definitelylowIQ Archive

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17	What are your essential book recommendations?	meta	definitelylowIQ	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	23/05/25 04:21 PM

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-15	LWMAs have two choices: leave men’s (sexual) loneliness to the likes of Andrew Tate or address it This comment section is already filled with the usual points, so I'll try to add something new. Have you ever wondered why so many "incels" don't just start dating men? I bet you'll have the initial impulse of "Oh well they're all heterosexual obviously" at first, but... are they? We see in basically every survey that women are far more likely to identify as bisexual than men, that they are far more likely to come out if they are bisexual - and that they are FAR more likely to reject a man solel…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	13/06/25 04:55 PM
2	Blatantly Untrue But hey, after a while, I've reached something!	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	10/06/25 02:12 PM
-5	Blatantly Untrue The porn industry often is due to its human trafficking and "let's just drug them to get their consent" type of problems, and if you're creative then you could also make the point for the medical sector being "violent" due to lack of research in female bodies and gender-specific symptoms etc. that lead to higher rates of female deaths for some diseases or so. And the dairy industry, if you adopt a multispecies lens perhaps, but you can't really isolate the dairy industry from the meat industry, …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	09/06/25 09:18 PM
7	Blatantly Untrue People defining words to mean what they want them to mean has always happened, and it has always been stupid. The proper way is to follow their lead and ask them to define even more, and more, and more until they themselves don't even know what the hell they're talking about. How do you define oppression in this framework? At what threshold does institutionalized violence become systematic? In the end, it's never about whose definition is the prettiest - it's about the value judgment implication…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	09/06/25 09:09 PM
3	Project Call: Building a Platform to Document Men’s Experiences and a Global Equality Index with focus on men's issues. You should talk to whoever created https://menarehuman.com/, they originated from Reddit as well if I remember correctly, and your idea seems like a great integration into their website. Could save you some time perhaps and a lot of marketing efforts because that website is already somewhat known.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	31/05/25 05:43 PM
2	What are your essential book recommendations? Oh man hahaha, I've read it (and a few more of her books) and there is so much feminist literature on the topic that is MUCH better. I was shocked beyond measure that she published this entire book without a single empirical source or argument, and basically wrote 150 pages about her feelings on why men should be feminists. From my point of view, most feminist authors you can randomly stumble upon are far better than bell books if you'd like to understand the systematic nature of gender relation…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	28/05/25 05:57 PM
1	What are your essential book recommendations? Thank you!	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	25/05/25 06:50 PM
1	What are your essential book recommendations? Thank you!	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	25/05/25 04:48 PM
1	What are your essential book recommendations? Thank you!	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	25/05/25 04:48 PM
-2	Why are you opposed to feminism? I am a feminist. The current struggles of men can be explained really well via applying feminist theory / the conceptual framework of a patriarchal dominance culture. What I oppose is something I'd like to call "internet feminism" - an ideology with occasional cult-like features in which the goal of feminism is much more to celebrate male-gendered struggles or get really really angry about female-gendered struggles rather than to work on a better society for us all.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	23/05/25 03:32 PM
1	The phrase "men were the ones who created patriarchy" is just a deflection from pointing out their Cakism and hypocrisy when it comes to male gender roles. Well... the largest part of human history happened before we've even had agriculture, and the anthropological consensus actually is that human societies were entirely equal during that period. Riane Eisler refers to this state as a partnership culture in her books such as Nurturing Our Humanity, and Marx called it primitive communism. And there were plenty of smaller tribes that continued to exist for quite a long time in such an egalitarian state, if you're interested, check out the book that I…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	18/05/25 05:11 PM
6	New study of gendered hate speech on Reddit demonstrates true equivalence between misogyny and misandry Misandry is actually a core foundation of patriarchy, it keeps the system running. Men are characterized as objects, emotionless, worthless without status, forced to put on a mask of stoicism, all that jazz people call toxic masculinity... and therefore have to "earn" their societal value by becoming dominators, keeping the patriarchal system alive. Patriarchy is a ladder where the top % of psycho guys rule the world while the rest of the population inevitably lose - and that includes the majori…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	11/05/25 10:14 AM
3	Unpopular opinion here. There isn't attack on masculinity. Because gender role expectations still exist for men in society. Thank you. The archetype of the "modern man" who is one of the good guys is still a patriarch - just a very kind and compassionate one who gives women his power for free. But it's still expected to dominate, to outperform, to carry the world on your shoulders and never complain even if people despise you for simply existing - and mediocrity / men who are genuinely equal in all regards to women get mocked and looked down upon.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	24/03/25 03:52 PM
-1	What are your honest thoughts on "Patriarchy"? I think my stance on this is that patriarchy was real for most of human history and still is real in quite a few countries around the world. Also, there are still remnants of this social structure embedded in the western world here and there. But if there is one aspect of hegemonical oppression, it's the idea that the group in charge / ruling class is actually victimized + high emotionalism / the idea of a just and necessary fight. The nazis framed the Jews in this way (feminists aren't just lik…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	13/02/25 05:04 PM
6	Why is it considered so ok, oftentimes by self-identified feminists, to make a bunch of negative assumptions about men that would rightly be considered irrational and immature if made about women? Can this be changed, or is it just a consequence of humans being prone to irrational tribalism? From many conversations I've had with feminists, the typical argument I've heard is this one: - We live in a patriarchy where men are in charge and the fact that I can't recognize my privilege is proof of it. - These prejudices are all very justified, reasonable reactions to that patriarchal oppression. They wouldn't be there if the system weren't unfair after all. I never understood it. They never wanted to explain more because I'm a man and it's not their job to educate men on feminism, I shou…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	11/02/25 06:10 PM
7	Boys have been taught to abandon themselves... You forgot the expectation that men should be competent in basically every single thing you can do in life and that not being in the upper percentile in just one of these areas makes quite a few people view you as worthless. We have to be machines and deliver outstanding results in every single life area or else it's selfish, or being a loser, or you taking advantage of patriarchal privileges, or whatever. And, even if you do perform perfectly well in an area, there are still a lot of people ang…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	08/02/25 08:37 PM
53	Why is the left losing younger men to the right? I mean as soon as you enter socialist circles, a lot of the people there are women and I have yet to meet a single one of them who isn't passionate about feminism. If you're a man and the first things you hear when you become curious about this side of the political spectrum is "YOU are DESTROYING everything!!!" and what horrible monsters men are, that's as if McDonald's is butchering the animals right at the counter where you order the food. Whether or not these points hold truth to them immedi…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	02/02/25 10:47 AM