10/01/26 09:52 AM
2

MGTOW is just men engaging in a marriage strike, more out of self-preservation than out of a desire to cause change. Red and Blackpill spaces have no inherent political content - they're just theories about how conventional heterosexual dating operates. They are not, in and of themselves, political movements or rights movements, although it is fair to say some Red/Blackpillers join these dating theories with their own political convictions (which vary). In and of themselves they don't fight for …
/r/MensRights10/01/26 09:10 AM
9

And what happens when men have an emotional reaction that feminists don't like? All of that "all children need to be seen and heard, and no emotional reaction is bad because your feelings matter" goes out the window. Boy complains that his favorite TV show has been retooled for girls? MISOGYNY! Boy complains that media for women depicts violence by women against men as empowering? MISOGYNY! Boy complains that this course, which is meant to stop violence against women, mentions Jamie from Adolesc…
/r/MensRights10/01/26 09:03 AM
1

It could be argued that this power is a "consolation prize" designed to act as the piece of cheese to entice the mouse into the trap.
/r/MensRights29/12/25 11:55 PM
11

No surprise. Women like a man who can be aggressive because such a man can take out other men, defend and protect her etc. Meanwhile, men don't need her to prove she can protect or dish out violence.
/r/BlackPillScience29/12/25 09:34 AM
31

The vast majority of US gun violence is a "war on drugs"-related issue. Remove the gun violence that can be attributed to the inner city drug trade, and US gun violence rates become hard to distinguish those of Northern Europe. It isn't a sex thing.
/r/MensRights27/12/25 09:41 AM
7

"Left" and "right" are almost meaningless labels. IMO, "left" just means "anything the professoriate likes" and "right" means the opposite. As for men's rights, feminism and "blame all men (especially white ones) for everything bad" is orthodoxy on the vast majority of the left, and among the so-called intelligentsia. This makes anything-that-doesn't-treat-men-as-collectively-guilty-for-everything-bad as "right wing" simply because it isn't the trendy position on university campuses. That said, …
/r/MensRights27/12/25 01:12 AM
7

Nerdy men and "loser" men (men who fail to meet traditional standards of "real manhood") are acceptable targets. They're practically treated as a third gender in our society. There's also the additional layer of bigotry-against-'spergy-neuroatypicals involved in this, too. I think that asperger's traits in males just give females "the ick" (probably because the average female wants a man whom is highly socially adroit, so 'spergers is an utter turnoff), and because women are people they're prone…
/r/MensRights27/12/25 12:01 AM
3

That's not sharing, that's just casual sex. Most people who have casual sex aren't having casual sex exclusively with a single person over a sustained period of time. The sharing isn't obvious/explicit. But it is present and tacitly tolerated, out-of-sight-and-out-of-mind. Most people don't spend their lives doing that and are monogamous for the majority of their sex-having years. Could you provide a citation and a time-horizon that you'd use to demarcate "very-short-term serial monogamy" from "…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/12/25 02:26 AM
3

I agree women don't want to share, but as a matter of fact they are tacitly tolerating a system in which they end up sharing. You can export responsibility for it onto men by calling them "cads" and "fuckboys" whom are "spinning plates" if you like. But women tacitly accept this, and men explicitly desire it. I am not morally judging this. The heart wants what it wants. But it is quite easy for a system of romantic serial monogamy to end up as one with de facto polygyny if hookups are relatively…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/12/25 12:54 AM
12

Is Afghanistan some sort of sexual utopia for men? A very good point. Nostalgia for tradconism always misses how tradconism didn't give every man what he wanted, either. The sad reality is both the male lizard brain and female lizard brain want impossible/un-universalizable things. As such, all romantic institutions will impose some sort of cost upon (i.e. not be absolutely perfect for) people. We're always going to have to live in a world of tradeoffs and negotiated compromise.
/r/PurplePillDebate15/12/25 12:11 AM
0

I agree with points 1 and 2, however I think you're missing several things. Firstly, there's inherently a problem with trying to reassert theologically conservative (or perhaps more accurately, sociosexually conservative) religion. The big one is, as you pointed out, that it is being done so currently for what are fundamentally insincere and functionalistic reasons. But we in the West have an historical tradition of orthodoxic Christianity centered on the idea of sincere individual faith as the …
/r/PurplePillDebate15/12/25 12:07 AM
7

I've seen this advice, but I think it is usually offered in the context of men who explicitly say they want to marry. Example: "How can I get a very fulfilling married sex life with a woman that won't dead-bedroom me and will also be adventurous and enthusiastic as a co-participant?" "Perhaps you should screen for, rather than against, women who display such characteristics already?" I'm hardly a bloop or gynocentrist, and I know most dating advice offered to men by women is (not necessarily int…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/12/25 12:04 PM
1

Because ur fucking sperging. And that's only a bad thing if you believe normalcy/neurotypicality = good and 'spergy characteristics = bad. That's quite literally the construction of a status hierarchy. One that people with Asperger's Syndrome, which (yes) I do have, are very familiar with, as it is set against us our whole lives. Again, I find it hard to believe you can be so utterly obtuse about this. You're pissing on a lawn, I'm telling you that you're pissing on a lawn, and you're denying th…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/12/25 09:50 AM
1

Buddy do yourselves a favor and go outside, get some fresh air, get yourself some tea and maybe talk to some people. This is fucking sad. Why is it sad? Because "normal people" are sociable and Loners Are Freaks and a good person has lots of friends? Those are literally the underlying premises of every single insult you just threw at me. I'm just taking what you said seriously. And it proves my point. If someone says "if a man is held in high esteem by others, he'll be treated better by them" an…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/12/25 09:35 AM
1

People thinking that something they don't have is important, and other people finding it amusing because of how false it is ain't proving them right. The typical response to falsehood is not mockery/belittlement. It's cute to see you coping though lmao. Again, this is mockery/belittlement (the dismissive use of internet-speak, the diminutive term like "cute," the clear enjoyment you take in this, etc.). Mockery/belittlement is what people do out of contempt, which is a status-based emotion (it i…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/12/25 09:27 AM
2

First consideration: do they want children? Second consideration: do they have the right temperament, preferences and skill set to raise children? (example - if you're strongly averse to energetic hobbies, you might not be the best fit for parenting, at least most children) Third consideration that's a slight derivative of the second consideration: Are they willing to adapt to the child's needs and preferences to a reasonable extent instead of demanding the child fit into their pre-existing life…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/12/25 09:12 AM
1

It should be obvious why. Because all of society is. And a huge reason TRP and the manosphere (and, to an extent, certain factions on the political right) have exploded is because whilst our society nominally espouses egalitarianism and rejects certain hierarchies as evil/immoral/illegitimate/unnatural, even those who espouse the most radical form/s of egalitarianism are creating and reinforcing hierarchies. The abject hypocrisy of many advocates of "equality" is causing counterreaction. "Social…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/12/25 08:49 AM
2

The fact you're mocking "people who think status is important" for lacking status actually proves their argument.
/r/PurplePillDebate14/12/25 08:27 AM
2

There are far more posts on this sub of men blaming women for their problems than the reverse. By a large number And in the context of the dating discourse at large, this sub is a drop in the ocean compared to a status quo in which a mixture of ideological feminism and benevolent sexism consistently proclaims that every single problem in the relations between the sexes is caused by men and that men have to fix it. It should be obvious to everyone that "this is a way in which women contribute to …
/r/PurplePillDebate14/12/25 05:42 AM
-1

Saying masculinity is totally separate from sexuality is just wrong in practice. It's also wrong legally. Ever since Bostock v. Clayton County, it has been legally affirmed that discrimination against gay people is unavoidably a form of sex discrimination. I doubt your interlocutor would like their argument used against that particular ruling.
/r/PurplePillDebate14/12/25 05:37 AM
1

I don't like Elam, but all MHRM leaders get mischaracterized by ideologically-captured press (including Dr Warren Farrell). And what you said is, from what I know, inaccurate. Elam said, if he were on a jury for a rape trial and the defendant is male, he'd vote to acquit on principle because there is a long history of prosecutors in the US withholding exculpatory evidence in trials of males accused of rape (Criminal Justice Reform advocates make very similar arguments about prosecutorial miscond…
/r/PurplePillDebate13/12/25 10:55 PM
1

Because, from the perspective of the government/administrator, and from the perspective of basic economic-organization theory, a household (a corporate unit) still looks different to a single person living alone in their own place. And, if households produce positive externalities, then the difficulty-to-dissolve-them is not relevant to the question of whether or not they should be subsidized in any way.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/12/25 10:17 AM
1

In the situation you describe, that the wife has a job of the same intensity/commitment/strenuousness level, and that she also has (on top of that) household duties exclusively imposed on her, I agree it is unfair.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/12/25 10:14 AM
1

"Why bother having the legal relationship at all?" Because policy distinguishes between households (corporate units) and individuals who live singly. Acknowledging-marriage-in-public-policy still serves this legitimate function (as, for the most part, marriage is the way in which households are 'incorporated' or formed).
/r/PurplePillDebate13/12/25 09:45 AM
1

I think the former (reduce potential dissolution costs) is the better alternative. As a society, we've accepted the basic ideal of romantic serial monogamy - that committed relationships are about the love between and happiness of the people involved in said relationships. Forcing (or guilting or coercing) people to remain in unsatisfying, unloving relationships is antithetical to said ideal. Consequently, since romantic serial monogamy is not going to be abandoned and no one wants to relinquish…
/r/PurplePillDebate13/12/25 08:34 AM
-9

So, men get to be tired after work but women don’t? I don't think OP was saying that. Rather, I think OP is saying that it is unfair for a woman in an opposite-sex relationship to demand a partner who can both be a completely dedicated ambitious fulltime careerist and do housework, owing to the fact that completely dedicated fulltime careerism is much more draining than more flexible/casual work. Then I imagine you guys would be happy to fully financially support your wives to stay home and do a…
/r/PurplePillDebate13/12/25 07:17 AM
-1

The counterargument is that both genders prefer work outside of the house to childcare and domestic work. Some would greatly disagree with that. Not to mention, work outside the house might be simultaneously more grueling but more lucrative. Obviously every couple/household needs to make their own decisions about the subject and optimally arrange their affairs. But the idea that domesticity = slavery and jobs = fulfilment was perhaps Friedan's greatest mistake (an external job DOES give financia…
/r/PurplePillDebate13/12/25 07:04 AM
20

If you don’t like male gender roles, have your own movement to stir men up and fight to make gender roles non-obligatory. We have that movement... the Men's Human Rights Movement... and whenever we try to meet we get feminist protests (I know, I've attended an International Conference on Men's Issues and we had to keep the venue secret to avoid picketing). Feminists also claim our movement is either redundant/unnecessary or that it is somehow misogynist.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/12/25 03:57 AM
1

This probably sums up the aspect I was picking up on originally as disdainful. I mean this in no way as offense, but you seem to be heavily on the systemetizing side of things Correct. Diagnosed 'sperg. which makes me think the calibration of your beliefs on the ethics of empathizing might be a little far to the one side. Well we're going to have to absolutely disagree there. I think I'm quite accurate in my valuation of empathy's ethical significance. But this isn't a "debate ethics" subreddit …
/r/PurplePillDebate13/12/25 01:42 AM
1

So now the same is happening with men's rights with male versions of Dworkin and Steinham grabbing the headlines. I'd partially disagree, because Fuentes and Tate are tradcons, not MRAs. They're not the male-equivalent-of-feminists. MRAs want to abolish men's sex-based obligations to women, NOT to re-establish women's sex-based obligations to men (which is what Tradcons want to do).
/r/MensRights13/12/25 01:31 AM
1

You can criticize cultural feminization without being against women's rights. Do you want a world that is more like Mean Girls? If the answer is "no," you're opposing cultural feminization. None of that requires any opposition to individual rights for women.
/r/MensRights13/12/25 01:29 AM
1

I agree that governmental power structures are ultimately the issue, but these governmental power structures are habitually justified with the language of "women and minorities." You can't expect people to NOT turn a critical eye to "women and minorities" identity politics, considering that these identity politics function as the legitimizing narrative for the governmental power structures in question. Also, to be fair, criticism of any particular set of identity politics advocacy is not necessa…
/r/MensRights13/12/25 01:25 AM
1

You seem to be advocating for withholding validation from others except in rare extreme circumstances, out of an abundance of caution towards avoiding poor outcomes that mainly apply to an extreme outlet set. It's not so much that I think validation should be withheld as that insincere validation should be withheld. Telling someone you share or understand their feelings when you actually don't. Telling someone you agree with them when you actually don't. Telling someone their feelings are valid …
/r/PurplePillDebate13/12/25 01:10 AM
2

You initially were talking about allistic people and people who feel more and think less -- that's a much larger group than people with cluster B personality disorders. True, but the difference is one of degree rather than principle. BPD and HPD, and to a lesser extend NPD, is just the absolute extreme "feels over facts" mindset. I think it's fair to consider a 'normal' fairly healthy person as our case study here, not the most extreme cases. And we expect normal, mentally healthy people to emot…
/r/PurplePillDebate13/12/25 12:46 AM
12

You are describing a subset of emotionally immature women who don’t have the emotional intelligence to handle their own feelings. I agree. The problems OP are pointing to are: This subset is substantially larger than it should be, and This subset gets away with calling their emotional incontinence/dysregulation "emotional intelligence" when, as you pointed out, it absolutely is not "emotional intelligence" by the definition you propose.
/r/PurplePillDebate12/12/25 11:05 PM
3

rationally, there's no reason not to validate the feelings of psychic vampires. Only if you presume validating said feelings is a costless act and doesn't come with further-costs-down-the-road (i.e. the consequences of wide-scale-enabled cluster B personality disorders). I think both of those presumptions are highly questionable. It sounds like that would be pretty effective at resolving their dysregulation. Alternatively, the psychic vampires can learn to regulate themselves, like all other adu…
/r/PurplePillDebate12/12/25 11:00 PM
1

Alternatively, we can embrace individual responsibility instead, and say no individual is responsible for the conduct of other individuals, even those who happen to share their sex.
/r/PurplePillDebate12/12/25 10:50 PM
-1

It's surprising how "triggered" so many people are to this thread. I mean, all you're really saying is "if you want men to be more willing to commit, reduce the potential cost of relationship dissolution." That's trivially obvious, and the fact so many people are hostile to the idea proves that they essentially believe women are entitled to extract as much as possible out of men.
/r/PurplePillDebate12/12/25 10:40 PM
12

I have to agree here. I'd be even more radical: "emotional intelligence" doesn't exist. The term is just a synonym for neurotypicality and is used by people who feel-too-much-and-think-too-little to pretend that their glandular excretions are somehow up there with the discoveries of Nicola Tesla, Albert Einstein, John Locke, Francis Bacon etc. Hence why "emotional intelligence" in practice works out to validating-the-feelings-of-psychic-vampires.
/r/PurplePillDebate12/12/25 10:37 PM
4

The sociopath is a woman. Got it. Point being , you detected her with rational methods (neocortex), not some mystical ability to "see the misogyny in someone's reddit posts by looking at them" (which is what some women on this forum allege to possess). You’re not explaining how whatever it is you’re labeling as the “creep detector/misogyny detector” is anything different from just intuition that someone’s a bad guy. Because it clearly doesn't screen for "badness" or "dangerous-to-me-ness" or "da…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/12/25 06:55 AM
5

Yeah I mean you are saying they can’t pick up on abusers dude. You’re just using more language. I'm not saying women can't pick up on abusers. I'm saying that the so-called "creep detector/misogyny detector" is not the faculty which enables women to do this. When you described your experience with the sociopath, you made this clear. The sociopath said things which were falsifiable and inconsistent. The sociopath was trying to manipulate you. You saw that with your rational mind and recognized wh…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/12/25 06:19 AM
7

I never said women can't pick up on abusers. My argument is that, much of the time (not all the time), when (the majority of neurotypical opposite-sex-attracted) women claim they find a guy "weird/strange/he gave me a creepy feeling" they aren't triggered by actual danger, but rather Autism-spectrum-style social awkwardness. However, because they are either lacking in self-awareness or just don't want to say "I got the ick because I don't like men whom aren't socially adroit," they construct a c…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/12/25 05:29 AM
7

So you've never been left with a feeling of unease from someone who hasn't done anything directly wrong? Someone who just made you feel uncomfortable for a reason you can't put your finger on? This is such a common and human experience It is... but is that experience ACTUALLY an instinct that protects people from real physical danger? I think it is more likely to be an "ick" response to 'spergs/autists. It clearly doesn't screen out sociopaths (look at what Ted Bundy got away with).
/r/PurplePillDebate09/12/25 02:52 AM
0

Nobody wants to fuck Dom from Gears of War. Tell that to the Gears of War "bara" fandom... A muscular natty body is what women seem to like the most. On that, I agree. And it makes sense. Women want naturals. Very intense bodybuilding, 'roids and the like turn them off... either because they see it as mimicry, or because they see his own dedication to his own appearance as some kind of threat to his willingness to give his resources to her ("he spends too much on himself and not enough on MEEEEE…
/r/PurplePillDebate06/12/25 11:48 PM
1

I absolutely agree there are situations where biological sex cannot be ignored. Medical being the big one. That said, I was speaking legally. The law shouldn't differentiate between the sexes, even if sometimes the government must (like if it gets involved in healthcare for example). But like what would a gender-blind society look like to you for the people living in it? It wouldn't look massively different but there would be far less benevolent sexism, for one thing. And much more indifference …
/r/PurplePillDebate03/12/25 10:42 PM
1

Thank you for the response! So pretty much just eliminate gendered vocabulary in law and policies and be "genderblind" per say? I agree with that wholeheartedly. Glad we're on the same page there. Yes, law should be utterly sex-blind/gender-blind in every respect. And why would you assume I was just talking about policies when I specifically said policies and individuals? I presume by "individuals" you mean in terms of culture and lifestyle, right? I'm an individualist so I don't want to make cu…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/12/25 11:59 PM
1

The complete abolition of any sex-or-gender-based affirmative action for starters (it is based on benevolent sexism). And the introduction of legal paternal surrender. And no public funding for DV shelters that use the Duluth Model (this reinforces the idea of men-as-actors-and-women-as-acted-upon). Complete abolition of all conscription ideally BUT if conscription occurs it must be sex-neutral. And all divorce proceedings should begin with a rebuttable presumption in favor of shared parenting. …
/r/PurplePillDebate02/12/25 10:09 PM
5

The punishment of malicious false accusations of rape and abuse, the abolition of traditionalism (including the aspects of traditionalism that feminism likes and reinforces) as well as the complete extension of the sexual revolution to men (requiring the destigmatization of sex work, sex bots and male sex toys, and porn for men as well as men's initiatives to decenter women).
/r/PurplePillDebate02/12/25 05:07 AM

Women here on PPD may not be hostile to sex-positivity in males. However, normie women on dating apps assume all men are eternally horny and see male embrace of explicit sex-positive rhetoric as opportunistic at best, and utterly revolting if the male is ugly. My advice is to avoid using the rhetoric of sex-positivity entirely.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/12/25 05:01 AM
5

I don't blame you. At this point, blue hair + septum piercing are red flags for BPD, idiotic politics and willingness to make false rape allegations.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/12/25 02:35 AM
17

>How individuals communicate varies. It is incumbent upon both parties to understand, and adapt to this fact. Every example above is nullified by mutually effective communication skills. Agreed entirely. The problem, though, is gynonormativity. Women believe that how THEY communicate is the CORRECT way to communicate, that a more typically-male form of communication is INCORRECT (or even outright bigoted or toxic), and thus the man must adapt to her mode of communication at all times. And with t…
/r/PurplePillDebate29/11/25 02:34 AM
4

That's a very weird reading of the film. Rather, their obsession with losing their V-Card was absolutely the social norm of the time among men. You're a woman - you don't have that same social pressure put onto you (you get the inverse depending on how socially conservative a community is). And before "American Pie," there was "Porky's." Same basic idea. Also see Sex as Rite-of-Passage - All The Tropes
/r/PurplePillDebate28/11/25 10:09 PM
3

Well you absolutely should see it.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/11/25 07:27 AM
6

There's literally multiple movies reinforcing and celebrating the concept. The original "American Pie" for example.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/11/25 06:53 AM
14

Men get socialised into gender norms, too. You can't pretend that men are just arbitrarily believing in this stuff, even if it hurts them. They're indoctrinated. They have social norms inculcated into them. The idea of sex-as-achieving-real-manhood is one of those things. You should ask about the social/cultural roots of such an idea instead of treating the idea as just something random men just choose to believe.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/11/25 06:34 AM
5

Indeed. They benefit from credentialism/classism so, well, they preserve it (sometimes tacitly, sometimes explicitly). Explicit egalitarianism can conceal a tacit hierarchicalism.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/11/25 10:54 AM
5

Men vary in their wants and needs-for-fulfillment (not necessarily survival). Some (likely most) men genuinely DO want romantic love (which, by definition, includes mutual sexual desire) with women. But they want authentic romantic love, not a situation of being exploited. Some men don't want romantic love with women. Some just want sex. My theory is they're heterosexual but also very strongly auto-homosexual - they're attracted to women but also to the idea of being a hot, desirable man, and th…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/11/25 04:09 AM

But that's evidence for my point - the harem is not an institution that "fits" women's natural sexual behavior. It is an institution that involves compromises for women - they get something they want (the hot, powerful man) but lose out on something else they want (that man's exclusive commitment). Hence, you can't say harems are "naturally suited" to women. They're a compromise... just as monogamous marriage is a compromise. You can't say either of these things are somehow ordained by nature.
/r/PurplePillDebate25/11/25 04:24 AM

Then how do you explain the fact that, in our society, it is women who fetishize exclusivity, commitment and the idea of monopolizing the man (look at romance novels, look at the bullshit sold to teenage girls via boy bands and the like)? Women are ruthless intrasexual competitors (see Queen Bees and Wannabes, Warriors and Worriers for examples). If women were "naturally suited" to harems, feminine jealousy and possessiveness wouldn't be nearly as intense. Even today, when we're allegedly return…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/11/25 04:09 AM

Are you speaking biologically, or culturally? Biology operates on a much longer timescale than culture, so I can see a case for a cultural influence but not a biological one.
/r/PurplePillDebate25/11/25 03:51 AM

https://np.reddit.com/r/PurplePillDebate/comments/1p60023/comment/nqn0j58/?context=3 I address your theory in the link above.
/r/PurplePillDebate25/11/25 03:43 AM
5

I'm not in the US nor am I a motorcyclist, but I'm very happy to see members of the motorcyclist community offer support for equal parenting. Thank you! My country used to have a rebuttable presumption of equal parenting as part of our divorce law. That got abolished by feminist reforms who basically want to enable parental alienation and the kind of horrible things that the US suffers from in its family court system.
/r/MensRights25/11/25 01:50 AM
18

At the moment, yes. The short explanation is classism and the fact this generation has essentially been raised to believe anyone who doesn't get a college degree is a loser whom is "going nowhere in life." This is, as you correctly note, untrue, and there's a huge Elite Overproduction/Credential Inflation problem across the entire West as a result of the Boomer college-fetish mentality. This is pushing down the wage premium, and blue collar work is becoming more lucrative in part because of unde…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/11/25 01:43 AM
3

Individualist and Classically Liberal form/s of feminism are not influenced by Marxist theory. Believing that any particular group is oppressed in some way is not sufficient to make a belief system Marxist or inspired-by-Marxism. I mean, the American Revolution was driven by rage against oppression against the colonists by the British government, but that was hardly a Marxist revolution.
/r/MensRights24/11/25 08:49 AM
20

There are some schools of feminism which are outright Marxist (i.e. believe that women's issues are a byproduct of the capitalist class's oppression of the working class). There are also many other schools of feminism which take some ideas from Marxist theory (most typically the idea that there's an oppressor-oppressed dynamic reinforced by a cultural hegemony), albeit in different directions. A few schools of feminism aren't influenced by Marxism, but they're considered Not Feminist Enough by t…
/r/MensRights24/11/25 02:58 AM
1

That's interesting, because SBC is the man who initially suggested the "extreme male brain" theory of autism. Do you have a citation or link to the study?
/r/PurplePillDebate24/11/25 01:39 AM
4

You're misinterpreting the science you talk about. The research you discuss is about prenatal hormone exposure to the brain. Gay male adults generally have comparable hormone levels to straight men (you can't make a gay man straight by giving him testosterone - this has already been tried and it has failed). What made them gay is that in the uterus their fetuses were exposed to excess estrogen and/or not enough testosterone, resulting in a neuroatypicality that causes androphilia (among other th…
/r/PurplePillDebate23/11/25 10:38 PM
0

Trump is pro-same-sex-marriage (has been so since 2000 at the latest) and appointed the highest-ranking gay cabinet official in US history (Scott Bessent). "Trumpian" is not a synonym for "homophobic." Is the idea that gay comes from having estrogen wrong? Yes, unless you're talking about prenatal hormone exposure. But that's a scientific question, NOT an excuse for partisan political mudslinging.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/11/25 10:32 PM
2

Here's the problem: What you're talking about has essentially already happened, although not necessarily under the guise of feminism (although that has happened). Rather, it has happened under the guises of "trans" and "queer" - a lot of people in both categories (typically those who identify as some variety of genderqueer but don't have Gender Dysphoria) are really just counterculture straights who are in the process of appropriating and colonizing sexual minority cultures and spaces. So many p…
/r/PurplePillDebate23/11/25 10:27 PM

I've had exactly the same experience. Most RP/BP stuff, framed in a gynocentric/female-flattering manner that puts the onus on men to make themselves "worthy of women" will be eagerly approved of by women. And this just proves that the majority of women's objections to RP/BP aren't about sexism (I do think some RP ideas do cross the line into actual sexism, so SOME proportion of the objections are about the sexism) but about how RP/BP is androcentric... it is written for men and to help men act …
/r/PurplePillDebate23/11/25 10:07 AM

Healthy, kind women won’t be cruel if they’re not interested. I agree, but I think healthy, kind women are perhaps a bit less common than you presume.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/11/25 06:53 AM
2

What is said out loud: "Pfft, nah we don't find kids sexy" And yet: OF girls making millions on their 18th birthday, loli anime, etc 18 year olds aren't kids, and most men aren't into loli. Men do, in general, tend to find youth in females sexy. But the kind of youth most gynophilic men like is "young woman" youth (roughly late-adolescent and up), not "little girl" youth (pedo, loli, etc). As for your example with women, I absolutely agree that rape fantasies aren't proof that women "really want…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/11/25 07:35 AM
3

As long as you apply that standard in a gender-neutral fashion, I basically agree. Unfortunately, our society currently (not you personally) doesn't apply such a standard gender-neutrally. It sees women's preferences as empowering, men's preferences as oppressive (the manosphere doesn't disprove this allegation, as I'm talking about mainstream society and the manosphere is a counterculture). I oppose this double standard and think both sexes' should be allowed their preferences even if they're s…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/11/25 03:48 AM

I'm tempted to agree, except a divorce can be very costly for a man. So 100% chance of divorce (if he does nothing) vs. a <100% chance of divorce if he cheats (I have no idea if this is true, I'm just entertaining OP's hypothetical). Presuming no difference in the economic impact of divorce between no-fault-divorce and divorce-in-response-to-infidelity, in that situation the expected loss from cheating is lower than the expected loss from doing nothing. Honestly this is a reason why we need to r…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/11/25 03:33 AM
2

We all know the answer to this question is that some women will date bi men, but the majority of women (at least in the West) will decline to do so, even if they're bi themselves. And everyone is entitled to like what they like and date who they want to date. Sexual attraction can't be negotiated. But it is funny seeing people who claim to be "anti-gender-roles" tie themselves up in knots when they personally embrace an extremely traditionalist and even-arguably-homophobic/biphobic position on t…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/11/25 03:10 AM
1

And this movement is entirely driven by radfems whom are INCENSED that BPD/HPD makes females "look bad" (despite the fact that the claim that BPD/HPD are sexist notions inherently presupposes some sort of innate sex difference). Oh, and jealous that males are bigger sufferers of autism spectrum disorders than females are. How dare those men suffer worse in ONE way! No one ever wanted to change the definition of sociopathy because of the overrepresentation of males. This push to abolish the notio…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/11/25 10:53 PM
1

Not always, and even if they are, that doesn't make the personality unpathological. "Pathological" doesn't mean "this person is morally evil." Having a personality that is broken in some way isn't a moral defect - there's no contradiction between "you have this personality disorder" (a diagnostic claim) and "this is what CAUSED your personality disorder" (an etiological claim). Also, what you're proposing just collapses the various personality disorders into a broader category of PTSD.
/r/PurplePillDebate14/11/25 10:12 PM
1

I don't support tradcon-ism, but if we're going to use a corporate governance metaphor, that makes the woman the CEO and the man the Chairman of the Board. She's the head manager but the direction of the company is still (at least in theory) set by the CoB. In real life, both in explicit corporate settings and families (even traditional ones), the power dynamic is often far less lopsided than it is in theory. You're correct in recognizing that.
/r/PurplePillDebate14/11/25 10:07 PM
1

And it's not a good argument, full stop. If certain personalities are "pathological" (yes, a personality by definition cannot be LITERALLY pathological but it can be dysfunctional, maladaptive or whatever other term you like), they're pathological, even if certain pathological personalities are more common in one sex than the other. Oh, and if Histrionic and Borderline is just "normal/normative female behavior" and consequently it is sexist to treat it as a disorder, doesn't that end up dependin…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/11/25 09:46 PM
2

Histrionic personality disorder is part of Cluster B and is disproportionately (but not exclusively) found in women. Men are more likely to be antisocial, which is also part of Cluster B. However, no one thinks that is somehow bigoted against men and no one thinks that means the diagnostic criteria need to be rewritten.
/r/PurplePillDebate14/11/25 09:28 PM
3

You have no evidence that the men referring to other human beings as "used goods" are the ones whom are lonely. I've heard atrociously sexist rhetoric from men whom are handsome, popular and sexually successful. In addition, you can't "just tell" what someone says on the internet, particularly in the short-term-hookup-market (which, due to the brief nature of the transaction, is especially vulnerable to failures-of-vetting). The reality is that sex is not distributed according to any abstract no…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/11/25 08:58 PM
2

Men don't want to fight other men for their liberation because men are lazy and want women to fight their battles for them. Bullshit. When men try to organize on the basis of sex, we get picketed by feminists. I went to an International Conference on Men's Issues, I know what happens. We know what happened to Dr Warren Farrell at the University of Toronto, too When the feminist movement claims to be THE gender equality movement and systematically monopolizes the discourse and builds a large inst…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/11/25 08:26 PM
1

What do you mean exactly?
/r/MensRights14/11/25 12:52 AM
5

u/loudpiece6914 said he tried to FUCK them, not DATE them.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/11/25 11:27 PM
0

No one’s stopping you from doing whatever hobby you want or having a man cave in your own home so what’s your point? You know what? I was going to rant but I'm going to keep calm. I really hate this "no one stops you, so there" argument. It is so UTTERLY disingenuous, especially because in discussions about GENDER, much of which is NOT enforced by the state, we should all be on board with the following statement: "Societies regulate themselves in different ways, not all of them coercive/violent,…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/11/25 11:22 PM
16

I agree with what you said, but here's the thing: everyone knows this already. Even DEI proponents. DEI proponents don't believe in equality or equal opportunity, they believe in EQUITY OF OUTCOMES at the GROUP LEVEL. They're explicit about this. They know, 100%, what they are doing is inconsistent with both equality and the notion of fairness you discuss. Advocates of DEI know exactly what they're doing.
/r/MensRights11/11/25 05:35 AM
3

Not a woman, but I understand where both sides are coming from here. Your experiences in the military are valid and reported commonly. But a key thing your brought up is the de-individualization ("we were one body, his voice was giving the orders but his voice could've been mine"). That kind of "softens" the submission aspect in a way, because if you don't have a fully operating sense of the individual will, you don't experience as much reactance (i.e. rage at being controlled) when another will…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/11/25 04:39 AM
-5

why does it require wanting a woman to "let" you be it? Both men and women need to accept two things: The other sex has some innate behavioral tendencies and preferences that, as a statistical aggregate, differ from their own sex, and Each sex needs to tolerate this about the other sex. The reality (in contemporary Western societies) is that, for the most part, men live up to this bargain, but women don't. Hence the wars on male spaces, male hobbies, naturally-more-common-in-males-than-females b…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/11/25 04:01 AM
17

I don't. I'm a sexual minority and often visibly sex-stereotype nonconforming. There is nothing for me in traditionalism. I just want the same liberation that women have received, and don't you dare gaslight me into pretending that men aren't chained to traditional roles today. And don't pretend the chainers are exclusively other men either. What we have today is post-feminist pseudo-traditionalism, or liberation for women but traditionalism for men. And this state of affairs is kept in existenc…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/11/25 03:54 AM
2

I have to say that you have a very nuanced view Thank you. I appreciate that, and your ongoing intellectual honesty in this discussion. I still think most of us on this sub reddit only have a problem with those who blame women Do you accept a distinction between blaming women and simply bemoaning a sad natural state of affairs? In my experience in pill spaces, the argument is that the vast majority of opposite-sex-attracted women just have a natural set of unavoidable inclinations. But this isn'…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/11/25 03:25 AM
7

Correct. That is how I see value, ultimately.
/r/PurplePillDebate09/11/25 05:08 AM
17

Value requires a valuer, so the concept of intrinsic value that exists as if it were a physical stuff just makes no sense to me. I always think in terms of value to whom/for what. Some people here speak in terms of existential crisis/"my life is useless (unless I propagate my genes)"/etc but, well, I never had existential crises of that kind. What matters to me matters to me and my happiness and wellbeing matters to me. Whether I matter to "the universe" or "god" (the latter I don't even believe…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/11/25 04:52 AM
3

A basic income guarantee (as a REPLACEMENT for traditional welfare), likely provided via a Negative Income Tax, would provide a safety net whilst also being the least "behavior-distortionary" welfare system available. You could argue that in the situation we're in, where social norms permit women to just not work and be supported by men, gives women "unofficial welfare" via social pressure. But surely the solution to THAT is to get rid of the social norm in favor of feminine mooching. Note that …
/r/PurplePillDebate09/11/25 04:29 AM
2

The problem with that standard is that people often disagree on what traits are virtuous or vicious, and what behaviors are positive and negative. And I certainly don't disagree that some behaviors are good and others are bad. But there's also a public/private distinction - personal vices, victimless crimes etc. Your logic can lead to very puritanical, Moral-Majority-style places if you aren't very careful. Which is why I prefer a Welfare Economics paradigm or some sort of Mill-esque Harm Princi…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/11/25 04:06 AM
1

Thank you. That said, I would appreciate if you could give me a specific answer to this question: "by "bad for society" what metric are you using here? What standard? Are you using something that's at least somewhat objective and impartial like Welfare Economics, or are you using criteria based on personal value judgments?"
/r/PurplePillDebate09/11/25 03:46 AM
1

Are my tax dollars funding something which I, or my loved ones, could conceivably benefit from as responsible functional members of society? The answer is yes to many things like public schooling and healthcare. I am less inclined to support drug addicts and the children of deadbeat criminals, as they simply aren't responsible members of society. That's perfectly defensible (although I'd suggest the benefits we currently get from those things are less than many think). That said, I will suggest …
/r/PurplePillDebate09/11/25 03:18 AM
12

I'm going to read you charitably. Presumably you're saying "don't simp, because that buys fake attraction, and what you want is a woman who experiences sincere attraction to you" correct?
/r/PurplePillDebate09/11/25 03:01 AM
-1

I'm a libertarian so I'm quite critical of the welfare state, but the logic you're relying on... the "disparate impact" argument... is quite dangerous. Is a group being subjected to unequal treatment if a law change that doesn't actually single out that group/identify that group/classify on the basis of membership in that group causes a disproportionate cost on that group? Such an argument is literally the basis for "woke" applications of civil rights laws. Also, as a matter of fact, tax and wel…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/11/25 02:44 AM
2

Individual choice is what matters. If a couple knowingly and willingly decide to be "trad" (however they define it), that's their choice. Their family is their "firm" so they arrange the affairs of it. But it doesn't work for everyone, and in the current day (with labor saving devices etc.) the closest thing to a "trad" lifestyle that DOESN'T eschew technology (and for the life of me I see no reason why someone would deliberately choose to eschew such technology) is basically an easy "soft girl …
/r/MensRights09/11/25 02:07 AM
4

Heteronormative men/women tend to always act around a normal distribution. Sure. In that case, widescale social coercion, shaming and condemnation is NOT NECESSARY to make most people be mostly trad. The problem is not any particular lifestyle. The problem is that societal norms have, for a very long time, prescribed a very narrow and specific and demanding set of lifestyle expectations upon people, even those who are not suited for such a lifestyle. Why not just let people choose what they like…
/r/MensRights09/11/25 01:56 AM
2

First, I agree entirely with your analysis of 50 Shades and romance novels in general. They're feminine power fantasies, not "proof" that "women want to be forced into submission" or anything along those lines. But here's the thing: we don't have some extreme hate for women's romance novels. What criticism of women's romance novels (and other smut) is about is PROVING FEMALE SEXUALITY IS NO MORE PURE/MORAL/WHOLESOME THAN MALE SEXUALITY. The reigning cultural narrative is male sexuality is vile/b…
/r/PurplePillDebate08/11/25 09:58 PM
5

Men always want rewards and pats on the head for being a basically decent human being. Everyone wants that, and most societies encourage social norms to reward pro-social conduct because they know doing so is good in the long run. A society which doesn't penalize anti-social conduct or reward pro-social conduct gets much more of the former and much less of the latter. You’re not a good person if your good behavior is dependent on recognition for it. You say this as if it were a self-evident trut…
/r/PurplePillDebate08/11/25 02:58 AM
1

Yes, that's precisely the kind of argument that will attract support from men.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/11/25 08:46 PM
1

Karla Homolka? She was the pick-axe killer right? Who said she had orgasms as she swung the pick-axe?
/r/PurplePillDebate07/11/25 10:41 AM
2

I'm glad to hear we mostly agree. The intersection of social biases and behavior is an interest of mine, and you sound like you’d be fun to talk to about the topic. Maybe I should join the PPD discord then, but frankly I'm scared of feminists + offended women trying to doxx me. No offense to you. But it has happened before and I need to be super careful.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/11/25 06:59 AM
10

This comment makes it sound like all women are in on a communal secret that they are intentionally obfuscating for the purposes of confusing men. I never said that. My theory suggest it is subconscious, evolved and basically a reflex normies/neurotypicals feel towards 'spergs. That doesn’t hold up when you look at the totality of discussion here. On PPD? PPD is full of weirdos. My theory is about the relation between neurotypical society and higher-regions-of-the-autism-spectrum society. Women (…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/11/25 01:45 AM
1

...Or maybe there actually are gaslighters and narcissists and emotionally unintelligent people out there. True Nobody calls a man a narcissist just because he "disagreed with a woman" Untrue Sometimes people use these terms wrong, yes, but that's not a woman thing, it's a human thing. True, but females are socially enabled to manipulate these terms to their benefit whereas males are diagnosed and controlled by these terms. Manipulative misuse of therapy-speak is theoretically gender-neutral but…
/r/PurplePillDebate06/11/25 09:54 PM
21

This is the issue. The obfuscation. The doublespeak. The "diplomatic" "understated" "polite" language. It is all about creating a filter/screening mechanism to get the 'spergs out of the dating pool without causing the 'spergs to be angry about it. Just be fucking honest and accept the inevitable anger. Doing so would make all modern "dating woes" issues from men GO AWAY.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/11/25 09:44 PM
2

I'd agree to an extent. The kind of verbally-adroit socially-acceptable wittiness that doesn't cross any boundaries of "propriety" is seen as an indicator of general social adroitness, which IS something women like. But edgelord humor is seen as a "no" and physical ugliness is kind of a trump card. Do women greatly overstate how much they "want a guy that makes them laugh"? Oh yeah. Or more accurately they redact several parts of the FULL quote, which is "I want a physically-handsome guy that ma…
/r/PurplePillDebate06/11/25 01:02 AM
2

What we disagree on is that I don’t perceive rule egoism as following your self interests. Then your perception is wrong. When actual egoists are almost all promoting variants of rule egoism, you're simply inaccurate in your understanding of what egoism means. And we know why. As perhaps recent times' most infamous egoist philosopher, Ayn Rand, correctly surmised, enemies of egoism benefitted from mischaracterizing the philosophy as supportive of mindless brutes trampling over piles of corpses t…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 11:03 PM
6

but do you genuienly believe a significant portion of activists doesn’t believe in their cause? They either don't believe it OR they fall prey to the bias I talked about before - they're motivated to believe in things that justify/serve their interests. Note that "significant portion" doesn't mean a majority. Self interest at a “principle level” the way you describe it is exactly what I’m talking about and not something I would even describe as self interest. For example believing in equality ev…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 09:57 PM
3

Jesuits are Catholic. The Society of Jesus is part of the RCC. Also, just because feminism isn't a monolith doesn't mean we can't talk about the most common or most institutionally powerful forms of feminism in particular. And the most institutionally powerful forms of feminism - the ones that write most of the policy, staff the women's studies departments, etc, are of the misandrist variety. Certainly in my country and the rest of the Anglosphere as a whole.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 12:21 PM
7

I do agree that self interest does play a big role in political beliefs, but I would not say it’s the sole determining factor of political beliefs. Agreed. How do you explain climate activism for example? If nothing is done for climate/environment protection, nothing bad likely happens within our lifetime, yet many still advocate for it (even people without children or those who don’t want them). A lot of climate activism is driven by a Bootleggers & Baptists dynamic between renewable energy fir…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 10:17 AM
2

It may be true that it is quite normal for men to objectify women sexually That's not what I said. I said it is WRONG and UNFAIR (and deeply gynocentric/gynonormative) to equate normal human male sexuality with sexual objectification. A man's attention to you, even if focused on a specific body part, does not necessarily rise to anything that Nussbaum classified as "objectification." Read the article - its free online. It can be heartbreaking to believe in romantic ideas of being in love with a …
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 09:48 AM
13

Yes I apply this to any political cause. Is seems crazy to me that you don’t understand this concept. For example, imagine you can kill a person and steal all of their belongings (they are rich) and somehow you have a guarantee noone will ever find out about it? Would you do it? You don’t even have to make the scenario that extreme and just restrict it to nonviolent stealing. I think you're making two errors. First, you're context-dropping by taking a Glaucon's Challenge argument (your theft exa…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 09:34 AM
24

You should support feminism because you think that’s the right thing to do and believe in equal rights, not because feminists give you some reward for believing in it…Does every moral principle you believe in have to give you some reward? Would you apply this reasoning to any other political cause? Because in practice we know how coalition politics works. Every subgroup within the coalition has to get something for themselves in order to hold the coalition together. And in practice, we do that. …
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 09:04 AM
24

As i remember the feminists fought for men to have a say in custody of a child instead of the woman getting custody of the child as a default. In some countries this may have happened. In mine, feminist lobbyists were instrumental in reversing a law which established a rebuttable presumption in favor of shared parenting in the event of family breakup. And I know such laws are often opposed by feminists in the USA (there may be exceptions).
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 09:02 AM
6

Seems like you don’t really understand what women usually mean with these terms. I can't speak for OP, but I read Martha Nussbaum's article on the subject when I studied feminist philosophy in college. The concept is derived from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, who argued that one must never treat others as a "means to an end" but rather only as "ends in themselves." But what does this mean in real life? The reality is that this is a very vague formulation, however if we take Kant's own behavio…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 08:52 AM
6

This argument is laying out a rational case for why he thinks single moms are bad people, though, I can understand if you think I'm being too charitable to his argument, but from what I read, he's saying that single mothers are unlikely to bring, to HIS life, more benefits than costs. That's not the same thing as a deontological condemnation of the character of all single mothers. It is an egoistic, consequentialist argument based on a pretty simple cost-benefit analysis from the perspective of …
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 08:07 AM
4

Here's a question though: How many people here actually believe all women who are abused ignored clear red flags and thus basically were highly negligent? In my experience of this forum, most people who argue something like this are actually not saying "women deserve to be abused" outright. They're performing a reductio ad absurdum against an argument that some women often make on this forum... the "women can just TELL you're a horrible misogynist!" argument. If women have a built in misogyny-de…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 07:54 AM
8

As a bi dude myself, its entirely sex-dependent even in western nations. Bi women are seen as extra hot and more adventurous and spicy. Bi men are seen as either gays-in-denial or an STD vector. Some gays are outright biphobic, too.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 07:42 AM
1

Bisexuality is a meme, most bisexuals end up in straight relationships. That's because some bi-identifying women are faking it for social clout, and the rest know it is easier to date men than women. Meanwhile, bi men are forced to "pick a side" by both the gay world and the fact women will generally not fuck bi dudes. So for many of them it is more convenient to date women particularly in socially conservative areas (this flips in areas that are more accepting of sexual minorities - hence why w…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 07:39 AM
6

Maybe it’s natures way of telling us don’t waste any resources there As long as you're willing to tolerate men's visceral icks, men should tolerate women's, too.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 07:34 AM
4

Seems like more a visceral disgust. As a fellow bi dude, both are clearly relevant. The visceral disgust is just the visceral "ick" the majority of neurotypical women experience when seeing perceived-unmanliness in their male partners. But the "I want to monopolize his sex life" thing can easily be a rational response, too, for economic reasons (i.e. extract more resources out of him). But maybe the "sexual monopolization" aspect is (at least in part) visceral/evolved too... she wants his absolu…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 07:33 AM
1

I just tried to say that the original post and everyone else agreeing with it most likely don’t have an issue with autism in men but rather the way they complain about dating on here. Let's say you're correct. Three issues immediately arise - firstly, not all 'spergy men are on Reddit making nasty comments, so their disproportionate failure at romance cannot be explained by the-subset-of-'sperg-men-who-make-nasty-comments-on-Reddit. So we know some of this romantic failure is caused by "the ick"…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 06:48 AM
1

This is such a conspiracy theory Not an argument. And I've never alleged anything like "formally organized clandestine collaboration acting in a conscious manner to bring about a certain outcome" (all of which is necessary for a "conspiracy"). Rather, I'm suggesting that there's an evolutionary impulse common among neurotypical women that they love to rationalize. Both sexes have evolutionary impulses. Some of them aren't necessarily positive or pro-social. It’s because many of you blame women f…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/11/25 05:46 AM
2

Yes, TRP/Blackpill/etc spaces attract men who a disproportionately on the spectrum. ...which just goes to show what you REALLY hate about these spaces isn't the discursive misogyny, or even about 95% of the basic underlying theory... ...what you REALLY hate is men-you'd-like-to-see-removed-from-the-gene-pool learning how to mimic, and thus escape the "just fate" you believe they deserve - social exclusion and humiliation and marginalization and eventually being bred out. I don't know how you pol…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/11/25 10:16 PM
0

Welfare Queen is racist, sexist, and misogynist. Evidence, please. No one is saying that all African-American single mothers are welfare cheats.
/r/MensRights03/11/25 02:35 AM
3

You have a good point, but I think (and I'm sure you'd agree) the issue should be rights and equality, so whichever side attacks that deserves anger, and whichever side supports it deserves a reward. We should be incremental/marginalistic.
/r/MensRights03/11/25 02:22 AM
1

I wish you all of the best in your search. However, and there's nothing wrong with this, your tastes are statistically atypical.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/11/25 10:34 PM
1

whereas women in this subreddit go on and on about the different personality factors that are important to them for compatibility, things they would value in a partner Which is hollow and meaningless virtue signaling, because those things don't matter in the SMV (although they do matter in the RMV), and those things only count as a value if the man is also hot on top of that... the guys will straight up say they don't even care, they're not interested. Congratulations, the men are being self-dep…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/11/25 08:56 PM
2

That's a complete mischaracterization of my position. But yes, lies (or various forms of deception) are common in the short-term hook-up market, because everyone wants to make themselves appear as hot as possible. This ranges from socially acceptable forms of mimicry/deception such as cosmetics and clothing intended to make one look sexier than one is without these things, to outright verbal misrepresentations of one's character. Indeed, the SMV is more vulnerable to this than the RMV due to the…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/11/25 08:26 PM
5

Are you being willfully obtuse? "Chad" (aka guys with physical-and-psychological characteristics that are inherently-hot-to-the-vast-majority-of-neurotypical-women), even if he's a virgin at the time, KNOWS TO LIE. There is no male hymen (and even the female hymen is an imperfect determinant of virginity). He LIES because it is IN HIS INTEREST to lie and there's NO WAY TO DISPROVE HIM, particularly in the "heat of the moment."
/r/PurplePillDebate01/11/25 11:04 AM
5

When it comes to sexual attraction, everyone's personality is secondary to their looks.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/11/25 06:32 AM
1

We're mocked for therapy and medication, but magical penises are the real cure? That is clearly not what OP is saying. OP is simply saying that the culture has infantilized women (this is something feminists have been, not unreasonably, arguing for decades). OP is suggesting that therapy (in its current state) is actually perpetuating rather than remedying this infantilization. OP is further saying that infantilized women are not fit for adult, equal relationships (which is clearly true for the …
/r/PurplePillDebate01/11/25 04:53 AM
3

You're not answering the question though. I'm not a tradcon so I'm not the person being asked. If you're sad that women have a "low bar" in terms of their mythic archetype, I'm more than happy to raise the standards. But expecting more of women results in inequity and other kinds of complaining.
/r/PurplePillDebate29/10/25 04:39 PM
-1

First, nobody in history has been remembered for being a mother. Mary, mother of Jesus, says hello. I mean fuck, I'm an anti-Christian, but even I can take one look at the largest religious organization on Earth (the Roman Catholic Church) and see an organization that absolutely celebrates a woman for being a mother. Following a traditional feminine role leaves you as a side character, you are not celebrated as men are. We don't learn about the mothers that raised great men, we barely hear about…
/r/PurplePillDebate29/10/25 06:51 AM
1

I don't like Barely Legal porn myself, I don't consume it. But it should be legal, ephebophilia is not pedophilia, and an attraction to young women is not an attraction to little girls.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/10/25 12:34 PM
2

If you were assaulted when you were underage, you have my sincerest condolences. But "Barely Legal" porn is not responsible for your assault. Your assaulter is responsible for your assault.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/10/25 12:21 PM
5

Please define "feminism" and what part/s or kind/s of feminism you're talking about. If you mean "the current set of social norms and expectations that presently dominate the SMV/RMV in the post-1970s Western world" I'd agree with you that these are all set up in a gynocentric/female-benefitting fashion. Although this actually validates the TRPer charge that in the contemporary West, females are the privileged sex. On the other hand, there are some forms of feminist ideology that clearly impose …
/r/PurplePillDebate27/10/25 11:11 AM
2

Because there needs to be an age of consent and that's the one we chose for everything else. That's simply false. In the US, the drinking and gambling age is 21. The sexual consent age varies across the entire world (in some places, like France, it is set at 14, which frankly I find rather creepy). And the sexual consent age varies between the US states too (ranging from 16 to 18 depending on the state). We absolutely need an age of consent, and I think you'd agree it should be a unified one (am…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/10/25 10:06 AM
1

There should never ever be people counting down to a girl turning 18 or a girl opening an OF on her 18th birthday. Firstly, why should the exact age of sexual maturity be set at 18? Most American states set it at 17 (although federal law sets it at 18), Canada and Germany set it at 16. Are all those other jurisdictions "just wrong"? Obviously there needs to be an age of adulthood (although I think it should be a unified age that covers smoking, drinking, gambling, sexual consent, commercial cons…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/10/25 02:22 AM
2

I'm not sure what you mean by "beast is tamed for her", when the whole point is that he is no longer weighed by the trauma that makes him afraid of being submissive and respectful. Look, I've talked with you before and we've had both agreements and disagreements, so I don't think you're being willfully obtuse. What I think you're doing is rewording what I said to make it sound "less bad." You don't LIKE my characterization of (average, neurotypical, heterosexual) women's general fantasies becaus…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/10/25 12:25 AM
1

Remove all non-nerds from the institutions of nerd fandom. Mass firings and layoffs are phase 1. The material needs to be created by nerds for nerds and controlled by nerds. You can still keep your Steam account and play Veilguard/Dustborn/South Of Midnight as much as you want and no one will take that away from you. No one can take your 40k minis or books away. But the social spaces, forums, conventions need to be managed by nerds and on similar lines. Those are the "centered" perspectives. All…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 11:29 PM
1

So in other words she does an Androcles' Lion on him and thus secures his endless devoted loyalty. The beast is still tamed. For her. That's the fantasy as I outlined.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 11:24 PM
3

HR departments exist to protect the company from lawsuits, most of which are frivolous and shouldn't even be filed, but are legally enabled due to doctrines established by radfem lawyers. HR departments also engage in nepotistic hiring practices, even if in theory they shouldn't.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 11:16 PM
3

What feminine cultural norms are harmful to men in the workplace? Look up the literature on cultural feminization in the workplace. That cultural change can be harmful to productivity itself, not just men's prospects in the workplace. But the simple reality is both sexes have different social priorities and preferences. In an environment built on the social norms of sex A, members of sex B will find the environment a bit 'strange.' However, INSTEAD of teaching the sexes to tolerate each other, w…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 11:13 PM
2

Define what you mean by "preventing other people"? Because here's the reality: no one in fact can stop you for participating in any nerd hobby. The only "gatekeeping" that CAN occur is of fandoms - of social spaces surrounding the hobby - but not of the hobby itself. Really, there is only one thing stopping people from actually participating in these hobbies. And that's their own revulsion towards nerdy, low-status men. Studies have been done showing *demographically comparable groups of women w…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 11:04 PM

It's simply not possible to raise children in this economic condition. This is the global reason behind birthrate decline You're flatly incorrect about this. Birthrate decline is happening most strongly in wealthier nations (although even middle-income nations like Russia are suffering it), not poorer ones. If economic misforture caused a lack of breeding, how do you explain the facts that even within the same country poorer people breed more, and how it is richer rather than poorer countries wh…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 11:06 AM
1

Well I have admittedly never really looked at any “bare legal” porn, and have definitely never looked at any age play porn either. I didn’t even realize there was a difference. Kudos for admitting your own fallibility there. Porn seems generally to be devolving from watching attractive naked people enjoying sex, to more and more fetish content. I certainly agree that kink and fetish content has become more mainstreamed. That said I don't necessarily think porn causes this. Also there's an issue …
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 10:49 AM
1

Ahhh. Well it isn't a position I share, despite my own critiques of some of the impacts of women-in-the-workplace.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 10:39 AM
2

I disagree. There was a post recently about feminism, and there were quite an alarming number of comments claiming this principle. Were they specifically against women having jobs outside the home or were they more measured and specific, like the critiques I raised? Given how feminist lawyers were responsible for some of the things I critiqued - particularly regarding sexual harassment law - and how feminist ideology has influenced HR (for example in corporate diversity policies) - there is a va…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 09:58 AM
12

It's common to see men here comment about women "forcing men to accept them in the workforce" or that women have upset some fundamental balance of the sexes by daring to work and break free of gender roles and institutions that were commonplace decades ago. I cannot speak for anyone else making certain arguments, but all of the arguments I have seen (and personally endorse) surrounding "forcing men to accept them in the workforce" have nothing to do with opposing women working or women breaking …
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 09:46 AM
1

I've both read many slash fics and written some and spent years in several fandom communities (and I still have an AO3 account). Now it might be the case that some fandoms are less like what I've seen, but from what I have seen, there is a very distinct pattern and it does spread beyond yaoi (even though it is most closely associated with yaoi). Yes, exceptions exist - the smut I wrote was motivated specifically to BE an exception - but what I saw made that pattern very clear. In a gynocentric s…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 09:40 AM

I disagree, because I don't believe our civilization is morally nihilistic. Even the intersectional left, which is the side that USUALLY gets accused of moral nihilism, is in fact very morally prescriptive and hierarchical. Oppression bad, capitalism bad, colonialism bad, enlightenment values bad, Republican Party bad, political disagreement bad, cultural appropriation bad, etc. This is NOT a side that is engaging in moral relativism. Is it not the least bit disturbing that a domain of human aff…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 09:23 AM
3

It depends on your definition of success. However, men DID have a radically liberating space that was about rejecting social norms... that's what MGTOW was, but it got shut down because too many feminist women get neurotic about Mean Words On The Internet (which weren't even directed towards them). Self-liberation is great, but you have to accept that if we're talking about "getting lots of sex with women" the simple reality is there is a very large number of misfit/alternative/atypical men and …
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 08:07 AM

Here's two simple, self-interested reasons for MALES to support a CLASSICALLY LIBERAL set of women's rights: If you're an undesirable man, you will not be burdened with having to provide for a woman who fundamentally doesn't find you sexually attractive. Freedom from the ball-and-chain. Having abortion available within a reasonable gestational limit REDUCES (although it does not eliminate) the chance of men being forced unto fatherhood without their consent. There you go, two simple reasons I ca…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 07:57 AM
6

I know where "my truth" came from, but subjectivism isn't the same thing as self-deception. A woman can easily assert "her truth" knowing full well it is a lie. The idea that she 'tricked herself' just allows liars to get away with it, and if such a mechanism is only (or disproportionately) applied to females, the idea becomes another form of benevolent sexism... men can be Machiavellian deceivers but poor fragile woman was a victim of her own mental fragility/incompetence.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 07:23 AM
1

For low-status males? A restoration in low-status-males having spaces centered on them. Nerd culture, for example, was invented by and for them out of their experiences and their own issues. They should be allowed to have it back, for one. This will reduce the sense of societal exclusion they feel since they'll have parallel institutions to compensate. And in general a shift in thinking about them. I.e. not immediately calling them "incels" or accusing them of misogyny. Or waging culture wars ag…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 07:21 AM
3

I'm sympathetic to you but that's a ridiculously flattering reading of romance novels (not that the "romance novels prove all women want abusive domineering men" thing is right either...). These books always involve a hot, preselected, successful/wealthy, socially adroit/influential, physically strong and often outright dangerous man (sometimes even a killer). That IS the object of attraction. But the fantasy isn't about "making him better," it's about establishing a relationship where he is abs…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 07:13 AM
1

Untrue. Fanfic - written mostly by women for women - is absolutely like that. Including the slashfic. Actually, perhaps more acutely in the slashfic because "they're both guys" permits the author to cloak her traditionalist fantasy in progressive rainbow robes.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 07:00 AM
3

Why do so many feminists ironically love 50 Shades of Grey? I'm sympathetic to you, and I certainly agree that most feminists are Traditionalists in their dating lives, but 50 Shades of Grey isn't really good evidence that "all women, even empowered feminists, want to be dominated." Ana refuses the BDSM contract, repeatedly insists she's not a submissive, breaks up with Christian at one point, and eventually "reforms" Christian and cures him of most of his fetishes except a little spanking on oc…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 06:54 AM
7

I presume you were joking, because slash fandom is what "red pilled" me (to the extent I can be described as "red pilled"). It is patriarchal as fuck. The men are all placed along a sorting algorithm of "most-to-least-alphaness" with who tops/who bottoms being determined by that sorting algorithm 95% of the time. And the character-who-bottoms almost always has his personality surgically removed and replaced with a whimpering, weeping, dependent, near-infantile neurotic who constantly needs their…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 06:50 AM
1

I think women are more likely to object to violent, degrading and “barely legal” when they dress them up like they are actual children. "Barely Legal" is mostly attacked by women who resent how men-like-young-women. The "dress up like actual children" stuff is not "barely legal" but rather ageplay and very large amounts of that (including DDLG content - "Daddy Dom, Little Girl") is made by and for women. Yes, some men like ageplay content but please don't blame men collectively for that particul…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 06:38 AM
14

Good point. Both sexes have fantasies that have some internally illogical aspects (i.e. "total virgin but absolutely insatiable for me and me alone" vs. "dangerous ruthless rich dominant man who will do absolutely anything at all to have me and will be devoted to me and only me"). That said I don't think the fact these fantasies have many paradoxes within them means they aren't illustrative of at least some aspects of male or female nature.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 06:27 AM
10

Women lie to themselves about their beliefs, motivations and goals. Do they? In my experience women are either lacking in self-awareness (due to societal infantilization and not even needing to engage in introspection or live "an examined life") regarding this stuff... OR they're completely cognizant of it (in which case they either virtue signal out of pure machiavellianism, or they'll be honest/mature/adult about acting in their own interests). I'm deeply skeptical of how such "lying to onesel…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 06:07 AM
2

It’s not society’s fault. Everyone is responsible for not creating negativity for others. If you can’t control your emotions without inflecting your misery on others, that’s a moral failing, and you deserve to be unhappy. A valid perspective, but I ask, do you apply this consistently? Or do certain problems get considered "systemic" ones, with those who suffer from them being cast as blameless victims? I agree no one is owed a relationship, but the point I think OP is trying to make is that ther…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 05:50 AM
3

Good data, but I think the point OP is trying to raise (if inelegantly) is that society in general does not care if "loser" men drink themselves to death. It really is nothing more than the Empathy Gap, but on a Gender-Complying/Gender-Noncomplying axis within individuals of the same sex.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 05:42 AM
2

You can't force people to date people they aren't attracted to. Agreed. Sometimes, there are just no solutions to real-life problems Are there ways to mitigate the problem though? Not a full solution, but perhaps a partial solution that improves things and takes the edges off? Why not have THAT discussion?
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 05:36 AM
9

OP specifically said not just "rejected by women" but also "rejected by society." Yes, no one is owed sex. Granted. Absolutely agreed. But two points: Firstly, how is being "rejected by society" not a societal issue? Secondly, it is well-acknowledged that alcoholism is a public health issue because it impacts people other than the sufferer. Are you suggesting it is no longer a public health issue when "loser" males suffer from it? With many other marginalized groups in society, we demand they be…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 05:32 AM
2

Sounds like it’s not just unattractive people, you might just think sex is a little disgusting. The British do sometimes refer to sex as "bumping uglies" for a reason, you know.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 05:01 AM
3

Boy you're either rage baiting real hard, or you have some insane issues. No one is worthy of that kind of crazed obsession. You seem to have very little self esteem, and will chase sex even if it hurts other aspects of yourself. I actually agree with you here, but don't you think that perhaps this might be an indicator of just how lookist people can be, rather than a simple example of an individual with problems? Lookism IS a hell of a drug. And there is a VERY large body of social science lite…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 04:59 AM
2

No problem. I'm a 'sperg myself, I know what its like. It truly is frustrating to live in a world that screams about "diversity" yet spits upon neurodiversity (perhaps the most actually-beneficial form of diversity if we're talking about 'spergs-as-contributors-to-society).
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 04:55 AM
4

You're technically right with respect to one meaning of "normal," but at the same time there's a VERY long history of "normal" being used to mean "normative" and treated as a synonym of "good/acceptable/healthy" with every deviation from that being consequently treated as either a moral defect or a pathology. This is what u/autistic_cool_kid is trying to get at. Whilst autism is STATISTICALLY abnormal and thus SOCIALLY deviant (i.e. atypical), that doesn't make it wrong or bad. For example: take…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/10/25 04:40 AM
1

And that's an efficiency loss in terms of human capital.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 10:30 PM
0

Can men not access the same government services that they say women are living off of? In some jurisdictions, depending on the structure of the policy, the answer can be "no." Women do donate to charity and volunteer so I don’t see your point. My point should be obvious since I've explained it in more than one post: it is inaccurate to say women have more compassion for 'loser' males than 'winner' males have. If we use a particular standard for compassion (willing to incur personal costs to redu…
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 10:29 PM
2

So, its a bit less than 60% women and a bit more than 40% men. That's hardly a massive gender split. all of the NGOs A lot of NGOs do nothing to improve men's living standards. Tons of NGOs are glorified lobbying operations. Yes, there are exceptions. But you're greatly exaggerating the reality.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 12:06 PM
2

Same. And our society cares too much about feelings and too little about facts.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 10:18 AM
3

Feelings are always number one. Sure. In a relatively developed and safe situation when dealing with romantic interactions. Take some of those basic foundations away, however, and things change. We see the softer and more "romantic" feelings get economized just as economic theory predicts.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 10:04 AM
2

Sure, I'm not saying your wrong, but it kind of validates the RP worldview. TRP, for all its faults, is a response.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 09:50 AM
0

And compare that to the massive technological-economic benefit we got from Nikola Tesla's Alternating Current. Its "muh feelz" vs. the Steam Engine in terms of what makes things better for human life.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 06:25 AM
2

That's a distortion of what I said. A woman who chooses to work for a nonprofit is not doing the same thing as volunteer work.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 06:23 AM

I just wonder what "emotional intelligence" is, and even if it can be defined, why people think it matters so much given how almost all of humanity's standard of living depends on abstract intelligence, mathematical intelligence, and that kind of thing. I'm sorry, but "I have the right FEEELZ at the right time" - i.e. you have the right glandular excretion - doesn't make you a more pro-social human being than Nikola Tesla.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 04:49 AM
3

only officers can do this tho, even an enlisted with 20+ years experience is under a new officer fresh from school.... But soldiers are seen as being higher in "raw manliness" which alone gives a certain social boost in certain social environments.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 03:36 AM
5

Of course some women do charity work that helps men, although I doubt the figure is 100%-of-the-field-is-women. Also, paid work in nonprofits doesn't count.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 03:21 AM
4

For the record, I am NOT suggesting a woman needs to fuck, date or marry a poor man to "truly show compassion." But how about, say, direct donations? Perhaps charity contributions? "Voting democrat" isn't enough because individual votes almost never matter to elections. Not to mention, women themselves (including middle-to-upper-class women) often benefit from democrat policies so they aren't necessarily incurring a net personal cost to relieve a poor man's pain.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 03:12 AM
19

Successful men disdain poor men far more than women disdain poor men. Not in my experience. Although women may put on a show of performative compassion for poor men as a social tactic, as a virtue signal. But if the measure of compassion is actions in which they incur a cost to themselves to reduce the suffering of a poor man, they really are just as disdainful towards poor men as rich men are. Indeed, they might actually be worse - "he squandered his male privilege!" rationalizes a lot of conte…
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 02:56 AM
7

This status shit is dumb. Y’all watch too much television. Normal people don’t believe in status. But most of you spend two thirds of your lives in this sub obsessing over it. If that is true the entire field of Sociology shouldn't exist. Here's the reality: "social status" is just "the aggregate esteem which other people have for you." It exists and everyone knows it. The question is what causes someone to accrue it, and frankly it is delusional to think social status is a purely meritocratic m…
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 02:44 AM
12

I absolutely agree with your basic thesis, but I don't think it is simply reducible to class (or, for that matter, that class fits neatly along the USA's left-right divide... much of the US left is middle-to-upper class after all). Whilst rich men will often throw poor men under the bus (but perhaps be more chivalrous to poor women), there's also a "chads vs. other men" aspect. Short answer, Chad/Tyrone/Jocky McJockstrap... what the feminists will call "hegemonically masculine" males... distance…
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 02:36 AM
3

As a bi dude I appreciate the flattery. I guess the reality that bi people are social misfits in several ways has its advantages - it induces a kind of skepticism and open-mindedness. Outsiderness, really.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/10/25 01:25 AM
1

As a gamer 'sperg who has being "caught in it" even when I wasn't trying to get laid at all, I disagree. I think women are just trying to turn their own innate disgust responses into moral virtues. The "creep detector" saved none of the sorority women butchered by Ted Bundy.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/10/25 01:58 PM
4

I’m a UK writer doing early research for a film project about male loneliness and online spaces. Where's your funding coming from? We already know the UK government likes to fund film projects about "male online spaces" that take a very specific editorial line (see "Adolescence," which had a very obvious agenda). How can you be trusted to not distort/misrepresent anything you hear on this subreddit? I’ve noticed a pattern online: some channels start with wellness or motivation, but over time the…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/10/25 01:22 AM
1

I find it curious that I'm always accused of "overanalysis" and told I'm "taking it too far" and to think "dude, it isn't so deep" whenever my analysis reaches conclusions that aren't particularly flattering. It's almost like the reason some people don't like deep analysis is that there are things buried in the depths they'd like to ignore...
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/25 01:08 PM
1

That would be closer to accounting and business strategy than economics. The "art of the deal" (not the book) is also covered in subfields of economics - game theory, negotiation theory, and also industrial organization/new institutional economics touch on it. Along with sustaining a prosperous model or stabilizing an economy of exchange or getting productivity That is touched on in both Macroeconomics and in Political Economy (i.e. "which economic system should we pick?").
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/25 01:05 PM
2

Woohoo! Yes, Austrian School is important to my work (so is Public Choice and so are some other theories). It's nice to run into another econo-nerd.
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/25 01:01 PM
2

I think you're operating off a very narrow and stereotyped understanding of economics. In economics, cost and benefit are purely subjective to the perceiver. A "good deal" to one person can be an atrocious ripoff to another, and neither of them are wrong. They're correct about their own values and priorities. Do you think that want and desire is more important than business concepts and economics? What's the difference? We have economies and businesses because people have wants and desires that …
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/25 12:53 PM
3

Behavioral Economics actually seems to have fizzled out to a substantial degree, because it never really managed to produce a usable praxeology (a generalizable theory of human action we can use to predict what people will do given a certain set of incentives). In addition, as Bryan Caplan correctly pointed out in his article Rational Irrationality, a lot of Behavioral Economics' critiques of standard Econ 101 can actually be incorporated into traditional economics simply by holding closer to Ec…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/25 12:40 PM
2

OP, I'm not even RP myself but you seem to be primarily debating a strawman of RP or some sort of agglomeration of prescriptivist tradcon views that are either inessential to RP (and which plenty of RPers lack) or based on some sort of imagined version of it that doesn't really exist. I'm not even going to do a line-by-line critique. Your post frankly doesn't deserve it because it is Tilting At Windmills. I'm just curious to know if you undrestand that a relationship should be "worth it" for the…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/25 12:30 PM
0

I'm an economist IRL. When I say "sexual economics theory" I mean I just apply the economic theory I know to the sexual/relationship marketplace. This isn't all too different from most TRPers, although I have some academic econ experience and I'm familiar with plenty of non-Econ-101 style economics and think a lot of these non-101 theories (particularly New Institutional Economics) have relevance.
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/25 12:25 PM
4

Agreed entirely. "But why doesn't TRP give a sufficiently detailed answer on this particular issue about women's perspectives?!?" is not an argument against TRP because TRP is not fundamentally about women's perspectives.
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/25 12:02 PM
1

If you go beyond the bit you highlighted, you'll see "acting in a predatory manner" cited (we can also talk about chronological bias and what materials were used to train the AI - I may have grown up at a different time to you or to the origin of those materials used to train the AI). In other words, "creep" seems to package-deal two things - social awkwardness and "not getting the hint" (so, basically, Asperger's traits) and predation (Sociopathic traits). But these are not the same thing most …
/r/PurplePillDebate21/10/25 11:58 AM
2

Maybe it has to do with when/where we were raised, but I have always understood "creep" (in its common usage) as implying not merely ick but danger.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/10/25 11:56 PM
1

Technically true, but there's a large body of political psychology research that suggests a strong connection between heritable aspects of personality and eventual political beliefs. There's a reason libertarians are disproportionately on the autism spectrum, for example. There's a reason the contemporary left appeals to women more than men, too (reliance on more female-typical moral foundations).
/r/PurplePillDebate19/10/25 11:41 PM
2

But less expensive due to government subsidies specifically designed to ease the financial burden of childrearing. If the choice to have kids were a rational cost-benefit analysis based on economic incentives, the Nordic countries should have higher birth rates. To be fair, feminism/anti-traditionalism can't be blamed for low birth rates either, as South Korea, Japan and Russia all have low birth rates despite being markedly more traditionalist than the West.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/10/25 11:37 PM
23

Its partially true (I had my share of Jerk Jock bullies) but it's also partially a Just World Fallacy or coping mechanism. We like to imagine the Jerk Jock also being stupid (in terms of abstract intelligence), as a kind of nature's payback or a way we're superior to him. A way to balance the scales. I mean, I also knew someone who was jock but also actually intelligent AND civilized and kind to me. I actually resented him BECAUSE I didn't have a justifiable basis to hate him. Here's the reality…
/r/PurplePillDebate19/10/25 11:23 PM
0

I am not a conservative (I'm a libertarian) but you MIGHT think of me as a conservative. And even if you don't, you MIGHT be package-dealing several different kinds of conservatives together. So could you please be specific as to what kind/s of policy beliefs you're defining as "conservative"? In my experience, most people called "conservatives" think women should have choice, but the majority of women would naturally prefer traditionalist arrangements. And that isn't an argument against choice,…
/r/PurplePillDebate19/10/25 09:21 AM
2

Compact may be tradcon, but this is a good article nonetheless. Worth the read even if you want to disembowel the Pope and play with the internal organs afterwards.
/r/MensRights19/10/25 08:15 AM

It makes me feel deeply dehumanized (although I'm a sexual minority and that may be result in my sexuality as a whole being quite different from conventional male norms). That said I resent when men perpetuate this dehumanization, too. And the simple reality is women are just as "objectifyingly" allosexual (i.e. they see a hot dude and want his hot hunky manflesh just because he's hot) as men are, they merely have a higher attraction threshold for it. They aren't going for anything "higher" or "…
/r/PurplePillDebate19/10/25 12:18 AM
6

"Creep factor"... believe it or not, a man can be a deadbeat dad without being "creepy." A lot of guys who end up like this are very charming and manipulative. Very true, and that's part of my point. The so-called "creep detector" is really an "ick/sperg detector." It doesn't screen out bad/manipulative/dangerous men, it screens out a particular kind of unfuckable men. Ergo, women need to stop pretending their "creep detector" is about their personal safety, stop moralizing their disgust reactio…
/r/PurplePillDebate19/10/25 12:08 AM
7

Every woman has a built in creep detector but it doesn't always work perfectly Then is it a "creep" detector or it is really an "ick/sperg/weirdo" detector? Because if so, that explains why sociopaths and other genuinely dangerous guys keep evading it, and why plenty of men whom are physically harmless are caught by it.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/10/25 12:01 AM
2

Fair point, but people with PhDs in "why Tolkein was racist" (for example) aren't much help either.
/r/PurplePillDebate18/10/25 09:55 AM
1

I'm tempted to agree with you but my own evaluation would depend on what the additional PhDs are in.
/r/PurplePillDebate18/10/25 05:42 AM
16

Correct. Women are fallible, psychopaths are good mimics, and thus women can't be "blamed" for dating bad men unless they ignore blatantly obvious red flags. That said, whilst I oppose the blaming of women or screaming "pick better" at them, you need to keep in mind that this discussion has a context in which women (not necessarily you) claim to have a "personality detector" or "creep detector" that can "just tell" when a man is not merely sexually unexciting, but a danger and/or a bad person (s…
/r/PurplePillDebate18/10/25 01:21 AM
2

I agree more tolerance for 'spergy dudes is necessary and creep-shaming (i.e. pretending weirdos are actually dangerous) needs to end. But tolerance doesn't require dates. Women can tolerate 'spergy dudes without dating or fucking them. I'm a 'sperg myself. I know how much it sucks. It is one of life's innate inequities - Chad gets his cock sucked by women relatively easily, I get PhDs more easily than Chad would. But frankly we need to accept it, even if we're disadvantaged by it. Plus, I don't…
/r/PurplePillDebate18/10/25 12:37 AM
8

Someone touching you and invading your physical space because “they have autism” is harming someone else. There’s harmless behaviors and then there’s less than harmless ones. When it’s the latter, autism still isn’t an excuse. I agree with that, but you have to concede male autists get at least some flack for the harmless behaviors alone. This doesn't excuse physical transgression.
/r/PurplePillDebate18/10/25 12:22 AM
6

Please show me where SBC's "extreme male brain" (i.e. highest-prenatal-testosterone-exposure brain) theory has been debunked. I've seen people criticize SBC's allegation of "mind-blindness" but I haven't seen any evidence that the autistic brain ISN'T due to either atypically extreme levels of testosterone OR something similar (some argue it is caused by both elevated testosterone AND atypically low estrogen levels). Also, SBC's theory doesn't require Gender Essentialism. Both males and females …
/r/PurplePillDebate18/10/25 12:19 AM
2

I reject your underlying assumption that we live in a society without social pressure. Men are still basically under the same sets of social pressure they were in the 50s. I presume you're operating under the idea that a lot of people who would've found family life satisfying have been put off family life by contemporary cultural trends (feminism etc). This may be true but at the same time there were also at least some people who were not well-suited for family life and were pushed into it by so…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/10/25 11:44 PM
9

There is a reason why Eastern cultures/Traditional cultured outnumber west by a large amount. The pressure/shame gets people with the program. The lowest birth rates are in Japan and South Korea, neither of which have embraced Western individualism. Russia - where there's an official state church and Western culture is officially scorned - also has reducing birth rates. The overall trend isn't due to culture but wealth. Even within the same country, the poorer sectors of society breed more. Rich…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/10/25 11:28 PM
2

A small minority of women sexually like guys whom are femmy or androgynous (mix of femme and masc). Lots of women who CLAIM to like "a bit of femininity in my man" really want a conventionally masculine dude in every way that's consequential/important, but has one trivial feminine trait (like, he'll order a cosmopolitan instead of a beer), and she interprets this inconsequential femininity as a form of countersignalling that actually validates his underlying masculinity ("he's so secure in his m…
/r/PurplePillDebate16/10/25 01:04 PM
4

Intellect yes (at least in specific areas) but this doesn't necessarily mean education and income. Whilst there's a correlation, it is not 1:1, and there are many examples where high intellect and education doesn't necessarily result in income (think someone who got a "useless PhD"), where high intellect doesn't necessarily result in credentials (when you say "education" what you really mean is "credentials"), etc. These may not be the statistical norm but they're not trivial or marginal occurre…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/10/25 05:44 AM
13

My experience isn't entirely dissimilar to yours. TRP attracts nerds, geeks, weirdos etc. But your contempt towards them actually *proves TRP (and Blackpill to a degree)*. TRP literally says "women find nerds sexually repulsive and nerds are at the bottom of the masculinity hierarchy, so if you want to be fuckable you need to learn to mimic/pretend to be non-nerdy." Your observation doesn't invalidate TRP at all. Indeed, the fact you think "ewww, nerds" invalidates TRP actually proves just how s…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/10/25 04:43 AM
2

Basically women can't do anything without being judged. EVERYONE gets judged by members of the opposite sex on the basis of their hobbies and appearances. EVERYONE. Also, you're conflating two kinds of judgment here - assessment of someone's moral worth, and assessment of someone's romantic compatibility. These aren't the same kind of judgment. "Horse girls" are a red flag to be avoided. That's because "horse girls" are often expensive to maintain and most of them don't want to fund their own ho…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/10/25 03:05 AM
3

No, but it correlates with a particular set of interests which are usually considered icky and off-putting by the majority of women.
/r/PurplePillDebate14/10/25 02:45 AM

That our societal gender status ("real manhood") is constantly precarious and subject to revocation, and that this gives women power over men (as they can perform this revocation). Consequently, how most so-called "male" privilege is really "real man" privilege (or "chad privilege" or "gender-conforming male privilege"). Loser/nerdy/'spergy/non-hot men get little to none of it. And that men are just as conditioned/indoctrinated/brainwashed into societal gender roles as women are.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/10/25 10:04 AM
11

They just wouldn’t go on their damn way. Talking among themselves about women =/= interacting with women. They DID go their own way. But some people just got offended over what they were doing with each other.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/10/25 05:40 AM
20

Andrew Tate was the sole stimulus for the movement. This is a rookie mistake for any TRP critic to make. TRP greatly predates Andrew Tate - Tate is just the most recent internet celebrity to proclaim himself "red pilled." TRP has a long history going back at least a decade before Tate, and it grew out of the Seduction Community (people like Neil Strauss) and the works of Rollo Tomassi (as well as some more unsavory characters like Roosh V). Tate is a Johnny-Come-Lately. It's filled with scammers…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/10/25 07:37 AM
4

This is both irrelevant to Men's Rights and almost certainly a joke. If you're going for a "making fun of the stereotype" thing, however, it is also dependent on where you live (as "manly man food" is somewhat culturally dependent).
/r/MensRights09/10/25 12:39 PM

How, exactly, do you reach such a conclusion? Nabokov's "Lolita" is not a piece of erotica and the vast majority of erotica-for-men doesn't feature children (thankfully). Lolicon is not a normal or mainstream genre. My argument is premised on the idea that "extremely common and persistent-over-time tropes within the mainstream entertainment targeted towards a particular sex likely tell you something about that particular sex." Pop music and boy bands and typical romance novels, consequently, tel…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/10/25 12:25 PM

The same romantic fantasy - of having a man pledge commitment and loyalty and support to a woman - is common across even contemporary women's smut novels. The fact this fantasy goes back a long way actually strengthens my argument rather than weakens it.
/r/PurplePillDebate09/10/25 11:58 AM

If the man is "good enough" for her she'll change her lifestyle, because of a simple cost-benefit calculation. Women are humans and humans respond to incentives. Sure, anonymous men on the internet may not matter. I get that. The point being made is that many women do want to get married and they will often be faced with choosing between several suboptimal (i.e. the man isn't "the full package") options.
/r/PurplePillDebate09/10/25 11:39 AM

If enjoying travel is seen as a red flag, that would mean that around 60% of the women I meet on Hinge would be eliminated. It's because travel is often a very expensive, glamorous hobby. And most women want a man to subsidize their hobbies at least in part.
/r/PurplePillDebate09/10/25 11:30 AM

Women don’t want to marry or have kids. In my experience that's generally untrue. Sure, not all women want marriage/children, and no woman HAS to want marriage and children. But the majority of women seem to, in fact, desire to get married and have children one day. I mean, take a look at the romantic and sexual fantasies of both sexes. Women's fantasies skew far more towards a man committing to her (marriage) than men's fantasies skew towards women committing to them. There's a reason Never Gon…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/10/25 11:28 AM
-2

I've noticed this too. Honestly I suspect it is false flag behavior, and/or an influx of the "red pill anger phase" types due to the fact that every other "containment space" for them has been gotten rid of (which in turn gives The Powers That Be an excuse to get rid of us). We need to be more careful, even if our venting is absolutely justified, because they will use the handful of arguably-misogynistic posts as an excuse to shut the subreddit down.
/r/MensRights09/10/25 09:19 AM
1

Yep. Same with "bottom-shaming" in the gay world (although a lot of bottoms do this too, as part of competing for tops). Taking cock is seen as being defiled, violated, degraded, conquered, lessened. Irrespective of the sex of the cock-taker. That is misandry, not misogyny.
/r/PurplePillDebate08/10/25 08:32 AM
3

Yeah, yaoi/slashfic is 95% female. The double standards against porn-for-men yet celebrating or at least ignoring porn-for-women are atrocious.
/r/MensRights07/10/25 10:47 AM
9

I despise Hegseth, but he's absolutely correct here. There should be one standard. If it produces inequity, so what? Not to mention, this fixation on combat roles is silly given how militaries are primarily logistics operations, and most military positions are non-combat.
/r/MensRights02/10/25 12:16 PM
6

If "real feminists" want to dismantle gender norms for both sexes, they're either incompetent or a tiny minority. You sound to me like a Classical Liberal Feminist. That's already been declared "not feminist enough" by the official feminist movement, which is too busy pushing shit like the Duluth Model (despite even the creator of the Duluth Model agreeing it was deeply flawed and based on confirmation bias), and running the "Ministry for Male Behavior Change" in the Australian state of Victoria…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/10/25 07:33 AM
1

Sure that’s important to men, but it shouldn’t take reign over other more intimate emotions. That's just outright gynonormativity. Sorry, but just because YOU don't see an emotion as intimate doesn't mean it isn't intimate, meaningful, special and thrilling for men. Emotional experiences are subjective by definition and people have their own priorities. You can't fairly say that the way women experience various emotions is the "correct" way and that the way men experience them is wrong or broken…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/10/25 07:20 AM
1

Sure. Sex isn't emotionally monotonous. I'm just saying that there is no contradiction between "sex is deeply emotional" and "sex proves/validates masculine status," since the latter IS a deeply emotionally resonant thing for males.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/10/25 06:51 AM
1

No, men don't want to be settled for. For two reasons: First, "you're second-best, you're my consolation prize" is an insult. Women feel the same way about the same sentiment, after all. Second, because if she settles for him she'll grow to resent him and the relationship will be unstable. Since men bear the cost of relationship dissolution, he has an incentive to avoid relationships that aren't going to be stable.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/10/25 06:23 AM
6

I don't know what exactly this is supposed to prove? That pill culture isn't "men's fault" or "men dealing with their inadequacies" or anything like that. Pill culture exists because of the contradictions within the women's movement and frustration with the current status quo of society - a status quo where women are liberated but still demand men play a traditional role. And sure, men also reinforce traditionalism too, I'm not denying that. The point of womens independence is that they have com…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/10/25 04:39 AM
7

Nothing less than a complete collapse of the feminist movement, which will require at the very least a mass defunding of all feminist QuANGOs and Women's Studies departments. Which is theoretically possible, but it won't cut off PRIVATE funding for such entities. But the most critical low-hanging fruit is on the policy/public sector area, and there's at least the possibility of a broad political coalition in support of Defunding Public Feminism (conservatives and libertarians and many centrists …
/r/MensRights01/10/25 02:07 PM
7

I'm sympathetic to your critique but honestly I think a lot of those posts are basically blackpiller types whom are coming into this sub, since they have nowhere else to go. Not to mention, this actually serves an anti-MRA agenda. Community A is full of bitter blackpillers prone to misogynist venting, so The Powers That Be shut down Community A. This means the bitter blackpillers migrate to Communities B, C and D. So if The Powers That Be want to get Communities B/C/D shut down, then shutting do…
/r/MensRights01/10/25 01:58 PM
10

It shifts the blame away from the outdated expectations placed on men by framing women’s independence as a form of manipulation. Then how do you explain the fact that, in this alleged "new world" which has allegedly rejected traditional gender roles, women themselves still show marked preferences towards "soft girl" behavior? It isn't men trying to force women back into the kitchen. What happened is, after tons of women entered the labor market after the Friedan era of feminism, women realized t…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/10/25 01:43 PM
1

In "pill" thinking, sex for men is portrayed as purely physical release, detached from emotion, and a kind of conquest that proves masculine status (proximity to "Chad"). You're mistakenly presuming that validation of one's masculine status isn't a serious emotion for men. It is. A very big one, because masculine gender roles have always made masculinity a precarious, tenuous earned status bestowed upon the male by others (typically peers, fathers and women).
/r/PurplePillDebate01/10/25 12:17 PM
1

If only these young men can be rescued from their wild type masculinity, and be corralled into the new, improved, controlled and pasturised “positive masculinity" all their problems could be cured. Interestingly, how is this any different from the old sexist trope that women civilize men? Oh wait, it isn't. As is typical for feminist anything, it is traditionalism masquerading as rebellion.
/r/MensRights01/10/25 06:45 AM
6

"Men and Masculinities" is an ideological feminist journal based on the theories of Rae Connell. "The Journal of Gender Studies" is no different, given the reigning orthodoxy in academic Gender Studies. Both journals are ideology first, with actual social science a distant second. I say this as a professional social scientist with postgrad qualifications in an actual social science that still retains viewpoint diversity, scholarly rigor and institutionalized disconfirmation. The "research" you c…
/r/PurplePillDebate30/09/25 01:47 PM
4

You're partially correct, but you're wrong about GamerGate. GG wasn't about men vs women, it was about nerds (whom are mostly male) vs. hipsters (whom are of both sexes). Also, developers have FAILED to broaden their audiences - they failed back in the days of trying to appeal to the "CoD crowd" and they failed more recently trying to appeal to a so-called "modern audience." Gamers (i.e. nerds) were right not just to complain they were no longer being centered, but that they were being actively …
/r/PurplePillDebate29/09/25 10:38 AM

Still, women who are the "live, laugh, love" types and love to travel and dance The term you're looking for is "basic bitch" or "basic Becky."
/r/PurplePillDebate29/09/25 09:56 AM
0

It does not apply to human beings with consciousness and inherently unique and irreplicable lives. Yes, everyone is (strictly speaking) unique, but the point Soft-Neat8117 was clearly making is that most people are normal, conventional, and typical. Bell curves exist. Averages exist. Norms exist. The idea that everyone is equally divergent from the norm is mathematically impossible and disproven by basic reality. Yes, we're all individuals. But most people cluster around the middle regions of th…
/r/PurplePillDebate28/09/25 04:25 PM
16

Abuse by BPD women is not a joke, so please change the topic flair. What Amber did to Johnny was not funny. Fatal Attraction is not a comedy. That said, if you're saying that what we might call "Toxic Femininity" has a strong overlap with BPD, I'd agree. "Toxic Femininity" is BPD and Histrionic PD, whereas "Toxic Masculinity" correlates with Antisocial PD, and Narcissistic PD seems to have overlap with both "Toxic Femininity" and "Toxic Masculinity" depending on the circumstance.
/r/MensRights27/09/25 06:02 PM
13

My experience has been that that the Australian legal system is paralyzed by politicians terrified of being labelled as facilitating abuse. Fellow Australian here, and I've seen this too. The country is absurdly chivalrous, moreso than the UK or even the US in my experience.
/r/MensRights27/09/25 09:23 AM

In my experience, men whom are not religious fundamentalists (your Afghan example is not representative of all men) don't really hate women-who-sleep-around. They may resent the relative ease of sexual access that woman has (and sometimes that resentment will be transmuted into hatred-of-sluts via the typical Nietzschean process of ressentiment). They may be vindictive towards a woman who fucks men whom are not himself (which he'd understandably experience as a wound towards his ego - as him bei…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/09/25 03:34 PM
13

I agree with you, but I think when we're talking about "male nature" we're talking more about sexual/relationship strategy than physical violence. A man divorces a woman and trades her in for a newer model? Absolutely pilloried by society. A woman divorces a man to "monkey branch" to a richer/stronger/bigger man? She'll be celebrated as a heroine for "seeking her own happiness" even if she breaks up the family because "she isn't happy." Oh, and the exit costs for a marriage almost always fall on…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/09/25 02:03 PM
2

How is this relevant to men's rights? It is true that men often suffer but not all suffering that men endure constitutes a rights violation.
/r/MensRights25/09/25 02:34 PM
0

Alternatively, OP could be experiencing a sorting effect. OP is high-functioning autistic. Autism spectrum characteristics are overrepresented in kink communities. Perhaps the women OP is attracted to and whom are attracted to OP are more likely to be a certain type of woman (with these particular fetishes) just because Birds Of A Feather Flock Together.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/09/25 05:36 AM
8

This has been my experience, too.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/09/25 05:25 AM
-1

Your country? If you're presuming I'm American you're mistaken. Also there is an internationally validated correlation between wealth/education and fertility. Even within the same country, poorer people breed more so affordability isn't the issue.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/09/25 05:01 AM
6

The problem with point 1 especially is the vast majority of women want naturals, not men who needed therapy/had plastic surgery/etc. Indeed, one of the reasons for hostility towards TRP is that it allows losers to mimic and thus works against the genetic self-interest (relative to the evolutionary environment) of women. What will happen is that women will just invent new screening mechanisms to keep the fakes/mimics out. Or, if a mimic succeeds, when she discovers he's a mimic, she'll dissolve t…
/r/PurplePillDebate23/09/25 04:06 AM
0

Population-related issues and the future sustainability of social safety nets (a direct consequence of the population issue), for one. Also, domestic population growth means immigration reduction becomes more feasible. Whilst most immigration is generally good, recent years have proven that some selectivity and discrimination in immigration policy is necessary to preserve the West's civic culture.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/09/25 03:56 AM
0

Maybe I don't understand it because I don't find pleasure in other people's misery Well, I guess that DOES explain you not 'vibing' with Nietzsche. He did, after all, coin the word "Schadenfreude."
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 04:49 PM
1

Thank you. I actually agree with you. I appreciate your consistency.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 04:48 PM
2

My condolences for your suffering. I had a much more positive experience with revenge.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 12:10 PM
-1

Have you ever had delicious revenge?
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 12:02 PM
21

Feminist spaces did the same to me, but genderflipped.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 08:47 AM
9

So, circling back to those circular arguments: what do you get out of them? Online entertainment. Quoted for truth. Seriously, OP is right that this isn't the most productive space, but as OP said, what can be done? Unless we put Pink Viagra in the water, women will be less horny and consequently more selective than men, and Pink Viagra would cause heart attacks. To be fair, spaces like this could possibly foster a bit more understanding for men's suffering and men's challenges. That would be an…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 06:44 AM
2

How many have you personally seen? Do you mean physically, in real meatspace? I don't personally date, and I only have one friend my age whom is married (and he lucked out by finding a wife who shared his hobbies... good for them!). Most of the experience I have with this phenomenon is indirect/based on others' accounts. I've never met a woman like this. That's plausible. If you're on reddit it is certainly possible you might be an atypical woman, and in real life, Birds Of A Feather sorting eff…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 06:26 AM
9

You personally might not, but I've seen many, many women absolutely have issues with their boyfriends/husbands having androcentric hobbies when those hobbies don't impact bills or responsibilities. Far too many women (again, not necessarily you) just hate men having spare time away from them.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 05:45 AM
5

Videos and Star Wars aren't only for men. "Star Wars is for 12 year old boys" is an exact quote from George Lucas, and Kathleen Kennedy deliberately aimed to change it (the result was a massive destruction of brand value). Anyone can like what they like. The point I am making is that the subcultural spaces surrounding these hobbies were not just androcentric but neuroatypical-androcentric. Then women started demanding the spaces (and the products) change to "center" them, their feelings, their s…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 05:32 AM
1

That’s what it looks like. So incels need to start practicing respectability politics? Again, there's a double standard on the Western Left (not necessarily you personally, though!). They call the idea that blacks or gays need to practice respectability politics an oppressive stance. Ditto the idea that feminists should practice respectability politics (i.e. stop being angry clamhurt legbeards who go around screaming "#KillAllMen" etc). Yet the same tolerance for cultural non-normativity doesn't…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 05:14 AM
8

Do you have an example? There's been 15 years of dedicated feminist entryism into "nerd" spaces (i.e. spaces built around the interests of 'spergy men... the same kind of man most likely to be incel). See Elevatorgate, Gamergate, what Kathleen Kennedy did to Star Wars, etc. These hobby spaces were, if only tacitly, built around the norms/values/hobbies/experiences of this kind of man. Then the activists (some of which were male themselves and brain-rotted with ideology and/or deluded with the id…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 05:07 AM
-1

If you REALLY think men voting Republican is an imminent threat to your rights, your actions make no sense. They're the actions of someone who doesn't truly feel threatened at all. Mockery and dismissal. So either... The Republicans as a whole aren't the tragedy for women's rights that you like to think (and I personally take that position), or, Your response is being driven by something irrational/sub-rational.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 04:07 AM
3

Life is unfair in ways we cannot really control. Very true, but some unfairness/inequity that cannot really be controlled (or can only partially be controlled) gets advocacy and compassion and attempts-to-ameliorate-it whereas other unfairnesses/inequities get laughed at and told "Life Isn't Fair, Shut Up." This disparate favoring of some inequities over others (and some victim groups over others) doesn't go unnoticed.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 04:01 AM
7

How about those men focus on their hobbies Feminist activists have gone after those, too (no, not all women are collectively guilty as a result, and not all those feminist activists are women). If you really want weirdo loser 'spergy men to leave women alone, give those men their own spaces to do their own things, to vent, to escape their misery and/or to bemoan it, etc.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 03:59 AM
1

But does it make any sense for someone to lash out at others who are doing well, just because they themselves are at a disadvantage? That's literally about 90% of the Western Left, right there. I don't entirely agree with OP, but OP's point needs to be understood in the context of how we've literally had 15 years where certain almost-certainly-natural-in-part inequities have been considered morally mandatory to address (or at least decry and bemoan). When some naturally-disadvantaged groups get …
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 03:57 AM
2

Why Hoppeans specifically? What makes Hoppe better for incels (and by what standard of "better" are you invoking) than, say, Hayek or Mises or Rand or Nozick?
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 03:50 AM
7

u/TheAccountant369 is not saying revenge fantasies improve the self, but rather that they make the self happier. Nietzsche argued the exact same thing and suggested most of history's popularly embraced moralities ultimately boiled down to revenge fantasies. I'm sympathetic to Nietzsche's point. People love revenge fantasies. People arguably need them for their mental health. How else can we deal with the reality that we all WISH to live in a Just Universe, yet cosmic justice doesn't exist? Reven…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 03:32 AM
7

Whilst I agree that in upper-class Victorian England things were different to now, the sad reality is the sexual instincts are mostly-evolved so we're stuck with paleolithic desires. Also, I'm not saying you CAN'T feel how you feel. I'm just pointing out that the concept of the Beta Bucks or the "prudent choice" or "good husband material" or whatever-you-want-to-call-it is not some Red Pill conspiracy. It goes back centuries. It emerged from the historical reality that women often had to priorit…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 03:15 AM
7

It all depends on what "bad boy" means. Women don't usually want a man who is an obvious antisocial/psychopath. But they do like men who can dominate other men, and they like a performative/superficial kind of "maverickness" (not actual individualism or genuine nonconformity - the fake kind that projects a propensity towards risk-taking and what is interpreted as a status-signaling "I don't take shit from anyone" behavior). This is what the "bad boy" is - hot, exciting, dangerous to other men bu…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 03:09 AM
35

Erm, even Jane freakin' Austen knew how "good husband material" was a backhanded compliment. "Not hot or exciting... but stable, dependable, resource-rich and socially acceptable." That's what "good husband material" has always meant. It is NOT a synonym for Alpha Bucks/Prince Charming/the "full package" man.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/09/25 02:53 AM
5

OP needs to drop the moralistic framing. Men who complain about hypergamy are mostly complaining about it because it works against their own interests/desires (which skew towards promiscuity/polygyny and prioritize getting more sex at the lowest possible cost). There is nothing objectively wrong or right about either sex's general mating strategies. But people are going to bitch about the other sex nonetheless because the average man prioritizes different things to the average woman, thus the tr…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/09/25 03:08 AM
1

Childfree myself. I know I'm not a family man, so kids aren't for me.
/r/MensRights18/09/25 07:37 AM
0

The institutional economics of the SMV are already optimized towards what the vast majority of what women want. That's not a normative statement. It isn't a condemnation.
/r/PurplePillDebate17/09/25 07:43 AM
1

So basically a lot of men want casual sex, and enough of them are egoistical and stand off-ish to women. The question is why should women be interested? What's in this for them, what are you offering? Sure, some men are jerks, some jerks want casual sex. That's the whole point of a free SMP. Individual women find and assess potential partners to see if those potentials are offering what they want. Your criticism may make sense for those who want to abolish freedom in the sexual marketplace, but …
/r/PurplePillDebate17/09/25 02:55 AM
2

The problem you face is lots of conservatives, including conservative women, are not 100% pro life. A lot of them believe in early-stage abortion, and have voted accordingly (even in deep red states like Kansas). So this whole idea to use voting Republican as a "strategy to retaliate against women" is flawed at its very base. Not to mention it gives legitimacy the most hysterical kind of feminist fearmongering (i.e. "if we don't vote straight democrat in every election everywhere in the country …
/r/PurplePillDebate16/09/25 09:26 AM
4

I presume they mean "Gender & Sexual Minority" by GSM. So GSMphobia would cover homophobia, biphobia, bigotry against asexuals (I've never personally seen any but it might exist), and bigotry against transgender and nonbinary-identifying individuals.
/r/MensRights16/09/25 08:11 AM
37

Majority of my family are teachers There's your problem. Teachers are among the most partisan-progressive professions and are rent-seeking hypocrites with a lust for power over children. The profession attracts people with a desire for control over others, just like law enforcement can.
/r/MensRights13/09/25 03:51 AM
3

There is no evidence for this demented "women become less capable of pair-bonding every time they have sex" theory. I see it as nothing more than a rationalization or people believing something that is useful for their agenda and/or a kind of wishful thinking. There is, however, evidence that women who are promiscuous are more likely to dissolve relationships or commit infidelity (and men have both rational and evolved reasons to care about these things). The most reasonable explanation for this…
/r/PurplePillDebate13/09/25 03:44 AM
1

Thank you for that info. I appreciate it. I didn't know that any SA gets treated as a suicide attempt. That would absolutely bias the hell out of the data.
/r/MensRights12/09/25 10:52 PM
38

The "Pink Tax" is actually worse than a myth. It shows women will pay more for gender-affirming products. #FemininitySoFragile
/r/MensRights12/09/25 12:37 AM
3

I'm not an expert on suicidology so I have to ask - is it a recurrent problem in the stats where self-harm incidents are bundled up with suicide attempts? Does the distinction you make between the two get regularly ignored?
/r/MensRights11/09/25 10:39 PM
2

How did feminists alter nerd culture except to make your video game cartoon skins less cartoonishly hot and make the main character of the last Star Wars trilogy a woman? By making hobby spaces gynocentric and demanding they be ran on female/feminine norms, for one. The entire gaming press - not merely the cartoon skins - became hotbeds for feminist/gynocentrist activism (see Gamergate). Same thing happened to the Atheist movement previously. There are very extensive criticisms about the previou…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/09/25 02:08 PM
6

Well why not provide some concrete examples? Specifics of how your model of cultural warfare dynamics have impacted MRAs before. It would be a useful contribution, don't you think?
/r/MensRights11/09/25 09:59 AM
11

Agreed, but I don't see how this is relevant. It's more a "generalized cultural warfare" post. Perhaps you could establish relevance by citing examples of how similar dynamics are used against men's rights activists?
/r/MensRights11/09/25 09:22 AM
25

I agree with your critique, but I think most people in the MHRM already know he wasn't an MHRA and that he was a tradcon. I'm glad you agree that his murder was a political and personal tragedy, however. The recent rise in political violence is truly quite frightening.
/r/MensRights11/09/25 07:35 AM
24

That still works out to "less punishment for girls if they commit the same crime as a boy of the same age." Either both sexes get the exact same penalty (be it White Collar Prison or Supermax, whatever) for the same crime at the same age, or you're being a sexist. And frankly, girls ALREADY attempt suicide more than boys, and they use less lethal methods, because suicide attempts committed by females are often cries for help, and cries for help made by females get listened to. So no, I really do…
/r/MensRights11/09/25 06:39 AM
32

If boys killed themselves in such institutions, people would think "oh, good, less future troublemakers."
/r/MensRights11/09/25 06:28 AM
3

So... advocating for gynocentric ideas means you deserve to die? I frequently disagree with Kirk, but he has the right to engage in peaceful advocacy, even of ideas I find loathsome. Yes, I agree cuckservatives/gynocentrists/tradcons are not our friends. But sweet fuck, assassinating nonviolent people because they have bad ideas is far more evil.
/r/MensRights11/09/25 06:19 AM
3

I barely even know how to answer to this. Between the fact you put words in my mouth and greatly misrepresented me on several points, and clearly misread me in a way that can only be explained by motivated reasoning, I shouldn't even dignify this with a full response. I will make a few things clear: I did not blame "women" for taking over nerd culture. I blamed those particular women who did so, as well as "feminists/women's advocates." Feminists/women's advocates are not necessarily women thems…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/09/25 05:31 AM
2

You have a reasonable point. I've heard about those anti-dog and anti-cat subreddits that are apparently even more uncivil than "childfree" groups back in the "CF Hardcore" days, and some of which even have animal cruelty content on them. I mean sure, I get the need for venting spaces and blowing off steam, but unless someone is very allergic to cats/dogs and is constantly being harassed by others who tell them to get a cat/dog, I don't see any real reason for such vehemence on the subject. Mayb…
/r/PurplePillDebate10/09/25 11:26 AM
20

Agreed, here. Heightism is a deeply sad fact, but here's another sad fact: without bilateral attraction, a romantic relationship won't last, and men are the ones who bear the cost of relationship dissolution. So unless we can re-engineer the average-heterosexual-neurotypical-female's attraction, then short men whom are "given" a GF will just have a GF who isn't into them, will resent them, and will likely take their stuff when she can.
/r/MensRights10/09/25 10:03 AM
3

Sure, but a 17 year old isn't a child. Late adolescents are not children. They're categorically different. Under no circumstances is that a defense of this horrible woman's abuse of power.
/r/MensRights10/09/25 09:44 AM
5

If you really feel the need to draw a distinction between pedophilia and ephebopbilia in a non clinical setting, law enforcement should probably be investigating your devices. Are you seriously suggesting that pedantry is a sign of being a child rapist? That's a deeply offensive accusation to make. And yes, pedophilia and ephebophilia are very different things even if the law doesn't always acknowledge the distinction (the law should acknowledge the difference, in my view, and it does in many pl…
/r/MensRights10/09/25 09:36 AM
2

Sure, I agree there. Like I said, "that woman committed an egregious breach of professional ethics" so I'm not defending her.
/r/MensRights10/09/25 09:33 AM
24

Feminism is putting up a facade that they are the only ones who can help and support gay men Yet lesbian feminists deliberately appropriated and subjugated the early gay rights movement. Ever since then, lesbians have been given a privileged position (as "double oppressed") within those spaces. And in a bitter irony, a lot of those lesbian feminists were political lesbians (i.e. bitter straight women who tried to make themselves gay to get revenge on men), not actual lesbians.
/r/MensRights10/09/25 09:13 AM
3

to me it doesn't matter. I can become aggressive because my daddy hit me, but does it make it better? Understood? maaaybe. But not better. We are adults and have responsibility for our actions. Considering this thread is about men who want to be understood, understanding why they are angry actually is what they would prefer. In addition, I'm sure you understand there's a difference between an initiator and a respondent, between someone who is mean out of pure malice and someone who is mean out o…
/r/PurplePillDebate10/09/25 09:01 AM
38

They do it a lot. And when there are two men in a couple, they will always ask or at least constantly wonder who the top and who the bottom is (and tacitly presume all male/male relationships involve a more feminine bottom and a more masculine top). I mean, technically this is no different to straight men thinking a lot about lesbians and girl-on-girl. But the distinction is straight men get shamed and treated as oppressors and bigots for doing this, but straight women doing the gender-flip is s…
/r/MensRights10/09/25 08:34 AM
18

I'm bi too, and I have some friends who are women. But u/Thal-creates isn't wrong. Whilst not all women are homophobes, there are women who are bigoted and/or objectifying towards gay men, and cloak what they're doing in robes of false "allyship" that sometimes they even themselves believe. There are, yes, some gay men who are "one of the girls," but many gay men are *not*, and the way some women act towards gay men who aren't Fabulous Darlings Who'll Take Them Shopping is quite revoltingly enti…
/r/MensRights10/09/25 08:30 AM
10

Oh I absolutely agree. That woman committed an egregious breach of professional ethics.
/r/MensRights10/09/25 08:13 AM
2

Yes, that's what I'm saying. Many men on this sub have, many times before, made it very clear all they want is empathy/sympathy/understanding.
/r/PurplePillDebate10/09/25 07:56 AM
6

we live in the world where nice comments about anyone in short supply. Fair point, but I was specifically asked what sympathy looked like. Demographics whom are treated more sympathetically are generally spoken more kindly of, even if we have to talk in terms of a quantified positive/negative balance. But also what i've seen is that those men say shit like "lets ban women from voting and distribute them among men" and then "why are you not nice to me, empathize with my struggles". Apart from the…
/r/PurplePillDebate10/09/25 07:54 AM
7

Is the crime legally referred to as "pedophilia" or "statutory rape"? In the US, the term "statutory rape" is often used for situations like these (from what I recall the exact term varies state to state). That said, even if it called "pedophilia" in legal statutes, the sexology definition of "pedophilia" is attraction to the prepubescent. Again, what she did is clearly immoral and against the law, but sexologists wouldn't consider her a pedophile on the basis of this crime, and legally speaking…
/r/MensRights10/09/25 05:43 AM
2

Who the heck wants empty empathy ? There have consistently been threads on this subreddit in which you have men asking for empathy/sympathy/understanding. So clearly SOME people want that. does it matter if i feel bad for Congonese , Sudanese or Palestine people if imdont do anything to help them? I get your point - performative empathy is often a cynical exercise in virtue signaling and often doesn't help that much. But your invocation of geopolitical examples creates a bit of a disconnect - em…
/r/PurplePillDebate10/09/25 04:12 AM
13

Nicer comments on social media in discussions about men, for one. Basic common decency to men, even unattractive ones (no, "common decency" is NOT a euphemism for sex!). Allowing those genetically unfortunate men to have their venting spaces, subcultures, hobbies and places "for them" where they can commiserate, blow off steam, escape their sadness or process it, etc. Less stigmatizing of loner/loser/'spergy/nerdy men (the primary demographic that suffers a lack of romantic success and wants mor…
/r/PurplePillDebate10/09/25 04:08 AM
4

This isn't pedophilia. 17 is not a child - that's actually the age of consent in the UK, most US states and *above* the age of consent in Canada and Germany. However, the fact she was his teacher DOES make this act deeply sketchy at best (due to the power differential), and anyone who ignores that is being awful. If he's okay with it now, that's legit for him. If he's okay with it in the long run, that's legit for him. But she should be fired nonetheless because she violated a very important sta…
/r/MensRights10/09/25 03:58 AM
9

I am just curious why some the older, pilled men, don’t try and dissuade this behavior and ultimately protect/help the young men? Because men engage in overt intrasexual competition, and "pulling up the ladder" to their own advantage is literally what the typical opposite-sex-attracted man wants to do. It means his genes go on, the genes of other males don't. TRP isn't a group-interests-of-men effort. It isn't about making a cock cartel. If you wonder why men have such little in-group solidarity…
/r/PurplePillDebate10/09/25 03:46 AM
1

I really don’t understand your first point about me LARPing. Let me reiterate it, then. I said that your statement (about "women have got the message now they're losing their healthcare") sounds like a what a leftist-whom-is-pretending-to-be-a-conservative-engaging-in-triumphalist-rhetoric would say. Your statement sounds like a leftist-who-has-no-real-understanding-of-their-opponent's-views' parody of what conservatives actually believe. Google "Ideological Turing Test." There are multiple Poli…
/r/PurplePillDebate10/09/25 03:38 AM
15

You're tacitly presuming that what men-who-suffer-in-dating really want is sex, not sympathy. Here's the reality: currently, men-who-fail-in-dating get neither sex nor sympathy. For those men, sympathy without sex is an upgrade. It is also what they repeatedly say they want, over and over again. So let's say you're correct - that pity is a horniness-killer (for the record, I agree with that). So what? This doesn't justify withholding sympathy from men who suffer and want sympathy for that suffer…
/r/PurplePillDebate10/09/25 03:25 AM
5

I’m not a conservative lol. Don’t know what gave you that impression. What I was saying is that your post came off as a leftist pretending to be a conservative, crowing about "taking women's healthcare away." Actual conservatives don't act that way. I'm a pro-choice libertarian, I am not a conservative, but I know how to sniff out a false-flagger or a bad-faith participant. You’re not a victim of someone tweeting about “manspreading” 10 years ago. I am however a victim of ongoing campaigns of cu…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/09/25 11:32 PM
3

The 2010’s were last decade, friend. Irrelevant, given how people will claim they're still victims of things that happened last to their great-grandparents. I think women got the message once their right to health care (abortion) was taken away from them. That's a delusionally Amerigocentric viewpoint. The matter became state-by-state in the USA, the rest of the West was not impacted, and many of those American states (even the red ones) either voted to retain abortion rights or didn't restrict …
/r/PurplePillDebate09/09/25 10:44 PM
7

Talks about "Gender Whining" yet forgets that women's advocates have been spending at least 15-20 years whining about utterly trivial bullshit like manspreading, mansplaining, manthreading, manslamming, men telling edgy jokes on the internet, the atheist movement having too many men in it, men having preferences for entertainment IPs that don't center female characters or women's stories, and men liking buxom women in video games. But yeah, its totally the manosphere who started this. So what’s …
/r/PurplePillDebate09/09/25 06:31 AM
5

Mill was a classical liberal feminist. So whilst he's a type of feminist, he's one of those types of feminist that the official feminist movement considers not feminist enough. Frankly, most MHRAs (me included) are, by the traditional definition, classical liberal feminists too. But the feminist movement has purged any and all liberalism and individualism from itself.
/r/MensRights09/09/25 12:41 AM
8

The education system is just designed better for girls, because females are just more agreeable and easily influenced, they follow orders more easily. You tell them to sit down and study this and do this assignment, and they're more likely to do it than boys. Bad reasoning for the reasons you've already had thrown at you. For one, it isn't consistent with the fact that the military and team sports (hierarchical collective-oriented institutions considered the height of manliness) are male dominat…
/r/PurplePillDebate08/09/25 11:19 PM
5

Schools used to be way more strict and society demanded way more conformity out of people I'm sympathetic to this argument but you can fairly suggest an authoritarian disciplinary system built on shame, censure and druggings is just as controlling as one built on beatings. Indeed, Foucault would suggest the former is worse because it masquerades as kinder and gentler, whereas the latter is an obvious malevolence and hence obvious target.
/r/PurplePillDebate08/09/25 11:08 PM
2

I know a woman who's daughter was alienated against her by her father, so the idea that the concept of parental alienation is just a way for men to get back at women makes zero sense to me.
/r/MensRights08/09/25 08:04 AM
19

They're both. Homomisandrists. Gay men always got more gay-bashings than lesbian women.
/r/MensRights08/09/25 05:57 AM
2

Please provide me evidence for this that doesn't come from either a conservative Christian think-tank or a radical anti-porn-feminist one.
/r/MensRights08/09/25 02:34 AM
2

I don't disagree with you necessarily, but how is this relevant to men's rights? Its a Redpill/MGTOW argument you're making here - not one about rights claims. I do think that its fair to model a relationship as one where two people are basically negotiating the terms of a business agreement, and such negotiations are subject to all the problems you find discussed in Contract Theory (the Hold-Up Problem being the big one). Both participants are looking to maximize their own individual net benefi…
/r/MensRights08/09/25 01:25 AM
2

Very transactional view of courtship and relationships. That doesn't make it wrong. All relationships are, in some way, transactions since your time and effort (which you're spending on another) has an opportunity cost.
/r/MensRights08/09/25 01:22 AM
58

Typical. The biggest beneficiaries of "social justice" have always been white women. Plus, the cancellers are both debut novelists. Publishing is a rapidly shrinking industry disappearing up its own anus because it is so gynocentric and upper-class and obsessed with identity politics (hence sales have cratered because no one outside of their bubble wants to read this crap). There's only so much room for Lit Fic these days, so the competition is intense. Getting other authors cancelled is a compe…
/r/MensRights08/09/25 01:02 AM
0

It's a form of costly signaling (show off just how alpha you are by making benevolent giveaways) and intrasexual competition (increase competition faced by normie men by encouraging women to compete against them, thus putting another obstacle in front of potential challengers). If sites like OnlyFans benefitted men OnlyFans does benefit men. All voluntary transactions in a market are assessed to be mutually beneficial by the participants, because otherwise they wouldn't make the transaction in t…
/r/MensRights07/09/25 11:58 PM
2

Why are you acting like women and progressives aren’t promoting neurodiversity? The glaring gap between what they say ("we support the Neurodiverse!") and what they do (they've spent the last ten to fifteen years engaging in ruthless colonialism against the subcultures of neurodiverse males). The reality is that politics is a numbers game, and there is an unavoidable choice between 'sperg males and females. The latter have more votes. It may not make people want to date you I'm not asking for da…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/25 10:42 PM
2

The theory of feminism-as-female-intrasexual-competition is interesting, but there's a problem with it... Are feminists succeeding? If the goal is to decrease potential competition from other women's children, presumably the women pushing for feminism are having quite a few kids themselves whilst sabotaging other women's romantic chances. Instead, we're seeing feminists themselves choosing not to breed... either through making themselves sexually unappealing, or being lesbians, or just choosing …
/r/MensRights07/09/25 09:54 AM
3

Agreed. This whole "women find it so hard at work" thing makes me groan. Men often face deep challenges in their jobs/careers, too.
/r/MensRights07/09/25 09:17 AM
2

I like to call that phenomenon "Emmet Till Feminism."
/r/MensRights07/09/25 08:46 AM
1

When i say effort i mean basically none whatsoever. Breathing is relatively effortless too, but we don't have disgust reactions towards that bodily function. For men the idea of woman having many partners isn't much of a turn on to begin with. Since most guys preferences are against that. And the best theory to explain this preference is an evolutionary one, because there is no rational ethical case against women sleeping around but for men sleeping around. Slut-shaming of women by men is the pr…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/25 08:39 AM
1

I honestly don't think this will work out well... for the women. As AI greatly reduces a lot of white collar clerical office work (the jobs women generally prefer), a lot of women will have gotten useless degrees in bullshit fields and be saddled with student debt whilst having fewer economic opportunities. Meanwhile, the trades remain male-dominated. Tradesmen are already making quite good money in many countries (the market price is adjusting because we've artificially overproduced university-…
/r/MensRights07/09/25 08:35 AM
8

Yes because for women no effort needs to put into getting with men Plenty of things that we consider acceptable or even good are relatively low effort. The "effort" argument rationally justifies stud-praising, but it doesn't rationally justify slut-shaming. It makes much more sense to see male disgust for female promiscuity as something evolved, because it isn't really rationally justifiable.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/25 08:12 AM
1

Thank you. Glad you liked the theory I proposed. However I don't think there's much academic literature on it, because the discourse on slut-shaming is dominated by feminists and they prefer a "misogyny" explanation and see the "stud v slut" thing as an unfair double standard... when in reality the standard is consistent for both sexes and across all sexual orientations - taking cock is perceived as degrading.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/25 08:00 AM
16

Ahhh yes, this is what I like to call the "penis as defiler" theory of slut-shaming. It isn't a double standard, rather it's an aversion to anyone whom is seen as having taken cock. This theory also conveniently explains "bottom shaming" among gay men ("ewww, slutty bottom"), as well as the concept of "gold star lesbians" ("yay, completely untainted by dick") in the lesbian community.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/25 07:21 AM

If anything I believe the show will drive more distrust and negativity towards loner and disadvantaged boys and men, further driving radicalisation although we are still talking single digit conversion rates at worst. Loner/loser/introvert/'sperg/nerd men have always been hated, and simultaneously mocked and bullied remorselessly whilst at the same time being thought of as school-shooters-in-waiting. Here's the thing - if someone sincerely and truly believed nerds/'spergs/misfits/etc were an imm…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/25 04:09 AM
4

I agree with you. The Manosphere in general is really about Asperger's Syndrome. Of course, our neurodiversity gets us nothing and we're culturally marginalized and mocked (even in our own spaces - nerd culture was the first victim of feminist entryism). Despite the fact that our neuroatypicality is as neurologically real as sexual orientation. Why doesn't the Social Justice movement care about us? We already know why - there are more annoying leftist women than 'spergy men, and the average woma…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/25 02:22 AM
1

But it seems they'd unironically even rather lose abortion rights and whatever else than ever "stoop to" the level of even considering a single men's issue To be entirely fair, that's a very Amerigocentric issue. The rest of the West does not have the same abortion preoccupation or fights over it that the US has. Hell, in the US that fight is totally driven by extremists who want either a total ban on elective abortion under all circumstances, or believe that elective abortion should be availabl…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/25 01:51 AM
1

Anti-vaxxers were more commonly found on the left than the right pre-COVID. Then COVID happened and the US public health establishment demonstrably proved themselves to be a bunch of self-interested tyrants who'll engage in scientific fraud and mass destruction of civil liberties to advance their own agenda. The left had to choose between "crunchy" organic green-juice-chugging health-nuttery or worship-of-bureaucracies-ran-by-experts. They picked the latter. The consequence of that choice is RFK…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/25 01:38 AM
1

a gay is not a problem solver Gays are disproportionately high-IQ, and they're overrepresented in the STEM fields, so to say they aren't problem solvers is quite silly. If you're exclusively talking about the toxically-feminine 'fabulous darling' type of gay dude, though, you may have a point.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/09/25 01:18 AM
63

I agree that the "Chads" are a threat to men's rights, but not for the reasons you claim. Short reason - the beneficiaries of the gender system (such as Chads) are not going to be interested in overthrowing it.
/r/MensRights03/09/25 02:06 AM
2

If that's true, why do so many still struggle with coming out? You can go to any LGBT space and see people talking about being afraid to come out to people. I don't think this true at all that it's seen as cool over all among Gen Z to be LGBTQIA+. I never said it is seen as cool for ALL Gen Z. In addition, Gen Z-ers have many other people they interact with in life whom are not Gen-Z (their parents, for example). So that would explain why coming out is still hard for many. Yes, coming out is sti…
/r/PurplePillDebate31/08/25 01:35 AM
3

Gen Z women are more than 2.5 times likely to identify as LGBTQIA+ than Gen Z men. So a reasonable explanation for why more gen z men are single than gen z women is the latter gave up on men and are dating each other at higher rates. That reasoning is flawed. Identifying as a sexual minority is one thing. Being of that sexual minority is another, especially when you consider three factors: In certain subcultural spaces that are dominated by Gen-Z-ers, being a sexual minority is considered "cool"…
/r/PurplePillDebate31/08/25 12:39 AM
2

The trad community is all about an idealistic fantasy that has little to do with women's real experiences. I wouldn't disagree. Idealized 50s housewifedom was a very specific, historically-atypical and culturally-bound situtation. It wasn't a representative example of human female existence.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/08/25 10:37 PM
2

Taking about being happy that some places have girls 16 as legal age. You mean like in Canada and Germany? Last I checked, both of these are modern, relatively wealthy (although Germany is impoverishing itself with bad economic choices) liberal democracies. Why are they wrong about setting the age of sexual consent to 16? Calling women foids. Both sexes need venting spaces to rant about the other sex. Women have these. They say horrible things about men in those spaces. I'm happy to accept that …
/r/PurplePillDebate30/08/25 10:36 PM
16

Are there people who think that women are taking antidepressants as a substitute for being trad wives? I've seen that argument made multiple times. Basically it goes as follows: 50s: low female participation rates in the workforce, cultural expectation of marriage and homemaking, less women on SSRIs. Afterwards: Women join workforce, cultural expectations relaxed, women's rates of mental illness and SSRI use went through the roof. Conclusion: tradwifery is better for women's mental health. Of co…
/r/PurplePillDebate30/08/25 12:42 PM
2

The UK Suffragettes (Pankhurst etc) weren't advocates for universal suffrage. They were wealthy women who opposed "Coverture" (the practice in English law which transferred a woman's property to her husband upon marriage), because that made wealthy women lose their property and consequent right to vote (voting rights at the time were for landowners only). They were also opponents of how their husbands would sometimes cheat and leave them destitute as a result (since he got her property upon marr…
/r/MensRights30/08/25 07:15 AM
5

none of the people who constantly preach about empathy actually have any. Agreed. There are actually multiple studies backing this claim up, too. So much "I support this good thing" is performative social signaling ("virtue signaling") driven by immediate social politics (i.e. gaining and guarding status within one's social circle). Not actual interest or genuine care about the "good thing" in question.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/08/25 05:31 AM

Like why should women even "care"? Men regularly get told that men should care for women, just because its "the right thing to do," with no concern for their own benefit or interests. If that is a true moral standard (i.e. universally applicable to all human beings), surely asking women to care for men because that's what decent people do is valid, no? Personally, I'm very happy to make "it is in the interests of your sex to care about the interests of the other sex" arguments instead, but I'm n…
/r/PurplePillDebate30/08/25 05:26 AM
2

Okay... so here's a summary of your summary. Single fathers may be better than single mothers, but this is due to socioeconomic factors, not male parents being tougher disciplinarians (which is what you alleged). Two biological parents are very good, but adoptive parents of different sexes can produce perfectly acceptable results. A substantial majority of the studies on same-sex parenting show comparable results to opposite-sex couples, and the studies that show inferior results are outliers th…
/r/PurplePillDebate29/08/25 06:48 AM
3

You're the one advocating the superiority of a specific model of parenting, so you're making the affirmative claim. Surely you can cite evidence to back it up.
/r/PurplePillDebate29/08/25 05:24 AM
3

I think that gays and single women in particular should not be allowed to adopt children. Even if it can be proven that allowing these groups to adopt is better than leaving a child in foster care? Make the hard cost/benefit tradeoffs. There are simply insufficient opposite-sex couples interested in adopting all the orphans, so "every child should get an ideal family" is not on the table. Yes, every child should get a fucking pony, too, but that's economically unfeasible.
/r/PurplePillDebate29/08/25 05:23 AM
4

Israel is perceived as: Unduly influential on the foreign policy decisions of other countries (see AIPAC in the USA), and Having closed borders and a strict immigration policy whilst creating refugee crises that send radicalized fundamentalist third-world immigrants into western (particularly European) nations In brief, Israel is seen as imposing costs on other nations. Whether or not this is a fair assessment is another question, but that's the perception.
/r/MensRights29/08/25 04:36 AM
9

Edit: 9 out of 10 women on the Mexico city public metro experiencing sexual harassment isnt a minority. But the perpetrators are a minority of men. Punishing all men for the actions of a minority of men is, as /u/Grow_peace_in_Bedlam correctly said, collective punishment.
/r/PurplePillDebate29/08/25 04:25 AM
1

The subjectivity of "asshole-ness" is a good point. That said, it may actually back up the OP to some degree. TRPers and the like often are on the Autism Spectrum. So for them, mild occasional teasing is a cruel slight, it is assholeness (I'm on the spectrum and I remember how awful childhood 'teasing' was yet other people telling me to treat it as a 'harmless joke' etc). So, presuming TRP appeals disproportionately to people with ASD traits, "be an asshole" may be exactly what they need to hear…
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 11:23 PM
-1

That's a theoretical argument based upon extremely contestable - and in my view misandrist and parental-alienating-by-default - view of the "proper" role of the male and female parent, built on an excruciating tradcon "spare the rod, spoil the child" viewpoint of how children should be parented. I asked for evidence. Empirics. Testing. The leftist gay type doesn’t even know the difference between a man and woman Not all gay men subscribe to leftist/SJW ideology and you should know it. Seriously,…
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 11:17 PM
2

I agree that in a psychological context there's a very important place for gentler, therapeutic rhetoric depending on the needs of the client/patient. But... and maybe this is just from my own relatively hardheaded brutal-honest 'sperg-brain perspective... surely the therapeutic context isn't the norm.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 10:03 AM
3

I can only speak for myself, but I think what u/growframe is trying to suggest is that one can come up with valid abstract concepts for "behavior more typical of males than females" (let's call that "masculinity") and "behavior more typical of females than males" (let's call that "femininity"). Ergo, one can in theory arrive at valid "gender" concepts without alleging a metaphysically real essence or form of gender. (You know we're quickly moving into Problem Of Universals territory, here. Yay, …
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 10:01 AM
14

You're struggling with this thing called "Gender Essentialism." Trust me, its not real. There's no magical, mind-independently-real Essence Of Masculinity/Form of Masculinity, or the corresponding for Femininity. There are only sex stereotypes/expectations (which are socially constructed and normative), and valid empirical abstractions based on population-level tendencies of each sex (which are descriptive abstractions that may be valid or invalid depending on the data underlying them). This is …
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 09:06 AM
0

Ahhh yes, Lesbian Feminism. A classic radfem practice. Guess what? Women had political lesbianism, but men never had a movement of political gayness. What does that say about which sex's homosexuality is more favored?
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 08:58 AM
2

What "red-pilled" me (although I'm purple) was porn made by women, for women. All the sicko rape noncon choking shit comes from that. The vast, vast minority of men find noncon or choking erotic. Trust me, if "pornsick" is a thing (it isn't, but that's another question), there are at least as many pornsick women out there, both consuming and making sicker porn than the usual stuff made for straight dudes.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 08:57 AM
2

I'd like to see some evidence for this claim. Almost all the evidence I've seen has been that two legally-committed parents produce superior results to single mothers, but a lot of specific studies on same-sex parents get negative results through inserting unscientific value judgments like "the kid smoked pot once, ergo the kid was ruined by gay parenting." Also, when it comes to adopting children, the alternative to same-sex couples adopting isn't an opposite-sex couple adopting that child inst…
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 08:53 AM
3

When did dark traid became a attractive personality ? I think you're misreading OP. OP basically said a small sprinkling of Dark Triad traits is hot. In addition, sometimes these traits can have consequences many women find hot (social adroitness, success and status, etc). OP is not saying that women literally want to date sociopathic serial killers (outside of that small number of Hybristophiliacs I guess), or clinically-diagnosed narcissists. Using the word "asshole" may be rhetorical exaggera…
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 06:16 AM
6

e.g. speaking the truth even when it would people Is that really mean though? Yes, I know you're speaking in terms of Golden Means and "just a touch is a nice spice, but no one wants the whole chilli pepper." But brutal honesty is arguably kinder than lying, since the truth allows people to better achieve their own goals and interests. In addition, lying to people to spare their feelings can be deeply manipulative (i.e. Machiavellian) depending on the implementation.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 06:09 AM

Apart from the fact that treating any other disability group as a "lost cause" who should basically die would be frowned upon greatly, you don't have to do anything. Men are already, if imperfectly, trying to fix this problem by building explicit praxeologies of heterosexual dating, presented in digestible abstract format. All you have to do is stop opposing them from doing such. Presuming you actually care about them fixing themselves.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 02:13 AM

That is not a solution. It is a vague, infinitely-elastic platitude. I mean, "better people" by what standard or for what purpose? You can't just turn someone into a neurotypical or "socially well-adjusted" (which is just a euphemism for neurotypical) person by having them hang out in public spaces frequently. It doesn't work that way. Again, what is wrong with simply telling these men the precise, unvarnished truth in terms they will understand?
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 02:04 AM

Let's say that's true. It may be. So how do you fix that? I'm getting the impression you don't want there to be an actual fix. You just want these men to rot in their delusions, perhaps go away and vanish.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 01:51 AM

We all know the reasons are: Virtue signalling. Desire to preserve benevolent sexism. Subconscious drive to filter autistic traits out of the dating pool. Being absolutely honest preserves aim 3 (blackpilling young men means less losers will approach women at all), but contravenes aims 1 (since it tacitly admits women are just as appearance-driven as men) and 2 (since it means no-hope losers will not mal-invest in women they have no chance with anyway).
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 12:59 AM

I've been getting the "be attractive" message since I was a child lol As your flair says, you're a woman. Society basically 'blackpills' women about male sexuality from a very young age. Alternatively, it could be argued women in general are better at picking up nonverbal communication and have a better intuitive grasp of the tacit, implicit, subtle, body language etc. But in either case, the point is that at least a cohort of men are not getting the message at the necessary level of clarity.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 12:53 AM

How did everyone else pick up on this, but you needed to “be told”? It's called Autism Spectrum Characteristics. Which means the lack of explicitly verbally telling the truth in exact words (with no 'diplomacy' or sugar-coating or other rationalizations-for-deception) is a form of institutionalized ableism.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/08/25 12:50 AM
1

I would say the impact is probably just not large enough to be relevant on a societal scale, since men who are manipulative and sociopathic (also isn’t sociopathy an condition someone is born with, rather than something one choose to be?) are a small minority of the general population. That small minority can still do a lot of damage. If the small sociopathic minority were not really consequential, we probably wouldn't be so invested in creating a justice system etc. And yes, there are neuroatyp…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/08/25 01:21 PM
5

I don’t agree that women’s preferences have a negative impact, since they are not on average choosing bad traits. Sure, they might choose a bad man because he’s very attractive / very good at sex etc, but they are not choosing him FOR his bad traits, so no, women are on average not insentivizing bad traits. I agree that women are not selecting for bad traits per se (although certain bad traits, like the dark triad ones, are correlated with traits many women select for - powerful men are more lik…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/08/25 09:07 AM
2

Sure, I agree with you. That's why I said "sociologically irrelevant" rather than "ethically irrelevant." The point I am trying to make is that there's still a phenomenon that deserves to be talked about. I mean normally if there's a social structure or incentive pattern that incentivizes bad things, we discuss it, and try to manage it or ameliorate it (no, this does not mean we need to reverse the sexual revolution). Let's look at this very thread: people were protesting over the word "reward" …
/r/PurplePillDebate27/08/25 08:00 AM
2

I agree that TRP makes excuses for the worst of the human female lizard brain, and consequently can encourage benevolent sexism and undermine efforts to treat women like adults. And I greatly respect you for refusing to date terrible women. Good for you. We need more men like that. Here's the problem though: there are lots of heterosexual men who, for whatever reason (be it social mandates to Prove Their Manhood through Crushing Pussy, or be it purely a matter of hormones... personally I believe…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/08/25 03:08 AM
12

As a woman who communicates directly (I'm neurodivergent), I often find it hard to understand a significant portion of women as well. This makes sense. The indirect communication/coy courtship/please read my mind/etc. games are played by women as a way to screen out asperger's men (other neurodivergences aren't the ones being screened out). Why? They want a man who is capable of playing social politics, climbing social hierarchies, becoming tribal chieftain etc., and they don't want to get knock…
/r/MensRights27/08/25 01:30 AM
0

I have to disagree with you in part. You're falling prey to a bias where you treat the kind of man who goes on Reddit and participates in TRP threads... basically a high-systemizing nerd... as if they were the male norm. I call it "nerd normativity." Its false. The average normie man is just as much a reality-indifferent, lizard-brain-enthralled emotionalist tribalist as a Basic Becky, as long as they can get away with it (to be fair, since culture tends to hold them to higher standards of respo…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/08/25 12:04 AM
3

Agreed. So if we agree sex plays an incentivizing role, can we agree that if women (on average) are choosing to have sex with men who display a specific set of characteristics A/B/C, and declining to have sex with men who display characteristics D/E/F, that women are contributing to/reinforcing/perpetuating a specific incentive structure (even if unintentionally) that encourages A/B/C characteristics in men and dissuades D/E/F characteristics? Note: I am not saying women are responsible for ever…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/08/25 11:53 PM
1

Sure, but the OP's underlying point is that even if certain behaviors aren't *intended as rewards*, they still have incentive effects on how others act. Predictable ones.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/08/25 11:29 PM
3

A majority is a subset by definition. That said I agree you're right that the kind of leftist we're talking about (the SJW) is in control of the present-day left, and they've driven out a lot of people from their side... civil-libertarian leftists/social-liberals, for example, have basically been driven to the right.
/r/MensRights26/08/25 08:23 AM
1

You've always engaged in debates very honestly here, so I'm very averse to saying this, but are you deliberately making the distinction just so you can claim some sort of male entitlement on the part of OP? Or, IIRC you're Russian. Are you aware that in English, even if reward and incentive and benefit don't always mean the same thing, in common everyday speech they're often used as synonyms? Because the easiest and most common-sense way to interpret the OP is that when he said "reward" he meant…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/08/25 07:52 AM
1

Sure, you can redefine reward however you want, but words have meanings. Okay, well how about you change "reward" to "incentive" and otherwise keep the OP's post the same.... could you perhaps do this and then repeat your analysis? Because even if sex isn't a reward, the vast majority of men do in fact consider sex an incentive and alter their behavior accordingly.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/08/25 07:17 AM
11

The ERA, if it is passed without the Hayden Rider (an amendment to it which explicitly, in exact words, protects historic female privilege), might be positive. However, as a matter of American constitutional law, you can fairly argue that the ERA is already implied in the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. There are even leading Textualist/Originalist scholars (often considered conservative) who argue that the 14th Amendment, correctly understood, already forbids sex discrimination.
/r/MensRights26/08/25 06:01 AM
8

Many TRPers are understandably skeptical of therapy. They see the profession as being gynocentric and embracing ideological feminism. They're not entire unjustified in doing so, given those infamous APA guidelines that were released a few years ago, and most of those in training to become therapists are women. In addition, as others have said, TRP is a theory about how heterosexual romance operates. It isn't a grand unifying theory of psychology or psychopathology. Asking TRP to provide a comple…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/08/25 04:59 AM
3

My main issue with this subset of ideas is how everything seems to be framed as a product of oppression, with an almost puritan mindset behind it And that's a fair complaint to have. It does, in fact, postulate that every single social structure, convention and institution in our society is the product of some form of oppression. A multi-axis version of Marxism, one could say (even if orthodox Marxists do not accept it as valid). And yes, it is awfully oversimplifying. Not to mention it is bad m…
/r/MensRights26/08/25 12:27 AM
17

I'm on the libertarian right, but you're talking about a subset of leftists, not all leftists. I do agree that you're correct in describing that subset of leftists you talk about, and that particular subset of leftists has a terrifying level of cultural clout in our society these days. However, there are left-wing men's rights activists (see the subreddit LeftWingMaleAdvocates). And not all MRAs, even of the self-proclaimed right, are traditionalist or disagree that there are issues with traditi…
/r/MensRights25/08/25 11:56 PM
6

I don't like tradcons, but it is a matter of fact that public educational systems have (for decades) been ran gynocentrically. Take, for example, the switch from Phonics to "Whole-Word" reading. The former is far more effective (for both sexes, by the way), but the latter produces less disparity between the sexes. This is the reason "Whole-Word" was championed as a feminist initiative... even though it caused reading scores to plunge. Only relatively recently have people started realizing that w…
/r/MensRights25/08/25 11:24 PM
16

Perhaps THE core issue is that women are seen as "real women" and thus socially valuable by virtue of their anatomy, whereas men are not. We have to EARN our "real manhood" and have it validated by various different social institutions in order for us to be perceived as socially valuable. This isn't necessarily all sunshine-and-hugs for women... the idea of a biologically innate anatomically centered femininity results in shitty things like Mandatory Motherhood and the marginalization of the age…
/r/MensRights25/08/25 10:19 PM
2

I usually don't like to agree with the bloops/feminists/gynocentrists, but their main critique of your argument is correct. Yes, you're right that fairness and reciprocity are important aspects of any social structure. Indeed, they're an innate evolutionary moral foundation (as Haidt has shown). If society wants pro-sociality they need to encourage it, not just via the stick but also via the carrot. The idea that "truly good people are pro-social Just Because" is ridiculous and flatly rejected b…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 09:22 PM
3

There are certainly gynocentrists on the right as well as the left. I don't disagree with that. However, speaking as a libertarian rightist, the issue with immigration and integration of migrant communities is not entirely a misandry issue and nor is it entirely invalid (at least in some instances). Take, for example, the UK grooming gangs issue... that's a mixture of sex, culture/religion, classism (the victims were working class English girls), and most critically, an example of the Rule Of La…
/r/MensRights25/08/25 09:01 PM
2

That's entirely false. "Normal dating advice works for most people" (which may indeed be true) doesn't invalidate the parallel demand of people who were (perhaps due to being neuroatypical themselves) failed by that advice. You missing it doesn’t justify the existence of a shitty ideology lol I don't agree with everything TRP says, but if you don't attempt to do better, you will never get rid of it. But clearly, you don't want to even try. Which is why I will pull the ableist card - if societal …
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 08:20 PM
5

It is human nature to resent people who treat you like shit Agreed. while it's just fucked up to resent people who have nothing to do with your life and were simply born different. Whether it's fucked up or not, it is common. Not to mention, it is popularized to completely resent those raised in wealthy households. Again, they didn't choose to be born, yet resentment of them is frankly a powerful motivation of the political left. Again, I am not saying it is right. I'm saying it is common. Not t…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 12:03 PM
5

it certainly isn’t human nature to resent others for something they have no control over. I disagree entirely. Remember that "this thing is human nature" doesn't morally justify it. There are elements of human nature that SHOULD be resisted, such as tribalism. But people with morals don’t give a shit about rewards, because rewards aren’t more valuable than your integrity. There are entire fields of philosophy that completely reject that. And at the end of the day, being a good person attracts go…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 11:08 AM
18

I'm still in the alternative world when it comes to my music tastes... I knew a large number of years ago there was this annoying SJW running about, calling herself "Industrial Anti-Oppression" (she had a huge beef with Thomas Rainier of Nachtmahr). Has the scene gotten worse and more politicized? I have a friend who says the punk scene where he lived was totally destroyed by SJWs, but I'm more from the goth/industrial side of things, which is less political. Or at least was, last I was in there…
/r/MensRights25/08/25 10:16 AM
6

Sure, they aren't at moral fault. I'm just pointing out that human nature is prone to resent those who win genetic lotteries. We want to believe in a just world where moral character is rewarded. But some people are faster, taller, stronger, smarter, hotter etc. than others, and this impacts their life experiences and successes. I'm not making a moral commentary here, just a factual one. Looks-based privilege will attract resentment. I don't believe such resentment is morally good, but it is a s…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 09:02 AM
1

She never called me that, so its a moot point. Not to mention you're not addressing my actual argument.
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 08:04 AM
1

So your reference for the RP being true is your mom telling you affirming stuff. Outright lies are not affirming. Factually-untrue affirmation is not kind. The point is that I am not the only person on this forum who has said the same thing. Plenty of other men here recount precisely the same experience of being told precisely the same set of inaccurate statements, by someone they placed trust into. Also note my flair - I am purple pill and sometimes disagree with Red Pill. But the Redpillers ar…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 06:47 AM
6

The idea of tea app was to warn women about men who did something wrong. That may have indeed been the intention. But seriously, such an app's abuse potential should have been obvious from the very start. You know just as well as I do that you can't build institutions on the assumption that they won't be abused. You do the exact opposite - you assume that there are at least some people out there who will act awfully, and you proceed on the basis of containing people's worst impulses. It's not li…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 05:57 AM
6

If you were an actual good man, you wouldn’t need a reward to incentivize you to be nice. Most traditions in moral philosophy completely disagree. Neither utilitarians nor egoists accept this proposition. Several forms of deontology reject it as well... honestly, as a moral proposition, it sounds like a weird fusion between Kant and Comte... neither of which are good ethicists, in my view. Not to mention, a simple look at sociology and the fact social structures exist proves that no matter how m…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 05:11 AM
3

That's unfortunately true in some cases, but at the same time, rejecting ideas because others may abuse them isn't epistemically legitimate. What matters is the truth value of those ideas, not how some people respond to them.
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 04:47 AM
4

My favourite thing about the redpill is that its so into its own bs that it ends up rationalizing itself by arguing against points it gaslit itself into believing is its opposition My own fucking mother told me the myths about women loving personality and being essentially above caring about looks. She told me the vast majority of the gynocentric propaganda points that TRP complains about. So no, TRP isn't gaslighting itself. Rather, TRP is absolutely responding a very real set of myths that the…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 04:45 AM
35

I agree with you for the most part. TRP is probably the only force in our culture that actively de-pedastalizes women. Feminism nominally complains about pedastalization but in practice perpetuates and reinforces it. There are, however, some TRP ideas that are fairly described as dehumanizing of women though. Certainly the idea that women are innately mentally-teenage at most and shouldn't be expected to be rational is actual, genuine sexism. Even though I accept women may be culturally infantil…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/08/25 03:59 AM
7

What is the point in endlessly talking about how good looking people have privilege? There are entire political movements and career paths (often in higher education) built on bemoaning the reality that some other people have certain privileges. Even if this bemoaning is in fact pointless bullshit, you can't ignore the reality that society focuses greatly on it.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/08/25 03:19 AM
6

Upvoted for truth. Certain groups get "social justice" efforts centered upon redressing cultural (and sometimes even biological) unfairness that hurts them. Whereas other groups basically get told to fuck off and die, even by the same people who make a big performative display about caring for "social justice." The disparity is obvious. And offensive. And we all know that the basic criterion for being an "acceptable" minority is that minority's electoral utility for the establishment left. It ha…
/r/PurplePillDebate24/08/25 03:10 AM
2

Having Christ as a central figure is a pretty vague definition. The central deliverer of divine revelation, in particular. That separates out Christianity (of all kinds) from, say, Islam (where Yeshua is a prophet but not the central one), Buddhism (where Buddha fills that role), Scientology (L Ron Hubbard), etc.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/08/25 07:07 AM
7

You are not entitled to a subjective feeling of safety or comfort. You're entitled to have your rights respected, and to basic civility, and nothing else. I feel discomfort around Christian and Islamic worship sites, but their religious freedom is a right. I don't have an entitlement to be externally enabled to feel a specific way. I often dress in a visibly countercultural manner that sometimes attracts stares. Maybe it's my asperger's syndrome but I essentially don't notice them, and frankly I…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/08/25 04:43 AM
1

What does it even mean to value the opposite gender for their intrinsic worth and dignity? An excellent point. It should also be pointed out that the intrinsic worth and dignity of the human individual is not sex-dependent in the first place (both men and women have it because men and women are both humans), and furthermore, whilst this inherent human dignity is relevant to political philosophy (it's the foundation of individual rights), that doesn't mean it is relevant to romance or sex. Even h…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/08/25 03:40 AM
1

Well there have been centuries of war over what constitutes true Christianity, so obviously it's not that simple. True, but a lot of these wars were over theological quibbles, like the manner in which Christ is present in the Eucharist (for example). The absolute common denominator that holds all forms of Christianity together is that their central figure of divine revelation is Yeshua of Nazareth. I'm an atheist and I think all Christianity is false, but "the essential characteristic of Christi…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/08/25 12:44 AM
2

So, by your logic, the originators of all culture and all ideas within it are men. And women have had no influence on our culture's beliefs. And women never have influence on how men think. That is infantilizing and misogynistic.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/08/25 09:47 PM
9

If men are the ones framing sex as “defiling,” that’s men pushing misogyny onto women, not women hating men. By that logic, internalized misogyny (women holding misogynist beliefs) can't exist. In addition, women are absolutely complicit in upholding the "penis-as-defiler" framing. It is one of the reasons women themselves often slut-shame.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/08/25 12:38 PM
4

The reasoning is so bad I barely know where to begin. Yes, women in some US states have their access to elective abortion unjustly restricted. Not all women live in America. Valenti apparently only cares about those that do, because I've never heard her complain about the relatively strict gestational limits that apply to most of continental Europe (Germany has 12 weeks max, and mandatory counselling is required beforehand). But I don't see why we can't talk about boys falling behind in educatio…
/r/PurplePillDebate19/08/25 10:38 AM
11

it does give it a weird "self-hating" bent. Absolutely. It's a form of Internalized Misandry. Men believing that their own sexuality is polluting and ruinous. I don't doubt that it may arise from intrasexual competition or men's own preferences. Evolutionary psychology isn't necessarily flattering or ego-stroking. Sometimes it doesn't say very nice things.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/08/25 05:07 AM
4

My new reddit name will be "penis-as-defiler." Thankyou. I'm honored to have been an inspiration! I can understand wanting a partner who is faithful and not a lying cheat. That is not a gendered want, even. It can be a gendered want when females have parental certainty (evolutionarily speaking) but males do not. This is further exacerbated by the fact that males stand to lose more in the event of relationship dissolution than females, so both evolutionary psychology and economic incentives opera…
/r/PurplePillDebate19/08/25 03:45 AM
57

As a man, yes, I find the "penis-as-defiler" notion to be very misandrist. That said, whilst I oppose slut-shaming, there are other reasons a man may be averse to promiscuity-in-women other than believing that she's been "defiled" by other men's penises. Firstly, a record of promiscuity MIGHT be indicative of an underlying predisposition towards infidelity (so it isn't the promiscuity itself that is the problem, but rather an underlying character trait that both increases the propensity towards …
/r/PurplePillDebate19/08/25 02:05 AM
2

So when women marry unattractive men they are demonized as AFBB predators taking advantage of these poor men but men who do so are altruistic and admirable? Considering how income/resources tend to flow in the typical Western heterosexual marriage (i.e. from the male to the female), that isn't an indefensible proposition in the abstract (individual cases may vary, sure).
/r/PurplePillDebate19/08/25 01:51 AM
1

I don't quite understand the constant "XYZ is a negative!" here. Because the goal is to try and prove, objectively, that "women always have it worse, and men are to blame" (or vice-versa for the gender-flip). It is all about securing and reinforcing the moral high ground that comes with being a member of a "victim class" that is victimized by a "victimizer class."
/r/PurplePillDebate14/08/25 07:21 AM
10

So, your argument against "Chad" existing is that RPers from white North-American backgrounds are imagining him as a popular white middle-to-upper-class high-school jock? I mean... yes, of course people are going to interpret an archetype in part through the lens of their own experiences. What do you expect them to do? Why does Chad not being real matter? Because with the idealized image of Chad, many men have given themselves an impossible standard to compete with, and then get collectively ups…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/08/25 05:50 AM
0

Was that my argument? Did I say that? No, I'm merely trying to explain why feminists are on the receiving end of such negative generalizations. You can't, for example, dismiss the experiences Dr Warren Farrell had when he started speaking out on men's issues and how the feminist movement (of which he was a leading light for many years) treated him. There are very large numbers of anti-traditionalist/non-traditionalist men that have been alienated from and turned against the feminist movement, by…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/08/25 05:27 AM
2

Women can work, but less likely to be in higher ranks They're also less likely to be in the more dangerous and dirty jobs. They're also more likely to have superior work-life balance. Additionally, I don't know how much you actually know about corporate governance, but the role of a CEO or many other high executive positions is one with a lot of pressure and responsibility, and this pressure and responsibility imposes costs on the person in the role. It is under no circumstances irrational to pr…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/08/25 03:30 AM
-1

Your citation of the Feminist Majority Foundation is a good one, but at the same time, there are some feminist researchers who still insist that a man whom is "made to penetrate" is not a rape victim (Mary Koss being the big example). I read the HuffPost article but one thing remains ambiguous - does the new, expanded understanding of rape include "made to penetrate"? If so, good on the Feminist Majority Foundation for its work on the subject. Another example RBG RBG's form of feminism was stric…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/08/25 03:20 AM
7

I do enjoy the hypocrisy of the extreme feminists TERF war. I enjoy it too, but for different reasons, and I don't think the TERFs are hypocrites. TERFs are anti-male and define their oppressor-oppressed analysis on the basis of biological sex. Ergo, transwomen, since they do not literally change sex (its called a "gender transition," not a "sex change" for this precise reason), remain male and therefore remain enemies of the TERFs according to their own ideology. That isn't hypocritical. What I…
/r/MensRights14/08/25 02:51 AM
8

Not just single mothers. Most mothers, even married ones, will push some gynocentric attitudes onto their sons, even if just unintentionally or due to self-interested bias.
/r/MensRights14/08/25 12:05 AM
5

They don't "always" choose "the wrong guy." Women sometimes end up bedding abusers and sociopaths and narcissists. This is usually because 'dark triad' guys are good mimics, women aren't telepaths, and women are just as easily susceptible to thinking with their genitals as men are. It happens to men, too. Men need to be regularly reminded to Not Stick Your Dick In Crazy.
/r/MensRights13/08/25 06:15 AM
7

Because a lot of these complaints are motivated by self-interest - the tacit assumption is the complainer is the "right man." To be fair, the complainer may indeed by substantially more pro-social than the typically highly-sexually-successful male.
/r/MensRights13/08/25 06:11 AM
34

whoever was the stereotypically pretty and feminine women at the LARP was always getting open hostility from other women, but not necessarily from guys. "Intrasexual competition" is the term for this.
/r/MensRights13/08/25 05:14 AM
4

Maybe its just my circles but the kind of man you describe - a socially conservative man trying to re-enact a politicized version of The Taming of the Shrew - is something I have only encountered in the fever-dreams of leftist women (google "Meg Lanker-Symons" and what she posted in her own act of digital self-harm for some evidence). I have never encountered ANY man on the conservative right who deliberately dates liberal women in an attempt to turn them into social conservatives or Christian c…
/r/PurplePillDebate13/08/25 03:34 AM
99

Movember has been hijacked by feminists so there's no point in giving it any credibility any more. And again, they only did this when men retaliated against Tea. Not a peep when a doxxing app designed for women to use against men was first released!
/r/MensRights13/08/25 03:08 AM

if they want to date us, they better give a damn about our rights or we won't date them. It is so very, very easy to fake your politics enough to get one date that ends in sex (so long as a man is hot enough).
/r/PurplePillDebate12/08/25 11:34 AM

So, "the goose pill" is now a thing? Does it come with foie gras?
/r/PurplePillDebate12/08/25 11:31 AM
4

and if that does happen we have a problem, It will happen. You'd have to, and I mean this with all due respect, be exceedingly naive to think that it won't, especially given the well-documented institutional capture of the British state by feminist ideologues. fantasizing about made up scenarios to get outraged over... You mean what Adolescence actually does? That film was government-funded and intended quite clearly to push a "white males are the problem" narrative... yet it was based on a crim…
/r/MensRights10/08/25 10:53 PM
20

Prevent is a gender neutral policy, But in practice, what is clearly going to happen is that basic, nonviolent MRA views will become tarred with the brush of "dangerous radicalism." You and I know the difference between a normal MRA viewpoint and actual violent radicalism. Do you think any of the UK's middle-to-upper-class brainwashed-in-leftist-universities civil servants and social workers would even acknowledge such a distinction exists? No, what is going to happen is that any man who says "U…
/r/MensRights10/08/25 12:22 PM
55

this was not a movie but a government-manufactured excuse to push certain policies and attitudes onto boys. It was also meant to serve as a distraction from a certain racialized mass rape scandal and some other contemporaneous, high profile criminal acts committed by members of specific ethnic minorities. Adolescence was government propaganda intended to push a narrative that (basically) "white males are the problem" and distract people's attention from specific instances that disconfirmed that …
/r/MensRights10/08/25 12:13 PM
3

Statistically there’s somebody out there for you. Do you have a citation of those statistics? Because remember a lot of people on PPD are weirdo, 'spergy and the like, and statistically speaking there is not someone out there who is "perfect for them." Reddit doesn't select for normies.
/r/PurplePillDebate10/08/25 05:35 AM
3

By "cheating" I presume we're talking about a situation where both parties agreed to a monogamous committed relationship, and she cheated on him. In that situation, the relationship must be dissolved and there must be absolutely zero forgiveness. This standard is applied bilaterally. If you cheat on someone you agreed to monogamy with, the relationship must end, and the transgression is frankly unforgivable. If you cannot practice monogamy, be a fucking adult and don't offer it in the first plac…
/r/PurplePillDebate10/08/25 04:13 AM
3

How does that even work now adays when so many men and women don't want children? Evolved desires/instincts don't just go away when they're no longer necessary. They're sticky. They linger inside our lizard brains. This is true of both sexes. It's why the average opposite-sex-attracted women still wants Tall, Dark, Rich and Handsome (emphasis on the "Tall") despite the fact she can protect herself with a firearm and make her own money.
/r/PurplePillDebate10/08/25 12:12 AM
2

Baldur's Gate 3, Mass Effect, God of War are all popular AAA titles/series with women. True, although they are the exceptions to the rule. What is the basis for saying marketing has failed, those games are pretty successful titles? I am saying that the gaming industry has, for a long time, been subject to a shift towards "diversity and representation" (aka SJWism, PC, "the message," etc). One of the arguments for this practice is that it would increase the number of female gamers. That did not h…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/08/25 02:57 AM
2

Definitely working on plenty of women or they would stop doing it... Your error is in aggregating "gaming." There's no single gaming market. Traditional gaming - the type with extended and obsessive consumption of AAA games on consoles and PCs - that's a male dominated market. And trying to make it appealing to women or "modern audiences" has consistently failed. Especially on mobile, there's tons of games marketed towards women where women are the majority of the revenue. This is true, but it i…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/08/25 02:27 AM

And your mad cause your not getting used by women for sex? The average man doesn't consider a woman having sex with him casually to be a "loss" or "exploitation" of him. So in brief, they don't "get used" (or, to be more accurate, don't feel exploited). Even in explicitly transactional sex - where both parties "use" each other in the most techical sense of the phrase - the typical man experiences sufficient subjective benefit from the sex that they don't usually feel exploited. Certain circumsta…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/08/25 03:53 AM
6

Whats wrong with these men? In Harry's case, he was deeply traumatized by his mother's death (honestly I feel very sorry for him). Markle allegedly exploited this by studying Diana's mannerisms and wearing Diana's perfume. This made him fall in love with her. But in general, the issue is male thirst and benevolent sexism/chivalry. Combined with the fact that an all-male group (or hobby, or pasttime) that isn't full of Chads or doesn't benefit women is often seen as an embarrassing, low-status th…
/r/MensRights07/08/25 02:04 AM
1

why does benevolent sexism sound like these guys are treating women normally with respect When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. In addition, there are multiple studies that make it clear - withholding benevolent sexism from women is commonly perceived as hostile sexism. Thank you for confirming those findings. I have no idea what makes you think women aren't already responsible. There are, again, verifiable studies showing which sex benefits more from government pr…
/r/PurplePillDebate06/08/25 11:02 PM
1

Citation, please.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/08/25 10:53 PM
2

Just remove the apps and talk publicly how they are feeding delusional female fantasies being with rich, attractive men. Delusional female fantasies long predate those apps. That's the point. The fairy tales we've told children for the past several centuries help reinforce those delulu female fantasies for fuck's sake. The dating apps are not the problem.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/08/25 10:51 PM
1

Exactly. And that's bad for Billy.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/08/25 10:50 PM
1

I think you're mistaken to assume that women didn't feel different about their husbands before the current dating landscape came about - and you're speaking in absolutes. Obviously, there were beta provider/cleanup crew husbands in the past - but it's not unreasonable to suspect that access to media, social media, and dating apps literally makes women feel differently about only somewhat above-average men than they used to. You can see this as just showing their true nature - but environment doe…
/r/PurplePillDebate06/08/25 08:58 AM
3

Genuine romantic love - the combination of "I like you" + "I really want to have sex with you" - is in fact very rare. Remember that through most of history, most marriages were arranged. Many famous love stories from the past, such as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet - are often interpreted as cautionary tales against romantic love in the light of that. The current western norm of romantic serial monogamy is historically quite recent - it is for the most part the invention of the World War 2 gene…
/r/PurplePillDebate06/08/25 05:53 AM
-1

Even a lot of average men get "settled for" by women who don't have true romantic love for them (i.e. the combination of a high degree of like + raw primal lust). That is exploitative to them, infantilizing and unsatisfying for the woman, and inherently unstable for the children.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/08/25 05:35 AM
17

Hard disagree. For one, forced monogamy means inherently unsatisfying marriages. All you'll be doing is giving Billy Beta a resentful wife who knows she settled and knows she "made a prudent, responsible choice" and will take it out on him and possibly divorce him and take the children. He'll have massive responsibilities to her, and she'll reciprocate with begrudging starfishing once a month if he's lucky. He'd be better off single. Additionally, huge numbers of "no hope/loser" men historically…
/r/PurplePillDebate06/08/25 05:25 AM
4

Honestly many women don't feel close to each other conceptually also. I don't doubt that. The Sisterhood is very fractious and constantly undermined by intrasexual competition. All I'm saying is that the Brotherhood is even less stable. And some men feel (at least seem) very tied to their gender and to their fellow men. Those men you notice are probably the ones that are not social outcasts.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/08/25 03:50 AM
3

Society functions best when people do more of what they are better at. And individuals vary in abilities. Let's say that most men are better at most traditional stuff. In that case, then they will naturally skew towards performing traditional roles without complex societal systems of shame, coercion, ostracism, etc. But society absolutely has complex social systems intended to punish men who defect from traditional roles. Even if, if it were true that most men just naturally skewed trad, these c…
/r/MensRights06/08/25 03:33 AM
14

This is why PBS is getting defunded. And good. Feminist lobby groups should not be getting state-subsidized agitprop.
/r/MensRights06/08/25 03:28 AM
3

Men's Human Rights Activist.
/r/MensRights05/08/25 10:40 PM
-3

Should you only support gay rights if it benefits you? As a bisexual, yes, I would argue that it is in the interests of heterosexuals to support the rights of sexual minorities. Sexual liberation benefits straight people, getting the government out of the bedroom benefits everyone's civil liberties (including straight people into BDSM etc), and since straight people often have sexual minority family members, the interests of your family members are part of your own interests. I'm against religio…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/25 05:41 AM
3

I was absolutely going to make a thread like this, albeit as a debate. Some women absolutely feel truly entitled to men's altruism (i.e. prosocial conduct that benefits them at the expense of the man providing the conduct.. or at least without the man experiencing or hoping for any consequential benefit from the conduct). I'm currently having a discussion in another thread where the abortion question comes up. And again, far too many women are just hostile in principle to providing a reason to m…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/25 05:08 AM
-6

I've only heard the belief that people who are part of systems of oppression and inequality without fighting them are racist, Nazi, etc. That's the same thing with an extra step. "Silence is violence! Silence is complicity!" These were not marginal slogans.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/25 04:52 AM
34

So... "bros before hoes" but taken seriously? I like it!
/r/MensRights05/08/25 04:37 AM
1

I can’t control what you assume my feelings are. I'm not making assumptions. I'm looking at your choices and their inconsistency with your claims. If someone says "if policy X is implemented by this government, it will impose massive costs on me" then I will expect that someone to take some real action to either insulate themselves from the impact of policy X and/or avoid policy X's implementation in the first place. Since voting is not an effective way for an individual to effect political chan…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/25 03:48 AM
7

As a 'sperg (with a big forehead and a very formal relationship with my last living immediate family member AND an history of autism in the family, including a severely autistic uncle and an almost-certainly 'sperg father, AND a big history of being bullied in school), that all hurts but its true. Autism Spectrum Disorders are also greatly overrepresented in the pill-o-sphere (unsurprisingly) and I'm sure the MHRM has overrepresentation of ASD men too. Unsurprising - men who can't be Chad are mo…
/r/MensRights05/08/25 02:40 AM
6

The dictionary definition of "feminism" no longer describes the nature of the official "feminist" movement. I'm a Dictionary Definition Feminist. That's why I'm an MHRA.
/r/MensRights05/08/25 02:04 AM
1

Call it Toxic Sex Mandates or Toxic Sex Stereotypes if you want (has the benefits of applying to both Toxic Masculinity and Toxic Femininity, too). I actually do think there's a valid place for some Toxic Masculinity discourse, however... It must also be paired with Toxic Femininity discourse, and... A recurrent problem with Toxic Masculinity discourse is that when it is controlled by women, it becomes another form of nagging and demanding men change for the sake of women. The original definitio…
/r/MensRights05/08/25 02:00 AM
2

"Emotional Intelligence" exists only to pretend that having the right feels/glandular excretions at the right time is somehow just as valuable as the rational faculty... you know, the thing that enables all of humanity's technological development and engineering growth and the consequent raise in the standard of living. It is useful in certain contexts. But it doesn't have nearly the same ability to objectively improve human living standards as actual intelligence. This culture really overvalues…
/r/MensRights05/08/25 01:52 AM
1

I can’t do everything myself. I never suggested otherwise. Of course you can't do everything yourself. Everyone has limited resources. The things I believe are the most important and uniquely on me to do, are what I put effort into. That's precisely the point I am making. What you spend actual effort on illustrates what your actual values are. What you say gives us your declared preferences, but the effort allocation decisions you make give us your demonstrated preferences. You speak about the a…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/25 01:46 AM
2

Sure, I'm not saying you should do unpaid work in the field of political organizing. That said, "I'll just vote" is not actually very effective. The chance of an individual vote being decisive in an election is itself extremely small. On top of that, because we elect representatives to legislate on our behalf, there's a messy process of compromise alongside the reality that we elect representatives on the basis of packages of political positions rather than individual positions. The result? Just…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/25 01:07 AM
1

Clearly. But getting political change that you want to happen, in a society where politicians are popularly elected, requires that you engage in the messy work of doing so.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/25 12:47 AM
7

A big error by feminist women is the belief that abortion restrictions are something "men" do to further their own sex-based interest in control over women's bodies. This theory ignores pro-choice males, pro-life females, and it absolutely glosses over the role that religious dogma surrounding conception plays in the debate. The kind of people who come up with religious dogmas may typically be male, but they are not normal males, and not hegemonically masculine males. It also ignores the well-do…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/25 12:45 AM
0

Yes men are the real victims of abortion bans. 🙄 Men can certainly be victims of abortion bans. Particularly like those that the Bible Belt are trying to enact, which combine draconian restrictions with mandates for child support from conception. The victims, however? Obviously they are not primary victims. They are, however, secondary victims. In addition, after Hillary's statement that "women have always been the primary victims of war" you're in no position to complain about men pointing out …
/r/PurplePillDebate05/08/25 12:22 AM
2

Men need to destroy the stigma Why is the onus on men? It turns out that, just like men, women tend to value themselves and each other on the basis of the members of the opposite sex that they can get devotion/dedication/sex from. This is one of the reasons women slut-shame - they see a woman who "gives it away too easily" as "devaluing herself" or as evidencing she is of low value. Why aren't you pressuring women to stop this? Why is it men who have to change? Why aren't you telling the Pussy C…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/08/25 11:58 PM
3

"Alpha Fucks" and "Beta Bucks" respectively. Or in gentler rhetoric, "a man whom is hot and sexy" and "a man who will be caring, supportive and generous towards me." The perfect man, from the perspective of the vast majority of women, provides both of these things. However, in a situation where a woman can't secure a relationship with a man who provides both of these things, she will be tempted to source these different things from different men. I think poly absolutely can work for some people.…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/08/25 10:26 PM
13

Your description of “having a personality” has a real autistic bent to it quite frankly, and I’m saying this as someone who is neurodivergent themselves. Agreed. OP is basically a nerdy dude talking about nerdy dude hobbies and pretending that ALL men are like this. Nerd-normativity is a big error. I agree with OP that "basic Becky" is intolerable to be around. But so is the male equivalent. There are mind-numbingly-awful normies of both sexes. If the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis is true,…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/08/25 10:19 PM
3

Some people can, but those naturally inclined towards polyamory are very much the minority, and unfortunately there are some normie-in-denial women who pretend to be poly just as a way to get both AF and BB from two different guys without outright cheating.
/r/PurplePillDebate03/08/25 10:08 PM
1

It absolutely makes sense. By the same token, male/male BDSM has a different cultural flavor to heterosexual BDSM. a lot of self-describing dominant women, at least in the kinky corners of reddit, are strongly critical and disapproving of what I just described, and tend to think most submissive men are just "wrong". This is just the typical gynonormativity ("the female-typical way of doing X is the correct/right/natural/healthy way, the male-typical way of doing X is maladaptive/wrong/unhealthy/…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/08/25 12:23 AM
2

You just love tangents and word salads no? Again, you're just proving you're engaging in bad faith. OP is saying society expects men to be altruistic. Oh poor men they have to be altruistic. Everyone is pressured to be altruistic. "Everyone is pressured to be altruistic" does not contradict "men are pressured to be altruistic." "Men are pressured to be altruistic" does not imply "traditional gender roles didn't pressure women to be altruistic." Jesus talked to everyone, not just men. There are l…
/r/PurplePillDebate30/07/25 01:30 AM
2

OP says All of the positive qualities chosen for that version of healthy masculinity follow the same pattern: Sacrifice yourself for others for nothing This is false, we are all told to sacrifice ourselves for others We are all told to sacrifice ourselves for others. But that doesn't imply it is incorrect to suggest that society's ideal of prosocial masculinity isn't altruistic. It is altruistic. So is society's ideal of prosocial femininity, just in different ways. The argument that masculine i…
/r/PurplePillDebate29/07/25 11:30 PM
1

The point is that we are all taught Jesus's teachings Yes, and they're wrong for everyone. But because Yeshua of Nazareth was male, and because his religion was so influential on society, he became an archetype of masculinity. Christianity, at least in its Catholic variant, has a similar archetype for femininity - Mary. Another self-sacrificial archetype too, albeit in a different way. not just poor victim men If you can't even contemplate the idea that men may be a victim of a socially-prevalen…
/r/PurplePillDebate29/07/25 03:02 AM
1

Women are not actually wanting to feel safe and protected? It's just for the aesthetics of their partner? The aesthetics generate that feeling due to lizard-brain evolution. There is study after study showing that, in all animals (humans included), aesthetic-features-that-are-sexually-desired are connected to evolutionary benefits. In the world of a sexually reproducing species that has been shaped by evolution, it's never "just aesthetics."
/r/PurplePillDebate29/07/25 02:33 AM
1

Do you think Jesus preached toxic traits? I can only speak for myself, but absolutely yes. Jesus was a shit ethicist and a shit philosopher in general. He is our society's ideal of 'pro-social' masculinity... i.e. masochistic altruism and dying for others. No, I'm not going to die for you or anyone else. You are not owed my life. You do not deserve my death for your sake. I am not a sacrificial lamb or a scapegoat.
/r/PurplePillDebate29/07/25 02:17 AM
5

I feel like there’s a narrative that therapists are all left wing psychos. I had a good therapist (I went to specialist neurodiversity therapy) but she was clearly a feminist on the political left (she used the word "patriarchy" unironically). And whilst my own therapist was very much an exception, left wing feminists have a not-unjustified reputation for having a complete lack of empathy towards men's suffering. The narrative is not unjustified, especially when hard-left ideological dogma with …
/r/PurplePillDebate29/07/25 02:11 AM
3

I'd partially agree with you. Although the specific feminism responsible for doing this is Carol Gilligan's "Cultural Feminism" (which is basically "Sugar Spice and Everything Nice" but given a feminist reinvention that essentially demands more female privilege for women, more pampering/princessing, and demands that all social spaces become gynocentric/ran on feminine norms). Although I don't think it's fair to say men just "naturally" prefer to conform to large amounts of male gender norms. The…
/r/PurplePillDebate29/07/25 01:50 AM
1

Google the literature on the "Gender Equality Paradox." Most of it is based on Scandinavian societies. As for the BDSM environment, everyone is allowed whatever they want of course, but informal studies mostly done by FetLife (or on FetLife data) suggest that the average female BDSM participant is more inclined towards subbing than the average male BDSM participant (as a statistical aggregate... the male average is close to 50/50 switch and the female average is about 70% sub). That, however, is…
/r/PurplePillDebate29/07/25 01:43 AM
2

My argument applies to both sexes in equal force. Are you familiar with the literature surrounding the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis? That literature actually provides some empirical evidence that your argument applies less to women than men. Just because a group of people like the same thing does not mean they all have the same motivation for that interest. Sure. I'm not denying individual diversity exists. Of course it exists. I'm just saying that at population level there's a clear prep…
/r/PurplePillDebate28/07/25 12:49 AM
2

our likes/dislikes, preferences, interests, hobbies, personalities, etc. are influenced by numerous genetic and environmental factors. Of course. In science and medicine, "normal" is often not a binary. "Normal" is usually a range. Correct, but there are those within the "normal" part of the range and those that are outliers. Sure, you can pick your "number of standard deviations" but the statistical reality is that there are people in the normal region and people outside of that region. Further…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/07/25 06:55 AM
1

There are no women IRL I know that prefer men with pimples. OP said "skincare routine" specifically. He wasn't alleging that women prefer men with pimples. Here's what I think OP was trying to get at: women want naturals. A man who NEEDS to do an elaborate skincare routine to look acceptable is not a natural. This is why the skincare routine is a turnoff - she wants a man with naturally good skin. Not to mention, if he spends all that money on his skincare products, it means less money for her. …
/r/PurplePillDebate27/07/25 06:42 AM
5

Women are not monoliths. Of course they aren't, but bell curves apply to the female sex too. No one denies the existence of normal/typical traits for males. Turns out that women are humans too and thus there is also a female normal/typical. Women's preferences in mates are not randomly distributed. In addition, there's substantial evidence (admittedly not proof, but evidence) that females have tighter bell curves than males. Ergo, males are more likely to be outliers (although outliers are still…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/07/25 05:30 AM
4

In the South, if a guy does not follow sports and cannot talk about them in some capacity, many people are going to think something's wrong with him. Including women. And it has to be those basic "all-American sports" like NFL football, basketball, or baseball. It's just such a core part of how men are expected to bond and relate with one another here that you're kind of on the margins if you don't. Australia has a similar problem, albeit with a different set of sports. Basically, a set of "acce…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/07/25 05:17 AM
1

Don't socialize with women-you-don't-already-know unless the entire interaction is recorded. This is especially true in any romantic context, or in any professional context, or basically any context in which she can become a feminist heroine by making a false allegation (so basically the entire Anglosphere that isn't explicitly a right-wing political event or conference). In addition, remove all SJW women (except perhaps those you're related to) from your life simply as an additional precaution.…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/07/25 04:09 AM
21

No, because I'm an unathletic 'sperg and I've been obviously weird all my life. The bullying literally started in Grade 1. I remember the name of the bully and the insults they directed towards me. Most "male privilege" is "gender-mandate-compliant-male privilege" or "chad privilege." Yes, by the same token, quite a bit of "female privilege" is actually "attractive woman privilege." That said, I do believe that the proportion of "male privilege" that is contingent upon sex-role-conformity and at…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/07/25 04:50 AM
1

You're basically right, although I'd argue that both sexes behave eugenically if they're allowed to order their romantic lives on the basis of what-makes-their-bits-tickle. Women are more selective than men, but the blunt reality is both sexes have appearance preferences that are, technically, eugenicist. The difference is degree, not principle. Also, women's eugenicism is given more social enablement/sympathy/acceptance whereas men get called pigs for having Preferences That Women Don't Like. I…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/07/25 04:44 AM
3

We need to simpshame men. Agreed. Simping is (genuinely) Toxic Masculinity.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/07/25 12:52 AM
1

Perhaps but we can’t be certain without concrete evidence. The APA's infamous "toxic masculinity" therapy guidelines, plus the growing preponderance of female therapists in the field and academy, plus the attempts to erase Borderline Personality Disorder from existence are certainly some evidence (if not absolute proof).
/r/PurplePillDebate18/07/25 09:21 AM
2

The problem, however, is that this kind of Toxic-Femininity-enabling-therapist is arguably the product of a growing cultural shift within the Psychology discipline at large... and that means more therapists will become this way and provide this kind of therapy. The issue OP alludes to is/is becoming systemic and entrenched.
/r/PurplePillDebate18/07/25 09:12 AM
-1

I believe there are directive types of therapies that use certain methods to better help with this process like CBT and DBT. Correct, and both CBT and DBT actually have stronger track records than other forms of talk therapy (and DBT in particular is good for Borderline Personality Disorder... or in short, it treats Toxic Femininity). But there are plenty of therapists who aren't doing anything serious or rigorous when it comes to actual mental health when it comes to female clients. And that's …
/r/PurplePillDebate18/07/25 09:04 AM
1

Good therapists know how to ask the right questions to get you to work through complex emotions you otherwise push down. They're tools to help you figure things out on your own without telling you what to think. Unfortunately, not all therapists are like this. I do think the OP is painting with an excessively broad brush, but you're kind of conceding the valid aspect of OP's point. Today, in the modern western world (perhaps most acutely the US), a lot of therapists are basically enabling and va…
/r/PurplePillDebate18/07/25 09:01 AM

No one says every child has an infallible sense of their gender. There are literally people who make this argument to defend childhood gender-affirmative care. It’s just that sex is biological reality and gender is how you think about and perform sex socially. Yes, I'm aware of the sex/gender distinction and often rely upon it. You’re making up a lot of stuff to get mad at. Look, I've been part of these debates for a long time and I've actually read a lot of the relevant sexology research. I am …
/r/PurplePillDebate18/07/25 12:08 AM
4

I'm not asking you to answer for them or anything though, just pointing that out. Sure. I'm glad we agree there. is it not a delusion to have a warped sense of your physical body to the point where you need surgery to "align" with what you see yourself as in your head? I don't understand how it's different from someone with anorexia who sees themself as overweight in their head or someone with body dysmorphia. I think we both agree Anorexia Nervosa, Body Dysmorphia and Gender Dysphoria all count…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/07/25 11:44 AM
3

I don't see how gender dysphoria couldn't be considered a mental illness. Gender Dysphoria is a mental illness. It's in the DSM-V. No one is saying that it isn't a mental illness (or at least I'm not). What I am saying is that it isn't "just delulu." It's not mentally healthy to be extremely distressed about your natural body and by people calling you a certain thing to the point where you consider harming yourself. By that standard, every form of aesthetic surgery is mental illness. And yes, bo…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/07/25 09:12 AM
1

Feeling no regrets doesn't mean there's no harm, especially when he had medical treatments and these medical treatments have a measurable opportunity cost in terms of money and time and effort. Again, some detransitioners (not your friend) have had double mastectomies and ended up regretting it. That is objective harm and economic cost (its economically a "digging and filling ditches" thing - a lot of time and effort and resources, all of which had alternative uses, are spent on something fundam…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/07/25 08:26 AM
0

I have a good friend who detransitioned, he didn't harm others on his path so you are not making any sense with that comment. But he was harmed by transitioning. I didn't say he harmed anyone else. I'm saying he was a victim here. Also, sexual predators do not pretend to be trans, that is a classic fairy tale told by straight people afraid of trans people. I'm not straight, I'm not afraid of trans people, and there are literally documented instances of people who call themselves trans and have b…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/07/25 08:14 AM
2

How wrong does a belief have to be before it is mentally unhealthy? People across all of life have tons of factually inaccurate beliefs, including some that are very dear to them and that they structure their own lives around. Let's look at religion. If you're personally religious you presumably believe only one religion is correct. If you're not religious you're skeptical of even one religion being correct. When does a religion become a mental illness? There are tons of factually wrong or irrat…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/07/25 08:07 AM
-1

Being trans isn't harming others so let trans people be. I basically agree, but whilst any person simply being trans isn't harming anyone, some aspects of what is commonly called "trans activism" ARE causing some harms. For example, allowing people to self-ID into the opposite sex's spaces does make things easier for certain predators to opportunistically take advantage of accommodations for trans people in order to access victims. This doesn't mean there shouldn't be any accommodations at all, …
/r/PurplePillDebate17/07/25 07:59 AM
6

People with body integrity disorder might be happy after cutting off their hand, but they’re still severely mentally ill. I have some sympathies for your position, but there's a flaw in your argument. "Mental illness" refers to a lot of different things. It isn't a synonym for "deluded" or "insane" ("insane" for one is a legal concept, not a psychological one). In addition, there are very substantial questions about how objective mental health diagnoses are. "Mental illness" doesn't equate to "b…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/07/25 07:25 AM
3

gender theory is controversial because it is a frontal attack on the nuclear family and conservatism generally Not necessarily. If you see transwomen and transmen basically as people with a neurologically-based intersex condition, they can be fully incorporated into the nuclear family (just like a child with any other intersex/DSD condition). Many of them won't be able to have kids themselves, but infertility has always existed in conventional nuclear families. Not to mention, it can be argued t…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/07/25 07:07 AM
2

Why does biology existing have anything to do with trans people? Trans identities are in the brain The brain is a biological organ. As such, biology is very critical in any scientific attempt to explain why some people reject identification with their biological sex (defined by gametes). The two leading theories to explain this (the gender identity theory and the Blanchardian theory) both root transgender identification in the brain. Basically they're neuroatypicalities. But there is debate betw…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/07/25 06:59 AM
1

By "gender theory" I guess you mean "gender identity ideology" right? The idea that everyone has an innate "gender" that may be entirely different from one's sex and pretty much everyone including children at very young ages has an essentially infallible knowledge of? And that this "gender" has no relationship to sexual orientation? If so, I am greatly skeptical of it. I think "gender identity" can be entirely removed from our model of sexology, whilst still being accommodating of transgender pe…
/r/PurplePillDebate17/07/25 06:45 AM
19

'Sperg males are a target of particular hate from feminists. The bad blood goes way back, to Elevatorgate/Atheism Plus at the latest. But it likely goes back earlier than that. I try not to rely on biologizing any more than necessary, but at this point I am utterly convinced that ultimately women experience an intense instinctual "ick" towards 'sperg men, and this is what drives their onslaughts against nerd culture. They colonize it but truly hate the natives and want us out.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates16/07/25 11:53 PM
3

Because society is becoming increasingly gender-mixed, even restrooms are going non-gendered. Are they really? I think multiple psychologists (not entirely sure about the social psych literature though) have discussed a phenomenon that mixed spaces become, de facto, women's spaces/gynocentric/gynonormative. The reason for this is the (well documented in the literature) fact men have an out-group bias towards women and will compete with each other to appease women. Consequently, an all-male space…
/r/PurplePillDebate16/07/25 08:46 PM

Your particular parish may have been bad with the theology/catechization etc, but from what I know, the RCC says that unprocreative (including contracepted and anal) sex between a married opposite-sex couple is a violation of natural law and therefore a very big sin.
/r/PurplePillDebate16/07/25 01:02 PM

You think it’s emotive and irrational to say a conscience is what makes it feel bad to hurt and feel good to nurture? Because I don’t see what’s so emotive about it, it’s just a neutral fact. Motte-and-Bailey. Combined with continuing to skirt the argument. As I previously said, the statement that warm-fuzzy-feels exist and doing-good-gives-you-those-feels is indeed a psychological proposition. But, just like the British Moral Sentimentalists, you're implicitly treating that as the root of all m…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 10:59 PM

I'm not talking about not-wanting-to-fuck-me. I've literally told you, time and time again, that I agree no one is entitled to sex. I'm suspicious that you simply aren't interested in a good faith discussion.
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 10:52 PM
0

So in other words you have no actual evidence he wants to kill the autistic or practice eugenics on them. Typical.
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 10:50 PM

And you sound like you're being deliberately emotivist and irrationalist. Not to mention, your theory is neurotypical-normative and reduces morality down to a certain kind of neuro-emotional functioning. I have Asperger's Syndrome so my empathy is cognitive, rather than instinctual. Your moral belief system basically says I'm inherently evil because of something in my brain.
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 12:44 PM

What ethical philosophy rejects the notion that doing kind things feels good for people who like to be kind? You're slightly misrepresenting my argument (accidentally, I'm sure). The proposition that "doing good feels good" is actually not an ethical statement but rather a psychological statement that can be falsified. The idea that an innate "good feels good" mechanism is the root of human morality is the Moral Sentimentalism of Smith and Hume. All egoists (Plato, Aristotle, Stirner, Rand) reje…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 12:31 PM

Women like genuinely nice guys Yes, because genuinely spontaneous benevolence (prosocial investment) is a credible signal of both being able to make such investments and being inherently inclined to do it, thus meaning it is in at least some of your interests to be in a relationship with that kind of person. I have no idea why so many people are basically allergic to admit to egoistic behavior in dating. We all do it. Both men and women.
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 12:20 PM

Erm, no? That's absolutely not what I want and I'm not vilifying anyone. A reality of human nature is most people have appearance-based attractions. That is not a moral judgment, it is a positive statement about a facet of reality with some sad consequences. Frankly, the only way you can interpret me as "wanting women to be less shallow than men and are vilifying them for it" is reading what I wrote in exceptionally bad faith.
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 12:13 PM

Pro-social behavior is a reward in and of itself for someone that is actually a nice person. That is an exceptionally controversial statement in the field of ethics, and most ethical philosophies outright reject it. the only people who don’t naturally ENJOY being nice and helping others are people who lack natural empathy. They’re not “nice people”. They’re not evil or inherently mean, but they don’t have a built in conscience that makes being nice to others feel good inherently. I disagree enti…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 12:11 PM

Most people are courteous to people who are nice to them. Yes. Because of a cultural norm and/or innate moral foundation based on reciprocity. You don’t owe friendship or intimacy to a stranger who chooses to be nice. Agreed. Merely civil treatment isn’t what these guys expect. Sure, you can find some manosphere denizens who want government subsidized real-life girlfriends. Most do not, myself included. What the vast majority want is just some basic sympathy for their plight, to not be treated b…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 12:07 PM

Duh but attraction isn’t hard. For most men, they find it easier to be attracted to any random woman than vice-versa. Attraction is hard(er) for men to trigger in women. I’ve dated fat girls and thin girls and brown girls and white girls and Asian girls and there’s something to like about just about any body, as long as you like the mind inside it. Would you describe yourself as demisexual or sapiosexual? Because actual demisexuality/sapiosexuality is rare. Much rarer than some people like to th…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 12:00 PM

If your behavior changes just because someone won’t fuck you, you’re probably not a super kind person. Prosocial behavior is an investment. If you want continued prosocial behavior, you need to reward it (i.e. make it pay off). Societies have complex codes of norms precisely to do this. And no, I'm not saying nice guys (or nice girls, for that matter) are owed sex.
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 11:54 AM

But luckily there are millions of men and women who aren’t shallow, as well. Ie - I’ve known my current partner for over 25 years, and because I find their thought process and morality EXTREMELY engaging, I feel like I fall in love when them in new ways to this very day. It would be HIGHLY unlikely for you to not be sexually attracted to your partner, though. In addition, it would be HIGHLY unlikely for your attraction to not be based, in substantial part, on looks. But the key is to make sure t…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 11:53 AM

But if you think someone is shallow, I don’t know why you’d want to date them. Because most men are shallow and know that and have made peace with that. And in the SMV (not the RMV), they absolutely want something 'shallow' and they're okay with that. And they're learning that women, too, are also shallow (in the SMV) like men are. This is a good thing. It is assisting the de-pedastalization of women, and in a way it is a victory for the Gender Similarities Hypothesis. Now if by "dating" you mea…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 11:43 AM
25

Yes. Markets determine your value (via the agglomeration of subjective preferences). Your SMV is the best (by your standards) that you can get. Now let's apply your same logic to women complaining about their Relationship Market Value. Because, no, it isn't different. Lots of articles and social media artefacts are full of women essentially lamenting that they are not worthy of a committed relationship from the kind of man they will accept. Are they also deluded? Or are the men who turn them dow…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 11:35 AM
1

I merely speculated about what a particular TRP man might want. It should also be pointed out that, whilst I am no fan of the "oldest teenager in the house" thing (it is genuinely sexist, both malevolently and benevolently), the argument behind it is that the typical opposite-sex-attracted woman herself doesn't really want an egalitarian distribution of responsibilities/contributions to the relationship. A TRP man could, theoretically, have romantic daydreams about an actual egalitarian relation…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 10:59 AM
3

Traditionalism imposed many costs on men. It didn't just give them everything they wanted, whenever they wanted, with no obligations and endless pussy on tap. Hell, in some versions of traditionalism (like that of the Roman Catholic Church), all forms of nonprocreative sex are banned between a married husband and wife. No oral, no anal, no fetishes, nothing but PIV without protection risking yet another 18+ year burden. Oh, and if you're not straight? Well God/Allah/Jehovah/Whomever hates fags! …
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 10:20 AM
4

Seems an awful lot of redpill dudes just wanna be dainty little malewives for a strong provider woman these days huh Alternatively, they may want an actually-egalitarian distribution of responsibilities within a committed relationship. Alternatively, they may not want a committed relationship.
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 10:05 AM
2

How can the same demographic shamed and pressured into something as superficial as body hair removal find the wherewithal to blatantly flaunt social mores that are significantly more devastating and consequential? Not all social mores operate consistently in one direction. You could argue that in much mainstream feminist-influenced pop culture, the cultural norms encourage BOTH hair removal AND sexual liberation, even if there are some other cultural contexts that DON'T send the same messages. I…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 01:53 AM
3

You have a good argument - both the greater male variability hypothesis and the fact men are found to have more paraphilias than women on average back you up in some way. That said, you're package-dealing all kinds of "deviance" into one thing here, but someone can be very normal in certain ways and very atypical in others. You're also ignoring socio-cultural effects, like the possibility women are being culturally encouraged to sexually let their freak flags fly (and, ironically, women going al…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 01:22 AM
0

Yes and I have never heard him say "we should kill all the autists." What I have heard him say is "we should investigate potential environmental causes of autism spectrum disorders."
/r/PurplePillDebate15/07/25 01:04 AM
5

Bro, cut that out rn, stop being conservative/right wing as someone with autism, they don't like us The libertarian right is disproportionately dominated by people on the autism spectrum, so there are in fact pro-autism rightists. and want to practice eugenics on us Evidence, please. Not to mention, the social justice left has basically been waging war on subcultures dominated by 'spergs for 15+ years at this point (starting with Elevatorgate)... basically cultural genocide... and the simple rea…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/07/25 12:27 PM
5

I'm curious, specifically, how men aren't "allowed" to do any of these things when there's an entire manosphere that has been doing this for what, going on two decades? ...and having to do so in near-secret communities that are extremely private. Whereas the "womansphere" ranges from a clear majority of the mass market (including literature and fiction) in the entertainment industry to publicly-subsidized feminist activist organizations and academic departments. When even moderate men's issues s…
/r/PurplePillDebate13/07/25 05:00 AM
8

But hypothetically speaking, I am still curious what men would say about what we should do, since they have very strong opinions about what we shouldn't do Not all men have the same opinion, the men here in pill-o-sphere spaces are likely dominated by outliers, and as you openly imply (when you say "I don't. And many women don't"), the opinions of men are irrelevant. Yes, the advice men give women will be tainted by their own self-interest (this, by the way, is the same critique many TRPers and …
/r/PurplePillDebate13/07/25 02:37 AM

My condolences for your suffering. I suggest spending your money entirely on yourself and never doing anything chivalrous/benevolently-sexist for a woman. Don't let them get a dime.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/07/25 12:39 AM
1

I'm not interested in marriage, plus I'm bisexual, so that biases the results of asking me. But as a foodie, my answer is "if the wings are good, yes." And as someone who has dined at Hooters before, I'll take my wings with Teriyaki & Ranch, thank you.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/07/25 12:27 AM
3

Thank you for your condolences. It was rough, but it absolutely redpilled me.
/r/MensRights12/07/25 11:56 PM
7

Elevatorgate and the feminist-precipitated breakdown of the new atheist movement. That, and an encounter with online feminists in which I nearly got doxxed, that exposed me to just how misandrist they are and how they really have total hate for men who aren't sex-stereotype conforming (despite their claim to be against sex stereotypes).
/r/MensRights12/07/25 10:48 AM
5

Why is it bad to be attracted to attractive people? Nothing. The problem is society-wide gaslighting of men about the fact that women are just as shallow as they are. This gaslighting occurs and is entrenched because it fuels benevolent sexism (i.e. female privilege).
/r/PurplePillDebate11/07/25 11:37 PM

people say "women have high agreeableness" which means the same thing The exact proposition "women have higher average agreeableness than men." Which has been repeatedly replicated multiple times in social psychology literature.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/07/25 11:01 PM

In my experience, a guy is more on the grind of how to improve and that involves humility and will take better criticism. That's what I meant when I said "This may be due to the fact that traditional sex roles force men to be much more ruthlessly practical (whereas women are somewhat infantilized by said sex roles). Men have a smaller scope for "rational irrationality" in general." Saying that on average, men are socially trained to be more rational than women does not mean the typical man is mo…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/07/25 10:36 PM

You suggested it was discrimination based on men for their natural state It is, but I don't think of it as immoral discrimination. Everyone sexually discriminates, and that's okay. In the realm of sexuality, wanting partners to avoid mimicry/manipulation/inauthenticity is basically about wanting your partners to not misrepresent their actual genetic qualities. And that's okay. No female wants to be knocked up with a baby-who'll-grow-up-to-be-an-incel (its a genetic dead end). a common incel argu…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/07/25 12:52 PM
1

When you marry someone, you are agreeing that your assets are now shared and will be split 50/50. To be more accurate, you're agreeing that assets acquired during the marriage will be split 50/50. Pre-marital property is not subject to such a split. And, for the record, I actually agree with your case for some degree of alimony and a share of the assets. She did contribute to the corporation (marriage is like a corporation) through taking care of jobs which allowed her husband to focus on career…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/07/25 11:06 AM
1

I never suggested otherwise. What I suggested is an explanation for why, in this particular realm of human action, inauthenticity (on the part of men) is seen as particularly horrible (moreso than in other realms of human action). The answer - it is in the genetic self-interest of women to prevent men from mimicry.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/07/25 09:26 AM
1

Women value their emotions and feelings over logic and truth. And will only accept logic and truth if it coincides with their feelings or its net nuetral or net positive. To be entirely fair this is true of most men as well. Orientation towards truth over social acceptability is a property of an outlier demographic that is mostly (but not entirely) male - not a property of "most men on average." At best, you can argue men are relative to women more likely to favor unvarnished truth over socially…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/07/25 06:46 AM
2

That's correct, but it doesn't actually contradict what /u/Logos1789 said.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/07/25 01:38 AM
2

Why would women not want men to be attractive to them? Short reason - women want naturals, not mimics. It ultimately comes down to the fact that acquired traits are not passed on genetically.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/07/25 01:36 AM
1

Upvoted. Sure, I agree some TRP ideas are genuinely sexist. But the OP is right - most of TRP, when phrased in a female-flattering/gynocentric manner, is stuff that the vast majority of women would eagerly accept. A significant contributor to women's hatred of TRP is that TRP - and indeed any dating advice that actually works for men - goes against women's genetic self-interest. Why? Because it is fundamentally mimicry, whereas the female's reproductive self-interest is to secure a natural (i.e.…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/07/25 01:33 AM
4

I see femininity and masculinity as universal energy forces Not attacking you, just wanting to understand you. So you're a feminist leftist who believes in gender essentialism then?
/r/PurplePillDebate10/07/25 08:36 AM
22

Well then, IF you believe that institutional racism or institutional sexism or any other kind of institutionalized ableism is a Big Important Civil Rights Issue, then your acceptance of institutionalized ableism that hurts autistic men makes you a total fucking hypocrite. You are also complicit in institutionalized oppression (or at the very least mistreatment/exploitation). In addition, autism is just as neurologically real as homosexuality (nonheterosexual sexual orientations have been demonst…
/r/PurplePillDebate09/07/25 03:45 AM
26

Every fucking advice given ever in the history of dating needs detail and nuance. It’s you fucking black pillers who don’t understand this ffs so infuriating Translation: "I'm totally okay with institutionalized ableism when it hurts autistic men."
/r/PurplePillDebate09/07/25 02:29 AM
9

All of this homoerotic anguish Stop using homophobic shaming tactics against men. there is a percentage of men who are attractive to women but who do not want casual sex or a harem. Hot dudes whom are natural monogamists are a small portion of a small portion. Sure, they exist, but they are rare, and most men aren't natural monogamists.
/r/PurplePillDebate09/07/25 02:18 AM
7

The redpill ideology spawned a lot of discourse regarding relationship advice. I remember for example that a lot of women picked up the grift and ran with it online. Lauren Southern is one example, she made a video telling women to save their virginity and marry a man 10 years older. It may not be redpill in the strictest sense, but it is adjacent enough. Okay, so you found one "tradthot" making a gynocentric (i.e. premised on women's self-interest) case for something that seems to be a blend of…
/r/PurplePillDebate08/07/25 11:32 AM
7

Iirc redpillers advise most men to "spin plates" and never settle. "Settle" should be replaced with "commit." Also, TRP is androcentric dating advice. This means it is geared to help men secure what they want out of dating/sex/romance. The average opposite-sex-attracted man is interested in being able to achieve relatively easy hookups. They also say that a mans sexual market value is more about money and status. And that because of it men gain value with age and women lose it. Because they mist…
/r/PurplePillDebate08/07/25 10:46 AM
10

Sure, but women having sex with younger men is also a thing. Yes, I agree. So what? If you look at all the data on aggregate, the average man is focused on a narrower age cohort of the opposite sex than the average woman is. This is transcultural and transhistorical, which implies there's likely something biological behind it. If evolution favors sexual habits which result in reproductively viable offspring, then we can fairly speculate men's narrower age cohort focus is because women have a bri…
/r/PurplePillDebate08/07/25 10:14 AM
15

"You"? I'm a purple piller and I've made my disagreements with certain aspects of TRP very clear. Don't accuse me of uncritically agreeing with everything they say. Redpill men talk about "chad" yet they deny the important puzzle piece. "Chad" is a young man in his physical prime because his appearance signals his reproductive peak. Which is at the exact same age as women's reproductive peak. Considering women themselves seem more than willing to sleep with guys whom are older than "Chad," eithe…
/r/PurplePillDebate08/07/25 09:51 AM
15

So what? The project of constructing a sex/dating/romantic praxeology doesn't depend on whether or not someone wants kids. It depends on whether or not someone wants sex and/or romantic relationships. Discussions about "the wall" are unfairly and unreasonably moralized. "The wall" (or, more accurately, the impact of age on attractiveness) is not a moral issue. It is merely a somewhat undiplomatic way to point out that, on average, a man's "optimum window of attractiveness and reproductive fitnes…
/r/PurplePillDebate08/07/25 09:25 AM
1

Venting without guidance is pointless. If they didn't experience some sort of subjective benefit from venting, they wouldn't do it, ergo it clearly isn't "pointless." They should go to therapy So people should be expected to pay for the right to blow off steam? Fuck the poor, amirite? People shouldn't be allowed to blow off steam for free on the internet in their own private spaces! They should have to pay! Not to mention, the way most therapists in America speak to men has been corrupted by mis…
/r/PurplePillDebate08/07/25 09:03 AM
2

So why aren't they doing that? Why are they still in here just venting? You're presuming, again, that one cannot simultaneously vent on reddit and rearrange their affairs and concentrate on things they enjoy other than dating (after all, talking about dating isn't the same thing as actually dating). You also don't understand that venting on reddit is therapeutic for the venter (i.e. it provides a benefit to them).
/r/PurplePillDebate08/07/25 07:19 AM
3

Upvoted. The problem is not women who actually are strong and independent. The problem is that subset of women who claim to be strong and independent but are really just being parasitic, contemptuous and entitled. An actually strong and independent woman does not conflate toxic femininity/being a bitch with personal empowerment.
/r/PurplePillDebate08/07/25 06:37 AM
2

Let's assume it's true - how does that in any way shape or form help any of the guys struggling with dating? It allows men who are not genetically gifted to make informed and rational cost-benefit calculations about dating. If they happen to be the kind of man for whom "the juice is not worth the squeeze," then if they recognize they are exceptionally unlikely to get laid, they can reallocate their resources towards things that WILL pay off for them. Im just so confused why these guys dont try t…
/r/PurplePillDebate08/07/25 06:35 AM
5

Have you actually heard someone say that the draft is a privilege? I've frequently heard feminists claim that the draft is proof of male privilege. "Men are drafted because they're presumed to be stronger/more competent! That's a privilege!" Which comes back to my point about whether or not subjectivity of cost and benefit matter. The vast majority of men would NOT regard a presumption of superior competence/strength to be a net benefit if it came package dealt with a duty of military service (o…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/07/25 05:10 PM
10

Women do not value casual sex. Men need to stop saying women have it so much easier because they have access to casual sex. Would you apply the same analysis to so-called "male privilege"? "It isn't a privilege for men if men don't want it" - like being sent off to die in wars etc. Or does the subjectivity of benefit/cost only apply if the impacted party is female?
/r/PurplePillDebate07/07/25 11:05 AM
5

Yes, that is socially 'awkward.' More accurately, it is being socially atypical (not having the same basic socialization/interaction styles and drives as "normies"). This gets pathologized/stigmatized by "normies" because majorities tend to take themselves as the "good" and see any deviation as "bad." His popularity among girls was, as you correctly surmised, based on his looks. This alone gave him enough social status to avoid being thought of as a "loser" (i.e. person held in low esteem by mos…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/07/25 05:13 AM
5

I'm not red pill, but your definition of capitalism is false. Feudalism, Fascism and Marxism-Leninism all produced substantial wealth disparities in practice, too, so clearly you can't equate wealth disparities with capitalism. Meanwhile, for all of our society's inconsistencies with respect to economics (we live in a mixed economy, not a laissez-faire capitalist one), the most free-market-oriented societies on earth invariably have higher living standards and social mobility even for the poores…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/07/25 06:45 AM
1

Female circumcision is much, much, much more inhumane than male circumcision. They literally remove the clitorus. That's true in "type 3" and "type 4" FGM, but not in "type 1" and "type 2" FGM. MGM (male genital mutilation) is homologous to "type 2" FGM but the male foreskin has more tissue and more nerve endings than the female clitoral hood. If MRAs actually cared they'd advocate against RIC. Hi, I'm an MRA. And yes, we do advocate against RIC. It is a disgusting and unethical practice. Compar…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/07/25 02:23 PM
3

Hellraiser. The original Hellraiser. Larry is the Nice Guy. His brother Frank is the Alpha Fucks Bad Boy. Julia slept with Frank practically the night before marrying Larry, and was Alpha Widowed by the experience. Her marriage to Larry is a failed one. Julia is so desperate for good sex (i.e. for Frank, not Larry) she ends up becoming a serial killer when she has the opportunity to help rebuild Frank's body (its a complicated story). And when the movie was being filmed, one of the people workin…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/07/25 12:51 PM
5

It was Johnny Bravo. He's a tall muscular man who can't get a date because nothing is enough for these hypergamous women. I always thought that show was bluepill gaslighting that pushed the ideas women are somehow less shallow than men, and that "hot but jerk" men like Johnny always get rejected.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/07/25 12:47 PM
1

Some things are implied. This is why I say that TRP is appealing for people who struggle understanding the world... I feel like TRP people can't deal with implications and assumptions, they need to be told everything. Correct, you're realizing that TRP is essentially self-help for men on the autism spectrum (or with sufficient levels of ASD traits that it interferes with their dating life). Why are you trying to sabotage their self-help? Why are you being ableist?
/r/PurplePillDebate01/07/25 11:29 AM
-1

I know many infantialized men AND women. I never said men could not be infantilized. There are many forces and influences over any person's life. Sex roles/societal mandates are just one of them. I (as a woman) have been financially independent since the age of eighteen. I put myself through college by working full-time. There are many of us. Sure. I don't deny that. I never suggested all women are infants or lacking in responsibility. Throughout my time in college, the workforce, and now law sc…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/07/25 07:39 AM
1

See, now you can see it too See what? I have never denied that there's something wrong about women being infantilized. But just because women have been infantilized doesn't mean it is illegitimate for men to point out the consequences of this infantilization.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/07/25 06:59 AM
4

it’s about how women are the issue because they are not responsible and act like there is no consequences. Well yes. That's what happens when a group is infantilized. They don't develop responsibility. The infantilization of women has consequences, not all of which are flattering to women. A group can be subjected to something cruel/unfair/immoral and impacted in ways that corrode their moral character.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/07/25 06:55 AM
3

yes because we frequently say "girls will be girls" to explain away women's wrong actions instead of holding them accountable. As someone who actually is a man and was raised under male socialization, "boys will be boys" was absolutely never used to justify me engaging in even a single act of actual misconduct. In my experience, the phrase was used almost entirely by women, in a dismissive and mocking way, to respond to quirks or hobbies or preoccupations that were perceived (by these women) as …
/r/PurplePillDebate01/07/25 01:06 AM
3

I was not raised this way No one is suggesting counterfactuals don't exist, but everyone across the gendersphere from feminists to MRAs have long recognized that western women are (most of the time) socialized in an infantilizing manner (or at least a far more infantilizing manner relative to a male baseline). That's OP's point.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/07/25 12:27 AM
3

Another post, another blame on women. The post explicitly is about how women are raised, not "blaming women." The post basically says "women are infantilized, and this has consequences." How is that blaming women? The post says women are not being socialized in an appropriate manner, not that women are at fault.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/07/25 12:26 AM
2

Thank you. Its nice when there's agreement across the aisle.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/06/25 08:43 AM
6

Men who learn game, spin plates, or refuse to commit? Shamed as predators or losers. It's more that there are two groups. Those men who learn game and succeed (from the male perspective, i.e. achieve lots of casual sex without committing) are shamed as predators. Meanwhile, men who withdraw/go MGTOW are shamed as losers. And those men who do so and get vocal about it get called incels and have threat narratives constructed about them (i.e. "they're dangerous and on the cusp of a shooting spree!"…
/r/PurplePillDebate30/06/25 01:56 AM
4

I'm a libertarian rather than a leftist, but I do have egalitarian values on sex issues so I am replying. The short answer is that so much of what we might call establishment progressivism (Hillary, Liz Warren etc) is really about middle-to-upper-class white women. They use blacks, gays etc to support their coalition but ultimately it is all about them. I think there are studies showing that it is this group (white women) that experiences the most benefits from things like affirmative action/DEI…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/06/25 09:05 AM
1

I partially agree with you, but I have some minor criticisms. First, it is hard to say women are the "biggest" enforcers. They certainly are in some areas (i.e. ones surrounding heterosexual dating). But in every possible context across society as a whole? Such a calculation would be incredibly difficult to make, I'm sure you'd concede. We know that stereotypical gender roles are enforced by many members of both sexes in many aspects of life, and "which sex does it more" doesn't strike me as par…
/r/PurplePillDebate29/06/25 04:03 AM
4

In addition to the above (which is entirely correct BTW), it should be noted that the US government is atypically dependent on income tax revenues. The welfare states of Northern Europe - typically seen as enviable social models by Democrats - are mostly funded by consumption taxes, and these taxes have a regressive impact (i.e. disproportionate impact on lower-income people). A lot of that welfare is really just churn rather than redistribution.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/06/25 03:18 PM
5

Historically that's true - Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat after all, and the neocons (who took over the establishment Republicans' Foreign Policy discourse during the Cold War) were originally Democrats. In addition, Democrats who explicitly ran on peace platforms turned out, in office, to be Hawks (Obama being the obvious case). That said, I didn't go into all the historical nuances because I wanted to operate off a brief and relatively widely-accepted definition of "what the American Right is '…
/r/PurplePillDebate28/06/25 07:21 AM
4

Both Dubya and Trump are pro-executive. A ruling class and a strong militaristic central government By that standard, FDR was on the political right, yet he remains a hero to the American left. And in terms of abuse of executive power, Biden and Obama engaged in a hell of a lot of that, too (not that the other side isn't equally guilty). in league with the wealthy. This is just a canard. There are millionaires and billionaires on both sides of American politics, including entire industries that …
/r/PurplePillDebate28/06/25 04:37 AM
7

But here is the thing - they do. Now, 15-30 years ago they didn’t matter nearly as much because political parties were more closely aligned, but now left wing parties are farther left and right wing parties are farther right, I agree with you in many ways, but this is where I have to contest you. Have "right-wing" parties moved "further right"? I don't think so. Take the Republican Party in the USA. It is simply not intellectually honest to claim that (by the traditional definition of "right win…
/r/PurplePillDebate28/06/25 12:11 AM
1

Not sure why it’s so difficult for some of you men to comprehend that many (most?) women have zero interest in “following” or “being led” by anyone… I'm an egalitarian too, but you don't seem to understand. You're conflating leadership and social dominance with tyranny and rape. But what they're talking about is social status, which is something that the subordinates give to the superior, at least tacitly. Even in the real-world BDSM scene, power is given to the dominant by the submissive and th…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/06/25 07:23 AM
6

Do you actually want things to improve for men or do you just want them to stop saying mean things about women on the internet? Look, I'm on record having several disagreements with certain Red Pill ideas as well as aspects of Red Pill rhetoric. But here's the thing - you talk about therapy, but much of Red Pill's rhetoric serves a therapeutic purpose for the guys who spout it. After being brainwashed into a cult of pedastalizing women, they need to deprogram themselves, and part of this require…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/06/25 09:41 AM
4

Remember “hate fatties” Reddit? Last I remembered, FatPeopleHate was sex-neutral, and a lot of the posters were women posting pics of other fat women as a kind of aversion therapy or "thinspiration-by-horror-at-fatness." There were probably photos of fat guys on FPH too. I never visited that sub, but it strains credulity to think women never used FPH.
/r/PurplePillDebate25/06/25 07:59 AM

They do need one You literally said "women have jobs now mate, they don't need a provider." Either they need a provider or they don't, but what /u/Logos1789 was saying was that even if they don't need a provider they still want one and act accordingly.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/06/25 07:51 AM
1

It's not about being a nerd, it's about ther personality. "Nerdness" is a personality type, rooted in neurological reality. Being a nerd is pretty normy, nowadays. The cultural appropriation of hobbies that used to be considered emblematic of "nerd culture" is what is "pretty normy." Actual nerd-ness is still considered loathsome.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/06/25 09:37 PM
2

Do men similarly want a woman to be obsessed? Like she has a shrine dedicated to you with your hair, nail clipping, and used q-tips, with candles, and photos of you with everyone else clipped out? I can only speak for myself, but I find any kind of mystical "woo" to be a red flag (from a values/compatibility perspective, not a safety perspective), so "manifesting energy" is bad enough. But adding a stalker shrine onto that? That is literally frightening to me. That is Bunny Boiler territory.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/06/25 07:47 AM
1

an outgoing "I want an extravert/normie." emotionally available man "I want an emotional tampon." who is not afraid to show his vulnerable side. "A man whom is sufficiently masculine that I interpret his emotions as a kind of 'countersignaling.' But I'm using feminist language because of Social Desirability Bias." A man who can keep up, "A man who is ambitious, determined and can put up with my shit." KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS "Do I need to remind you again that I still want a man who fits traditional…
/r/PurplePillDebate18/06/25 02:19 AM
13

Patriarchy only benefits the men at the top. Indeed. Too many feminists think it means "androcracy" (rule by men) though. Patriarchs are a minority of men, who see other males as practically a separate gender. If the feminists were willing to accept some sort of three-or-more-class model of human society, they'd be less objectionable (and less nasty to males in general).
/r/PurplePillDebate14/06/25 06:50 AM
2

Good for you for being consistent. Unfortunately, a lot of people aren't consistent.
/r/PurplePillDebate14/06/25 01:49 AM
4

I love homophobic radfems! They make me so fucking happy to be non-hetero. You totally just made me prouder this Pride Month :)
/r/PurplePillDebate14/06/25 01:47 AM
2

Women get social bonuses from identifying as bisexual. Men incur social costs when they do so openly. This skews all self-ID data. I'd wager a huge number of those women who call themselves bi are really straight and trying to make themselves look more avant-garde.
/r/PurplePillDebate14/06/25 01:39 AM
2

and basically based on studies, its extremely rare for men to be bisexual, they tend to be either gay or straight. If you're talking about the original study done by J Michael Bailey, that study had multiple methodological flaws which were subsequently corrected in an attempted replication, in which Bailey collaborated with the American Institute of Bisexuality (a serious sexology research group). This attempted replication failed to confirm the findings of the initial flawed study. And my perso…
/r/PurplePillDebate14/06/25 01:36 AM
6

Precisely. The literature on looks-based-prejudice and the Halo Effect is pretty damning on this. Physically hot + loner = "he's a tragic misunderstood Byronic hero who needs love!" Physically ugly + loner = "he's a school shooter in waiting and likely a misogynist who deserves to be lonely anyway!" And it isn't like women, or feminists, lack knowledge of looks-based prejudice. They'll cite the same literature too, when arguing for "body positivity" and anything else that allows them to criticiz…
/r/PurplePillDebate12/06/25 03:32 AM
2

I agree to an extent... but RPers often do fall back into deeply infantilizing women sometimes ("they can't help it, they're mentally teenagers" etc). Sure, some RPers hold women more responsible for things than they do men. Fine. Frankly, so what? Society in general does the exact opposite thanks to chivalry. Feminism does the exact opposite thanks to gynocentrism & patriarchy theory. TRP, and the whole manosphere at large (of which TRP is a subgroup), is a tiny subculture in comparison... an i…
/r/PurplePillDebate12/06/25 02:57 AM
2

Indeed, the so-called "Nordic Model." Which is of course premised on the idea that every woman in the sex industry is a "prostituted woman" (as opposed to a woman who decides to sell sex).
/r/PurplePillDebate12/06/25 12:07 AM
2

Oh same here. Its a very silly mindset that makes sense in music videos but not in reality.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/06/25 11:04 PM
2

No. I'm saying that mainstream normal society's current concept of "female empowerment" promotes contempt towards men who provide business to sex workers. I did not defend this particular concept of "female empowerment." Indeed, I'm quite critical of it. Like you correctly said, it is self-defeating from the perspective of the sex worker.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/06/25 10:56 PM
6

I reject your argument that true crime is somehow an immoral or problematic interest. I absolutely accept your argument that atypical/hegemonic-masculinity-incongruent/weird/nerdy interests in men are stigmatized more greatly than when they appear in women, however. For quick proof, compare how people treat Lolicon relative to Shotacon. Still, "making trauma into entertainment"? That's what tons of comedy does. I don't see why dark jokes about (say) the latest terrorist incident are acceptable e…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/06/25 10:38 AM
1

Erm, no? I'm not saying romantic dynamics don't exist. I'm saying that economic tools/theories/models/concepts are applicable to dating and romance. "Economics" isn't restricted to money-denominated transactions within commodities markets.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/06/25 09:59 AM
2

That isn't an argument, I don't date (don't want family or children), and I'm a professional economist so yes, I happen to discuss a lot of things in terms of economic frameworks and theories. The question is not whether or not using an economic model to understand dating and romance is attractive to most people. It isn't, and I never said it was. The question is whether or not the model is useful (in understanding the realities of dating). And it clearly is a useful model. Your counterargument …
/r/PurplePillDebate11/06/25 09:55 AM
4

Dating unavoidably involves opportunity costs (the time you spend dating one person can't be spent dating another person, for example). It is perfectly possible and even helpful to analyze dating with economic models. This idea that "BUT LOVE AND FEELZ OVERRIDE ECONOMIC REALITY" is romanticist bilge based in a denial of a reality and a retreat into magical thinking. The very act of dating itself is an example of people incurring search & information costs in order to research potential partners …
/r/PurplePillDebate11/06/25 02:30 AM
6

it doesnt makes sense to claim only fans empowers women but at the same time stigmatize the consumers If you view the "exercise of power" in question as the ability to exploit and look down upon consumers you consider pathetic and icky, then stigmatizing those consumers is absolutely part of the female empowerment provided by OnlyFans. The OP is right if you see entrepreneurial achievement in the sex trade as a form of empowerment (and I agree with that position), since choking off demand conseq…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/06/25 01:28 AM
16

"Choosing not to be with someone" isn't hate. Culturally stigmatizing that person as part of a demographic ("men who use porn....ewww, losers"), blaming them for exploitative aspects of the sex trade, and that kind of stuff, is hateful however. Two points to emphasize: I'm not accusing you of being hateful, and, I don't see being hateful as a sufficient transgression to override your freedom of association anyway, so yes, you can reject a relationship with absolutely anyone for any reason whatso…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/06/25 01:17 AM
9

Women see (straight) men who "have to" use porn as losers/incels/LVMs/unfuckables. That's the real reason. "They exploit women through creating a market for porn" is the post-hoc ideological rationalization for the ick.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/06/25 01:11 AM
10

I still think its ridiculous that they used the "rape myth acceptance" scale to measure misogyny. The RMA scale is, at least last time I read it, full of absurdly absolutist wording that requires you to answer "no, this never happens ever" otherwise you're being a misogynist. Even though there are actual news reports and court cases that prove that yes, some women sometimes lie about rape. Of COURSE not all women/not all the time, that goes without saying. In addition, the scale includes some pr…
/r/BlackPillScience10/06/25 12:10 PM
0

“Enjoying sex is gay” is one of their new slogans. I'm not a member of present-day red pill spaces (I'm familiar with the theory/praxeology, not the internal culture of the forums), but seriously? TRP seriously needs to ditch the tradcons and bring back the (aspiring) manwhores. It SHOULD be a sex-positive space for men-having-sex at least...
/r/PurplePillDebate08/06/25 12:43 AM
16

There’s a guy in the Daily Thread here who always muses about how girls who give blow jobs are girlfriend material only, and that he cannot imagine his wife and mother of their children sucking dick… lol. So... he actively wants a sexually dull marriage? Wow.
/r/PurplePillDebate08/06/25 12:40 AM
10

You make a very good point. I think a big problem in gender discussions is "nerd normativity." The kind of guys on Reddit assume they're representative of the "average" man. Hence they come to conclusions like men are on-average more rational and cerebral than women. NO, the cohort of men on Reddit skews more rational and cerebral than the average woman. But that's not an excuse for the education system favoring the propensities over the average young female over the average young male.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/06/25 07:19 AM
3

And how, exactly, is this consistent with your proposition that men are naturally more rebellious and nonconformist than women? Because it sounds to me like you're espousing two contradictory positions.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/06/25 07:38 AM
4

You claimed men are more individualist and rebellious whereas women are more conformist and obedient. Again, this doesn't fit with the empirical reality of how the military (built on conformity and obedience) is seen as the utter apex of conventional masculinity. Also, the best performers in STEM... an indoor and bookish thing... are males. Still. I am radically opposed to the current education system and I agree boys are served poorly by it, but your critique is FULL of holes.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/06/25 11:27 PM
3

Obediently playing team sports (when forced to via mandatory "physical education" classes) and getting concussions and being beaten by the coach for not performing well enough is not "frolicking in the grass." Meanwhile, some boys genuinely want to read books indoors. Are they "lesser men" in your view?
/r/PurplePillDebate05/06/25 12:57 PM
6

>For men, Rebels and nonconformists and risk takers, and physically active men who do what they want over what theyre told, were more likely to reproduce. Sort of. Tons of rebels and nonconformists and risk-takers were nerdy or gay or both. And plenty of hot physically active men were absolutely normie/conformist as hell. Reproduction often awarded the dutiful soldier over the genuine renegade.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/06/25 10:31 AM

A lamentation that takes the form or rage and bitterness against women? Sounds like entitlement to me… Category error. A lamentation, no matter how vicious or angry or bitter, only becomes "entitlement" when it contains within it a demand that another person (or group of persons) must act (or not act) in a specific way, above-and-beyond respecting everyone's rights and rendering the usual common decency and civility one expects from absolutely everyone else, for the sake of the demander. Being a…
/r/PurplePillDebate04/06/25 08:52 AM

THANK YOU for pointing this out. "I am sad I can't get sex, being considered unfuckable hurts my feelings and I need to vent" is a categorically different thing to "I am owed sex and if I am not given sex (by someone I find sexually attractive) I will start being violent." Now, there is a complicated case where a man says "I did what society told me was necessary to earn sex, and I am angry that this sex hasn't yet been granted to me despite my compliance." But whilst this can be interpreted as …
/r/PurplePillDebate04/06/25 08:38 AM
10

Men who can't get sex aren't seen as ugly, their entilement/creepiness/obsession/cynicism/misogyny, if they exhibit it however, is. Their ugly appearance causes a disgust reaction that many women rationalize as "caused by his entilement/creepiness/obsession/cynicism/misogyny." Sure, not all women do this and not all the time. But there's quite an extensive social-psych literature on this subject (the Halo Effect). People with unattractive physical appearances are presumed to have character flaws…
/r/PurplePillDebate04/06/25 07:31 AM
1

Warmongers are a bipartisan phenomenon in the US, and Trump is noticeably less warmongering than previous Republican presidents. Also there is massive overlap between Never Trump Republicans and Neocon Warmongers (see Liz Cheney). If you're an anti-war leftist the best things you can do are resurrect the anti-war wing of the Donkey Party (which basically evaporated after Obama got elected) and signal boost the anti-interventionist wing of the Republican Party, NOT engage in partisan cheerleading…
/r/MensRights04/06/25 02:20 AM
3

Agreed. Everyone is entitled to their preferences, even the shallow ones. But the double standard is galling. Our society basically empowers women to have completely superficial preferences, and literally structures the institutions of our SMP/RMP (and Tinder is one of those institutions - it is a platform for finding partners) in a way that enables such preferences in women... but not men. Again, what justifies such an atrocious double standard here? The only logic I can see which justifies tha…
/r/MensRights03/06/25 11:39 AM

You're describing angry weirdos that have nothing to do with this term at all. And those angry weirdos justify their terrible personalities by calling themselves "strong, independent, empowered women." That's why the phrase "strong independent woman" refers to an archetype/meme that means something other than a literal reading of the phrase. It's the same way men call misandrists feminists when you know they aren't the same people. Non-misandrist feminists are not part of, or have no influence o…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/06/25 10:35 AM
19

Teacher's unions are the worst of the worst in terms of self-interested government employees who lust for power. They should be abolished. And of course they all want a classroom where the students are all obedient, quiet and agreeable... i.e. more 'feminized' (speaking in personality psychology terms, where for whatever reason, these traits just happen to be more common in females than males). They used to enforce this through the reign of terror of physical violence (corporal punishment in sch…
/r/MensRights03/06/25 09:35 AM
19

Wretched Gretchen is just celebrating men adhering to traditional gender roles. Whilst she IS realizing that men who do so do provide societal benefit and perhaps should get some gratitude, she's really just engaging in a left-flavored version of Tradconism (or perhaps a secular version of the kind of pro-union leftist catholic Tradconism that you can find in Compact Magazine). This IS an improvement over "lol fuck men" but its a very modest improvement that only means that just now the Donkeys …
/r/MensRights03/06/25 02:01 AM
1

The desistance rate is actually around 80% (https://statsforgender.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Gender-related-distress-will-alleviate-for-around-80-of-pre-teen-children-once-they-become-teenagers.pdf), at least if we're looking at Early-Onset GD (I don't know the stats for Adolescent-Onset GD). And before you claim "but the source is a gender-critical organization!" they're citing publicly-available, peer-reviewed journal literature on the subject!. Desistance is the norm, not the exception. …
/r/MensRights03/06/25 01:25 AM
2

let's try instead talking about things you've seen people of your gender say about the other gender, that you disapprove of, consider stupid or outright sexist. Sure! "Women are incapable of reason" - they're not incapable of it, they just get infantilized by society (a process they're partially complicit in because there are benefits to being infantilized). The idea that women are incapable of reason only perpetuates the problems we're dealing with. "Women love assholes" - no, they love attract…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/06/25 07:44 AM
2

i personally do not think it's reasonable to give the benefit of the doubt to the parent who is crusading about "gender ideology And I don't think it is reasonable to give the benefit of the doubt to a violent wife who is in the position to weaponize the law in her favor. The law as currently written enables abusers to use "but my child is trans" as a pretext to win custody battles. Again, the child is two. The child isn't even old enough to have a clinical diagnosis of GD.
/r/MensRights02/06/25 05:35 AM
3

please educate yourself before you talk about trans issues. I am quite well educated on the subject of trans issues. I just don't believe in the "woke" paradigm of understanding trans. I'm a neo-Blanchardian. gender transition is the way you treat gender dysphoria. If it is chronic, absolutely. But the desistance rates make it very clear that it is hard to tell the difference between "the cohort that is really just going to grow up to be gay or bi" and "the cohort that absolutely needs to transi…
/r/MensRights02/06/25 05:32 AM
3

That's not what happened. The father's (now ex-)wife claimed that their son identified as a girl. There is a very big difference between wearing a dress and identifying as a girl. And it was the ex-wife who said that their son now "identified as a girl" - this ex-wife has a documented history of domestic violence. This isn't a case of one parent tolerating sex-stereotype-nonconformity and the other parent forbidding it. In that case, I'd absolutely support the tolerant parent. Some children are …
/r/MensRights02/06/25 05:12 AM
6

they just want to wear a dress and play with dolls! Yes. And that's not the same thing as gender dysphoria. The latter is a serious medical condition, not childhood play.
/r/MensRights02/06/25 04:53 AM
2

Kids play dress-up all the time. We shouldn't be reading too much into that. It's just play. There was a case of twins (one boy, one girl) where they often wore each other's clothing (despite the sex difference they looked very alike) when younger. The parents were so concerned they went on Dr Phil to ask if their kids were gay or trans. The kids were quite obviously just having fun and confusing their parents about who-was-who!
/r/MensRights02/06/25 04:50 AM
2

Pediatric gender dysphoria is not a simple issue, especially when we have all the desisters, all the detransitioners, as well as all the transtrenders (people who adopt a transgender identity through having a goth makeover and changing their pronouns and being obnoxiously woke, but not actually transitioning). And their political/ideological enablers, such as those people in WPATH who tried to turn "eunuch" into a valid gender identity. And can a 2-year-old really express something like gender i…
/r/MensRights02/06/25 04:49 AM
3

Believing that two-year-olds don't have infallible knowledge of their gender identity (presuming GI even exists as a neurological phenomenon independent from sexual orientation... and that's also a very questionable presumption) is not transphobia. The vast majority of people don't know their sexual orientation until early to mid adolescence. For some, it takes even longer. Given how large the desistance rates are for young people who visit gender clinics, it is quite likely that gender identity…
/r/MensRights02/06/25 04:28 AM
4

This is more democrats being pedos. It isn't pedophilia. It's just a social trend they believe will create more voters for them in the future. The actual transitioning is secondary to adopting a woke ideology (look at all the people who claim to be trans but do nothing more than adopt an androgynous fashion style and change their pronouns, for example). Just like James Lindsay said when he coined "OK groomer," the grooming is ideological, not sexual.
/r/MensRights02/06/25 04:23 AM
1

A man's love is far more than lust Correct. As I said, it is a mixture of lust with a very intense degree of liking. There's so much to explore together, which is absolutely magical when you consider the other person your soulmate. Maybe it's just my absolute cynicism talking here, but oh dear god I'm about to vomit from how saccharine that sounds.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/06/25 01:26 AM
12

Yes, men tell women to act in a way that serves men's interests. Just as women tell men to act in a way that serves women's interests. This is the underlying problem with the dating advice most men receive. They are sick with envy towards women because we have the ability to do these things and most of them don't. Correct. They're jealous of female (especially attractive female) privilege. Women now are living a lot more righteously than men would in our shoes. On that, you're completely wrong.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/06/25 05:18 AM
1

Agreed here. "Pairing due to convenience/prudence" is a both-sexes reality. It's kind of sad but.... well... reality can be hard to confront.
/r/PurplePillDebate31/05/25 05:44 AM
56

"Love" is just a mixture of "(very intense) liking" and "lusting." The latter is, on average, 90+% biology. There is nothing particularly noble about "love." So I really don't see the point in what you're saying. To score a point for "team men"? The vast majority of men are shallow. So are the vast majority of women. Trying to make men look better than women makes little sense when the sadder reality is women are just as mired in the muck as men are. I totally understand (and support) taking wom…
/r/PurplePillDebate31/05/25 05:32 AM
2

You invoke the clash of civilization v barbarism, but at the end of the day you're just in it for the lulz. Frankly, that says everything I need to know.
/r/PurplePillDebate31/05/25 02:32 AM
2

You asked in a previous post... What the heck is barbaric about socializing? You proceeded to say... I'm here for... laughing at losers This makes you just as uncivilized - just as barbaric - as the schoolyard bully. You're indulging in the same utterly primal, lizard-brained drive. Mock the low-social-status (i.e. "loser" and "misfit"), delight in ostracizing them, glory in your relative superiority vs. their relative inferiority, and cast them out of the tribe. I don't agree with everything TR…
/r/PurplePillDebate30/05/25 09:55 AM

To be entirely fair, she might like his personality/like him as a friend. But yes, the percentage of women who are capable of being romantically interested in an ugly femboy is almost certainly a low single digit number.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/05/25 12:38 AM
4

Agreed. IQ gives us science, reason, all the great advances in the human standard of living (including the very concept of the free society). EQ's beneficence or usefulness is trivial in comparison. Okay, it makes you very good at tact (it also makes you a skilled manipulator, too). Compare that to the scientists and engineers that created the microprocessor. The latter made a far more consequential contribution. People who glorify EQ want to pretend that their "having the right feelings" elevat…
/r/PurplePillDebate24/05/25 06:38 AM
7

I agree entirely. OP is basically demanding benevolent sexism and crying out for the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations by suggesting a "high EQ" man would provide infantilization to a woman who wants it. Some feelings make sense (I.e. feeling angry when someone is malicious towards you). But some don't. This entire idea that someone should NEVER have to question the justifiability of their own feelings is not just silly, but actively corrosive to mental health (it's basically a reversal of the ba…
/r/PurplePillDebate24/05/25 02:37 AM
8

You simply have no evidence or examples to back up your particular claim here. Just because ruling elite males share the same sex as ruled males doesn't imply this gave any sort of benefit to ruled males that wasn't also given to females. Women who were in the ruling class, for example, always had power via influence over their husbands, sons, brothers etc. There's many historical examples of this, like when Senator's wives in ancient Rome protested outside the Senate to get certain legislation …
/r/MensRights24/05/25 02:09 AM
3

If men's sporting injuries don't receive the same attention and sympathy that women's sporting injuries do, yes, that's a men's issue. If men are pushed into injurious sports more than women are by social expectations, yes, that's a men's issue.
/r/MensRights23/05/25 10:24 AM
3

How is violence against gay men, when gay men are exposed to more violence than gay women, not a men's issue? Male-perpetrated violence against men absolutely a men's issue because societal norms license violence against men as normal/acceptable relative to violence against women. And I've already agreed gay men avoid SOME men's issues. But they experience some others more acutely than straight men. You seem to think there's some sort of competition for victimhood going on. But there isn't.
/r/MensRights23/05/25 10:16 AM
3

Yes, gay men avoid some men's issues. But they also have issues they face but straight men don't (gay men are the victims of much more homophobic violence than gay women for example), and also experience some men's issues more intensely due to being gay and male simultaneously (the presumption of 'likely sexual predator and unsafe for kids' for example).
/r/MensRights23/05/25 09:21 AM
19

Your concept of Patriarchy has several implications you may want to pay attention to. Men may have, historically, held the vast majority of power in official organisations and structures. But the group of men who held this power were absolutely a minority of men and they had very little concern for the interests of men as a group. They served their own interests, not men's interests. Not all power is derived from formal institutions. Women have always had access to informal power. So even under …
/r/MensRights23/05/25 09:06 AM
24

People always complain about standards opportunistically (I.e. they almost always condemn standards that disfavour themselves), and that's one reason for the phenomenon you see. Another reason is that a lot of "standards" are really attempts to rationalise evolved urges. No surprise they often make little sense. I will add one thing to your post, though- no side is innocent of this. You'll find irrational and self serving standards in both sexes and across all pill philosophies.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/05/25 04:14 AM
6

This is just a recipe for loveless marriages producing unwanted children. Which means a generation predisposed to criminality.
/r/MensRights19/05/25 11:58 PM
5

Barbie dolls are specifically marketed to and designed for girls so I don't think it is wrong to suggest they are feminine. That said, you can fairly argue that the difference between a 'doll' and an 'action figure' is arbitrary bullshit. However there is quite a lot of well-replicated social science research that suggests biology contributes to different play preferences between male children and female children.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/05/25 11:14 PM
7

I think most so-called demisexuals are really experiencing what the Blanchardians call meta-attraction. So there's a basis for it, but their understanding of it is flawed. Nonetheless, I don't see a problem with it at all, although it may create orientational incompatibility in certain cases. Meta-attraction is common in human sexuality, and I'd argue most standard issue heterosexuals have a component or degree of it.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/05/25 11:07 PM

Thank you.
/r/PurplePillDebate17/05/25 11:09 PM

I'd rather not repeat that, if that's okay.
/r/PurplePillDebate17/05/25 10:54 PM
3

I still remember one particular Mean Girl from Grade 4. I remember what she said and the hateful leer on her face as she said it. And how the (also female and also a heinous bitch) teacher didn't punish her for it. Women are absolutely able to be just as evil, cruel and vindictive as men are able to be.
/r/PurplePillDebate17/05/25 03:19 AM
17

That's historically been true but in the past 10/15 years it's flipped. For that, we can blame self-diagnosis, Tumblr and ROGD.
/r/MensRights17/05/25 02:30 AM
9

Libertarian bisexual atheist, and a Cultural Satanist (in the same way some people are Cultural Christian) too. And Aspergers if that counts as a disability.
/r/MensRights17/05/25 02:20 AM
2

Except neurominorities because we can't win elections for the left.
/r/MensRights17/05/25 02:00 AM
12

Partial disagreement. You think men are okay with being a pack-mule and that Jungian archetypes make them "natural" worker-bees? I think not. The male role is terrible for most males.
/r/MensRights17/05/25 01:59 AM
20

You're exactly correct. The critical flaw of Betty Friedan's feminism (non-radical Second Wave) was it saw the job market as liberation. This IS true for a subset of women (smart and driven ones with college degrees basically). But Friedan projected her experiences on ALL women. Hence so many women experienced a big drop in happiness when they entered the labour market. They realised housewifery was the most generous welfare program ever.
/r/MensRights17/05/25 01:54 AM
6

Yes, some posts here get rather mean. I don't like them. However, much of the meanness is venting. It's blowing off steam. Some degree of this is therapeutically necessary. All I can say is I appreciate when any woman lends her support to men's advocacy. Thank you for your support! Also, SOME feminists are legitimate misandrists who deserve the rage this forum dispenses against them. I will ask you don't take it personally - after all, you clearly aren't them.
/r/MensRights17/05/25 01:47 AM
2

Arguably, the most masculine were those who could be fearless, yet sensitive. A brave warrior, who could,nonetheless, offer a poetic tribute to his enemies. Think some Asian or Native American cultures. But that is irrelevant because society's idea of who is or isn't a 'real man' overrides biological anything. Nerdy men are biologically hypermasculinized neurologically speaking but society's gender norms demote them to an inferior status. You can scream about objective biological masculinization…
/r/MensRights14/05/25 07:30 AM
10

Men should get more facials, more manicures, and everything indulgent. Apart from the fact we have skin too (and the skin is an organ with maintenance requirements), why should only women be allowed the fun?
/r/MensRights14/05/25 07:09 AM
1

Even if an opposite sex couple is the best environment for raising children (and that MIGHT be true), the real test is whether or not same-sex adoptive parents are better than foster care. Think in terms of improvement rather than optimums.
/r/MensRights14/05/25 07:06 AM
1

The use of "stop" implies you think gay men are Marxist, feminist progressives automatically. They aren't.
/r/MensRights14/05/25 07:00 AM
10

I'd love to hear an answer to this too, because in my experience it is mostly women who equate casual sex with "being used/being exploited."
/r/PurplePillDebate14/05/25 05:46 AM
1

But the book seems to assign Ms Patterning the most utterly toxic variant of left-brain patterning all the time... despite Ms Patterning being allegedly masculinized (right-brained). The book's core hypothesis can't seem to make up its mind there. Not to mention there's a severe case of nerd-normativity in the book - treating all the 'higher' moral and theoretical and artistic values as masculine despite mainstream culture seeing artists, scientists, intellectuals and the like as an inferior for…
/r/MensRights14/05/25 05:28 AM
1

I have to admit I disagree with the book's thesis. I mean... is Ms Patterning masc-brained or fem-brained? The book's hypothesis seems to be "whichever is worse." Not to mention the book attacks Baron-Cohens extreme male brain theory of autism yet relies on very similar neurobiology research...
/r/MensRights14/05/25 03:28 AM
5

I think some gay men think bisexuality undermines solidarity with "the cause" because a closeted bi man can pass as straight more easily than a closeted gay man.
/r/MensRights13/05/25 09:01 AM
7

Most women automatically rule out bi dudes from consideration.
/r/MensRights13/05/25 08:48 AM
6

Thank you.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/05/25 06:11 AM
5

I agree, but egalitarian feminism is a fringe position that has been ran out of the official feminist movement and has no influence over the women's movement broadly speaking. You should be advocating for egalitarian feminism within the women's movement. We already know about Sommers, Paglia, Cathy Young, Karen De Crow etc.
/r/MensRights13/05/25 05:26 AM
90

Yes, gay men are men and thus welcome in the Men's Rights Movement. I'm bisexual and this community has always treated me well. Gay and bi men suffer in certain ways that are a product of BOTH sex and sexual orientation. Also, historically speaking, gay men have endured more active persecution than lesbians. As for bisexuality, that is shamed in males but glamorised in females.
/r/MensRights13/05/25 05:10 AM
22

You could fairly argue that 'awkward introverted non-charismatic' (I.e. nerdy/low level 'sperg) men may be more likely to have atypical sexualities and fetishes than neurotypical/extroverted men. This is actually quite well documented. But this doesn't mean they are 'creeps' who 'only want sex.' Creep-shaming exists to give women an "excuse" to reject nerdy/geeky/'spergy men that doesn't make them look unfair/bigoted/shallow (or encourage men to withdraw benevolent sexism). It allows her to pret…
/r/PurplePillDebate13/05/25 04:31 AM
28

There are literally volumes of economics about contracting and bilateral transactions in markets. If you think the concept of market price is only relevant to spot market transactions for consumer goods, you clearly have very little familiarity with economics.
/r/PurplePillDebate12/05/25 02:47 AM
4

I'll also echo the prevailing sentiment here... when I grew up I NEVER heard "boys will be boys" used to excuse serious misconduct. Rather it was used, often by women, to mock perceived immature conduct in males, including certain somewhat-silly playground antics. I've never heard "boys will be boys" used as an excuse for ANYTHING sexual. Or systematic, persistent mistreatment. Nor as something demanding we don't judge misbehaviour... indeed the phrase has a Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations aspe…
/r/MensRights12/05/25 02:36 AM
3

Sure, but the biphobia that bi men complain about is also exhibited by some bi women. Acceptance of bisexuality is a female privilege. Even if that acceptance is a shallow one driven by FMF threesome fantasies, it is better than what bisexual males get (basically we're treated as if we were gay men, which means either being expected to be women's purse-dog 'gay besties' or being at the receiving end of gay bashings from homophobic men).
/r/PurplePillDebate07/05/25 12:29 AM
2

The people who most aggressively seek power are usually the ones least deserving of it. Hence why elections almost always are a choice between a giant douche and a turd sandwich. Its a process of Adverse Selection.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/05/25 12:22 AM
3

Some people, including the so-called Political Lesbians (i.e. bitter straight women who go gay as a Lysistrata Gambit or as a trauma response) argue that there's no such thing as sexual orientation. Indeed there's a long line of left-wing social-constructivist thought about sexual orientation. "Born this way" is more of a centrist-and-bipartisan majority position than a left-wing one. The more you move to the extreme right or the extreme left the more you'll see some variety of "nurture, not nat…
/r/PurplePillDebate06/05/25 04:15 AM
2

That women INHERENTLY are emotionally unregulated, etc That's not necessarily part of the argument. Women are often emotionally unregulated because of how they are raised and coddled in contemporary gynocentric society... basically, they're still being infantilized. Just like they were under tradcon-ism but in a more indulgent way these days. Being infantilized doesn't necessarily make you a perfectly sweet innocent victim - it can make you a spoiled brat, too. That said, whether or not it is in…
/r/PurplePillDebate06/05/25 04:10 AM
1

Internet feminist culture during my time in college (which got me cyberstalked and almost doxxed), and only a few years after that, elevatorgate. I noticed that despite their alleged hatred for traditional gender norms, the feminist movement: Absolutely hated and despised gender-nonconforming men, despite the fact that their own theory suggests such men should be considered allies, and Embraced Toxic Femininity as a form of personal empowerment. That is what sent me into the men's human rights m…
/r/MensRights06/05/25 01:08 AM
3

To your second question, I think we as a society allow women to grow up just based on age, but don't consistently put them under enough pressure to grow up emotionally. So we get the histrionic and borderline personalities of the emotional toddlers that result. And then we double down on it by telling them they are emotionally intelligent despite having a laughable amount of control over their own emotions. I absolutely agree with that. Infantilizing women doesn't necessarily make them Sugar, Sp…
/r/MensRights05/05/25 10:53 AM
3

The kid(s) will come first and insecure men can't have that. It isn't insecure to want a committed romantic relationship where both partners' mutual top priority is each other. Nor is it insecure to decline to have children for this same reason. Again, plenty of women won't date single dads for the exact same reason - they want him to put her first. Is THAT insecurity? Or is that acceptable and empowering?
/r/PurplePillDebate05/05/25 08:40 AM
11

may i ask the members of this sub how they differentiate equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome "equity" and at which point we reached a fair society? Equality of opportunity is equal legal treatment, equal social treatment, and equal standards for both sexes. We're clearly not there yet. Equality of outcome, or equity, does have the advantage of being easy to measure and quantify. But it is inherently unfair because when natural biological differences exist (and we can't be deluded and …
/r/PurplePillDebate05/05/25 08:05 AM
2

Question - I notice you use Jungian terminology ("Shadow" etc). Are you a Jungian? Also question - what do you think of the hypothesis that there's basically a rampant epidemic of undiagnosed Borderline & Histrionic Personality Disorders in women?
/r/MensRights05/05/25 04:19 AM
12

Yes, women absolutely do force themselves into men's spaces, and I've become increasingly convinced it is due to some sort of underlying biological drive (perhaps one that is exaggerated by traditional gender roles) which then gets further reinforced and rationalized by feminist ideology. The evo psych is simple - any activity that drags men toward each other and away from women denies women their traditional providers and protectors. Traditional gender roles contribute through defining feminine…
/r/MensRights05/05/25 02:37 AM
-2

I just think it's really messed up for a non-victim to joke about it. I disagree with that. What if the non-victim is joking to an audience (of victims or non-victims) that are okay with rape jokes or find those jokes funny?
/r/PurplePillDebate05/05/25 02:11 AM
2

No one is entitled to men's attention. Or effort. Or time. Or resources.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/05/25 01:53 AM
-2

It's like joking about someone's bullying or PTSD. There's nothing funny about that. Dark humor about rape is premised upon rape being absolutely atrocious. If rape weren't an atrocious violation of human rights and cultural norms, jokes about it wouldn't be funny. The humor of these jokes is in the transgressive nature of them.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/05/25 01:41 AM
-4

There are many women who have been raped and sexually assaulted, and joking about that experience around someone who may have had that experience is incredibly classless. There are also many men who have been raped too. Making jokes about it around them just perpetuates the shame that men and women who were victims feel about their assault. For some rape victims, humor is a coping mechanism. I agree that its perfectly valid for a rape victim to find jokes about rape distressing, but not all rape…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/05/25 01:40 AM
5

It's even possible to tell a joke about rape that isn't normalizing rape. Rape jokes don't normalize rape. They're premised upon rape being abnormal, shocking and transgressive. Think of something truly normalized, just (for example) strawberry jam (jelly, if you're in the USA). That is something utterly normal and mundane. There are no jokes about it, precisely for that reason. The entire corpus of dark humor is built on the object-of-the-joke being a terrible and abnormal deviation from everyd…
/r/PurplePillDebate05/05/25 01:36 AM
0

That there is a path to get men's issues heard, and it's to talk about men's issues without shitting on women's issues. Just talk about your own issues. Warren Farrell tried that. It failed. He got kicked out of NOW and mocked ruthlessly.
/r/PurplePillDebate05/05/25 12:37 AM
8

Saying that there are some obvious signs that some abusers and/or misogynists give out that women pick up on isn't the same as saying that ALL abusers and/or misogynists give those same signs and to the same degree. Tell that to the women who insist they can tell if a man makes misogynist posts on Reddit merely from his appearance...
/r/PurplePillDebate03/05/25 12:52 AM
8

Normal people don't do that shit. Laughter ensues. Why don't you think for yourself instead of letting society dictate your thoughts for you? Learning how to think for yourself in the face of consistent and entrenched social conditioning takes time and effort. It takes a therapeutic process (and for all of its faults, TRP is at least providing something like that). Thinking for yourself is not something that is easy, effortless or automatic. Keep in mind we've had decades of feminists saying tha…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/05/25 12:50 AM
11

What the actual fuck is wrong with y'all acting like human nature is brand new? I'm going to put this in bold, just to make my answer very clear... Because we live in a culture that pedastalizes women. Men are NOT told that women are humans. Rather, men are consistently told, over and over again, often by women and women's advocates, and also by other men (particularly tradcon types), that women are essentially angels. Do you want to fix this problem? If so, the solution is very simple and obvio…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/05/25 12:37 AM

Get your act together. The problem that /u/Dertross is pointing out is that society demands an extreme (and arguably hyperagential) form of personal responsibility in this particular matter (i.e. men getting laid), yet has very different standards of responsibility in other matters (particularly those that focus on other demographics). The problem is the inconsistency.
/r/PurplePillDebate03/05/25 12:03 AM

Do you want people to have kids? Make it easier, and cheaper, to have kids. Having kids is expensive and it starts from conception. There are healthcare costs, costs to the individual's health, there are daycare costs (either paying for daycare or eating the loss of income if one partner stays home), educational costs, housing costs, transportation costs, food costs, etc. There are many other countries that have tried this - paid parental leave, subsidized childcare, baby bonuses etc. The result…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/05/25 11:58 PM
17

Why do men in particular want to argue that women are always at fault for being abused, as if we're ethereal mind readers that can always detect a person's intentions and can never be lied to? Feminist women on the internet will frequently claim they (or women in general) can "just tell" if a man is "a terrible creepy misogynist" by some magical form of intuition. The proposition you're discussing is a reaction to this - "if you have a magical form of intuition that can detect misogynists, why d…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/05/25 11:46 PM
6

Women aren't doing enough of this, women aren't contributing enough of this, women should do this, women should do that...all to suit your biased desires and expectations of women. So... you're angry that men are talking about how to pursue their own interests in dating? Why are you so hostile to androcentric dating discourse?
/r/PurplePillDebate02/05/25 04:48 AM
1

Thank you. I appreciate your understanding. If you'd like to discuss fandoms etc, I can do so via PM. Maybe I can link you to some of my graphic, filthy smutty fanfic if you'd like!
/r/PurplePillDebate02/05/25 03:21 AM
1

Are you OK to name the fandom? I'd rather not, since I don't want to risk being cyberstalked again. But I did completely leave the fandom in which the incident occurred.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/05/25 03:13 AM
0

Okay, so, sorry about the cyberstalking and doxxing, that shit's not right. Thank you for your condolences. It happened a long time ago (back during the LiveJournal days, as you put it). Omegaverse creeps me out so hard. Same here. I find it honestly quite revolting. Even offensive to me personally - I'm a dude and I find it utterly emasculating to read. back when I was most active things were less weird and more... ship and let ship. If only the fanfic scene could return to that more libertaria…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/05/25 03:09 AM
4

Apart from the fact I was once cyberstalked and nearly doxxed by fandom feminists, I noticed that the slash fic scene was FULL of stuff that validated the majority of Red Pill's model of female sexuality. 95% of the time, there's a rigid top and a rigid bottom. The latter is always the shorter male whom is perceived as more 'emotionally needy.' The former is always the male whom is the object of the female audience's desire, is more emotionally stable, and basically embodies almost all the 'alph…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/05/25 02:53 AM
5

It's entirely about a woman's desire to monopolize her man's sex drive. She subconsciously sees porn as competition. That's why her porn is okay, but his porn is disgusting. That said, I do think men should probably look more into women's porn (including slash fanfiction). Frankly, the slash-fic scene is what sort-of-red-pilled me.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/05/25 12:21 AM
1

This entire debate is bullshit because it is premised on the idea that selfishness is bad. As an ethical egoist, I reject that notion. Let's use value-neutral terms from sexology. What you SEEM to be saying is that women are more prone to autosexual meta-attraction (i.e. being attracted to others on the basis of what that person's reciprocated attraction would validate/demonstrate about yourself... ergo the real 'target' of the attraction is the idealego that the attractions of others validates)…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/05/25 09:53 AM
3

You examples of modern chads are Andrew Tate (grifter, degenerate) and Elon Musk (autist, eccentric billionaire, sequential monogamist). Musk only gets pussy because he's rich, so I wouldn't call him a "chad." He's just intelligent enough to know he's being gold-dug and to make sure the women can't take too much of his money. But he's not a sex symbol.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/05/25 12:36 AM
3

They used to sit on my lap and hold me down and grope me as well. Well that's just assault by any definition. Again, my condolences for what you had to endure.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/04/25 01:30 PM
2

Understood. My condolences for what you had to deal with.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/04/25 12:50 PM
2

You couldn't get anymore innocent. Indeed. Slut-shaming anyone over that strikes me as so unutterably dumb it is almost funny...
/r/PurplePillDebate30/04/25 10:25 AM
2

Though it did teach me early slut is just a default insult for women. I actually think this was a very insightful realization. A lot of people use "slut" in ways that diverge quite strongly from its official meaning. And yes, a lot of the time it now seems to be "woman who does something I Don't Like." Although in this case they had no reason to have any strong feelings about it because you were 10 and it was a kiddie disco.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/04/25 10:08 AM
5

The problem is society sees men having standards as being oppressive towards women. So in other words, women being picky = good, men being picky = bad.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/04/25 10:01 AM
3

Why is size queen taken as positive? Because women having standards is seen as empowering for women.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/04/25 09:58 AM
0

I automatically became a "slut" when I was 12 because I developed early and had 32ddd in the 6th grade. Was it mostly other women who called you that, or was it boys, or was it both? Seriously, I can see other women calling you a 'slut' for being voluptuous. Feminine jealousy (intrasexual competition) has been proven in studies to contribute to slut-shaming. Even of women who clearly aren't sluts (I mean you were in grade six for fuck's sake).
/r/PurplePillDebate30/04/25 09:43 AM
2

I was called the town bike aged 10 because I slow danced at a kiddie disco with 2 boys. Seriously? You were 10. It was a kiddie disco. Please excuse me while I beat my head into a wall over the sheer stupid of calling you a slut when you were 10 and merely slow danced at a kiddie disco...
/r/PurplePillDebate30/04/25 09:42 AM
1

If you want a woman to want to have sex with you, it’s reasonable for you to want to make it pleasant for her. I don't disagree at all! Of COURSE women have a right to insist on having orgasms. I have no idea why some people think I'm suggesting otherwise, to be honest. I merely outlined a theory as to WHY, in today's world, the idea that "men must give a woman an orgasm" remains.
/r/PurplePillDebate30/04/25 09:27 AM
2

I never said her pleasure is irrelevant or that she shouldn't insist on getting something out of the encounter. I have no idea why you think I'm suggesting otherwise.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/04/25 11:48 PM
0

Why is this dynamic so common, and why have we accepted it as normal? It's a quirk of post-feminist pseudotraditionalism (which I propose as a term for what gender roles have become in the aftermath of the second wave women's movement). The same basic traditionalist idea - men as actors and women as acted upon - combined with the traditional dynamic where a man must earn/prove/validate his manhood through performance - remains. But overlaid atop this is a gynocentrism (prioritization of women's …
/r/PurplePillDebate28/04/25 12:28 PM
2

If you’re claiming that women being interested in things that men are interested in is colonialism That is not what I am claiming and there's no intellectually honest way you could interpret what I said as making such a claim. Women being interested in the same things as men is totally okay. Women demanding that the social spaces surrounding men's hobbies become femnormative/gynonormative, and/or that these social spaces practice an extreme level of chivalry, is the problem.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/04/25 06:29 AM
9

You talk about "Gen Z" and "Millennials" in the thread title... ...yet all of your demands are for men to "start adulting" (i.e. "man up"). You never once confront the infantilization of women (something even feminists agree is a real problem), or how women have been the primary participants in the Gen Z/Millennial "culture of victimisation." I've said it before, I'll say it again. You clearly are just pissed off that men are whining, you believe whining should be the exclusive privilege of fema…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/04/25 12:45 PM
1

Men who want women who do XYZ maybe need to be a little more accepting. Men are perfectly willing to accept women who like the hobby for what it is into the hobby. What they do not like is female colonialism toward male spaces and subcultures. Men aren’t receiving social pressure not to join men’s clubs. That's because, due to female colonialism (as mentioned before), those "men's clubs" are being forced into nominal-gender-neutrality-but-de-facto-female-dominance. Soon, there will be no men's c…
/r/PurplePillDebate27/04/25 12:32 PM
2

We do play video games. I never said otherwise. Men tell us they’re not “real” video games. The average male gamer and the average female gamer have systematically different preferences as to what kind of game/s they prefer. This is well-established in industry data. It isn't a moral judgment. That said, if female gamers prefer different genres, different platforms and different play patterns (in terms of time) to male gamers, this is a very good reason to keep the cultures separate. I'm sorry, …
/r/PurplePillDebate27/04/25 11:53 AM
3

That's a good question. Ideally I'd have liked them to have gotten me a diagnosis early but the sad reality is they took me to a number of different professionals and none of them nailed it down. And when it comes to romantic stuff, I would've preferred extreme bluntness. But then again 'pill' theory didn't exist at the time. You'll need to let me think on that.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/04/25 02:04 PM
5

Misogyny is a kind of social pressure (abuse, harassment and rape threats are pressure). And the ADL is not a reliable source, it is a partisan hack organization. And your Pew data needs a source, because I've seen Pew data contradicting you entirely and suggesting not only do both sexes face the same amount of severe harassment but women complain more, but that more people are harassed over politics than gender (see https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/01/13/the-state-of-online-harassment/…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/04/25 12:15 PM
2

This is why countries like Vietnam and Thailand have below replacement despite being fairly poor countries-they are highly urbanized and have a fairly educated female population. Where is the population growth concentrated, however? Among the rural poor? And is it cheaper to live in poor areas than in cities? I'd love to see data on Vietnam and Thailand, since I admit I haven't seen much data for South East Asia... most demography-related data I've seen is Anglosphere, Europe and East Asia. You …
/r/PurplePillDebate26/04/25 04:13 AM
5

The main drivers of the declining birth rate are urbanization, secularization, and female educational attainment. Actually, the main driver is wealth. We notice this even in advanced societies - the wealthiest breed less than the poorest. Secularization follows the growth in wealth. Urbanization is part of the development trajectory. Female educational attainment follows the growth in wealth (since public education needs to be funded by a tax base).
/r/PurplePillDebate26/04/25 03:20 AM
3

Nothing is stopping women from taking up video games either, but we've literally had over a decade's-long culture war that alleges women are systematically kept out of gaming via social pressure. So what is it? Are humans capable of being stopped from doing what they want to by social pressure? Or is social pressure basically nothing and everyone needs to start ignoring it?
/r/PurplePillDebate26/04/25 03:12 AM
6

I'm neurodivergent ('sperg). Please stop victim-blaming 'spergs for taking regularly-vocally-reinforced societal orthodoxy seriously. I was very specifically told, by my own mother nonetheless, that only stupid low-quality women care about looks and that women of quality care about personality. I believed her because I was just a child at the time and she was my principal source of sympathy and comfort. The idea of her lying to me just to make me feel better (or because she didn't want to say fe…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/04/25 02:37 AM
8

I agree that no one is owed sex or a date by anyone. But people can be victims of circumstance and victims of misfortune. People can suffer from things they aren't responsible for, which no one else is at moral fault for. You seem to be insisting that for someone to be a victim, another person must necessarily be a victimizer. This is a much more specific use of the word "victim" than is common in everyday speech (we often talk about victims of disease or victims of natural disasters, for exampl…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/04/25 01:05 PM

Yes, porgressive culture now sort of recognizes that men too have common pain-points and anxieties, but those things in practice are talked about in much more of a "you are brainwahsed for Christ's sake, get over it!" manner. While women's pain-points are like "Can't you listen? This is why women chose the bear for Christ's sake!" manner. This is what resonated with me the most. Men with issues related to gender are treated as essentially delusional or having a self-induced issue that's "all in …
/r/PurplePillDebate25/04/25 10:14 AM
1

It’s just not going to make us attracted to you Where, at any point, did I say or imply that you could or should be attracted to us??? Fuck, I have literally been arguing for society to be blunt and open to 'spergs that being 'spergy is going to be an absolute turnoff to the vast majority of opposite-sex-attracted women. At no time, in any topic, have I ever implied or endorsed the idea that 'spergs are owed sex. Indeed, if you were remotely familiar with my post history, you'd see that I am a d…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/04/25 05:11 AM
3

Asperger's Syndrome and/or traits thereof is not simply a "disability." They come with certain benefits as well as costs. But sure, if you want to just openly admit you love all diversity except the unsexy-to-almost-all-females variant of neurodiversity, that's a-ok with me. Oh, where are all the female movements saying that society lied to us and we had no idea that men are after sex? Due to the history of the sexes being treated differently by society, it only makes sense that men and women ha…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/04/25 04:05 AM
3

You mean like the constant outrage of men about women not wanting indiscriminate casual sex (but only with that particular man)🤔 Yes, that too is an example of self-interested complaining. But I don't see what point you're trying to make. I never said all men all the time make reasonable complaints.
/r/PurplePillDebate25/04/25 03:20 AM
3

Lots of nice men get laid. They just aren’t only nice I agree. But my mother didn't tell me that. Or say anything that a reasonable person could construe as implying that. Please don't gaslight me about being gaslit. Most men learn. The ones who don’t are the exception And fuck the exceptions, right? Meanwhile all other disabilities have rights groups fighting to make society bear the cost of accommodating their disabilities. Btw, women get the same lies fed to them, but you don’t hear them whin…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/04/25 02:27 AM
2

To hell with them then. "How dare a different group of people have different priorities to my own!!!"
/r/PurplePillDebate25/04/25 01:24 AM
5

You’re accountable for being developmentally stunted Unless you have an organic pathology like autism Yes. I'd wager the majority of TRP and Blackpill are somewhere on the autism spectrum. I'm a 'sperg myself, diagnosed, went to neurodiversity therapy. Because people are expected to learn So we're just meant to realize that we're being systematically lied to, and that we were repeatedly told bullshit, even by people who loved us (my mother gave me the "women love nice men" speech too), and we're…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/04/25 01:21 AM

Thank you
/r/PurplePillDebate25/04/25 01:10 AM
6

I never said it was good or bad, you did. Are you suggesting holding bigoted views on the basis of sex is not immoral? If Man A says that hes chronically single, woman A is most likely not going to default to telling him hes creepy or a misogynist. Stop gaslighting. Many men on this board have reported precisely this, or some third-party variant of it (i.e. other women advising him that he's a creepy misogynist) or some via negativa version of it (women advising him that if he wants women to be …
/r/PurplePillDebate25/04/25 01:10 AM

Three papers that are easily findable through a basic google search: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311908.2022.2156842#abstract https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecca.12333
/r/PurplePillDebate25/04/25 12:59 AM

Here you are mot holding trump accountable while you pretend like we hold men accountable. I said nothing at all about my position on the case. But the simple reality is I was talking about a very broad cultural generality. Of course there are exceptions. My post explained why Trump was one of them. If you think that men in society (on average) are NOT subjected to a higher level of expectations with respect to agency relative to women, I invite you to take a look at the literature on the sex-ba…
/r/PurplePillDebate24/04/25 02:25 PM

We literally have a rapist president. Not all of the world is the USA. Also, Trump was (IIRC) convicted in a civil trial by a Preponderance of the Evidence standard. He was not proven beyond reasonable doubt to be a rapist, and the specific thing he was found guilty of (digital penetration IIRC) isn't rape in every jurisdiction. Not to mention, his trial happened in the context of the fizzling-out of #MeToo and a large number of false rape accusation scandals (Duke Lacrosse was just the start), …
/r/PurplePillDebate24/04/25 02:14 PM
14

maybe you hold views about women that although you don’t vocalize, manifest in how you treat them that scares them away That is a moral judgment. "You're a tacit misogynist and you won't admit you're misogynist, but women can just tell it from your actions" IS an accusation of holding bigotry. Bigotry is morally bad. you could be suffering from undiagnosed neurological conditions effecting your ability to socialize correctly "Correctly" is the wrong word. The more accurate word is "in a neurotyp…
/r/PurplePillDebate24/04/25 02:05 PM

By "modern women" do you mean "women who exist right now and are actively participating in the dating market" or do you mean the post-feminist archetype of "Strong Independent Womyn Who Don't Need No Man"? I'm going to PRESUME you mean the former, and before I begin I'll make the provisos: Not all women are like this, I'm merely speaking generally, there are many exceptions. And in addition the things below can exist in degrees, so I'm not saying All Women Are Always Like This All The Time. But …
/r/PurplePillDebate24/04/25 01:09 PM

I agree with you entirely (despite our very different politics). Women get hypoagency. Men get hyperagency. Neither is accurate because humans are agents that exist objectively (i.e. in physical bodies, with specific natures and hence limits). We are neither impotent nor omnipotent.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/04/25 12:46 PM
3

Undiagnosed neurological conditions? People with actual diagnoses have confirmed this (I'm one of them, hi, I'm an official 'sperg and went to specialist neurodiversity therapy), and ASD characteristics are all over "red pill" and "black pill" culture. It is undeniably the case that ASD men are disproportionately part of the pill-o-sphere. There are threads upon threads of men reporting that women will turn them down using morally charged language. Should we just pretend that this persistently r…
/r/PurplePillDebate24/04/25 06:45 AM
2

I’m sure some men take their lack of success to mean women think this. Do you have any evidence to back up your speculation?
/r/PurplePillDebate24/04/25 04:59 AM
1

The answer: Ressentiment Women making money off OF are emblematic of contemporary society's privileging of women above men, and a brutal reminder to men that women are sexually desired and men are not - men are the desirers, not the desirable. Thus, men who are not at the top of the totem pole feel acute resentment. When this resentment becomes moralized (i.e. when it fuels motivated reasoning on the subject of ethics), it goes beyond resentment and into ressentiment.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/04/25 12:55 AM
5

This study clearly doesn't take into account Benevolent Sexism (and the Ambivalent Sexism Theory more broadly).
/r/PurplePillDebate23/04/25 10:24 AM
8

It's often not a purely conscious thing. It often happens under acutely experiencing "the ick" and in a situation of Social Desirability Bias. In abstract, away from the cause of the ick, I'm sure they'd say they don't in fact believe weirdo = evil. But in their actions there is a very frequent habit of treating the 'sperg detector (this is what the "bad personality detector" REALLY is) as if it screens for moral goodness.
/r/PurplePillDebate23/04/25 12:00 AM
11

Indeed. The voice of reason is typically a solitary one.
/r/PurplePillDebate22/04/25 02:12 PM
86

No one thinks being undesirable makes you a “bad person.” The entire phenomenon of "creep-shaming" exists primarily to conflate these two things. And it is obvious. Seriously, I agree that as a matter of fact you're correct that judgments of attractiveness are NOT judgments of morality, but how can you NOT see that people (not just women!) habitually conflate the two? There's literally volumes of research on lookism/looks-based prejudice and the halo effect. For example, most women aren’t attrac…
/r/PurplePillDebate22/04/25 01:52 PM
11

Population decline is absolutely inevitable and every piece of evidence we have suggests its a near-automatic (and arguably evolved-and-innate) response to rising levels of wealth in a society. Poverty makes people breed more. This is going to force a huge demographic and political reckoning. But it won't result in forced breeding. Rather, it will make it necessary for the State to downsize unless it wants to impoverish its society (which would run a risk of encouraging a popular revolt). Not to…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/04/25 04:49 AM
1

If we want to talk about paper abortions, medical abortions should be legal and accessible. We cannot seriously discuss men’s right to reject their parental rights without providing women a way to terminate pregnancy in the first place. I agree, but the supermajority of the West has this already. Even most states in the USA have at least the same latitude for abortion as France and Germany (and even deep red states like Kansas will, when the issue is put up for democratic votes, vote to retain l…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/04/25 04:08 AM
2

I made a lot of points in that post. What specifically would you like to see me expound upon?
/r/PurplePillDebate18/04/25 12:45 PM
4

Morality is an internal thing that shouldn’t depend on outsiders or society. The vast majority of ethical philosophies promulgated throughout history would contest that to at least some degree. Here's the thing: virtue is NOT its own reward, consequences DO matter, good intentions do NOT necessarily make everything automatically and entirely okay, and morality is NOT just a matter of feeling the right things or thinking the right way. And that's merely if we keep the discussion strictly confined…
/r/PurplePillDebate18/04/25 11:44 AM
15

You seem to be conflating two very different kinds of RPers here: The RP Tradcons (the Jesus types who want to go back to the 1950s with white picket fences, nuclear families only with 2 to 4 kids each), and the RP Opportunists (those who are solely out there for their own dating/sexual interests). These are not the same groups, and whilst the Tradcons are social conservatives, RP Opportunists often aren't. In addition, Tradcons are gynocentric at their core - they really do take women's interes…
/r/PurplePillDebate18/04/25 11:27 AM
6

I agree with everything you say except these: I think they feel like they're entitled to have women date them just 'cause they're nice. They think women exist just to serve them. Those are extremely grave allegations to make about anyone. It's more accurate to say that many men were promised something by authority figures, and now they realize they were lied to. They don't feel entitled to women, they feel they've earned women by fulfilling "their side of the bargain." That's not the same thing …
/r/PurplePillDebate15/04/25 09:18 PM

These buffer zones are about decency, you are allowed your own opinions about abortions but you are not allowed to harass someone that might need it. "You can have your opinion but can't express it" is a violation of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech =/= freedom of conscience. I'm pro-choice, but the role of the government is NOT to enforce 'public decency.' And frankly, as a pro-choicer, I think women seeking abortions should be willing to defiantly step into the abortion clinic, flip the bi…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/04/25 09:07 PM

Except that right wingers are actually using the power of government to kidnap people off the street, disappear people to El Salvador, target law firms, punish journalists, attack universities, etc. The Biden Administration did plenty of shit like this too, especially during the COVID years. And universities have been engaged in politically-targeted speech suppression for at least 20 years at this point. The right is just retaliating, frankly. Now you know what they've been put through. I hope i…
/r/PurplePillDebate15/04/25 08:54 PM
21

The anti-defamation league is completely misnamed.
/r/MensRights14/04/25 08:15 AM
7

Here's the problem: At least 90% of human beings are absolute sexual lookists and this can't be changed. The number is probably closer to 95%, too. Almost everyone is, to some degree, shallow. I agree as a tactical matter men should be pickier, but let's face it, any such Male Lysistrata Gambit will require the use of sexual substitutes (porn, sexbots etc). And not all of those are available in a widespread manner.
/r/PurplePillDebate13/04/25 06:25 AM
12

Good for you. You've identified one of the bad components of the female lizard brain. The lizard brain is where all the sex differences are (the neocortex is sex-neutral from what we can see, although men are better with 3d spatial rotation tasks). And frankly you've displayed impressive self-awareness when identifying it and analyzing it. You're aware that this trait is a form of Toxic Femininity. Here's the good news: forewarned is forearmed. The first step at managing a cognitive bias or "ick…
/r/MensRights13/04/25 05:57 AM
16

Ahhh yes, the "homophobia is really just misogyny so gay rights should be subservient to feminism" argument. This argument was, successfully, used in the 70s by radical lesbian feminists to take over the gay rights movement and subordinate it to lesbian and feminist concerns, despite most of the money and legwork coming from gay men. Indeed, some feminists come onto this very subreddit to spout this same bullshit argument. Let me link you to an argument chain I had with someone doing precisely t…
/r/MensRights13/04/25 05:22 AM
10

Women just dislike gay men cuz they can't control us. Ditto bi men. They fear the competition from a lower-pressure higher-libido alternative.
/r/MensRights13/04/25 05:20 AM
6

You're engaging in argumentum ad nauseum here. You're just repeatedly asserting that femininity is seen as inferior without countering any of my examples or data points. Again, if femininity were seen as inferior, women wouldn't be encouraged to be feminine. If anything, in today's society, femininity has become a special treat that women are permitted to indulge in, and men are expected to provide enablement for women to do that.
/r/MensRights13/04/25 01:55 AM
19

GET VASALGEL READY NOW (how is that going btw? I haven't heard about it in a few years). Also remember to use condoms with spermicidal lube, and if you can't flush them, fill them with extra spermicide and hot sauce after they've been used. This is why the ability for women to abort assists men's rights. It means less unwanted fatherhood (it isn't perfect, but it helps men in some situations). It's also why we should demand LPS be tied to the window for elective abortion - that harmonizes the in…
/r/MensRights12/04/25 11:23 AM
11

Femininity had always been seen as inferior did you miss the lesson where they taught you we used to not be able to own bank accounts weather we were femmes or butch? That was a sex-based bigotry. Feminine males could still have bank accounts. This state of affairs was obviously evil - all humans, whether male or female, masculine or feminine or some mix thereof or whatever, have property rights that should be respected. But it wasn't discrimination on the basis of societally-classified-as-femin…
/r/MensRights12/04/25 08:34 AM
16

Misogyny isn’t just about how women are treated; it’s also about how femininity is devalued. When gay men especially ones who prefer to be in touch with their femininity are mocked, bullied, or attacked, it’s often because they’re seen as failing to live up to masculine norms. They’re punished not for being women, but for being like women in a culture that sees that as lesser. Again, if our society thought femininity were inferior to masculinity, femme lesbians would be more oppressed than butch…
/r/MensRights12/04/25 04:34 AM
21

Wrong. Gay men don't face misogyny. If gay men were socially treated as "honorary women" they would also be the beneficiaries of chivalry/female privilege. But this isn't true. And all those gay bashings happen to gay men whilst gay women are mostly spared from physical violence (with the tragic exception of 'corrective rape' but that is less common than gay-bashing). Additionally, if the root of gay male oppression were misogyny, you'd expect feminine lesbians to be the most oppressed LGBTQ dem…
/r/MensRights12/04/25 04:17 AM
14

This is why MHRAs should work with gay/bi/non-straight men as much as possible. Radfems of the 70s also hated gay liberation - they saw it as patriarchal and demanding gay men be elevated to the same position as straight men (i.e. above women).
/r/MensRights12/04/25 03:56 AM
3

Because the right wing is inherently hostile to LGBTQ people. That's certainly not true of the libertarian right. I'm a libertarian, MHRA and I'm not straight. Plenty of us non-straight dudes here.
/r/MensRights12/04/25 03:54 AM

Ask yourself: how many men would pick an average-looking woman with a good heart and a modest figure over a selfish woman with a curvy body, big boobs, or an hourglass shape? Most would. Whilst I mostly agree with you, this is where you're wrong. Especially in the hookup market, where looks reign supreme. If men were more willing to sacrifice appearance in order to get character, we wouldn't have problems like Amber-Turd-esque Bunny Boilers and other Borderine Personality Disorder Princesses. Ye…
/r/PurplePillDebate12/04/25 03:27 AM
1

I don't disagree with you. The double standard sucks and it does seem men will cut more slack for women (and women for each other) than anyone will cut men some slack.
/r/PurplePillDebate12/04/25 02:03 AM
1

My argument is that egalitarianism will naturally lead to equity. Take for example male and female sentencing. You can pick any country where men and women are equal under the law, yet men still get higher sentences for the same crimes. Are they treated the same according to the individualist classical liberal idea of egalitarianism? Erm, no. Studies after studies have confirmed this. Chivalrous biases on the part of judges can undermine equality (by precipitating a situation in which men get to…
/r/MensRights12/04/25 01:58 AM
5

I agree with that as a matter of fact, but socially-prevalent gender norms will often consider these admirable-for-both-sexes traits as "masculine" rather than "feminine." Which is why I think definitions and clarity are especially important.
/r/PurplePillDebate12/04/25 01:45 AM
6

Define "acting masculine." Are you talking about butch behavior or things like, I don't know, accepting responsibility, being forthright, being direct, and having a high interest in sex (within the confines of committed relationships)? A lot of people on this sub, not unjustifiably, have suggested women be more rational and more accountable and more direct and less into 'princess' crap. Isn't that just asking women to "man up" to some degree?
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 12:52 PM
2

Please tell me that's a snarky remark.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 12:41 PM
4

Just because your husband isn't going down on you enough doesn't mean you can fuck someone who you have such power over!
/r/MensRights11/04/25 10:48 AM
3

You're presuming "egalitarianism" only refers to left-wing-style "equity" egalitarianisms (which aren't really egalitarian at all, as they set up a moral hierarchy that treats the victimized and the weak as superior people worthy of extra 'weighting') that operate on a meso-collectivist level (i.e. subgroups within the overall society). Most people here embrace an individualist and classically liberal egalitarianism - we're all equally human, we all have equal rights and an innate dignity that n…
/r/MensRights11/04/25 09:15 AM
1

I didn't say anything which contradicted this. Also: I don't see many basement dwelling neckbeards demanding Staci's. But I sure see a whole lot of their looks equivalent women demanding Chads and Tyrones tho. Looks-equivalent measured how? There's no such thing as an objective looksmatch. At best you can organize people in a ranking on the basis of "attractiveness-by-average-normie-standards-for-members-of-that-sex" but that doesn't mean people in any particular range of that ranking will have …
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 09:05 AM
2

A fantasy that only develops in the small portion of top desirable men… I disagree there. The fantasy seems inherent in the male lizard brain. Even deeply undesirable men, like Elliott Rodger, clearly had it (read his manifesto in full). Therefore not a valid criticism of the absolute vast majority of men. Since when am I criticizing? My post says both sexes have lizard-brain-induced hangups they're going to have to confront honestly, and pleads for both men and women to cut each other a bit mor…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 06:41 AM
2

sex quantity and quality a woman provides is mostly dependent on how attractive she finds her partner. I'd agree there, but there's still a skill aspect - a super-inexperienced girl is likely to lack those skills. So she absolutely WANTS to do things when she gets a hot partner, but the quality will improve with practice. Adventurous women regularly turn into "starfishes" when paired with men they're not truly attracted to. Agreed. And that's why many men are wary of dating high n-count women. T…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 06:38 AM
1

Sure. And you're totally valid how you are. I'm just saying I suspect that the combination of "natural monogamy" + "find the right person" is very, very rare.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 06:25 AM
2

further showing my point that it is only the top portion of desirable men who would enjoy having to “hunt” that less interested woman. And that interest is representative of the pickiness you reference. But that's entirely my point. It is an irrational, lizard-brain fantasy that can only become true in exceptionally rare circumstances most men will never meet.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 05:54 AM
2

I can only speak for myself, but in my experience men don't typically get offended by seeing other men sexualized. They may get resentful if they're not hot men. We see women acting like this all the time, too. They may get extra resentful owing to the double standard you correctly highlight - "why can't I do this to women if they can do this to men?" is a fair question. it’s wrong to see anyone as a piece of meat. Appreciating someone else's sexual appeal is not the same thing as seeing them as…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 05:46 AM
2

The direction of causality may not go that way, but it DOES stand to reason women whom are more sexually adventurous are likely to have more partners (it may be the adventurousness that causes the promiscuity rather than the other way around). It also stands to reason that, to the extent sexual performance is a skill, it can be improved through experience. To suggest "women don't need to cultivate skill in sex" is just a rationalization for allowing her to "starfish."
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 05:37 AM
1

Why is that evidence that it’s from the primal lizard brain? It’s not evidence. Strongly-felt, common-among-the-population urges that fail to withstand rational analysis are, at least plausibly, from the lizard brain. What’s your evidence that men have an evolved desire for paternal certainty and that slut shaming is from that? Surely you're familiar with the basic evolutionary psychology surrounding paternal certainty and parental investment, no?
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 02:49 AM
1

Could you please construct that argument in sentences?
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 01:39 AM
1

Chastity or fidelity exists on a spectrum so I'm not talking about virginity here. Also, men and women want to feel special. They want to be seen as special by their significant other. Sleeping with someone who hasn't slept around with every guy is a compliment to him - it says that she has high standards and he met them. I agree. That's the male drive I'm discussing. What do you want -- that people don't give compliments to the person they're dating? Of course not. I'm not saying anything of th…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 01:38 AM
1

I said chaste, not specifically virgin. The whole fantasy is to be elevated above other men by winning over the pickiest woman.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 01:35 AM
-1

The difference between men and women is that women will never creep up on individual men and lecture them on what they must become. Women will just slap a man in the face, call him an incel, and make false rape allegations on social media. Men are really triggered by women who refuse to want to check their boxes. Frankly this strikes me as delusional, especially because you're using pill-o-sphere men as your sample. Most men are not pill-o-sphere types. shoving their checklists down our throats …
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 01:33 AM
0

Women weren’t “settling.” Do you seriously think they were responding to their husbands as if he were a chad? Really? That back in the Victorian days husbands were having better, longer, more imaginative sex? I honestly don't think so. We all know what "good husband material" meant - the phrase is found in Jane Austen at the latest. That said,
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 01:29 AM
2

It's possible if you meet the right person. I never said it wasn't possible, but "IF you meet the right person" does a lot of lifting there. There may also be the issue of YOU being the right kind of person too - some people skew naturally monogamous after all.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 01:26 AM
2

Well shit, a rare post I mostly agree with. Thank you.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 01:24 AM
0

Evidence that’s it’s from the primal lizard brain? Both for men and women? The primary piece I offered of evidence is the fact these desires are super-paradoxical, self-contradictory at times. They fall apart on rational analysis. I'll add another - the fact these desires we have are resistant to technological change which would fulfil them. For example, slut-shaming still exists, in part due to men's evolved desire for paternal certainty. But we live in a world with genetic testing, and thus we…
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 01:24 AM
2

I never said that ALL resentment comes from the innately irrational/contradictory nature of our desires regarding members of the other sex. I just said it was part of the recipe. There are other completely valid things that can cause such resentment. Heightism is one example. Indeed, I'd say heightism is one of those female-lizard-brain impulses that I talk about.
/r/PurplePillDebate11/04/25 01:20 AM
14

This used to be completely standard and the vast majority of married men received this treatment. Frankly I think you're looking at the past through an extreme case of rose-colored glasses. Women know when they've settled. Plenty of those past marriages were ones of convenience and ones driven by societal pressure. She made the prudent choice of "good husband material" but he wasn't getting a ton of sex and she wasn't a super-sexually-enthusiastic sexpot (especially back in those days where prud…
/r/PurplePillDebate10/04/25 01:54 PM
1

Well this kind of ignores that most people go for looks and SES matches and assumes people only go for as hot as they can get. How do you define looks-match, exactly? Can you objectively quantify it? Also, as for SES matches, this CAN be quantified, but do you have any data on this? In addition, some of the SES-matching behavior can be prudence regarding avoiding gold diggers etc, but that kind of prudence doesn't mean the lizard-brain motivations stop existing.
/r/PurplePillDebate10/04/25 01:50 PM
4

In recent years, there's been a huge push towards "body positivity" in women and it works, even influencing men's preferences. That's the only thing I disagree with you on. Body positivity does not work (at changing men's preferences). At most, its encouraged men into BBWs to be more open about their preferences. You may be seeing more openness about that subject and thinking that actual preferences have changed. Other than that, I agree with you entirely.
/r/PurplePillDebate10/04/25 12:33 PM
2

I agree with you - the gender roles logically imply each other - the infantilization/pedastalization of women necessitates the instrumentalization/parentification of men. However, I DO think that it is fair to say there has been substantial progress on ameliorating at least some of the restrictive aspects of traditional femininity. We can't say the same about traditional masculinity, where the burden remains and is in-part sustained by the fact that the pedastalizing (and some of the infantiliza…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/04/25 01:29 PM
4

I agree entirely. Pedastalization of women needs to go. The consistent women's advocates (rare as they may be) will appreciate that, since they complain about being held to impossible standards of virtue and non-shallowness, and deal with the blowback when they fail to meet such an unrealistic ideal. And the men's advocates will appreciate that, as pedastalization of women is pretty much the anchor of all the traditional gender roles men are still saddled with. The only people who won't like are…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/04/25 01:03 PM
3

What she said is mainstream rhetoric, or at least it was when I was being raised, and many men here have testified that women in their life have told them the same basic thing.
/r/PurplePillDebate07/04/25 01:09 AM
4

You're distorting what she said, almost certainly deliberately, and Sexy Sons Theory. Every mother has a biological incentive (the propagation of her own genes) in helping her son be reproductively attractive (i.e. trigger red-meat horniness in a member of the opposite sex).
/r/PurplePillDebate07/04/25 01:08 AM
8

So... you're just saying "all men who get this fake advice and believe it deserve what they get" then? Note that this doesn't actually prove women (and society in general) don't propagate the mal-advice. Rather it relies upon that presumption. When we began this discussion, you were arguing "it doesn't happen" but now your position seems to be "it happens, but its good." So you're acknowledging that many men, myself included, are systematically misled by mainstream dating advice like "just be yo…
/r/PurplePillDebate07/04/25 01:06 AM
12

Your mother gave you a comfortable lie as she perhaps didn't know how to handle the situation. Your condition perhaps prevented you from understanding the world around you. I see it all the time in this sub. Indeed. And it proves that TRP's basic argument is correct - men are systematically lied to by mainstream dating advice. I was. So were almost all the TRPers here, and I'm sure many purple pill dudes will back me up on this too. The motivation behind society doing this can be debated but soc…
/r/PurplePillDebate06/04/25 12:41 PM
19

Were you home schooled? Most guys learn looks matter by grade 7. I wasn't homeschooled, but my own mother very explicitly told me that looks mean (essentially) very little, personality matters more, and at least one woman would eventually "fall in love" with me because of my personality. The idea that women don't contribute to the propagation of deeply-unrealistic dating advice is simply ridiculous. Also, if your response is "you should have just intuitively realized she was lying to you to make…
/r/PurplePillDebate06/04/25 10:59 AM
2

when I asked for her opinion about misandrists in feminism and their effect on feminism's reputation, she used to dismiss them as "angry lesbians" Well she's not wrong about them being angry lesbians. Unfortunately, the angry lesbians control the feminist movement these days.
/r/PurplePillDebate06/04/25 02:49 AM
1

I'm unironically happy that Paglia survived the pandemic. Same. I may disagree with her quite often but I can listen to her rant for hours.
/r/PurplePillDebate04/04/25 09:22 AM
2

It isn't an entirely demented proposition. Rebellion against the feminine tyranny of the overbearing mother IS a drive in the male psyche, at least if you believe Paglia. Admittedly Paglia is sometimes loopy, sometimes brilliant, it's like red or black on the roulette wheel with her.
/r/PurplePillDebate04/04/25 08:22 AM
3

I'm only purple, but my mother wasn't a millennial feminist. She was a boomer second wave feminist. She wasn't REALLY a misandrist, but she was prone to misandric rhetoric/blaming men (mostly as venting but sometimes she got sincere and had a bit of resentment). That said, I really sympathized with her basic reality - she was an exceptionally intelligent woman who was a stay-at-home mother and she clearly felt her intellect wasn't being used or valued. And frankly I can't blame her - I know hous…
/r/PurplePillDebate04/04/25 08:20 AM

Yep, news on TV and newspapers have been concentrating on bad news for a reason - it gets more people to read/watch them. "If it bleeds, it leads." It's no wonder people overall are more anxious and neurotic these days. Agreed there. Too much social media, and too much news media really, is not good for anyone's stress levels. I worry a lot about my dad getting a stroke from some of the Outrage Porn he watches too much...
/r/PurplePillDebate04/04/25 05:36 AM
6

Feminism has moved on from liberalism and egalitarianism a LONG time ago. Agreed. Hence why classical liberal/libertarian feminism is effectively dead. Individualist feminism is at most a handful of women without academic jobs, mainstream cultural influence, big think-tank backing, government-funded budgets, etc. I saw it when I studied ethics in college, under a feminist professor (she wasn't a misandrist but she taught me a lot of feminist theory, and I'm grateful for that). Any form of libera…
/r/PurplePillDebate04/04/25 04:52 AM

You have a point but I think you're missing a critical issue: The decline of single-sex physical spaces. Both sexes need to vent about each other. Men DO talk about women to other men (often complaining), just as women DO talk about men to other women (often complaining). Given the different romantic/sexual/relationship priorities and psychologies the sexes have on average, it makes sense that heterosexual dating will inevitably ferment some discord. But feminist activists had exclusively-male s…
/r/PurplePillDebate04/04/25 12:57 AM

Your point about the algorithm is an interesting one. Rage bait gets views. Controversy gets views. Hot takes get views. Nuance and careful discussion usually don't (I'm sure you can see that on this very sub). The perverse incentive is obvious.
/r/PurplePillDebate04/04/25 12:48 AM

Or... it just means "sorry, you're not my type, but you might be somebody else's" That's just a politer way of saying the same thing. No one is owed sex or romance, but from a biological viewpoint, "turning someone down" romantically is passing a value judgment of sorts on traits that are substantially determined by their biology. This is probably why when women get turned down by men, they get very offended too (especially since they're used to being the object of desire!). "You don't think my …
/r/PurplePillDebate04/04/25 12:45 AM

The blame game is tired, though. I don't like the idea of attributing collective blame to one or the other sex, but we've literally had a powerful academic/cultural/political movement playing the Blame Game for decades, putting all the blame for everything on males, and demanding that it is "men who need to change" (Redstockings Manifesto). And this movement has policy influence, ivory tower positions (and the resultant job security), government and some private funding, and influence over mains…
/r/PurplePillDebate04/04/25 12:37 AM
2

The Conservative Party that nominated and elected a rapist as president. Not all women are Americans. As Christopher Hitchens said, Bill Clinton was (his words) "almost certainly a rapist" too. Maybe Hitch was wrong, but the sad reality is Trump is almost certainly not the first rapist in the Oval Office.
/r/PurplePillDebate03/04/25 02:33 PM
4

Some of what you say is right, but I'd disagree with several points you made. Every part of todays society is set up to appease male nature. I'd completely reject that. I'd say that contemporary society's dating scripts and romantic expectations/tropes/habits/routines, as well as many of the family laws and relationship laws, have been structured around women's imperatives. That said, at least some men HAVE incidentally benefitted quite a lot from that. More dating options Only relevant for men …
/r/PurplePillDebate03/04/25 04:32 AM
1

Ugh, I didn’t have to read much of what she wrote to be completely uninterested in reading more. Camille actually has quite a lot of good things to say, but sometimes she's fucking delulu. Again, like Peterson, the issue is her favorite thinkers were often very head-in-the-clouds (think Freud + Neitzsche's Crazier Moments). She also believes in the "primordial feminine chaos" thing. If you want to read my critique of her you can find it here: https://www.honeybadgerbrigade.com/2017/06/26/a-criti…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/04/25 03:59 AM
1

Based on experience, and the incredibly nasty assumptions people make about me based on labels I have used to at least approximate my views, I no longer believe labels are a useful means of communicating my views. They’re not fully accurate anyways. That's fair. Incidentally, I am of the opinion that many fields of study that use the term “science” in their titles do not quite meet the rigor and reproducibility standards of natural sciences, and some of those fields rarely operate in a scientifi…
/r/PurplePillDebate03/04/25 03:33 AM
1

Even if the woman had used Plan B, it’s not even guaranteed to work. There's also Plan C (pharmaceutical abortion) if that doesn't happen.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 01:57 PM
1

He is evil because he is planning to fully abandon his child that he created intentionally. He didn't "create" the child. The fetus isn't a child yet. That's why we can abort the fetus but we can't abort children. She, by choosing to accommodate it within her for several months when she has the ability to get rid of it, at government expense, is technically the one "creating" the child. He provided the clay but she is the one who's choosing to make the sculpture out of it.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 01:55 PM
1

PART 2 If I had to argue that, I would say that I think there are traits stereotypical to both genders in each ideology: for example, authoritarianism is masculine in its obsession with strict hierarchical obedience (think the military, or a classical patriarchal “male headship” structure), but is somewhat feminine in its obsession with showy surface image and parades and yes… while I don’t think attempting to reach some kind of group-think is particularly masculine or feminine as both masculine…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 01:16 PM
1

PART 1 I cannot fix that you misread my emotions or make false accusations about my emotional state. Well, given you did misrepresent my arguments (and have done so in previous debates with me) even after I clarified them, I suspected my arguments (or your interpretations) may have made you angry. That said, I do appreciate this response of yours, and that you're willing to give me a chance to clarify my views further. So I'm going to respond because I do wish to engage in good faith. But the re…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 01:15 PM
3

If women have all this power and direct it at stopping male birth control from being a thing, why is it still being researched and tested? It's being researched and tested much less than female contraception. I never said women were omnipotent! Men could have that power too if they actually got together and stood on demanding better conditions. Also men and women advocate together for a lot of things as well. Large, loud, and organized groups usually have the power to sway policy, not just women…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 05:47 AM
2

I'm sorry but I'm steadily becoming convinced you're not really interested in debate. You seem to be more interested in looking for "gotcha's" and things to be outraged about. Maybe I am misunderstanding your intentions, sure, but I notice you absolutely refuse to engage in any kind of argumentative charity - a key cornerstone of how debating should function. And when I clarify you refuse to accept the clarification. Probably because you find it easier to be offended at the pre-clarification arg…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 04:52 AM
4

By modern women, I mean women immersed in the modern cultural zeitgeist, i.e. elite culture which is dominant among the producers of our consumable cultural products (art/media/scholarship). This culture is nowadays exactly the same as woke culture. Fair point. Although I do see some signs of wokeness waning and big cultural producers wanting to go back to the center to some degree. Even among social media trends, things like #SoftGirlEra stuff are representing a type of dissent from Girlboss Po…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 03:42 AM
3

I just don't think the fact that women complain and push hard against things is a reason to give up trying. I never said it was, but you can't suggest that women's complaining is some sort of meanlingless triviality. It is the equivalent of highly-powerful, highly-motivated, deeply-entrenched political opposition. Again, this was true even in societies where women did have much less rights than men. Do you mean the sub or is it a website? Thank you for the recommendation! I mean the MensRights s…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 03:36 AM
12

I'm very sympathetic to your critique, but there's one point I need to make: You have to sort by controversial to reach the actual sane comments. So that shows you this isn't the mindset of a singular deranged woman, it's the DOMINANT mindset among modern women. You're presuming that the majority (or at least a perfectly representative sample of) "modern women" (by which you mean left-wing women presumably or?) use AITA on Reddit. That is a contestable claim. Reddit tends to select for nerdy typ…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 03:30 AM
8

Do you guys seriously have no better arguments other than "women complain"? Women (at least upper class women) complaining is very politically powerful, even in polities where women's rights are severely restricted (Ancient Rome often had Senator's wives getting their way by protesting outside the Senate). In more recent times, a good example is alcohol prohibition. Women's activists managed to get the US Constitution amended (a very hard thing to do). "Women complaining" is politically effectiv…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 02:54 AM
-2

That, again, is not what the article said. It isn't even close to what the article said.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 02:35 AM
1

When people were enslaved there was no glorious celebration in which the slave was the star of the show. Women were oppressed by traditional gender norms, but the notion that their oppression was a variant of chattel slavery is ridiculous.
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 02:34 AM
3

Despite the hysteria of the right wing, our institutions are not cranking out numerous degrees in “gender studies.” In part only because the right wing are starting to defund these degrees in useless fields, partially due to the credential inflation issue. And yet on average, those with a bachelors make a lot more over a lifetime than a high school graduate. It depends by field. That's true about some degrees, absolutely. But there are also plenty of degrees that clearly fail to have the same im…
/r/PurplePillDebate02/04/25 02:32 AM
-7

I read the article. It’s just whining about how actions have consequences That characterization proves you didn't read the article.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 03:09 PM
6

I'm not going to speak of myself personally, but I don't think you have much evidence that men resent women who are more educated than them. I do think, given rampant credential inflation and the large number of degrees in useless fields (Grievance Studies etc) that women have, future marriages will more frequently be between a less-educated-but-more-lucrative man (so a well-paid blue collar guy, successful tradesman type) and a woman struggling with student debt and paying off an education that…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 03:06 PM
0

You absolutely implied it You're deliberately attributing to me a position that I did not endorse. In addition, alleging that a group is self-interested DOESN'T carry with it any implication that this group's self-interest will come at the cost of the interests of others. You read things into my post that weren't there. This is true with almost all activism. More men getting the vote started with richer men More people of color getting rights started with the richer ones. Sure. And from that, we…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 02:56 PM
-5

Man wait til you hear how we got democracy I never suggested that the interests of upper-class women were necessarily bad for society (sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't, sometimes they're even good for society at large). Not to mention, I do believe all people have a right to make their grievances known, including upper-class women. The point I am making is that it seems, historically, great wealth was a precondition of women's activism, not a product of it. So the argument that the weal…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 02:47 PM
1

It's sexist for anyone's standards to just be "look nice". Could you explain how? Because the appearance standards are sex-specific?
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 02:19 PM
2

Yes, because some men's standards are "look nice". Those are sexist. How are they sexist? Are you alleging "soft bigotry of low expectations" here? The vast majority of heterosexual members of both sexes want a partner that fits an opposite-sex-specific appearance standard. If there's any sexism there, it is both bilateral and impossible to transcend because human sexual desire is mostly lookist.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 02:04 PM
1

I'd hesitate to equate infantilization with oppression though. I think it is hard to refute the proposition that it is a KIND of oppression (i.e. prolonged unjust or cruel treatment). Of course there are worse kinds of oppression, and there are some benefits to being infantilized. By the same token, I think men have historically been instrumentalized, which has some pros too, but that is also a form of oppression.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 01:45 PM
2

Let's see if anyone actually addresses this post or if they just try to tone-police it away. Interestingly, the large number of women tone-policing and/or deliberately misconstruing the argument and/or responding with righteous indignation rather than substantive critique completely validates the basic idea that women, relative to men, are more concerned with protecting feelings than with reaching truth.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 12:39 PM
1

Valued like property, not so much like humans It is far more accurate to say women were valued like children were (they're the future and must be protected but they're also weak and fragile and often don't know what is in their best interests). Now, that is a kind of oppression (infantilization to be specific). But it isn't equivalent to being treated like property.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 12:35 PM
0

Handwriting analysis is pseudoscientific bunk that was already dismissed as junk by rational society decades ago go. Sure, and I'm no fan of Jung either. I think his entire psychological theory is wrong. I'm a cognitivist. But I thought it was an interesting observation nonetheless, in context of the Viennese Madman's rejection of reason in favor of emotionalism. And what is the point of claiming Hitler was “feminine” except to perpetuate the idea that femininity is evil? Can you please stop asc…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 11:47 AM
2

Your first point is interesting. I'm actually not sure that cultural feminization is INHERENTLY authoritarian. In fact, I don think authoritarianism is inherently gendered at all, just look at all the patriarchal kingdoms/dictatorships throughout history. I agree with you that authoritarianism is not inherently gendered - there is "male-lizard-brain" authoritarianism just as much as there is the feminine kind... its why some people describe the Donkey Party and Elephant Party as the "Mommy Party…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 11:36 AM
-10

The rise of the feminism correlates with an explosion in human development and peace Correlation is not causation. Also, history shows that most women's movements have always been started by, and represent the interests of, upper-class women. The Suffragettes are an obvious case of this. Ergo, the historical record suggests perhaps feminism (which some people like to conflate with "equality for women" or "equality of the sexes") is a CONSEQUENCE of material abundance rather than a cause of it.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 10:57 AM
-2

But this isn't the end of history; either an extreme right-wing backlash, possibly a fascist one that overturns liberal democracy, will eventually occur, or the society will be conquered from either the inside or the outside. Hard disagreement on that particular issue. What we're seeing now, including reversals of "cultural feminization," is actually a restoration of liberal democracy, not anything like sinking into fascism (fascists were not interested in streamlining or cutting government bure…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 10:32 AM
0

Sounds like men should up their standards from just "looks nice". I agree, but when men have standards it is seen as inherently sexist, whereas when women have standards it is seen as evidence of her valuing and empowering herself. And that's just a very unfair double standard.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 07:41 AM
0

Women aren’t a monolith. We’re human beings, we all have individual preferences, JUST like men do. And women's preferences are not equally or randomly distributed. The vast majority of women have a strong preference for the same set of traits in partners of the opposite sex. Just like men.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 07:37 AM
2

Women contribute to patriarchy, but create it? If we're going on the basis of dating urges, they're just as enslaved by the Throbbing Biological Urges as men are, and in many cases aren't very self-aware about said urges, so I don't see why we can BLAME (in the sense of "attribute moral fault and moral responsibility") them for having their lusts. And it isn't like they collectively gathered around the primordial tribal fire and consciously crafted some sort of conspiracy surrounding the topic o…
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 12:58 AM
3

Swap “create” for “perpetuate” and you have a more correct statement. I agree with this. Women perpetuate and have historically contributed to the gender role system of our society. But blaming them, and just them, as if they consciously conspired to bring it about and all the blame lies with them and them collectively... well that's literally just a sex-reversal of the most objectionable aspects of feminism.
/r/PurplePillDebate01/04/25 12:50 AM
-8

Thats what kinda is crazy to me, it bothers men deeply when women just reject all men and say fuck it. Like it bothers men deeply it seems, wishing she ends up with innumerable cats and dying alone, but the woman simply just literally doesnt give a fuck. I have no idea where you've seen this, because in my experience, the exact opposite has consistently been the case. It doesn't even have to be about a man explicitly adopting MGTOW - if a man has hobbies that take up "too much time" (by her defi…
/r/PurplePillDebate31/03/25 08:49 AM
19

If "gentleman" means a man who will always pay the check for a woman whom he is dating, the answer is no. Admittedly I don't engage in dating but if I were to, I'm not going to subsidize the other person's presence (irrespective of their sex). After all, a date should be an exploratory event in which both partners ascertain if a romantic relationship with the other would be a good investment opportunity (note: I am not speaking in purely fiscal terms here - emotional investment is investment!). …
/r/PurplePillDebate28/03/25 06:12 AM
1

It is theoretically possible (I presume by "in love" you mean "romantic love" which necessarily includes sexual desire), but I do think this isn't possible for at least 90% of both sexes.
/r/PurplePillDebate28/03/25 01:39 AM
1

I don't think so, but dislike of unibrows seems to be prevalent among both sexes, so I don't think that's an issue of different standards for men and women.
/r/PurplePillDebate26/03/25 02:31 AM
0

Inconsistent, or just self-interested? Makeup is typically used as mimicry (to present as younger/hotter than you actually are), therefore deceiving the man as to your genetic quality. This works against his (evolutionarily defined) interests. Her having no body hair enhances his sexual pleasure (for whatever reason/s), which works in favor of his (evolutionarily defined) interests. So there IS consistency there. The consistency is "does this serve my interests?" Also, an important point: makeup…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/03/25 12:41 AM
2

Men will fuck the hot whore but would he marry her? no. Would he marry the sweet low n count girl? sure. So whys it such a problem when women will fuck hot guys who are dickheads but have relationships with more stable guys? It is more likely to be a problem because men are still sexually attracted to the low-n-count sweet girl, whereas women who settle for Billy Beta are almost certainly NOT sexually attracted to him. And this is an issue because sexual compatibility is a necessity for a succes…
/r/PurplePillDebate26/03/25 12:23 AM
2

Do you think “she” and “her” mean nothing linguistically? Is that your argument? No, that isn't my argument. That said, words can mean different things in different contexts. In the biomedical context, "woman" may frequently be equated to "female" but I don't think that the biomedical context is the ONLY context. What is the point of using “she” and “her” if it means nothing I never said "she" and "her" mean nothing. However, using a language in a relatively conventional fashion serves obvious u…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/03/25 03:25 AM
0

So if you are aware there is a difference And if you then choose to act like there is no difference to please someone psychologically or emotionally... You're presuming that there's some sort of inherent, objective, natural-law-type requirement that third-person pronouns or gendered forms of address be assigned on the basis of biological sex. I do not accept that proposition, because language is by definition a social construct. Not to mention, languages across the world greatly vary into how mu…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/03/25 03:07 AM
4

I'm quite well aware that transwomen are biologically male. If they weren't, they wouldn't be transwomen, they'd just be women. And fundamentally, when dealing with an individual who has had chronic and intense gender dysphoria, of sufficient intensity to motivate them to transition, I'm more than happy to use feminine or masculine pronouns for them according to their preference, because I don't see any point in going out of the way to repeatedly remind them of their biological sex (which is the…
/r/PurplePillDebate25/03/25 02:46 AM
11

Yes. I use feminine pronouns for transwomen. I take a transmedicalist position with respect to gender dysphoria.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/03/25 11:22 PM
1

There’s more than one way to structure your life. Sure. And you do you. You're clearly taking my post far too personally. If you read it you'll notice that it is directed to women whom are not like you. The important quote: But you can't say you cheer for defying traditional gender norms, you hate the patriarchy, you want men to be able to cry blah blah out one corner of your mouth, yet ignore the fact that, even if you can't help it, you partially contribute to that patriarchy and reinforce tho…
/r/PurplePillDebate24/03/25 11:20 PM
14

In theory, assuming she had compatible values to mine, yes.
/r/PurplePillDebate24/03/25 10:53 PM
2

Yeah, and I’m actually kinda surprised autocorrect went that route, when it always tries to convert “fuck” into “duck”. Autocorrect. The bane of modern forum discussion. Yes, but your whole claim is that society is eugenicist Are you really just angry I'm using the word "eugenicist" here? Because society in general (i.e. the summation of every individual's preferences into an aggregate) clearly shows preferences over genetics and systematically favors certain biological traits over others. Obvio…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/03/25 01:45 PM
7

"I only get pussy about it when women refuse to have sex with men they’re not attracted to!" I presume by 'pussy' you mean 'pissy', but you can go back and read my post and in this post you will find I say nothing of the sort. I have stated, multiple times across multiple threads, that no one owes anyone sex, and everyone can have whatever sexual/dating criteria they damn well please. You singled out women as uniquely “eugenicist” before I did not. In that post, I very specifically ascribe "euge…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/03/25 01:11 PM
11

Is it even really a ppd debate until someone compares women’s refusing unwanted sex to being a Nazis? Oh god, you're overreacting. Let me make it clear: almost everyone (so at least 90% of members of both sexes) is a sexual eugenicist. The vast majority of people are sexually lookist and appearances are mostly genetic. I do not morally condemn this, because it is natural, it is unavoidable, and it is something we cannot change (in addition, even if it could be changed, there would be some signif…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/03/25 02:19 AM
3

First, kudos on admitting you were wrong and being willing to change your viewpoint in response to evidence. Intellectual honesty is rare these days. Now onto the meat in your post: The women just said, "personal preference" The men claimed its because women still secretly harbor beliefs in traditional gender stereotypes or something. Why not both? Traditional gender stereotypes, whether they are socially inculcated or biologically rooted or a mix of both, do in fact play a role in forming peopl…
/r/PurplePillDebate21/03/25 01:15 AM
24

Dating isn't a "skill check" for women. The game is mostly one where the man tries to appease the woman. So the woman doesn't need to decode complex realities. The other reason is that our society, due to the Women Are Wonderful Effect combined with a (mostly subconscious) eugenic desire to wipe social misfits out of the gene pool, propagates misinformation about what women want ALL THE TIME. This is not true about male sexuality, which is understood in brutally-honest (sometimes unfairly-negati…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 11:24 PM
2

Maybe some do, but I'm not an RP guy. My flair reads purple. Also, I said that going down on women is NOT culturally seen as defeminizing (i.e. an act that would subtract your 'real woman' card), whereas being the receptive partner in anal sex is culturally seen as emasculating.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 11:04 PM
2

Maybe the real joke is the belief that gamer dicks are more important than a prudent business decision made by a company which knows very well how to maintain its profit and profile. Tell that to UbiSoft, whose stock price is crashing over DEI in Assassin's Creed: Shadows (and after a long string of failures that were female-centric such as Star Wars: Outlaws). Or WB Games, after the disastrous failure of Suicide Squad - Kill The Justice League in which Harley Quinn executes Batman in a feminist…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 12:24 PM
3

But women also play video games should they never get what they like, ever? Erm, no? Videogames are not a homogenous product. There are some games which target certain audiences. There are tons of games out there, and several genres, in which women are the majority of consumers, and thus get what they want. But not every game will appeal to (typical/average) women, and that's okay. The grievances in this culture war are a product of male-focused games and IPs being retooled to "appeal to (typica…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 12:12 PM
5

Yeah I don’t believe you, otherwise you’d be fine with consumer content which also appeals to women instead of merely tickling men’s nethers. I'm totally fine with consumer content for women. I have never advocated censoring it (and I'd oppose such censorship on principle), and it is perfectly acceptable, and everyone is allowed it. Show me ONE INSTANCE where I have ever contributed to a political movement with actual influence on policy that seeks to stop women from having their romance novels,…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 11:22 AM
4

Do you think men be turned off If at any point in the past their woman had another woman's 🐈 in her mouth? No, because rug-munching isn't seen as defeminizing, whereas being railed up the backside is seen (by most, including most women) as emasculating. And yes, the majority of opposite-sex-attracted women clearly think bottoming makes a man feminine. We've all seen the yaoi and the slash fanfiction, where 95% of the time there is a fixed positional dynamic and the 'bottom' is made a sexist cari…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 09:09 AM
3

Your preference is your preference, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I agree with you, but unfortunately that is a minority attitude these days.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 09:03 AM
2

So lesbians who date masculine women aren’t lesbians? You COULD argue that at least some femme self-described lesbians looking for a "butch" may not be actual lesbians, but bitter straight women engaging in political lesbianism or are engaging in a trauma response that makes them "try the girl thing." In my experience most lesbians (actual lesbians, not political lesbians) are neither hyper-butch nor hyper-femme. They tend to prefer short hairstyles, sure, but they're not walking stereotypes.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 08:59 AM
13

https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/dating-double-standards Here you go. Some real numbers. I think that this is just a thickly veiled attempt at making women seem homophobic and men seem more tolerant and accepting. You only dislike it because its unflattering to women, especially those who claim to have your politics. Sorry, but as a bi dude, I know this reality. But it isn't about making women seem "more homophobic" than men per se... it's about exposing women's complicity in gender trad…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 08:52 AM
2

Cortana became more human in appearance, she's still highly attractive. Her replacement in Halo Infinite, The Weapon, is also much more clothed too. Also, you couldn't think of a genuine example of a game that has a large women demographic? If you want me to avoid casual games (where women are the primary consumers) or Barbie Horse Adventure, I can also suggest The Sims. In addition, narrative-driven RPGs have a larger female audience than most "hardcore" game genres, although women are still th…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 07:44 AM
3

there should be shame in ensuing that every game that seeks to appeal to other demographics is a part of some sort of conspiracy to attack mainstream hetero tastes. No one is arguing this. Seriously. I'm presuming you haven't noticed, but the issue about feminism/social justice/etc in gaming is that it is ONLY franchises-targeted-towards-men that are targeted. No one says Barbie Horse Adventure needs more men in it. But Gears Of War now needs to have a girlboss protagonist. Cortana becomes less …
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 06:34 AM
8

Well maybe if they didn’t make their sexuality our problem Incidentally reminding you that their sexuality exists is not "making their sexuality your problem."
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 05:51 AM
5

No one said it IS hate. The OP is very clear about what he is saying - he is saying that the average opposite-sex-attracted neurotypical woman hates any cultural artefact that reminds them that sexually-undesirable men are still sexual creatures. At no time did he suggest that not DATING a sexually-undesirable man constitutes hatred.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 05:45 AM
5

Or maybe it’s because women have intrinsic value as human beings No one contests this. In addition, if this value as human beings is innate/intrinsic/inherent, then porn/fanservice/etc is of no threat to this value. don’t exist merely for men’s sexual perusal and pleasure. No one said this either. You're imagining that men who enjoy erotica/fanservice/porn are thinking of women in this way. Not only is this pure imagination on your part, it is the construction of some sort of threat narrative th…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 05:35 AM
2

I have no idea who Sam Maggs is Well maybe you are familiar with names like Anita Sarkeesian and, more recently Kim Bel Air. "Cabal" doesn't need scare quotes. There is, demonstrably, a group of ideologically-aligned activists within the gaming industry that support intersectional feminist ideology and want to make more games consistent with that ideology. So, what is this "cabal" actually doing to people who actually engage with games as a storytelling medium or as a medium for gameplay? Irrele…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 05:27 AM
3

Do you really want to live in a world without Sonic the Hedgehog, Silent Hill, GTA, Super Mario? Of course not. I like Silent Hill quite a lot myself. Not every video game needs to be full of fanservice. I didn't say that either. But culture wars against material-that-deliberately-targets-a-male-demographic need to stop. There is nothing wrong with, and should be no shame in, making a game that shamelessly caters to an audience of men-whom-are-attracted-to-women and doesn't focus on any other de…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 05:19 AM
2

I should be clear I'm not saying every character in every video game needs to be designed around shallow stereotypes. Nor does EVERY character in a video game need to be sexy (although it can be cool, as it was in the original Hades, where everyone was sexy in some way!). such as the ones complaining that the industry is being taken over some sort of cabal because certain creators create characters for their games who don't look like PlayBoy bunnies with size H cups The problem with that critiqu…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 01:15 AM
3

Yup, producing and consuming are acts So you ADMIT that the substantial majority of opposite-sex-attracted neurotypical women are viscerally revolted by the mere fact that loser men have a sexuality, and this visceral revulsion generates impulses to suppress (including through political means) anything that merely reminds you of this fact?
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 12:33 AM
2

You know what we think when you see old-school Lara Croft's boobs. That alone makes you complain.
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 12:10 AM
0

I just want to know how nonattractive female characters existing in some games hurts you? You said it takes away from men, but how? Opportunity cost of fanservice (i.e. the nonattractive female character could've been attractive), a decline in fanservice from previous historical norms, etc. The options with the fanservice are still plentiful But less than they used to be. what did you lose? We went from a situation where more of what we liked was available to a situation where less of what we li…
/r/PurplePillDebate20/03/25 12:10 AM
1

Stop playing dumb. You already know what I'm talking about. The uglification of many female characters in video games is a well-established trend with obvious ideological roots. I'm from a country where there's literally a Minister for Male Behavior Change. Stop pretending feminist activism is powerless.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/03/25 11:48 PM
3

OP is pretty much calling me a monster That's your mistake. OP is making positive analysis, not normative analysis. OP is not calling you a monster. In addition, OP does not claim you need to DATE "low-tier" men. Nor does OP allege that you, personally, have ever contributed to or been complicit in the oppression of such men. OP is talking about a general tendency that most heterosexual neurotypical (and low-self-awareness) women seem to have. I mean given you have alternative tastes, you're pro…
/r/PurplePillDebate19/03/25 11:46 PM
9

I'm sorry but women's activism has been quite successful in altering popular media and even getting outright porn regulated. You can't pretend that its merely "complaining on the internet" when women's activists, whom are often funded by government money and enjoy the sanction of prestigious international organizations such as UN Women, have genuine political/institutional/cultural power and generous amounts of funding from QuANGOs. COMPLAINING is fine. But when, for example, new games are made …
/r/PurplePillDebate19/03/25 11:41 PM
3

It absolutely is relevant to dating in general as people want to date partners with compatible personalities/tastes/hobbies/pasttimes etc. If one kind of weirdo is, say, six times more common in one sex than another, and then it absolutely can generate a massive supply imbalance. In combination with the previous factors it absolutely can create a massive supply imbalance.
/r/PurplePillDebate19/03/25 11:09 PM
1

The amount of shit men put up with when the women is hot is crazy. They will put up with their every movement being criticized and constant nagging, just because their gf is hot. Ive seen this dynamic play out so many times. The gf can get away with ANYTHING. She can be an open gold digger, superficial as hell, mean etc. You're entirely correct. 100%. So lets stop with the complaining about who women date because its a double standard. That is where you're wrong. Men are already presumed to be l…
/r/PurplePillDebate19/03/25 11:07 PM
You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

© TheRedArchive 2026. All rights reserved.
created by /u/dream-hunter