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| 43 | Green Party [of England and Wales] proposes ban on circumcisionWe'll see if this proposal goes anywhere. It could be voted on by party members in October. Regardless, I expect the British media to use this to continue slandering the Greens as antisemites and Polanski as a self-hating Jew. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/06/26 01:21 PM |
| 1 | "For the love of gods can we please stop saying "women and children" when talking about the tragedy of death/mass death? It literally just perpetuates male disregardability. Emphasizing children is fine, but why is it worse when women die instead of men?"You might be interested in this article by legal scholar Heidi Matthews: https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/scholarly_works/3196/, which critiques the "women and children" framing in South Africa's ICJ case against Israel. By making women and girls the exclusive victims of sexual and reproductive violence in war, it ignores the instances in which the reproductive capacity of men and boys have been targeted in Gaza. While these atrocities against men and boys have been widely condemned, very… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/05/26 12:51 AM |
| 3 | What’s behind a ‘boy crisis’ in Canadian schoolsThis is quite the moment. The Boy Crisis going from some fringe idea by some fringe figure to making CBC's flagship nightly news program. As for whether talk will turn into action, I think it's notable that this news report strongly suggests that the government needs to act and acknowledge the different needs of boys in school. The way it was presented, it wasn't too sympathetic to the woman dismissing the issue while talking about "male supremacy." | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/05/26 09:04 PM |
| 7 | Young Men in Ontario may be able to Challenge for Discrimination in Car Insurance RatesI've lived in Ontario my whole life and did not know about this SCC case. Interesting. I'll need to read into this one. Just looking over the basic facts, while the case was decided in 1992, the original complaint was from 1983. The majority opinion concludes: The insurance industry must be allowed time to determine whether it can restructure its classification system in a manner that will eliminate discrimination based on enumerated group characteristics and still reflect the disparate risks of… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/05/26 06:47 PM |
| 0 | Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’ | MenYou could interpret this as more of a descriptive rather than prescriptive statement. It's old-fashioned "boomer" advice, but it still largely holds up. A lot of male expectations remain pretty old-fashioned. Sure, we should work to move beyond these sorts of traditional gender expectations, but in the here and now, it's still probably good dating advice. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/12/25 09:49 PM |
| 2 | Bernie Sanders on Men's issuesIt would have been more interesting if he had brought up the political gender gap. How men and women consistently vote differently on the left-right axis and whether that's healthy for a democracy. Confronted by the fact that his side has lost the male vote, Bernie would be forced to answer the question: do men need to be better for the left? Or does the left need to be better for men? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/10/25 12:01 PM |
| 19 | RFK Jr. is Asking the Wrong Questions About Circumcision. Here are the Right Ones.A lot of the headlines I'm seeing about this are very misleading. Titles like "Circumcised boys more likely to be autistic, RFK Jr claims" makes it sound like he's saying circumcision is the cause. He's not. "There’s two studies which show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they were given Tylenol.” It's pretty clear he's blaming Tylenol. This isn't some intactivist talking. I rather doubt he has any objections to routine infant circumci… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/10/25 11:28 PM |
| 2 | What are your thoughts on pornography and sex work?Agreed. They don't call it the oldest profession without good reason. Meanwhile, a new panic pops up every time there's a new innovation in sex work. It's new brothel, same girls, if you get what I mean. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/09/25 05:58 PM |
| 5 | What are your thoughts on pornography and sex work?I think the concern is that teenage girls are aspiring to become OF models rather than work "real" jobs. After all, you could make far more money for far less work. At least that's from what I've heard. I would point out that this is true of digital content creators in general. Streamers and Youtubers are either not considered real jobs or considered disreputable in some way, even though virtually everyone is entertained by them. That a parent might disown an OF model daughter, but be merely dis… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/09/25 04:13 PM |
| 3 | What are your thoughts on pornography and sex work?Anything involving consenting adults should be legal, and we should work to destigmatize both sides of the transaction. I do think overuse of porn leads to problems and unrealistic expectations from men. Though I would situate that in the context of our digital atomization and convenience culture rather than make a blanket condemnation of sexually explicit material. Porn has been around since forever, but it's never been so available thanks to technology. Meanwhile real human interaction has bec… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/09/25 03:53 PM |
| 8 | Double Life, new to the communityI was kind of in the opposite situation. I worked in a white-collar profession that was dominated by women. And yet despite usually being the only man in the office, I probably had the most socially progressive politics. Your story suggests an uncomfortable reality for the progressive left, that the blue-collar working-class tend to be more socially conservative. It's a tricky balancing act between the Old Left vs. New Left tendencies. The rightward movement of the Western working class can be s… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/09/25 07:58 PM |
| 8 | “The boy who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” Society actually prefer that the boy burn down his village over the alternative.If the boys burn down their own village, that's usually called a rebellion. Societies want to avoid that for obvious reasons. Rather, you want them burning some other chap's village. Basically, the old idea of warfare as a safety valve that channels discontent into something socially useful. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/09/25 04:55 AM |
| 2 | Why male unity is more dangerous than female unity (hint: Marxist theory explains it)Nope. See this adjective ending table. You'll see that the plural endings are similar, but not identical, to the feminine ones. The plural functions almost like a fourth gender. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/07/25 10:58 PM |
| 3 | Why male unity is more dangerous than female unity (hint: Marxist theory explains it)So a problem with this theory is that male homosexuality wasn't that big of a deal until Abrahamic religions denounced it as an abomination. Ancient Greece and Rome are the usual examples, but other non-Western cultures had this happen too. For what it's worth, even German grammar contains this theme of female unity, as all plural nouns in German are considered feminine. This could also be coincidence. It's not a coincidence, because it isn't true. It's a common misconception. I remember a stude… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/07/25 10:38 PM |
| 5 | CMV: People on Anti-Sex sub are actually radical feminists masquerading as AsexualsThey unironically use a Junior Anti-Sex League badge from Orwell's 1984 as the subreddit icon. You'd think this would go without saying. You suspect it's maybe satirical until you read the stuff there and realize it's dead serious. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/07/25 03:49 PM |
| 149 | Mamdani the "Incel"There have been no shortage of idiotic takes against New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, but this is possibly the funniest. If anything this so-called "incel screed" humanizes him and makes him more relatable to men, especially those with South Asian or Muslim backgrounds. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/07/25 05:51 PM |
| 32 | Zohran Mamdani Wins the Male Vote Through Working-Class PoliticsYou'd think women would've been more against Cuomo given his sexual harassment scandals. That's curious. What is clear is that men throughout the West are the more anti-establishment populist voters. It's hard to dismiss that as sexism when AOC polls better among men than women. For more on Featherstone calling Democrats "mired in misandry," see her article "Yuppie Misandry." Liberal feminist elites have contempt for uncouth, usually working-class men. This aligns with their opposition to social… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/07/25 07:59 PM |
| 2 | Concern around a particular type of criticism of male disposabilityI once made a post that touched on some of these issues. It was with reference to George Orwell's thoughts on the idea of male disposability during the Second World War. In short, treating humans like farm animals to be bred is both morally and practically flawed. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/06/25 02:54 AM |
| 2 | New independent press to focus on male writersHere: https://archive.ph/DemTX Archived link to the article, if you insist on not giving them traffic. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/04/25 10:42 PM |
| 2 | Let's make a list of content creators that make fun of male issues.From what I've seen of her, Contra isn't bad at all. Far from making fun of male issues, she has expressed sympathy for them. Part of it is having lived as a man for so many years. Even the silliest sounding incel stuffobsessing over "a few millimetres of bone," she’s admitted to sharing herself, to the point of getting facial feminization surgery. In drawing a parallel between male body dysmorphia/looksmaxxing and gender dysphoria, she's able to find a point of empathy with some of the most des… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/04/25 10:21 PM |
| 9 | New independent press to focus on male writersI don't read much fiction at all actually, and what I do read is older stuff. Maybe I'm just not that kind of reader, but it wouldn't even occur to me to check out newly published novels. Guess it's not just me, but a broader phenomenon that calls for a publishing house like this. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/04/25 02:11 PM |
| 11 | New independent press to focus on male writers“Which is not to say we won’t publish fiction by women in the future – but the emphasis at first will be on male authors. We believe there is ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by.” | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/04/25 01:59 PM |
| 62 | New independent press to focus on male writersThis new initiative Conduit Books sounds interesting. Unfortunately, many will have first heard of it on r/nottheonion. The founder Jude Cook: said the publishing landscape has changed “dramatically” over the past 15 years as a reaction to the “prevailing toxic male-dominated literary scene of the 80s, 90s and noughties”. Now, “excitement and energy around new and adventurous fiction is around female authors – and this is only right as a timely corrective”. “This new breed of young female author… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/04/25 12:58 AM |
| 1 | Young Men Voters May Be More Likely To Swing Back (to the Left)I would say most young men are either indifferent or actively contemptuous of politics. Without the enthusiasm for Trump, if we reran the election again, most of them wouldn't have bothered voting at all. Though with Trump leaving a sour taste in everyone's mouths — even alt media is starting to turn on him — the Dems would definitely benefit. Who else are voters going to turn to in a two-party system in any significant numbers? As for the approval ratings, this is supposed to be the "honeymoon … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/04/25 05:07 PM |
| 2 | Young Men Voters May Be More Likely To Swing Back (to the Left)That's... an interesting sort of protest vote. IMO it's far more fun to spoil your ballot. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/04/25 09:36 PM |
| 3 | Young Men Voters May Be More Likely To Swing Back (to the Left)I hate to admit it, but I voted Liberal. I'm way too politically disillusioned and far to the left for them, but I'm in a close riding, and I really, really don't want the Tories to win right now. Last two elections, I spoiled my ballot and voted Green. If you're an NDP voter, I would suggest voting strategically. But you do you. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/04/25 08:27 PM |
| 0 | Young Men Voters May Be More Likely To Swing Back (to the Left)Ok, sure, but you can't just dismiss the data like that. Trump's approval ratings are plummeting for all Americans, especially young adults, and that's from non-partisan polling organizations. That a Democratic Party affiliate shows that drop to be especially drastic among young men is very plausible and understandable. They were the ones who shifted rightward in force, and they are now having buyer's remorse. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/04/25 02:23 PM |
| 20 | Young Men Voters May Be More Likely To Swing Back (to the Left)Yes, I remember. The Bernie bros nonsense that turned so many young men away. However, this time around there's no Democratic opposition to speak of except for AOC and Bernie, so that line of attack is going to be much less effective and come from much more marginal voices. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/04/25 02:10 PM |
| 4 | Young Men Voters May Be More Likely To Swing Back (to the Left)Speaking of Trump, he just made another Canada as 51st state comment, just as polls open, just as I'm leaving to go vote. He's asking me to vote for him, but his name's not on the ballot! And we don't have write-ins in this country! Whatever shall I do?? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/04/25 02:03 PM |
| 15 | Young Men Voters May Be More Likely To Swing Back (to the Left)The rightward shift of young men in the West has been an established phenomenon for some time now. Much was especially made of it after Donald Trump's victory last November. However, less than 100 days into the presidency, recent polls have shown a rapid drop-off in young male support for Trump relative to other demographics. This article goes into some of the reasons why. The big one, I think, is that "Trump Is Not Addressing Young Mens’ Most Important Issues," namely, inflation and cost of liv… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/04/25 09:35 PM |
| 1 | 'Feminist Destroyer' and regular on Whatever Podcast, Andrew Wilson and I discuss the future of manI ❤️ whores. Whatever happened to the pro-sex work MRA that the radfems liked to rail against? | /r/MensRights | 27/04/25 08:51 PM |
| 16 | Why are trans women more targeted than trans men?Because they are seen as men usurping the rights and privileges afforded to women. Nobody is bothered by the converse: women usurping men's rights and privileges. Part of this, I think, lies in women's traditional obligation to bear and raise children, which was the price of their protected nondisposable status. Assuming that female role without even the possibility of pregnancy, I think strikes many people as male perfidy, an unfair and sneaky way to gain the benefits without assuming the burde… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/04/25 12:20 AM |
| 4 | I'm from Ukraine and I have a feeling that the whole world is against meUnfortunately, many leftists are against Ukraine too, either out of Russophilia or misplaced Soviet nostalgia. Not mere anti-NATO anti-war sentiment, which I can understand, but full-blown sympathy for Russia and Putin while portraying Ukrainians as all neo-Nazi Banderites. As if Russia weren't itself an authoritarian far-right state. It's no longer a popular opinion, unfortunately, but I still stand with Ukraine against Russia. Even though it's clear that there is no military solution to the co… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/04/25 05:56 PM |
| 54 | What a horrible court decision has been released in the UK today.Reading The Guardian article on this, reinforces how the whole TERF War is principally an argument about the demarcation of gendered privileges. I.e.: "places set aside for women" to the exclusion of men. The debate is over who gets to be inside the group "women" and thus receive preferential treatment, rather than, you know, treating everybody equally. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/04/25 04:56 PM |
| 1 | No, feminism is not right-wing. The progressive left has a toxicity problem, and we have to face it to change itI don't quite get what you mean. The majority of today's left supports Donald Trump and far right European parties? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/04/25 04:51 PM |
| 1 | Right-wingers from the fringe to Fox News are rolling out a new argument in favor of Trump’s tariffs—that they will help boost America’s masculinity.Trump wants to take the US back to the 1890s. No unions, no minimum wage, no income taxes, everything paid for by tariffs, while robber barons ran wild. Anyone who thinks that means well-paying union manufacturing jobs is deluding themselves. If you want that, you'll need a lot more than just tariffs. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/04/25 03:52 AM |
| 1 | No, feminism is not right-wing. The progressive left has a toxicity problem, and we have to face it to change itRight and left-wing are broad big-tent terms. I wouldn't say that it's inherently either. For instance, take a concept like nationalism. It's usually associated with the right, but it's origins are in the French Revolution, and there are a diverse range left-wing nationalisms. Feminism is usually associated with the left, but its does contain identifiable right-wing tendencies. So-called femonationalism is rising in Europe to support its far-right parties, no doubt encouraged by figures like Mel… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/04/25 01:55 AM |
| 1 | Right-wingers from the fringe to Fox News are rolling out a new argument in favor of Trump’s tariffs—that they will help boost America’s masculinity.Trump imagines tearing it all done to replace it with something far worse, a sort of cyberpunk Gilded Age, not anything better. Whether he succeeds or not, the destruction will fall on workers, not capital. Expect lower wages and higher prices, all in service of Trump’s delusional attempt to drag America back to the supposed glory days of the 1890s. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/04/25 09:48 PM |
| 1 | Right-wingers from the fringe to Fox News are rolling out a new argument in favor of Trump’s tariffs—that they will help boost America’s masculinity.Believe it or not, I am sympathetic to this view that the move from a brawn-based economy to a brain-based one has left men with the short end of the stick. Manual labour jobs, predominantly held by men, are the first on the chopping block from outsourcing and automation. However, I am skeptical that it is either possible or desireable to reverse these changes now. That was a fight that was fought and lost decades before my time. Regarding Trump's tariffs, specifically, I can confidently say the… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/04/25 08:16 PM |
| 1 | Right-wingers from the fringe to Fox News are rolling out a new argument in favor of Trump’s tariffs—that they will help boost America’s masculinity.Sadly, we'll have to wait another 3 months before America is made masculine again /s. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/04/25 03:08 AM |
| 22 | Nobody talks about male prostitutes/sex workers, I want to hear more about them.This is indeed an underdiscussed topic. Male sex workers don't fit neatly into the usual female oppression/male oppressors narrative, so it's often forgotten that they even exist. The framing of sex worker rights as a feminist and women's rights issue also excludes them from the conversation. Come to think of it, the only time I've read about their experiences from their point of view has been here on Reddit. You may want to start looking or asking on the main sex worker subreddits, because the … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/04/25 02:37 AM |
| 12 | Right-wingers from the fringe to Fox News are rolling out a new argument in favor of Trump’s tariffs—that they will help boost America’s masculinity.And recessions are for alphas! | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/04/25 04:06 PM |
| 23 | Right-wingers from the fringe to Fox News are rolling out a new argument in favor of Trump’s tariffs—that they will help boost America’s masculinity.The conventional wisdom that conservatives run the economy better cannot die soon enough. Trump is doing a good job of murdering it. You know the drill. Nation-states aren't households. Austerity is an illogical response to an economic downturn. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/04/25 03:45 PM |
| 2 | How do you respond to "men will only listen to other men"?That's interesting. All the voices in the Toronto subway are female IIRC. I'll remember to pay attention to them next time. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/04/25 02:52 PM |
| 13 | Right-wingers from the fringe to Fox News are rolling out a new argument in favor of Trump’s tariffs—that they will help boost America’s masculinity.Sounds about right. After all, Jesse Watters indirectly admitted she transitioned. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/04/25 02:43 PM |
| 67 | Right-wingers from the fringe to Fox News are rolling out a new argument in favor of Trump’s tariffs—that they will help boost America’s masculinity.“When you sit behind a screen all day, it makes you a woman. Studies have shown this. Studies have shown this!” - Trump Stooge Jesse Watters, who sits behind a screen all day and is presumably a woman Fox News claims Trump's tariffs will "reverse crisis in masculinity," because the trade war will bring manufacturing jobs back, meaning men will get to work manly jobs again. I would offer some kind of commentary here, but what is there to say? This is beyond parody at this point. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/04/25 02:52 AM |
| 21 | The Legacy of the Temperance Movement- A Subconscious Belief in Female Moral SuperiorityI have noticed a tendency among some conservatives to assert the moral superiority of women, especially with respect to matters of sexuality. That women tend to hold more socially conservative views towards pornography and prostitution is presented as evidence of this. Supposedly, they possess some inherent Madonna-like virtue, whereas men's lustful natures demand additional legal restraints. Remember that the temperance movement was closely intertwined with the social purity movement, all part … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/04/25 05:54 PM |
| 11 | How do you respond to "men will only listen to other men"?I'd jokingly quote Q introducing the computerized voice of James Bond's new car in Tomorrow Never Dies: "Thought you'd pay more attention to a female voice." Back in 1997, that was cutting-edge tech, but today it's a mundane reality that proves Q to have been right. Virtual assistants and GPS systems have predominantly female voices, seemingly because people will listen to them more than male voices. It may have something to do with the fact that mothers and pre-school and elementary school teac… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/04/25 03:31 PM |
| 4 | Let's be clear about Jordan Peterson ...Sometimes young men need someone who isn't their mom to tell them that before they do it. Peterson acts as that father figure to many men, because they don't have one in their personal lives. Not that I was ever a fan of the man given his deeply traditionalist views, but I understand his appeal. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/04/25 02:10 PM |
| 4 | What's a good response or 'comeback' to the pick me girl insult?Making a snarky passive-aggressive retort after being insulted online is an entirely appropriate response IMO. It often shuts them up right then and there, which is what you want, since there's no point in getting into a long debate with someone who leads with ad hominems. But if that's not your cup of tea and you want to engage with them, explain how they're being sexist and belittling with that term by assuming the only reason you'd disagree with them is because you're seeking male approval. S… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/04/25 08:42 PM |
| 2 | Select Committee - Women and Equalities - Incel culture - 15/05/2024I did not know that William Costello testified at a UK Parliamentary committee. That's encouraging to see. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 31/03/25 01:52 AM |
| 42 | When did Trump pay lip service to mens issues?I know JD Vance did once. But Trump never. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/03/25 08:26 PM |
| 11 | Using “incel” as an insult is immoral and obnoxious.I've pointed this out many times before, but it bears repeating. As I've said: "[I]ncel" is the progressive politically correct way of calling a guy a "virgin" who can't get laid. For good reason, blatant virgin-shaming is increasingly looked down upon. However, because it remains an effective insult against men, targeting a sensitive area of male insecurity, people still want to do it. The incel slur squares this circle. By calling a guy an "incel," you aren't really virgin-shaming him, because… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/03/25 04:41 PM |
| 53 | Men aren't actually taught to be aggressive and violent.Men are taught to be aggressive and violent in specific settings that we've deemed socially useful, e.g. warfare, policing, contact sports, and historically duelling. Here violence is expected and celebrated, but violence outside these boundaries is not only unacceptable, but harshly criminalized. However, problems arise when that violence cannot be contained within these approved arenas and leaks into society at large. Think of combat veterans, conditioned to become killing machines, and then e… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/03/25 01:31 AM |
| 2 | “Buy Sex – Pay the Price” - London Anti-Prostitution Poster. A counter-propagandist has added a sticker calling it "Anti-Male Rubbish" (2012)Nice. Yes, I'm also a Shoe fan. The Democratic Party should give bimbo populism a try. | /r/MensRights | 29/03/25 07:11 PM |
| 4 | “Buy Sex – Pay the Price” - London Anti-Prostitution Poster. A counter-propagandist has added a sticker calling it "Anti-Male Rubbish" (2012)I am a left-winger. I think the male lurch to the right, to neo-reactionary stuff even, is tragic but understandable. The fact that many influential Democrats and Labourites are favourable to the sentiment expressed in this poster contributes to that sense of male alienation. If by "enlarging the tent," you mean making things friendlier to men and men's issues, dropping stuff like this, I'm all for it. | /r/MensRights | 28/03/25 10:47 PM |
| 26 | “Buy Sex – Pay the Price” - London Anti-Prostitution Poster. A counter-propagandist has added a sticker calling it "Anti-Male Rubbish" (2012)It is legal in England and Wales, just restricted in certain ways. Public solicitation, procuring, curb crawling, and brothel keeping are crimes, but the act itself isn't. Paying an independent escort contacted off the internet is perfectly legal. That's what makes this poster pure propaganda in the pejorative sense of the word. It's not conveying information, rather, it's being intentionally misleading in order to scare men into compliance. | /r/MensRights | 28/03/25 04:20 PM |
| 83 | “Buy Sex – Pay the Price” - London Anti-Prostitution Poster. A counter-propagandist has added a sticker calling it "Anti-Male Rubbish" (2012)As seen here on Laura Agustín's blog. Buy Sex – Pay the Price Thinking about buying sex? Think again! Lambeth Council and Lambeth police are targeting those who buy sex. Prostitution is a form of violence against women and girls and sexual exploitation. If you choose to buy sex there will be consequences. If caught you could: - Be arrested - Be convicted - Receive an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) - Lose your job - Lose respect from friends and family Still thinking of buying sex? Think agai… | /r/MensRights | 28/03/25 03:38 PM |
| 7 | Dozens of male Israeli detainees and hundreds of Palestinian detainees now left in the darkThere's this widespread myth that the IDF doesn't rape Palestinian women. It isn't true, of course, but I hope these stories of men and boys being raped will further demolish these myths of the sauberen IDF. And absolutely, refer to them as rapes. If being anally violated with a metal rod isn't rape, I don't know what is. There's no brushing this off because "men can't be raped" or other such nonsense. It's about the only thing that gives me hope about the Palestine situation. Western public opi… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/03/25 05:46 PM |
| 3 | Labor And Men, Whats So Leftist About Mens Issues Anyways?Yes, I'm aware of the UAW's position on this, because their Canadian counterparts took the exact opposite position. It's not just because Canada's probably going to take this economic collision a lot worse than the US will, it's also because it's naive and delusional. You're putting your faith in a protofascist promising an idealized vision of the past to chase a dream that died decades ago. Left-wingers of all people should know there's no going back to the past. We aren't reversing globalizati… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/03/25 12:17 AM |
| 2 | A song about men's issuesIIRC someone here once described the labour movement as the original men's movement. In a way, it kind of was. There was some similar rhetoric, as this song demonstrates. It's not bad. It's going on a playlist. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/03/25 05:13 PM |
| 1 | "Legality does not equal morality" actually it precedes itNot sure what your opinions on sex work are, but Maggie McNeill is a Camille Paglia-style feminist, an "antifeminist feminist." It's a very extensive and articulate blog by an independent contrarian thinker who happens to be a retired escort. "Libertarian" would be an ok one word summation, though she's since distanced herself from the label because of its MAGA associations. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/03/25 02:17 PM |
| 2 | "Legality does not equal morality" actually it precedes itLawheads and lawheadedness are useful neologisms for this kind of thinking: A “lawhead” is one who believes that man-made laws are actually based in objective reality like physical laws; he is unable to comprehend that the majority of laws are completely arbitrary, and therefore views a violation of a “vice law” with the same horror that normal people reserve for rains of toads or spontaneous human combustion. Laws are more often based on political compromises and long forgotten social considera… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/03/25 01:35 PM |
| 2 | "Legality does not equal morality" actually it precedes itApparently, morality = the half your age + 7 rule. IDK maybe it's in the Bible or was that the FDS Bible? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 18/03/25 01:29 PM |
| 11 | Labor And Men, Whats So Leftist About Mens Issues Anyways?The trade war will raise prices of basic necessities and put countless working people out of work. The goal in theory is to bring manufacturing back to the US, but that's not happening. Globalization might have done a lot of harm, but there's no putting that genie back in the bottle. The Trump trade war will cause immeasurable harm, and it'll be all for nothing. Well, nothing for ordinary people. It should benefit some of his rich cronies. Also, if you're going to present such an unpopular opini… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/03/25 11:33 PM |
| 9 | Thoughts on Andrea Dworkin’s view of leftist men?I have noticed something of a radfem to Zionist pipeline. It helps that people like Dworkin, MacKinnon, Bindel, and Chesler all tend towards sympathy with Israel against the Palestinians. MacKinnon went as far as propagandizing for the official Israeli UN office after October 7. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/03/25 10:57 PM |
| 12 | Thoughts on Andrea Dworkin’s view of leftist men?When it comes to the Three Ps, many radical feminists truly believe women have zero agency. Even if they enjoy it, that is merely proof of how deep the patriarchal brainwashing has burrowed itself. How does one refute this take? You can't, really. Such an extreme claim of false consciousness is both unproveable and irrefutable. Any counterevidence can be immediately reframed as proof of its correctness via the magic of patriarchy theory. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/03/25 10:20 PM |
| 3 | Right-Wing Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni made Men second class citizens by Law in Italy (Femicide Law)The article in the link only says that Milei wants to repeal it. Do you know if there any constitutional challenges to the Argentine femicide law? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/03/25 04:08 PM |
| 2 | Right-Wing Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni made Men second class citizens by Law in Italy (Femicide Law)Neofascists generally aren't fazed by the thought of unequal treatment under the law. I wonder what her hero Mussolini would think of this. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/03/25 04:03 PM |
| 24 | Thoughts on Andrea Dworkin’s view of leftist men?I've heard it many times. It's widely quoted, but it doesn't appear to be a real quote. It's a paraphrase or misquote of something she wrote in her book Right-Wing Women. Nonetheless, it does describe an opinion she held, described in Chapter 3 of that book. It's an attack on the New Left, the 60s counterculture, and the Sexual Revolution. The problem with them? Men. Men are the problem. Norman Mailer remarked during the sixties that the problem with the sexual revolution was that it had gotten … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/03/25 03:52 PM |
| 3 | How do you feel about this double-sided guide I brainstormed for etiquette on the street at night, to avoid double standards and ensure fairness?Doublethink, eh? All so we can scare ourselves to death while remaining functional socially. The societal impact of all this fear mongering must be tremendous. Growing up I used to think the kids in TV shows who wandered and travelled without parental supervision were just a TV trope. It turns out that used to be more or less normal in the pre-Stranger Danger days, a normal that the writers of those shows got to experience but not me. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/03/25 12:11 AM |
| 6 | How do you feel about this double-sided guide I brainstormed for etiquette on the street at night, to avoid double standards and ensure fairness?20% on each walk? Or is it more like 20% over her entire lifetime? Either way, if she truly believed that, it's hard to believe she would ever walk outside alone. Hell, if I believed that, I might never leave my house. Now that I think about it, if people are this paranoid, that would explain why some people insist on being armed every waking moment, even when going to the bathroom at night in their own homes. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/03/25 11:17 PM |
| 8 | How do you feel about this double-sided guide I brainstormed for etiquette on the street at night, to avoid double standards and ensure fairness?Most of these align with established social norms and conventions, which properly socialized people understand. Don't deliberately startle people. If you do so accidentally, you should apologize. That should be fairly obvious. Your mention of street photography is interesting though. My brother is an amateur street photographer. I'll be sure to ask him about how he approaches this in his work. Feelings can conflict with crime statistics; partly as a result of socialization I think this is the ma… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/03/25 08:05 PM |
| 1 | Understanding where the people who are here are coming fromI kind of envy your accelerationist optimism that an intensification of capitalism will lead us to FALGSC. Or maybe that's pessimism because nobody alive today will ever see anything get better. It seems far more likely we'll end up living in some cyberpunk dystopia, but what do I know? I'm curious, though, which Srinivasan are you referring to there? I may have heard of him or her, but I'm not sure. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/03/25 12:54 AM |
| 1 | How to Engage Conservative Family Members in Productive Political Discussions: A Comprehensive GuideIt reminds me of the Socratic method. That's a compliment, but let's not forget what happened to Socrates. staunch conservatives though they do not align with the MAGA movement I imagine such people to be a critically endangered species in the United States. Moreover, because my mom might be the biggest Trump fan in Canada, this is unfortunately of little use to me. I seriously thought she was joking when she said she'd go out of her way to buy American goods because of Trump, but alas, no. And … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/02/25 10:08 PM |
| 15 | Ash Sarkar: How WOKE Politics is DESTROYING the Left!I don't know about that one, but I do know she interviewed William Costello, the incel researcher, for Novara Media. From what I remember, what stuck with me was how she kept trying to steer the conversation away from men and towards women's dating struggles instead. I guess she at least gets points for taking the time to interview him. Others might have dismissed him out of hand as a misogynistic girlfriend-having "incel." | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/02/25 08:17 PM |
| 5 | JD Vance: "Don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man"I'm sorry to say this, but if the recognition you've been waiting for all your life is coming from Trump's veep, that's not a good sign. Given the current political climate, having someone like JD Vance speak positively about men will lead to some guilt by association. Sure, someone in a high place should state the obvious: that men are not bad people just for being men. But how about we have someone a little less evil do that? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/02/25 03:33 AM |
| 2 | Perhaps people of this subreddit should join BlueskyAre there any Bluesky users that might be of interest to the people here, OP? Personally, I've never been much of a Twitter/X user, but I dabble with it to follow people I consider worth following. That some of them are drifting towards Bluesky is what got me to join. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 12/02/25 01:10 AM |
| 3 | Can anyone name resources to learn about left wing politics or left wing in general ?Probably better to start with something the average modern reader can be expected to actually finish! Like the CommunIst Manifesto, which is more pamphlet than book. Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton is also a good intro IMO. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/02/25 06:12 PM |
| 16 | Can we return the sub to leftist male advocacy?This sub has always been more of a big tent left-wing space. The old de facto lead mod identified as a social liberal. While I am personally on the anti-capitalist socialist left, we all managed to coexist and avoided leftist infighting. All left-of-centre perspectives should be welcome here IMO. There used to be some really high-quality high-effort content here. It's always been critical of feminism and patriarchy theory, but I feel like people used to be less lazy, more nuanced about things. P… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/02/25 06:03 AM |
| 6 | We are looking for more signatures on the petition to remove routine infant circumcision fetish community r/CircumstraintYes, I see r/boobs is back. Some sort of bug supposedly. Rumours of a big crackdown to appease the advertisers have been swirling for at least a year now though. If not now, I feel like that day will come eventually. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 05/02/25 05:38 PM |
| 38 | We are looking for more signatures on the petition to remove routine infant circumcision fetish community r/CircumstraintApparently, Reddit is on a ban spree of NSFW subreddits right now. Even softcore and non-pornographic stuff is on the chopping block. If this sub somehow doesn't get axed in this purge, that would be an outrage. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 05/02/25 02:59 PM |
| 2 | Discussing gender issues--my friend wants me to abandon the 'MRA' label because they feel the movement is beyond redemption and I don't want to be guilty by association of propping up the far rightCall yourself whatever makes you comfortable, especially in these trying times. Beliefs are more important that labels anyhow, and I think your heart's in the right place. As for "Men's lib," while I would be adverse to take that label given my distaste for the subreddit of the same name, remember that Warren Farrell has long identified more with the language of gender or male liberation than with that of rights. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 05/02/25 04:59 AM |
| 3 | How is it possible ?First of all, left-wing does not equal Marxist. Secondly, when Marx used the word patriarchy, it did not mean what it means to contemporary feminists. By patriarchy, he was referring to a pre-capitalist economic and family order in which the male head of the household, the titular "patriarch," controlled property, labour, and production. Even in Marx's time, this was an increasingly antiquated mode of production, which Marx argued was in the process of being dismantled by capitalism. Hence, he w… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 05/02/25 04:11 AM |
| 5 | Would you consider visiting an escort in the past a dealbreaker?Many many men would benefit from being patrons of the oldest profession. As the replies here will indicate, you'll have to keep it to yourself or at least away from your female acquaintances. Just remember it's not your problem, it's society's. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/02/25 06:25 PM |
| 5 | Q4M: Why don't males shoot their shot anymore?Maybe they would if her cute workout shirt had the words "Approach me, men! I consent!" | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/02/25 02:45 PM |
| 5 | Gender neutral draft/conscription or complete abolition?Abolish it. Finish the fight that started in the 60s. That movement had strong moral arguments against conscription. A gender-neutral draft would only address one of them. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/01/25 03:53 AM |
| 1 | How can we find Patriarchy so that we can take it down?Short answer: you can find it in a history book. For a longer answer, I'd recommend this. Patriarchy was already done in by capitalism. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/01/25 11:03 PM |
| 4 | An Old Woman Gave me Romance Novels When I Was a ChildAgainst my better judgement, and to preempt your ban for unhinged personal attacks on users here, I'll bite. Let me get this straight. You think it's perfectly fine for a teacher or parent to assign books that contain sexually explicit material to teenagers. However, if a non-parent or non-teacher gives such a book to a teen, then it's "sexual abuse" and "grooming"? If such content were really that dangerous to teens, shouldn't you be much more concerned about the former than the latter? Teacher… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/01/25 03:35 AM |
| 4 | An Old Woman Gave me Romance Novels When I Was a ChildRemembering some of the books in my high school library, I think such material would be fairly normal reading for a teenager. It's perfectly fine to criticize any form of media, romance novels included, if you feel they promote unhealthy distorted realities. But calling it "sexual abuse" is going way too far. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/01/25 05:29 AM |
| 11 | Noticed something strangeSome relevant commentary, as quoted in a Shoe0nhead video: “I think a lot of it is a reaction to social progressivism done the wrong way,’” says David Hogg, the progressive activist who co-founded Leaders We Deserve, which helps elect young progressive candidates. Young men, he says, feel like progressives look down on them for saying the wrong thing, even when it’s a mistake. That discomfort, he says, is enough to drive them away from the Democratic Party, even if they don’t necessarily agree w… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/01/25 01:07 AM |
| 2 | Noticed something strangeThat's interesting. Though from what I've read, Sheinbaum was primarily seen as a continuation of AMLO, whose left-wing populism never had problems appealing to the male vote. Morena is quite distinct in that respect from your mainstream centre-left parties of the West. Moreover, the Mexican election was between two women, meaning gender-based voting would have been a non-factor regardless. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/01/25 12:19 AM |
| 3 | How can we try to solve the Male Loneliness Epidemic? Let's come up with some ideas together and discuss them.Zuckerberg's metaverse project has largely stalled for now, but I still think it's a plausible dystopian future where we more or less live in the metaverse. I wonder if that would be a lonelier existence than what we have now. Imagine working, playing, even dating and loving in the metaverse. Incredibly depressing, yes, but it could conceivably liberate some severely isolated people from loneliness, albeit with social interactions of questionable reality. But returning to the present, I think a … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 12/01/25 07:09 AM |
| 2 | A friendly reminder that the F in TERF does in fact stand for feminist.That article seems a bit ambiguous as to her views, almost like she's unsure what to make of some of this. This being late Dworkin, her views may have changed a bit over the decades. She can easily fit FTMs into some parts of her ideology, but not in others. Namely, her conception of the penis as a central part of patriarchal male oppression makes her balk at the idea that someone without a penis can be man in any meaningful sense. I can see how that ambiguity allows for this fight over her lega… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/12/24 03:38 AM |
| 2 | A friendly reminder that the F in TERF does in fact stand for feminist.Dworkin actually wasn't. She and her co-ideologue Catharine Mackinnon took the opposite extreme of biological essentialism: strong social constructivism, in suggesting that the biological categories of "male" and "female" are themselves patriarchal fictions. Modern TIRFs, arguably the minority tendency among radical feminists today, therefore have a lot from Mackinnon and Dworkin to draw from. Though they tend to de-emphasize the trans issue and focus their efforts on their war on sex work. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/12/24 01:59 AM |
| 2 | Destigmatizing sex work empowers both genders.The vast majority of the problems with sex work come from the social stigma and the criminalization. Eliminating those would be a game changer. As you suggest, an enormous amount of the male resentment in dating you see on here would be lessened in getting to be the chooser for a change. In my opinion, and contra conventional wisdom, it would actually improve gender relations. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 27/12/24 01:40 AM |
| – | Men are so hypocritical when it comes to sex (or not having it)Too much arguing, too little fucking. More whores, fewer madonnas. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 24/12/24 12:26 AM |
| 3 | For those that believe many of men's problems would be solved by having more sex, how you would feel if it was only pity sex?In countries where it is seen as shameful or immoral, most don't admit to it. On the other hand, in countries where it is seen as normal male behaviour, the numbers are significantly higher, e.g. in Thailand, 75% of men say they've paid for it. Also a lot of guys want GFE these days, i.e. they still want the illusion of meaningful sex. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 23/12/24 09:04 PM |
| 0 | The Mazan/Gisèle Pélicot rape trial in France wrongly called the trial of all menThere's usually a higher AOC for teacher-student/employer-employee relationships, the so-called unrestricted age of consent, so no, it's not allowed. Though I wouldn't consider that to be the "real" age of consent in a jurisdiction, and I wouldn't consider such young persons to be children in any meaningful sense. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/12/24 09:45 PM |
| -8 | The Mazan/Gisèle Pélicot rape trial in France wrongly called the trial of all menAgreed, there is a double standard here. No way would fly if this were Emmanuelle Macron. As for the teacher-student thing, there's no singular definition of grooming and a lot of terms in these definitions are up to interpretation. But a teacher cannot automatically be considered a groomer, for one, because the student may not be a minor or a child. With France's age of consent being 15, you can argue that Mme. Macron abused her power, but I think using grooming goes too far in muddying the mea… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/12/24 07:45 PM |
| -5 | The Mazan/Gisèle Pélicot rape trial in France wrongly called the trial of all menCorrect. This would be sexual abuse of power and professional misconduct, but I would reserve grooming for actual kids. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/12/24 07:09 PM |
| -10 | The Mazan/Gisèle Pélicot rape trial in France wrongly called the trial of all menVery little is publicly known about their relationship when he was 15. When it became romantic and sexual, we really don't know. What is known is that Macron doesn't consider it abusive, and he turned out perfectly fine. Better than fine, actually. Being elected president and given the French nuclear codes might even be called thriving. Unless you're suggesting Macron is secretly a psychopathic rapist. like Dominique Pelicot. Personally, I agree with OP that the term grooming shouldn't apply to … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/12/24 06:04 PM |
| 1 | I am fascinated by this sub, but why do so many of you still hold to some kind of gender equality/equity?So I don't agree with you, but I know where you're coming from. If you want an explanation from someone who shares your belief in an inevitable "war of the sexes," I would suggest checking out this book, which was posted about here years ago. You can even try PMing the author on Reddit. I hear he loves to explain his perspectives. You might even get a free e-copy of the book. In short, yes, there are ways to be pro-equality while holding very essentialist views on the gender conflict. There used… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/12/24 08:43 PM |
| 9 | Has Mandatory Use of Dating Apps Changed the Game?What was considered harmless and normal in my parents' day is now considered harassment. Normality changes, and I'm convinced people back then had much thicker skins than people today. It's more pronounced in some places than others, but overall, religiosity is on a steep decline in the West. It used to be a given that nearly everyone went to church on Sunday. Not anymore. It used to be common for couples to meet at work. That's actually how my parents met. That started to decline as sexual hara… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/12/24 05:45 PM |
| 42 | Has Mandatory Use of Dating Apps Changed the Game?Everyone here saying apps aren't mandatory. For a lot of people, given their social circumstances, they are de facto mandatory. It's not like you can just meet someone at work like you used to; now that's against company policy or considered harassment. You won't meet someone at church, because people aren't religious anymore. At school or university, maybe, but that ends eventually, and it could easily be considered harassment under campus regulations. In short, all manner of societal factors a… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 19/12/24 04:52 PM |
| – | Is masculinity kinda gay?It means happy. Therefore masculinity equals the pursuit of happiness/gayness. We should all strive to be gay. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 17/12/24 02:41 PM |
| 2 | Why Men Are Moving Right: They Are Being Sacrificed at the Altar of Women's Liberation#1 is a lost cause for the modern left. Vive la difference applies to everything except gender relations. For #2, however, there is some hope. That men, women, everyone needs to feel purpose in life isn't a difficult concept to wrap your head around. Not cheerleading male obsolescence is a pretty reasonable ask and would be a decent start. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/12/24 01:07 AM |
| 7 | Lily Phillips situation/reaction is grossYes, I see now that you are correct. There was video footage. So Sparxxx didn't do this alone. She had a partner, who nobody seems to remember. At the end, they show this page filled with tally marks, supposedly showing how many guys they banged. Sparxxx supposedly scored 919, and the other girl 892. Neither figure I believe for a second. Little wonder Guinness World Records wouldn't verify what amounted to a porn gimmick. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/12/24 12:21 AM |
| 18 | Lily Phillips situation/reaction is grossSparks' record was never verified, and there's no video footage of it. And she later confirmed it was only around 150 men. Given how much Phillips makes on OnlyFans, an amount so high she didn't even want to admit it that documentary, I wouldn't be too worried about her lack of resources. As long as she hires extra staff who know what they're doing, I think the logistics are doable. Honesty, my main concern for her is the same concern I had for 58-year-old Mike Tyson fighting Jake Paul. Is this … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/12/24 09:19 PM |
| 31 | Lily Phillips situation/reaction is grossYeah, the Lily Phillips affair has been match-grade ammunition for social conservatives and radical feminists. They're all playing the usual blame game. The socons blame the woman and feminism, while the radfems blame the men and patriarchy. I'd really like to see someone like "anti-feminist feminist" Camille Paglia really shake up the dialogue on this one with something fresh. The comparisons with Gisele Pelicot are especially gross though. Gross enough that I can imagine Phillips herself denou… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/12/24 08:40 PM |
| 6 | Lily Philips films the aftermath of her sleeping with 100 men in a single day. It's basically an advertisement to bring back Patriarchy/ReligionI'm sure you're equally concerned about men deciding to embark on a career of concussions and brain damage because it's the popular thing to do. Though to be fair, women are really starting to be encouraged to do that too, as exemplified by the co-main event in the Tyson vs Paul event. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/12/24 05:30 PM |
| 1 | Lily Philips films the aftermath of her sleeping with 100 men in a single day. It's basically an advertisement to bring back Patriarchy/ReligionMore like an ad for the 4B movement or some kind of political lesbianism. The radfems are going to have a field day with this one. Although, as another commenter pointed out, this is hardly new. Go look up Annabel Chong. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/12/24 04:58 PM |
| 2 | The only real form of love is unconditional love.In church, they taught us about Agape, the highest form of love, the kind God has for humanity. It's one thing to posit that as an ideal for people to strive toward. It's a whole other thing to demand that of people. Only God can love like that. If that's the only real form of love, then humans are incapable of love. And since I don't believe in God, guess that means I don't believe in love at all. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/12/24 02:39 PM |
| 2 | Even for rich athletes, unions (and competition) help greater payDoes Ramsay act like that because he's on camera? Or is he on camera because he acts like that? The latter probably. Yes, I see what you mean. And the more I think about it, the more I realize that this sort of talk is not some recent neoliberal development. Similar things were doubtlessly said in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, subsiding only when labour unionism became normalized. Now we've come full circle, having returned to early-1900s levels of union density. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/11/24 05:14 AM |
| 10 | 18 year old Marcus Fakana facing up to 20 years in UAE jail for having sex with 17-year old girlThis would have also been illegal in California. Sometimes they even arrest the poor teenager, though luckily the DA will usually have enough common sense to drop the charges, prosecution clearly not being in the public interest. But this being the UAE, which only legalized extra-marital sex in 2020, I don't expect such mercy. What the hell is wrong with these prude parents? Right from the beginning, age of consent laws have been abused by parents to "protect" their daughters from relationships … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/11/24 03:08 AM |
| 8 | Even for rich athletes, unions (and competition) help greater payJust a couple of years ago, minor league baseball players were treated like dirt and paid a pittance. They could be paid less than minimum wage while they got shuffled around city-to-city with no accommodation. Then a lot of attention was brought to their situation, even Bernie Sanders commented on it. And now, since 2022, they're part of the MLBPA. Some encouraging news and proof things can get better. Now they get housing and wages you can actually live on. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/11/24 12:38 AM |
| 3 | Even for rich athletes, unions (and competition) help greater payThere was this old Canadian TV movie about unionization in the NHL during the 1950s. At the beginning, they show this big brutal hockey fight. The players, however, quickly realize the biggest fight isn't against each other, it's against the team owners. I don't follow MMA or combat sports, but if those hockey players beating each other up for a living could band together and unionize, why not MMA fighters? Historically, this was seen as standing up for yourself and your fellow workers. Hardly s… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/11/24 12:08 AM |
| 9 | All the best on this International Men's DayIt's tomorrow. Or maybe it's today. Depends on where in the world you are. OP is in the UK. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/11/24 03:06 AM |
| 5 | Democrats Called Young Men ‘SEXIST, RACIST’ And Are SURPRISED They LOST Their VOTES?! Lee FangI actually wasn't aware of him either until I saw this video and looked him up. But I'm definitely going to have an eye on him starting now. It's going to be a long four years, and there's bound to be a lot more to say on this topic during that time. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/11/24 09:13 PM |
| 4 | Democrats Called Young Men ‘SEXIST, RACIST’ And Are SURPRISED They LOST Their VOTES?! Lee FangFang isn't exactly an MRA, but he certainly sounded like he could be one in this interview. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/11/24 07:22 PM |
| 13 | The problem with nordic model of prostitution and how swiss model does a better job of preventing human traffickingDon't get me started on the Swedish Disease. I'll just say this. It's a sexist misandrist law that's blatantly discriminatory against men. But even if you think that's fine and you accept the ideology behind its objectives (which you really shouldn't) none of its stated benefits have ever been demonstrably proven after decades of implementation in Sweden, whose government enthusiastically promotes it. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/11/24 10:12 PM |
| 12 | The problem with nordic model of prostitution and how swiss model does a better job of preventing human traffickingI believe it's this Guardian article he's referring to. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/11/24 09:47 PM |
| 22 | The Guardian/Richard Reeves on why Democrats lost young menI heard Anthony Scaramucci say something to the same effect. The Democrats were imagining all the dads voting for their daughters. There was apparently a meme or ad of that. They failed to consider all the moms voting for their sons, who are demonstrably doing terribly on so many metrics. Guess all the moms for sons and dads for daughters must've cancelled each other out. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/11/24 01:27 AM |
| 5 | The Guardian/Richard Reeves on why Democrats lost young men"Democrat Party" has been in use long before Trump, though Trump definitely helped popularize it. I recall hearing some left-wing critics of the Democratic Party use it too because they also have beef with the party, albeit for different reasons. Though personally, I'd never call them that, because it comes across as a petty slur, is ungrammatical, and is factually not what the party is called. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/11/24 12:51 AM |
| 6 | I was thrown in prison because I had consensual sex with my girlfriend.Because of Californication, a lot of people assume a universal age of consent of 18. Even if it's lower, which it usually is, they'll say it's immoral even if it's legal. Yes, unfortunately, some people now unironically claim that nearly all men, past and present, are ""pedophiles."" To them, the fact that people not that long ago regarded this as normal is just proof of social progress. | /r/MensRights | 10/11/24 12:22 AM |
| 1 | Worries that the election and subsequent results will continue to drive the divide and double standards of men and women even further.He's something of a right-wing populist, yes. However, because abortion is a settled question in this country (as it should be) and the Tories aren't stupid to reopen that issue, he's not going to spark that kind of anti-male backlash. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/11/24 12:54 AM |
| 9 | Worries that the election and subsequent results will continue to drive the divide and double standards of men and women even further.I'm glad I'm not American, because gender relations are going to get a lot worse before they get any better. I mean, they were pretty bad before, but we may be seeing the nadir in the next four years. Luckily for me, a PM Poilievre will be nothing like Trump in this respect. Hopefully. As for solutions, well, first of all, the Democratic Party needs to Berned to the ground, if you get what I mean. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/11/24 10:56 PM |
| 26 | Worries that the election and subsequent results will continue to drive the divide and double standards of men and women even further.Guess that explains why 4B and radfems are so anti-sex work lol. Yeah, any sex strike would have to account for the oldest profession. It would also make scabbing ridiculously lucrative. Escorts would be able to triple or quadruple their rates and be super selective about their clients. It'd be such a good deal, even civilian women would become tempted to join, and cause the strike to collapse quickly. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/11/24 10:36 PM |
| 12 | He’s right.When did Bernie ever demonize men? At least, the ones who aren't filthy rich, or named Trump or Netanyahu. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/11/24 03:33 PM |
| 31 | He’s right.The only way to fight right-wing populism is through left-wing populism. Liberal establishmentarianism always loses to it in the long run. Bernie is the shit. Aside from being able to beat Trump, we wouldn't be reading endless articles about the Democratic Party's male vote woes if he had been the candidate in 2016 or 2020. Bernie doesn't need to play Madden or have campaign themed Fortnite maps to win over young men. When your message has universal appeal to everyone not obscenely wealthy, i.e.… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/11/24 03:25 PM |
| 4 | If harris/walz lose, and insofar as they are losing male votersIf Harris wins, I think at least one person in the media is going to call this America's incel election a la South Korea 2022. Not that Trump is any better, but he has an undeniable appeal to the disaffected and alienated, people like young men today. And like it or not, that's what politics mostly is, vibes and appeal. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/11/24 02:56 AM |
| 5 | I mean if you really want to, then fine, but the second image is just...This artist is a troll, and this whole thing is a performance. It's hard to say how much of this stuff she believes, but it was clearly designed to be as outrageous as possible to get a rise out of people, namely men. She may very well believe that women are superior to men, but to say this verdict proves that is such a non sequitur, it's clearly trolling. The best way to deal with this is to ignore her. Don't feed the troll. Now far more interesting are the legal implications of this verdict, a… | /r/MensRights | 28/09/24 03:54 AM |
| 10 | Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake - "problems seem to concentrate among young men living in low-income counties"I hate the idea of vice laws and victimless crimes, so I would not support criminalizing sports gambling again. Nonetheless, I wouldn't mind some legal restrictions on its advertising like we do with smoking ads. These damn betting ads have become so ubiquitous and given all the social problems, we probably shouldn't be encouraging this the way we are now. I went to a couple of Jays' games this year, and I couldn't help but marvel at all the betting ads in the stadium. I'm sure the irony has not… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/09/24 01:05 AM |
| 4 | Lack of ‘Enthusiastic Consent’ is not Sufficient for Sexual AssaultI don’t know anyone saying starfish or duty sex is assault/rape…. Enthusiastic sex proponents who say something along the lines of "If it's not an enthusiastic yes, then it's a no" are effectively saying that. If a less than enthusiastic yes means no, and no means rape, what else could starfish sex be? I strongly believe that no one would argue your hypothetical is even remotely akin to assault or rape. Well that's only because OP did a gender swap of the usual example. Radical feminists like Ca… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 20/09/24 03:27 AM |
| 2 | Why don't we bring back the CCC and WPA?Non-American here, but isn't the U.S. federal jobs program for disaffected young men called the military? After all, I believe a lot of these New Deal-era programs shut down during the Second World War when they were no longer needed for obvious reasons. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/07/24 09:55 PM |
| 3 | The scope of male sexualityPedophilia especially sticks out to me, because even if we put aside that it's morally wrong and a very bad thing to do... how many men are actually sexually attracted to pre-puberic children and young teenagers in the first place? Very very few men (or women) are actual pedophiles. However, while pedophilia is colloquially used as a synonym for child sexual abuse, it's important to remember that there is a very meaningful difference between the two. Most pedophiles do not abuse children and und… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/05/24 08:56 PM |
| 1 | If you were a lawyer, what kind of clients would you represent as a way of advancing male advocacy?This is a true unpopular opinion, but I honestly have sympathy for them too. They're put in an impossible situation that nobody could possibly ask for, in which you're going to be despised no matter what. I know most people find it hard to muster any sympathy for them, but I think that's really unfair for something involuntary, that most would happily rid themselves of if they could. I actually remember this Jack McClellan guy from way back. Glenn Beck (remember him?) used to portray him as publ… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/05/24 12:17 AM |
| 2 | If you were a lawyer, what kind of clients would you represent as a way of advancing male advocacy?Defending actual pedophiles isn't going to make you many friends, nor would any movement seeking legitimacy want anything to do with you. Calling that "advancing male advocacy" is going to do nothing but enormous harm to male advocacy. Nonetheless, it's a thankless job that somebody's got to do. Even the most despised people in society deserve their day in court, especially when no actual crime is even being alleged. Contrary to what a lot of people seem to think, being a non-offending pedophile… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/05/24 07:25 PM |
| 2 | Korea is the future of western gender relations- and that's a good thingSouth Korean radical feminist movement. No sex with men, no having children, no dating men, no marrying men. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/05/24 11:51 PM |
| 3 | Man Bear MegathreadIn the great shitshow that has been this "debate," I found this to be a very reasonable take. If this man's highly unscientific survey is any indication, maybe all these bear responses have more to do with the bandwagon effect and skewed samples underrepresenting some great silent majority. Let's see if a reputable polling organization can confirm or disprove that. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/05/24 12:53 PM |
| 4 | How to respond to people who choose bear over man.No doubt there are many grisly bear attack videos on the Internet that would make them reconsider. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/05/24 09:46 PM |
| 4 | Korea is the future of western gender relations- and that's a good thingBy contrast, 4B's slogan is basically "no war but the sex war." | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/05/24 09:38 PM |
| 2 | 70% of palestine victims are women and childrenWhat does that mean? They just believe in jihad? You can't neatly separate a person's beliefs from their material circumstances. It's well known that jihadist/terrorist groups overwhelmingly recruit from young men with nothing to lose and desperate for purpose in life. I think it goes without saying why a place like Gaza is overflowing with those. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/04/24 08:01 PM |
| 0 | 70% of palestine victims are women and childrenBeing an ethno-religious state founded by displacing the people already living there, then holding up the Bible as your "deed" to the land, rubs a lot of left-leaning people the wrong way. Moreover, Israel is governed by a right-wing/far-right government with literal Jewish fascists in the cabinet. Even if they weren't committing war crimes and facing serious allegations of genocide, it'd be hard to see these as the good guys. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/04/24 02:24 AM |
| 3 | 70% of palestine victims are women and childrenHalf of Gaza's population is under 18, which is the UN definition of child. Even under the best of circumstances, in this part of the world, 16 and 17 years olds are not regarded as literal children. In a place like Gaza, the extreme circumstances force people to grow up even earlier. The story of that 11-year old Palestinian journalist is equal parts inspiring and depressing. There is no childhood innocence under such conditions. These kids aren't allowed to have a childhood. Given all this, I … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/04/24 01:25 AM |
| 21 | Why are males more likely to be conservative, and females more liberal?There was once a time when people wrote the opposite, that women were more conservative and right-wing than men. Books like Why Women Are Conservative or even Andrea Dworkin's Right-Wing Women presumed that fact in their titles. And this wasn't just conventional wisdom. It was backed up by data from multiple Western democracies. In the UK, the electoral "gender gap" used to mean "the consistent tendency in British general elections for women to be more supportive of the Conservatives than men, a… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/04/24 11:55 PM |
| 2 | LWMA Lounge March 2024Greta Aurora's Youtube channel disappeared without a trace for some reason some time ago, but many episodes are still available in podcast form. Her conversation with Anna Cherry I found especially interesting and is well worth a listen. Edit: Oh, and Thaddeus Russell's Unregistered Podcast is good. If you want something to do with this sub, he's had Warren Farrell on twice. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/03/24 12:24 AM |
| 2 | It's Gender Studies, Not FeminismI distinctly remember 15-ish years ago the university departments being called "Women's Studies" with no mention of gender. At least where I'm from, they haven't changed their names so much as added to them. I just checked, and my alma mater calls their gender studies department "Women and Gender Studies." Even men's studies, which is explicitly feminist, is often suspect and unwelcome, because it's said to distract from women's issues. If there's any hope, it would lie in male studies. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/03/24 03:03 PM |
| 11 | Yougov survey indicates men are more supportive of sex-workers...This isn't exactly news. The reason why prostitution is criminalized in the Anglosphere (minus Australia and New Zealand) in the first place is because of first-wave feminism and the very closely interlinked social purity movement, for which fighting prostitution was one of its raisons d'être. Noted suffragette Christabel Pankhurst even wrote a whole book arguing that women's suffrage was desirable precisely because it would lead to a government crackdown on prostitution because female voters wo… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/03/24 12:04 AM |
| 5 | Labour to help schools develop male influencers to combat Tate misogynyImagine someone like Vaush taking money from His Majesty's Government. That'll be the day. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/02/24 10:57 PM |
| 2 | I majored in Gender Studies (Australia) AMADid you bump into Angela White? What about her infamous radfem prof Sheila Jeffreys? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/02/24 10:01 PM |
| 1 | Five Reasons Why Legal Prostitution Will Improve Gender RelationsI'm pretty sure prostitution predates capitalism by several millennia. The reasons for its near universal existence go far deeper than capitalism. It has to do with class society and civilization itself. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/02/24 06:32 PM |
| 1 | Five Reasons Why Legal Prostitution Will Improve Gender RelationsMen advocating for legalization of female prostitution is not a MRA concern and it looks pretty bad... Unfortunately, it does look pretty bad, yes. This debate will either be won as a women's issue or lost as a men's one. The legal status of female prostitution is maybe not an MRA issue per se, but anti-male legislation in the vein of Swedish-style criminalization, which has fast become the dominant anti-prostitution policy position, definitely is. The context especially the earlier thread in wh… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/02/24 02:40 AM |
| 3 | Five Reasons Why Legal Prostitution Will Improve Gender RelationsOk, my apologies, I appear to have misread your initial comment as it "increase[s] the amount of sexual human trafficking." So I was responding to something you didn't write. I have read such claims, mostly to counter the radfems who say it increases trafficking. Does it does it not? Well, not to get into the concept of "trafficking," which is a whole other topic, if we're talking about abuse, violence, coercion, all that bad stuff, then, yes, obviously having it legal and out in the open decrea… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/02/24 04:15 AM |
| 3 | Five Reasons Why Legal Prostitution Will Improve Gender RelationsI appreciate that you took the time to really engage with the article. Thanks for that. Reason 1. The idea that the legalization of prostitution will improve gender relations because it will allow people to separate sex from love relies on the assumption that people (read: men) who are only interested in sex believe that prostitution is a good alternative for casual sex. I mean, why wouldn't it be a good alternative? Maybe not to you, but for some people, especially those who, for whatever reaso… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/02/24 03:49 AM |
| -5 | Five Reasons Why Legal Prostitution Will Improve Gender RelationsSex trafficking is a moral panic promoted by radical feminists and social conservatives in their war against consensual sex work. Their objective is explicitly anti-male legislation along the lines of the so-called Nordic model. Defined broadly enough, sometimes by actual U.S. federal legislation%20Sex%20trafficking,commercial%20sex%20act), "trafficking" can mean literally any involvement in any form of sex work. "Pimp" is an ambiguous term that can mean either someone engaged in procuring), i.e… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/02/24 01:34 AM |
| 2 | Five Reasons Why Legal Prostitution Will Improve Gender RelationsHasn't it also been shown to decrease the amount of sexual human trafficking, pimping, slavery, etc when it's been fully legalized? According to the radical feminists, yes. Especially when they define "trafficking" so broadly that it includes virtually all sex work, making their claim tautological. In reality, no. although there also needs to be discussion on STDs and mandatory health screenings. The argument against this is that it unfairly discriminates against a group when that discrimination… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/02/24 01:11 AM |
| 16 | Five Reasons Why Legal Prostitution Will Improve Gender RelationsIn light of recentish discussions on the topic of sex work on this subreddit, I thought this old article, from a blog that has written frequently on feminism, men's rights, and their relationship with sex and sex work, would provoke some good discussion. In particular, I noticed a lot of people talking about how sex work was bad for men, bad for gender relations, and how the increasing modern prevalence and acceptance of sex work was lamentable. As a counterpoint, I present "Five Reasons Why Leg… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/02/24 10:56 PM |
| 1 | Working class men just don’t matterHere. Thank the Internet Archive. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/02/24 01:19 PM |
| 31 | Working class men just don’t matterWarren Farrell had a chapter in The Myth of Male Power in which he discussed the appalling state of workplace safety regulations in the U.S., and how this disproportionately affected men. Later he compared and contrasted this with the rapidity at which sexual harassment legislation became the law of the land. In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace. That sentence has really stu… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/02/24 04:36 AM |
| 2 | I work in a brothel — moms pay me to deflower their clueless virgin sonsShe planned to open such a brothel. She never did. It doesn't say why, but I highly doubt she would have been able to keep the lights on such a place. Just one week after the grand opening, she'd be forced to rebrand as a gay brothel. Then most of the "studs" would go on strike, having signed up expecting to only service women. Many escort agencies and the odd brothel keep a guy on staff, and he'll occasionally maybe see a woman. That said, I do think more women will gradually become clients, as… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/02/24 11:04 PM |
| 6 | Female On Male TraffickingSex trafficking is a moral panic promoted by radical feminists and social conservatives in their war against consensual sex work. Their objective is explicitly anti-male legislation along the lines of the so-called Nordic model. Men and boys are also vulnerable to being abducted and trafficked by women, just as much as the other way around. Yes, they are about as equally vulnerable. That is to say, they are about as equally unlikely to be abducted and "trafficked," because such abductions are mo… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/02/24 09:17 PM |
| 2 | I work in a brothel — moms pay me to deflower their clueless virgin sonsIt's unfortunate that you're getting downvoted for this. While I personally wouldn't use the language of "empowerment," I think it's undeniable that sex workers do important socially beneficial work. Far more beneficial than a lot of supposedly "respectable" jobs actually. And yes, of course, the clients are overwhelmingly men, ergo men are the main beneficiaries. Hence, why misandrist radfems hate it so much. I can't stand this whole: the men are the ones being exploited nonsense. It's just the… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/02/24 07:15 PM |
| 5 | I work in a brothel — moms pay me to deflower their clueless virgin sonsYou see these questions all the time on the sex worker subreddits. A male virgin asks about how to go about booking their first time with a professional. So, no, I don't think it's just some isolated incidents. Yes, it is a symptom of something of something larger. It's not exactly a new phenomenon though. Historically, it was a rite of passage in many cultures; it still is in some Latin American countries. It had to do with traditional sexual mores, i.e. female chastity, girls needing to remain… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/02/24 06:53 PM |
| 14 | It is sad when showing affection to your male children is treated as something inappropriate. This is also a reason why solution to male problems cannot come from the right wingIt looks like this Twitter post became a whole meme back in 2020. Thankfully, the vast majority of people didn't find this inappropriate in the slightest and were mocking/pitying this Cardillo guy for never having gotten any affection from his dad. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/01/24 06:10 PM |
| 21 | I call it the "puritarchy"I couldn't agree more. So many debates about porn, and sex work more broadly, devolve into puritanical appeals to disgust and special pleading about how uniquely different and magical and holy sex is. Even non-religious people often end up saying much the same thing, only stripped of religious language. It's not that porn should be above criticism; it certainly shouldn't. Rather, it's that the anti-porn types tend to be fundamentalists, who have a totalizing view on the matter, lacking any degre… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/12/23 02:38 AM |
| 18 | „The girls and the gays“Apparently, you're supposed to say "the girls, the gays, and the theys" now in order to be more inclusive. Ironic, considering this appears to have been invented as a less inclusive version of "guys and girls." Pretty emblematic of the divide and conquer nature of modern identity politics. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/11/23 12:16 AM |
| 3 | Masculism, Mens Rights in RussiaThanks for sharing this. The only Russian men's movement people outside of Russia are likely to know are the literal fascists of Male State. It's great to see you promote these progressive masculist groups. I certainly had no idea they existed. It sounds like they deserve a lot more attention. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/11/23 10:47 PM |
| 15 | Any leftist YouTubers that are male advocatesIt hasn't been active for years, but there's Mark Postgate. If I recall correctly, his video A Message to Anti-Socialist MRAs and anti-MRA Socialists was posted here before and is worth a watch. Also, there's the Honey Badgers' "resident libtard" and camgirl Anna Cherry. She has some older videos that might be worth watching, but it was her appearance on Greta Aurora's podcast that really impressed me. I definitely recommend giving that a listen. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/11/23 04:55 PM |
| 13 | Dear Left Wing Male Advocates, why do you support mens rights but vote left?I actually voted for the Green Party in the last Canadian federal election, and they're basically a centrist party these days, officially rejecting the left-right dichotomy. That was, however, mostly a protest vote. To answer your question, I haven't voted for a nominally left-wing party for a while now. I've grown disillusioned with all the major political parties in this country, though that has little to do with men's issues. As others have pointed out, neither the left nor the right are good… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/11/23 02:24 AM |
| 1 | CCMF event for International Men's DayBest of luck. I imagine it'll be tough going up against the Grey Cup, which I just realized today is falling on IMD for maybe the first time. I'll do my best to tune in on Zoom once it starts. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/11/23 11:10 PM |
| 6 | Men's general lack of interest in Romance novels and movies is very often attributed to Misogyny and Patriarchal expectations. To what extent do you think that's true, If at all?Yes, it's a thing. A quick Google search brings up a couple of these articles. It's been said that romance novels (or at least the mass market stuff) are to women what porn is to men. I wouldn't consider that to be a bad thing. It's just to point out that neither are exactly considered high art, and both have a tendency to leave men and women befuddled as to what the opposite sex finds so appealing about the stuff. I've heard women say similar things about porn to what men say about romance nove… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/11/23 11:27 PM |
| 4 | What's the real reason Israel is so eager to field women soldiers - sensational headlines and curried empathy?Women in combat roles was a big controversy maybe around 20 years ago in the U.S. Pat Buchanan mentioned it in his infamous 1992 culture war speech alongside abortion and gay rights. Is that really controversial today in 2023? If anything, a gung ho "more female drone pilots" feminism, which celebrates women doing all the violent morally questionable stuff only men used to do, is effectively hegemonic. Now, as for female draft registration, yes, that's controversial. Yes, there is opposition to … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/10/23 11:48 PM |
| 25 | What's the real reason Israel is so eager to field women soldiers - sensational headlines and curried empathy?This. This would be the primary reason. That female soldiers make for good propaganda is just a bonus. Case in point. You may recall the Kurdish Peshmerga making a big deal out of their female fighters fighting ISIS. Western media loved that. And that was a pretty morally unambiguous conflict. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, on the other hand, is rather less so. If I were the IDF, I would play up the gendered aspect of this conflict, viz. the violence against civilian and military Israeli wome… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/10/23 08:38 PM |
| 6 | Column: Should men pay on dates as reparations for the gender wage gap?It's a cesspool of various leftists alienated or rejected from the modern identity politics-focused Left, which includes left-wing MRAs, but also radfems left homeless after the TERF subreddits got banned. It's always entertaining to watch them fight. So you'll encounter no shortage of disagreeable opinions there. I certainly do. I wouldn't consider myself representative of the average stupidpoler if there can be said to be such a thing. Nonetheless, you'll find left-wing critiques of feminism w… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/10/23 02:46 AM |
| 2 | Male Trafficking VictimsI'm of the opinion that the whole concept of human trafficking is problematic and needs to be used with caution, maybe even done away with entirely. For starters, human trafficking is often used as a synonym for sex trafficking, which is conflated, often quite deliberately, with all forms of voluntary sex work. Targeting trafficking therefore means targeting men and male sexuality, aka the "male demand for paid sex." Under this model, even when there are acknowledged to be male victims, men as a… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/09/23 09:30 PM |
| 1 | I need to find an article about FGMWas it the one by Baumeister and Twenge posted here? Albeit from 3 years ago. Not exactly "a few months back." | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/09/23 06:39 PM |
| 1 | AntinatalismDeath solves all problems — no man, no problem. —Joseph Stalin (allegedly) | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/08/23 02:18 PM |
| 17 | Objectification and SexualizationIt would take a full-fledged post to really do this topic justice. I plan to type up a post on the topic of sexual objectification sometime when I have some more time. But to answer your question, no, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a man being attracted to a woman he doesn't know personally. The fact that so many men are being made to feel like there is a problem with them if they do is very problematic. I would say it's comparable with making people feel bad for experiencing gay attracti… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/08/23 04:31 PM |
| 9 | Don't you think that the feminist concept of objectification is very problematic?This is a complicated issue. The short answer is yes. What you and I would consider normal male sexuality is, in the eyes of many feminists, abnormal and problematic. It only appears normal, when it is in fact a social construct of male supremacy. The task of the feminist ideologue is therefore to problematize normality, supposedly to reveal the truth that the patriarchy has concealed. So where we see attraction, they see objectification. Where we see flirtation, they see harassment. Where we se… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/08/23 04:13 AM |
| 83 | Shoe0nHead on The Male Loneliness EpidemicOne of my favourite Youtubers and "honorary LWMA" Shoe0nHead has her new video out, and it covers a lot of things that should be no surprise to anyone who frequents this sub. For a variety of social issues ranging from dating apps to capitalist alienation, men are lonelier and more isolated than ever. The Left is (*spoiler alert*) failing men big time, hypocritically being all "systemic issues and societal factors" up and until they get to men, and then it's all "pull yourself up by your bootstr… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/08/23 01:33 AM |
| 11 | I'm taking part in Montreal's Gay Pride parade this weekend. Help me decide my sign slogan and my talking points!You're not a card-carrying Dipper, are you? They might kick you out of the party if they get wind of this. Remember when CAFE got banned from the Toronto Pride parade? IMO they and Justin Trottier are about as inoffensive as you can get, so I'm not sure it's even possible to be sufficiently inoffensive about men's issues in this country without being labeled "controversial" and "misogynistic." | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/08/23 06:19 PM |
| 2 | What causes false rape accusations?Not necessarily. The EEOC states: Although the law doesn't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment In other words, a single incident can, if severe enough, be illegal. Moreover, while they specify that the law doesn't prohibit simple flirting, flirting is literally the opposite of being upfront and explicit: "to play at courtship; to t… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/08/23 03:44 PM |
| 5 | Therapy was useless for me. What are your stories with therapy? [vent]I've generally had very positive experiences with therapy. The fact that most therapists are women isn't an issue for me at all, because I actually find it very easy to open up with female therapists and women in general actually. For whatever reason, I don't feel terribly comfortable revealing all my embarassing personal issues with a fellow guy, but I do so pretty easily with a gal. To each his own, I suppose. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/08/23 03:17 AM |
| 3 | What causes false rape accusations?Most people are socially programmed to be risk averse and they don't wanna get their ego bruised. Yeah, that has something to do with it too. It gives people an out to avoid humiliation and embarrassment. You can easily claim that by "coffee" you meant it literally and not euphemistically. In the U.S., it's not illegal to tell a woman you want to fuck her. I meant that it could be construed as sexual harassment, which is illegal. Now, while sexual harassment, defined as any unwanted sexual behav… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/08/23 02:08 AM |
| 3 | What causes false rape accusations?It's worth asking why people can't just ask "hey, you wanna fuck?" There would be far fewer misunderstandings if they did. Why do people instead feel the need to be all wink wink nudge nudge with their euphemisms and ambiguous body language? Personally, I think it's ultimately an underlying sexual conservatism, which makes people terrified of transgressing the social prohibition of being too upfront and being seen as "creepy." Consider, for instance, the tea analogy for sexual consent that's pro… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 05/08/23 11:12 PM |
| 1 | Want to start up a YouTube channel about men's issues in education, but not sure about a good channel name. Anyone have any ideas?Aside from being the name of an old History Channel series on the history of sex, which looks like a fun watch, this sounds awfully close to XY Online, a website run by Michael Flood, who's pretty much a radical feminist and not the sort of person you'd want to associate with. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/08/23 05:44 PM |
| 5 | What is sexual harassment, exactly?Hey, I think is an interesting and important topic that deserves discussion. I definitely see myself having much to add, and overall, I do agree with you. However, in the spirit of Rule #11, would you mind saying a bit more? Maybe provide a brief summary of your Medium article and how it relates to men's advocacy? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/07/23 08:38 PM |
| 1 | Were Western societies really patriarchal before the 2000's?It could easily be interpreted as them taking vengeance against the patriarchy. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/07/23 08:06 PM |
| 8 | I'd like to talk about the state and future of this subEnforcing Rule #11 strictly would be a good start. No low effort posts Posting links and even images is fine, so long as they're accompanied by a few sentences (preferably paragraphs) of your own words to encourage discussion, in either a top level comment or in the post itself. And if your post can be summarized as saying "look at what X did/is doing" (rage bait) it's subject to be removed as being low effort. This also covers personal rants and social media screenshots. There have definitely b… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/07/23 07:24 PM |
| 5 | Were Western societies really patriarchal before the 2000's?You left out the inciting incident when one of them kills an attempted rapist, putting them on the run. A feminist reading would understand this as them running away from the patriarchy. Eventually, cornered by the police, they conclude that life under male domination is not worth living and drive off into the Grand Canyon to their deaths. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/07/23 01:54 AM |
| 5 | Were Western societies really patriarchal before the 2000's?At first glance, I thought you suggesting you were going to spit on my grave lol. Wait, why, dude? Only then did I remember the movie of the same name. I don't think the two films are comparable in the slightest. ISOYG was a particularly lurid exploitation film, critically panned for its sickening violence without any redeeming artistic merit. Fittingly, it's on Wikipedia's list of films considered the worst. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/07/23 09:43 PM |
| 64 | Were Western societies really patriarchal before the 2000's?She immediately pointed out that every movie before 2005 was dedicated exclusively for men Tell her to look up Thelma & Louise, a 1991 film that received critical acclaim and Academy Awards for being a feminist revenge fantasy about two women committing murder-suicide. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/07/23 03:51 PM |
| 3 | There is a discrepancy between what social media feminists think is "creepy" and what is actually creepy in reality.Unfortunately, you're not the one writing the laws in this country. The Supreme Court ruled that kissing your spouse while they're asleep is sexual assault, no exceptions, even they consent in advance. They explicitly rejected the de minimis doctrine as something that could save people from getting convicted for this. I'm aware of at least one real life "victim" of this sort of thing getting the guy arrested, and the authorities actually deciding to press charges. By the letter of the law, I was… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/07/23 12:12 AM |
| 3 | There is a discrepancy between what social media feminists think is "creepy" and what is actually creepy in reality.No normal sane person would ever call the police on someone for tapping someone on their shoulder. Now, I'm no lawyer, but if they were abnormal and insane, and the police and prosecutors were also crazy enough to bring this to trial, a sane judge would probably dismiss the whole thing as a waste of time under the de minimus doctrine, even though it technically falls under the definition of assault. The problem is that it's hard to imagine this ever being applied to a sexual assault in Canada, n… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/07/23 08:19 PM |
| 4 | There is a discrepancy between what social media feminists think is "creepy" and what is actually creepy in reality.I think touching a woman without her consent is definitely creepy. Actually, touching somebody without their consent, even if it's extremely minor, i.e.: tapping someone on their shoulder, isn't just creepy, it objectively meets the common law definition of assault (at least where I live in Canada). For obvious reasons, relating to the normal functioning of society, there exists the legal doctrine of de minimis non curat lex ("the law does not deal with trifles"). Should de minimis be applicable… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/07/23 04:17 PM |
| 7 | We are Left Wing Male Advocates not Left Wing Feminism Hate.Rule #1 already exists to keep things focused. It just needs to be more strictly enforced IMO. Speculating about what Anita Sarkeesian (an incredibly relevant figure in 2023, amirite?) thinks about the Barbie movie seems pretty tangential to male issues and arguably doesn't belong here. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/07/23 03:22 PM |
| 21 | There is a discrepancy between what social media feminists think is "creepy" and what is actually creepy in reality.If you haven't already, you should read the article, which has been posted here before, "What is to be done about the problem of creepy men?" There's probably no better article on the term "creepy" and how it's become a popular but problematic pejorative against men. Long story short, what is perceived as "creepy" behaviour (typically from a man) usually has no bearing on how dangerous he is. Rather, it just reflects social norms and social biases, invariably targeting the most marginalized peop… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/07/23 02:55 AM |
| 10 | I am tired of "All men know each other" trope.And I think that's perfectly fine. "Objectification" is not a real thing. We are sexual creatures, we think and talk about sex and potential partners based on their physical attributes (though not only that). I would say objectification is a perfectly real thing, though non-sexual objectification is far less described as such. Surely a migrant worker being worked to death in Qatar under appalling inhuman conditions is being treated as an object far more than when a woman (or a man) is assessed a… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/07/23 10:00 PM |
| 2 | Barbie movie reviewInteresting. I was only planning to watch one-half of "Barbenheimer," but after reading your piece, I think I just might watch both. A Gearhartian matriarchy, eh? I'd watch a movie with that just out of pure curiosity. Though, I'll probably take your advice and only pay for one of them. The one without all the geopolitical controversy. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/07/23 09:29 PM |
| 2 | Should I be suspicious of Dr. Warren Farrell, given things he has written about rape?I'm amazed that whether why we shouldn't criminalize all sex is actually something that needs debating. I would have imagined that any debate on such a topic would be with an especially radical radfem or maybe a religious extremist, not someone on this sub of all places. Times have changed, sex positivity (especially for men) is a lost cause, it's easy to get you labelled as a pervert, a rape apologist And I thought I was pessimistic. I do think male sexuality is unfairly demonized in society to… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/07/23 09:15 PM |
| 3 | @thetinmen is leaving r/leftwingmaleadvocatesYeah, hard disagree on this one. The question of who is a woman is foundational to all those feminist issues you mentioned. Education for whom? Violence against whom? Who are women anyway? Whether trans women are women isn't a fringe issue, it's actually probably the most contentious question in feminism today. The answer to that question is fundamental in determining the limits of womanhood and therefore who is worthy of victim status and all the benefits and protections that are to be afforded… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/07/23 09:44 PM |
| 2 | Should I be suspicious of Dr. Warren Farrell, given things he has written about rape?Really? You think the law should be rewritten so that nearly all sex happening today technically meets the definition of rape to keep everyone nervous and scared everytime they have sex, as long this were applied evenly to both men and women? I don't get it. Why? Whatever the problem, it's such an extreme solution that it sounds like a satire. I guess men and women would also be utterly terrified of even talking to each other, because anything they say might be construed as sexual harassment? So… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/07/23 09:01 PM |
| 2 | @thetinmen is leaving r/leftwingmaleadvocatesIf their "main issues" include transgender or sex work issues, and for many many feminists they do, then no, they wouldn't agree in the slightest. Even after the TERFs got banned on Reddit, there continues to be no shortage of drama between the feminist subreddits from their infighting over sex work. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/07/23 05:39 PM |
| 2 | Should I be suspicious of Dr. Warren Farrell, given things he has written about rape?How low of a bar are you talking about here? Do you want everyone to "feel a cold spike of fear," as Ezra Klein infamously put it, everytime they engage in sexual relations? Where I live in Canada, where a very strict affirmative consent standard is the law of the land, the courts have pretty much admitted that nearly every sexual interaction in this country technically involves some low-level sexual assault. If they actually started to strictly enforce this, everyone would be too scared to have… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/07/23 05:06 PM |
| 13 | @thetinmen is leaving r/leftwingmaleadvocatesOne things feminists do well is unite and have each others backs (for the most part). Really? Have you ever seen feminists fight over porn, or prostitution, or transgender topics? Go look up the Feminist sex war and how it effectively killed second-wave feminism or contemporary fights over trans issues, what I like to call the TERF war. I don't use the word "war" lightly. There's no love lost, no such thing as a polite disagreement, between the two sides on that topic. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/07/23 03:25 PM |
| 41 | @thetinmen is leaving r/leftwingmaleadvocatesI can't shake the feeling that it's like fighting over command of a sinking ship. And we're all supposed to take sides or something? Yeah, no. This sub really doesn't need that, especially now. All I'll say is that it's really unfortunate that it had to come to this, and I really hope this drama doesn't end up killing the sub. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/07/23 03:59 AM |
| 9 | Should I be suspicious of Dr. Warren Farrell, given things he has written about rape?For the full context, you can read chapter 14 of The Myth of Male Power titled "The Politics of Rape." For the full full context, you can of course read the whole book, which I would definitely recommend you do at some point. It's freely available here. At the very least, you should read the whole offending section "Isn’t it the male role that needs changing because it is men who rape?" It's from pages 226 to 229 in the linked edition. You can come to your own conclusions about Farrell, whether … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/07/23 03:07 AM |
| 4 | Next steps for r/leftwingmaleadvocatesWell, what do you know, it turns out him being an inactive symbolic mod is what got us in this mess in the first place. Yeah, no, he's going to have to go. At least, some of us will remember him. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/07/23 01:56 AM |
| 2 | Next steps for r/leftwingmaleadvocatesI see. Thank you. That really clears things up. I guess we'll just have to wait and hope the admins get around to your request? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/07/23 12:28 AM |
| 5 | Next steps for r/leftwingmaleadvocatesI am still waiting for any of the LWMA mods to speak openly about what is happening (or why LWMA was closed), or their plan going forward. To be clear, unless I hear a convincing argument otherwise, I do not believe the LWMA mod team are conducive to the future needs of this sub, or the wants of its community. What happened to the plan to assemble a new mod team a month ago? Give u/2717192619192 credit, that was their initiative that appears to have been shelved for whatever reason. Though I do … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/07/23 12:11 AM |
| 10 | Next steps for r/leftwingmaleadvocatesu/serpentineeyelash actually founded this sub years ago, and for that, we do owe him. However, he's been inactive for many years and is on the record saying he basically quit because of burnout. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/07/23 10:45 PM |
| 7 | Next steps for r/leftwingmaleadvocatesHang on. How were you able to post? Posts require mod approval, and aren't all the mods inactive? Not that I'm complaining. While Reddit might be going to shit thanks to the antics of our Elon Musk wannabe of a CEO, it feels unfair that that should be the thing that kills this community. Let's not blame the mods though. I'd reserve the blame and anger for the Reddit suits. Though to be fair, we do deserve an explanation from whoever set the sub to private. And here I was thinking I'd quit Reddit… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/07/23 10:39 PM |
| 5 | I’m second-highest on this sub’s moderator list, and I volunteer to take over as head moderator and assemble a new moderation team if the others resign.There's definitely something to this idea that social media sites have grown so essential that they should be recognized and regulated as public utilities. Though I can't say I like the idea of full-blown nationalization. While giant corporations aren't necessarily much better, I really don't like the idea of giving so much personal data directly to the U.S. Federal government. Not that that'll ever happen. We've come a long way from when the nationalization of the "commanding heights" was uncon… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/06/23 10:08 PM |
| 10 | I’m second-highest on this sub’s moderator list, and I volunteer to take over as head moderator and assemble a new moderation team if the others resign.I'm so happy to see you step up to the plate to try to keep this subreddit afloat. My hat's off to you. I'm not sure Reddit is worth saving at this point, but this community certainly is. While I admittedly have no mod experience to speak of, I do really believe in this sub and what it stands for. If any help is needed, I'd be willing to volunteer if anyone will take me. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/06/23 04:02 AM |
| 1 | Subreddit blackout in protest against Reddit killing off third-party apps per July 1So now that the 2-day blackout is over with Reddit showing no sign of backing down, are you still interested in modding here? If you're willing, I'm willing to back you up the best I can. Mind if I DM you about it? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/06/23 04:43 PM |
| 5 | The future of LWMA (with poll)Mods work for free. Admins need to be paid. Especially given the recent layoffs, Reddit has nowhere near enough employees to moderate all the big subs that blacked out, nor could they afford to hire enough admins to do that work. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/06/23 09:59 PM |
| 6 | The future of LWMA (with poll)It's better than nothing, I guess, but I would much prefer an extended mass blackout, potentially indefinitely, over this "Touch Grass Tuesday" proposal. I feel like it would just be a nuisance to Reddit that's likely to peter out over time. I get that a lot of subs don't want to go dark that long, but the open contempt that Reddit has shown to its users, saying that we'll all get over it eventually and submit to whatever they push on us, indicates that something drastic is necessary to make the… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/06/23 09:02 PM |
| 1 | 1/3 of all men below 30 have never had sex, my brother being one, how do I help?Anti-sex trafficking orgs are nearly all run by radical feminists who think male sexuality is evil and prostitution is by definition rape. They twist definitions and exaggerate the problem out of all proportion for their own ends. I take what they say with a grain of salt. With sufficiently broad definitions of "trafficking" and "coercion," you might as well just avoid men entirely and move to one of those lesbian separatist womyn's lands. If you're familiar with the radical feminist theories th… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/23 07:43 PM |
| 1 | 1/3 of all men below 30 have never had sex, my brother being one, how do I help?Your poor reading comprehension skills are showing. As OP said, his brother's belief that he'd be a loser and a misogynist if he paid for it was the result of feminist brainwashing, in large part, it would seem from his feminist mother, not because of the social norms there. Hell, we can ask OP directly. Hey, u/Olimandy, if you don't mind answering a question for me. Is it considered normal for a man to visit a prostitute in your country? Or is it considered immoral or socially unacceptable? Wit… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/23 04:48 PM |
| 2 | [update] Subreddit blackout June 12-14 and moving off-platformI guess I don't have to ask if you're still looking for moderators to keep the subreddit alive, right? I totally get it. My opinion of Reddit has plummeted so much in the past few days, I'm not sure I want to keep using Reddit at all after June 30. *Sigh.* If only all the big subs threatened to shut down permanently, then they might listen. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/06/23 03:06 PM |
| 3 | 1/3 of all men below 30 have never had sex, my brother being one, how do I help?Hilarious how everyone just assumes everyone is from the U.S. There are parts of the world where it's perfectly legal and the cultural attitudes do not stigmatize sex work the way the U.S. does. OP is from Ecuador. It's legal there, and I'm pretty sure it's not a big deal for guys to do that there. Unless, of course, the radical feminists have their way. Edit: What I mean is that, unlike American women, the women there do not consider a guy patronizing a prostitute to be a deal breaker. In fact,… | /r/MensRights | 11/06/23 04:07 AM |
| 1 | Subreddit blackout in protest against Reddit killing off third-party apps per July 1Sure, we can wait until next week to make a firm decision, but let's not kid ourselves. The Reddit powers that be have already made up their minds. This blackout, while admirable and which I'll definitely be participating in myself, will almost certainly end up being a symbolic gesture. Given your modding experience compared to mine, which is non-existent, I guess that would make you the senior mod, if it's really just you and me. Surely, there will be others who will step up to the plate, right… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/06/23 02:30 PM |
| 2 | Subreddit blackout in protest against Reddit killing off third-party apps per July 1I'd really hate to see this place get shut down too. I imagined in vain that Reddit would backtrack, but today's AMA seems to have confirmed they won't. The APIcalypse is indeed coming, and this subreddit's going down with it. If you can commit to an hour a day, and we need about double that according to u/a-man-from-earth, then I'll match your commitment. Then, maybe the two of us can keep things afloat. I have zero experience moderating, and I can't say I'd do a good job, but I want to do what… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/06/23 10:49 PM |
| 5 | An original view on the ‘male gaze’ and what it really means.Thanks for sharing and introducing me to a new writer. Her perspectives are really interesting and insightful. I'll definitely be looking into her work. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/06/23 04:28 AM |
| 15 | An original view on the ‘male gaze’ and what it really means.To borrow an idea I read from a poster from here years ago, there's a meaningful distinction that's often ignored between being objectified and being the object of desire. Being the object of the "gaze," be it male or female, is not a bad thing in and of itself. It does not necessarily mean one is treated as a mere object rather than as a person. In fact, the ability to make someone the object of one's desire while still respecting their humanity is necessary for one to have healthy sexual relat… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/06/23 04:02 AM |
| 4 | "women hold up half the sky" Or why I stopped dating cis women and identifying as a man.I'm inclined to think that Freud was onto something when he said that everyone is bisexual deep down. It might in fact be more helpful to think of people as bisexual/pansexual shades of grey. I agree with you that sexuality is more fluid and flexible than we often pretend. For whatever reason, people can more easily wrap their minds around the idea that gender is flexible, but sexuality is fixed. Of course, that's not to say that anyone could change their sexuality (even Freud recognized this to… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/06/23 05:21 PM |
| 9 | "women hold up half the sky" Or why I stopped dating cis women and identifying as a man.Wow, that was a fascinating read. I'm glad to hear that your journey of self-discovery has worked out so well for you. It makes sense. Cis women are often socialized to see sex as a reward they dole out to worthy men, instead of something to be actively enjoyed and pursued for its own sake. Trans women, on the other hand, are much less likely to have undergone that conditioning. Would you go as far as to say some kind of hypothetical "gay pill"/"bi pill"/"pan pill"/"breaking-the-cotton-ceiling p… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/06/23 07:24 PM |
| 8 | "women hold up half the sky" Or why I stopped dating cis women and identifying as a man.Which was supposedly based on a quote by Mao Zedong. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/06/23 06:54 PM |
| 16 | Subreddit blackout in protest against Reddit killing off third-party apps per July 1Fortunately, it's not just this subreddit. There are many others. r/videos, with a cool 26.7 million subscribers, just announced they were joining the blackout, and I'm sure there will be many others soon. Hopefully, this can reach critical mass, and the Reddit suits will see sense and realize they're shooting themselves in the foot by doing this. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/06/23 09:58 PM |
| 2 | LWMA LoungeThere was an essay I found where the author cleverly prefaced the quote with "McKinnon has been quoted as saying..." If you're not quoting from the horse's mouth, make it known you're actually quoting someone else. ―Plato | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/06/23 08:17 PM |
| 21 | Trial on radical feminist that killed her father and came to kindergarten intending to shoot all the boys thereNaming yourself after Andrea Dworkin is probably a red flag. Just saying. | /r/MensRights | 02/06/23 06:43 PM |
| 7 | LWMA LoungeNot sure if anybody is interested in knowing this, but I just discovered that a certain quote, "if pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality," by everybody's favourite radical feminist Catharine MacKinnon is a misquote. If I'm not the first person to discover this, I may very well be the first person to point this out on this Internet. Anyhow, moving forward, there are plenty of extremely objectionable and properly sourced MacKinnon quotes that one can use. … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 31/05/23 08:30 PM |
| 3 | LWMA LoungeToday is Henry Kissinger's 100th birthday. I'm guessing it's because he sold his soul to the devil. Anyone have anything to add? Any ideas on how to commemorate this historic centenary? Edit: I wonder if his old lover, CIA agent Gloria Steinem, will be sending him any public birthday wishes today. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/05/23 05:04 AM |
| 2 | Why does the homeless situation continue to get worse despite the government spending millions of dollars on it.In a country like Canada, homelessness doesn't exist because there aren't enough houses to house everyone. There are plenty of homes and plenty incentive to build them, it's just that the incentive isn't to build homes that ordinary people can afford, it's to build expensive properties for wealthy folk to invest in. That's where the money is, and that's why houses are built, not to house people, but for profit. The various initiatives tried by the government, i.e. the recent foreign buyer ban, d… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/05/23 04:05 PM |
| 3 | Why does the homeless situation continue to get worse despite the government spending millions of dollars on it.They've been trying all sorts of schemes to mitigate this in Canada, with little effect it would seem. Most recently, Toronto started assessing the first vacant home tax in Canada last year. In practice, as far as I can tell, enforcement has been lax, and it's pretty easy to just lie on your vacant home declaration to avoid the tax, so again, it's of little use. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/05/23 03:27 PM |
| 7 | George Orwell on Male DisposabilityTL;DR: Sorry O.P. but from a genetics standpoint about 80% of us are entirely disposable. But fortunately we're better than our genetics. That's actually not too far off from what I'm saying. Yes, biologically speaking, sperm is cheap, and eggs are expensive. We could be bred like farm animals, however, for a variety of social reasons, that's not how we operate, and thank God for that. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/05/23 02:56 AM |
| 7 | George Orwell on Male DisposabilityMore specifically, that's polygyny you're referring to, not hypergamy per se, and yes, throughout recorded history that was actually the norm. That's not to say that such a system is inevitable though. I don't think this was the norm throughout all human history, i.e. including the time before recorded history. The massive drop in male reproductive success actually only occurred 8,000 years ago during the Neolithic Revolution during the dawn of civilization and the rise of class society. It was … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/05/23 02:48 AM |
| 14 | How are men's rights viewed in scandinavian societies?Correct me if I'm wrong here, but my understanding is that Denmark is the moderate level-headed one among the Scandinavian countries when it comes to gender issues, especially compared to the radical feminism of Sweden, the "Saudi Arabia of feminism." At least, that was the impression I got from watching this debate between Danes and Swedes on gender equality and feminism. If that's accurate, then Denmark should be the one friendliest to men's issues. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/05/23 09:02 PM |
| 3 | Wait, isn't that exactly what they tell us when we ask about our own reproductive freedom?Even today with our current technology, there are men who choose sex dolls or internet pornography over relationships with real women. As the technology improves, their number will doubtlessly grow, especially if relationships and interactions with women continue to become more fraught with risk and danger. If robotics technology ever approaches the level of the replicants from Blade Runner, something resembling that Futurama segment with the Marilyn Monroebot could become reality. Wouldn't that… | /r/MensRights | 11/05/23 01:13 AM |
| 8 | Wait, isn't that exactly what they tell us when we ask about our own reproductive freedom?Sex as a "class privilege," eh? I've mentioned something like that before. In a dystopian future, only the ultra-rich will be privileged enough to have sex with actual flesh and blood humans. | /r/MensRights | 10/05/23 09:08 PM |
| 3 | Taylor Siwft's "You Belong with me" is simply complaints men have about women but since it is gender flipped it is respected and celebrated instead of mockedThough I'm not aware of any articles calling "You Belong with Me" a femcel anthem. The author of that article is unaware that femcels are even a thing. Would we call Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me,” which sees her comparing herself to her crush’s girlfriend by singing, “She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts, she’s cheer captain and I’m on the bleachers,” incel pop, for example? Maybe if female incels existed. Femcels exist. Ergo yes, this song is a femcel anthem. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 10/05/23 03:30 PM |
| 15 | Thoughts on getting married (to a woman)I think nearly everyone who's unmarried imagined themselves getting married at some point. We are socialized to think that it is merely the normal thing to do. Marriage is supposed to be as inevitable a life milestone as birth and death. Back in the old days, back when the Church was the governing institution of our lives, it was there to preside over all three. Naturally, I was no different. You might say I've been unlucky in love my whole life, though if you're being especially generous, you c… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/05/23 03:53 AM |
| 7 | Being negative and defeatist is harming the movement. We need to focus on our accomplishments and make sure people know where to go if they want to help.Could some of that defeatism come from certain biological determinist tendencies? You know, the idea that because sperm is cheap and eggs are expensive, we are biologically hardwired to care less about men, so advocating for men is ultimately a futile effort. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/05/23 05:17 PM |
| 8 | Abraham Lincoln used female pen names to attack political rivals, from which he could slander them as "unpopular with women", among other thingsGiven that Hamilton was one of the most famous and powerful men in that entire era of the U.S., I think it's safe to say she knew exactly who he was and exactly what she was doing. And it wasn't simply to get laid. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/05/23 04:50 AM |
| 9 | Abraham Lincoln used female pen names to attack political rivals, from which he could slander them as "unpopular with women", among other thingsI've never actually seen the musical. I literally only just watched some clips of "Say No to This" on Youtube to get an idea of what you're talking about. Regardless of what one is to make of Hamilton in all this (to put it mildly, it probably wasn't the wisest decision he ever made), my point isn't about him at all, it's about Reynolds and her role in all this. I don't buy the idea that she was just a pawn in her husband's extortion racket. That would be to pretend that women don't have agency … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/05/23 02:47 AM |
| 53 | Abraham Lincoln used female pen names to attack political rivals, from which he could slander them as "unpopular with women", among other thingsMaria Reynolds couldn't vote, but she did nevertheless manage to all but guarantee that Alexander Hamilton, one of the most powerful and influential Founding Fathers of the United States, would never become President. I'd say that counts as some kind of power. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/05/23 11:20 PM |
| 2 | The Supposed "Patriarchy" is a Coping Mechanism for Ancient Matrilineage and the Survival of the FittestIt would be wrong to assume that matrilineality and matriarchy are the same thing. I think this was how second-wave feminists conjured up a prehistoric matriarchy. Tracing kinship through the female line doesn't mean women hold all the power any more than tracing kinship through the male line means men hold all the power. For the overwhelming majority of the history of anatomically modern humans, we lived as hunter-gatherers. Looking at things on an evolutionary timescale, it was only about yest… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/05/23 04:35 PM |
| 0 | The Supposed "Patriarchy" is a Coping Mechanism for Ancient Matrilineage and the Survival of the FittestThe overwhelming number of cultures are patrilineal. However, if you think about it for a moment, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Until about 40 years ago, when accurate DNA testing became available, the legal principle Mater semper certa est, pater numquam ("the mother is always certain, the father never") held true. Why take the name of your father when you can never be sure he actually is your dad? It actually makes more sense to take the name of your mother. In addition, if you assum… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/05/23 12:21 PM |
| 13 | The Supposed "Patriarchy" is a Coping Mechanism for Ancient Matrilineage and the Survival of the FittestThe book, having been authored by two Marxists, takes for granted Marx and Engel's theories on the family structures of early humans. Readers unfamiliar with them, and perhaps doubtful of their accuracy, might wish to read "Engels was Right: Early Human Kinship was Matrilineal," which argues convincingly that Marx and Engels have been in fact vindicated by modern anthropology. Actually, I was surprised by how much the book spent quoting Friedrich Engel's The Origin of the Family, Private Propert… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/05/23 04:34 AM |
| 3 | LWMA LoungeTo all my fellow North Americans, today is the real Labour Day! | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/05/23 06:42 PM |
| 2 | Do you believe Jordan Peterson is not an ideal role model for young men?I know this has been mocked to death over the years, but why, of all the animals in the world, did he pick lobsters as the animal to explain existing human hierarchies? Why not the comparatively egalitarian bonobo? After all, we humans are much more closely related to bonobos than to lobsters. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/05/23 04:57 PM |
| 8 | Gender biases in our narratives about historyYes, the inverse logic would be: Because women give life, men must bring death. Because women are protected, men must be expended. Because women die on the birthing table, men must die on the battlefield. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/04/23 02:40 PM |
| 18 | Gender biases in our narratives about history"Long live death!" is a most appropriate slogan for the crazed death cult that is fascism. It is a death cult that celebrates the senseless death of men on the battlefield and brainwashes men to believe there is no greater honour than such a death. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/04/23 03:43 AM |
| 4 | Ben Shapiro Not A Fan Of Fashion Freedom For Men (Kulinski)That's men and trans women to be exact. Not that Shapiro distinguishes between the two. Anyone with male on their birth certificate should be banned from wearing a skirt, unless they're a Scot, or Chinese, or Burmese, or Polynesian, etc. They'd better write these laws carefully. Otherwise I, being ethnically Han Chinese, can wear a skirt and claim that it's "traditional" male clothing per my own traditions. Guess that's "small government" for you. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/04/23 04:28 PM |
| 1 | Queensland to decriminalise sex work as review recommends new advertising rules | The 4th Australian state to make a rational, evidence-based decision and go full decrim rather than still criminalising male clients (i.e. Nordic model) as feminists want.It is already legal and regulated in Queensland. Aren't they already getting tax revenue? Or do they get more under decriminalization than legalization? | /r/MensRights | 25/04/23 02:24 PM |
| 4 | Queensland to decriminalise sex work as review recommends new advertising rules | The 4th Australian state to make a rational, evidence-based decision and go full decrim rather than still criminalising male clients (i.e. Nordic model) as feminists want.Good to see that the Aussies appear immune to the Swedish disease. | /r/MensRights | 24/04/23 04:46 PM |
| 34 | The struggle of being in trans spaces as a manI would imagine that for a lot of trans people being able to pass is a marker of success, something to be proud of. For a trans man, however, what does passing mean exactly to the sort of people who believe in patriarchy and male privilege? It means joining the dark side basically. It means becoming a fully-initiated member of the patriarchy and gaining the associated powers and privileges conferred to cis men. After all, socially-speaking, a fully passing trans man is for all intents and purpos… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/04/23 10:16 PM |
| 17 | Anyone here read “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism” by Kristen GhodseeI've only ever read the review of it on Jacobin a few years back. It was described as a pretty nuanced view of sex and sexuality in the Eastern Bloc. Surveys showed how East German women had better sex lives than their West German counterparts. On the other hand, the Soviet Union, barring a brief Soviet Sexual Revolution in the early pre-Stalin days, was very socially conservative and prudish. Just read the The Twelve Sexual Commandments of the Revolutionary Proletariat. As one Soviet woman supp… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/04/23 12:58 AM |
| 38 | I think feminism is a right wing ideology.Let's not forget the frequent alliances between social conservatives and radical feminists, when they make common cause in their anti-porn anti-sex work anti-trans crusades. Perhaps they aren't quite the strange bedfellows they are often described as being. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/04/23 12:01 AM |
| 9 | The Canadian Government used to be mostly men. It is now mostly women. Executive federal jobs are also mostly women today.Reminds me of something from an old Canadian animated series I watched as a kid: Sure, we now have the right to vote, to drive cars, and to pilot the space shuttle, if we so desire. But I say our work is only half done. We still need to stop men from doing those things! — April June, Chilly Beach | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/04/23 05:19 PM |
| 11 | I feel like people are becoming more traditionalTraditionalism provides a stable foundation for gender roles, so it becomes an easy fallback when those roles are confused and uncertain, as they are now. Admittedly, I've felt the allure of it myself. It's not hard to for me to see how people may be becoming more traditional in the current cultural milieu. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/04/23 01:30 AM |
| 8 | The Stanford Rape Hoax: Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes.Yes, if you just want to read about Gries, the chronic liar and accused perjurer, there are plenty of other news articles you can read. This article is, I think, ultimately not so much about Gries herself, but the radical feminist anti-rape activists on campus and their reaction to this incident. After Gries was arrested, it's interesting how they were quick to denounce the DA for even bringing charges against her in the first place, while calling her crime "an unfounded allegation." It's what h… | /r/MensRights | 05/04/23 08:54 PM |
| 32 | The Stanford Rape Hoax: Jennifer Gries used claims of rape to punish a co-worker. Activists at Stanford used her lies for their own purposes.She was arrested and charged with perjury and inducing false testimony a couple of weeks ago. From what I could gather, she could face jail time if convicted. | /r/MensRights | 05/04/23 03:47 PM |
| 4 | Mating Gap -it is men's fault obviouslyBut that would mean you abandon the whole "men are the root of all evil" ideology. That sounds great! Who could possibly be against giving up such stupid and unproductive bitterness and resentment? But yes, the problem of millions of people getting themselves in massive debt for university degrees that aren't terribly useful is probably a more consequential issue than something like gender discrepancies in education. Would it really matter what the gender ratio in STEM was, if everyone could do … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/03/23 08:30 PM |
| 21 | The left is committing suicide: the increasing alienation of men is going to destroy our movement[W]e may not completely understand the gender gap in political affiliation unless we take seriously the experiences of men as well as women. Men’s declining chances of being married may mean that they have not only been less likely to share mutual concerns with one significant woman (a wife) who might have compelled an interest in the Democratic Party. Singleness may also mean that men have been able to retain a greater portion of their income and, consequently, have been more likely to turn to … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/03/23 07:47 PM |
| 3 | Mating Gap -it is men's fault obviouslySo wouldn't helping men close the gender education gap also help close this mating gap? We can kill two birds with one stone then. Though I kind of doubt that's the recommendation this book is going to give. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/03/23 03:43 PM |
| 36 | Mating Gap -it is men's fault obviouslyUnbelievable how the fact that women are "outstripping men in higher education" can be framed as "growing gender inequalities [for women]." So basically as gaps close, other so-called gaps will be invented to replace them in a neverending cycle. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/03/23 04:41 AM |
| 1 | Is it time we talked about parental alienation?Check out the latest episode of the Not on Record podcast that just dropped which is on this very topic. It discusses an actual ongoing criminal trial, in which a man has been accused by his wife of, among other things, sexually assaulting his own daughter. Heartbreaking to see how the kids are testifying in court that they don't miss their dad. It's to be the first part of multi-part series, so I'll be checking back for sure for more. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/03/23 03:57 AM |
| 11 | MPs have approved plans to make street sexual harassment a crime carrying jail sentences of up to two years. Catcalling, following someone or blocking their path will become an offence in England and Wales under a bill backed by the British governmentNo, I suppose not. | /r/MensRights | 24/03/23 08:31 PM |
| 25 | MPs have approved plans to make street sexual harassment a crime carrying jail sentences of up to two years. Catcalling, following someone or blocking their path will become an offence in England and Wales under a bill backed by the British governmentSpeaking in the Commons, Tory MP Christopher Chope said the bill could lead to a deterioration in mental health in young men. "A reasonable worry about assault appears to have morphed into an institutional misandry," he told MPs. "Sexual assault is bad and treating men as inherent sex pests is also bad." Not a fan of the Tories, but couldn't agree more on this one. But Mr Chope did not vote against the bill. ??? | /r/MensRights | 24/03/23 06:49 PM |
| 4 | who are some male heroes from history that you admire?Down and Out in Paris and London is well worth the read. A memoir of life at the bottom. In the passage that you're referring to, one can very much read Orwell as a proto-LWMA. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/03/23 09:09 PM |
| 42 | who are some male heroes from history that you admire?George Orwell, the contrarian leftist of his time. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/03/23 03:23 PM |
| 68 | Men in Scotland who loudly boast about sexual conquests in public could face jailIf this becomes law, remember to whisper your sexual conquests the next time you're in Scotland. | /r/MensRights | 10/03/23 03:19 PM |
| 3 | When is enough, enough?I'm reminded of something I read in the introduction to, what I think is a relevant contemporary feminist text, Amia Srinivasan’s The Right to Sex: [Feminism] is a political movement to transform the world beyond recognition. It asks: what would it be to end the political, social, sexual, economic, psychological, and physical subordination of women? It answers: we do not know; let us try and see. When is enough enough? What will the world look like then? Will we even be recognizably human after … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/02/23 02:33 AM |
| 0 | My thoughts on the Internet retards bullying Leo and His supposed girlfriendIf that's true, then it's only a matter of time before people demand that the law "get with the times" and update itself to reflect social attitudes. | /r/MensRights | 09/02/23 10:26 PM |
| 13 | Men who date younger women not more likely to be abusive, studies showThere are no shortage of people under the influence of radical feminist ideology who think any man seeing a sex worker is committing "rape," regardless of their ages. I saw an escort once, who was actually older than me. I wonder if she "raped" me. Or did I "rape" her? Also, unlike regular good-old-fashioned relationships, sex work isn't something that's in the open, being underground and illegal in much of the world. There aren't very many individual men to shame, given that very few men would … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/02/23 09:57 PM |
| 20 | Men who date younger women not more likely to be abusive, studies showWeird how this argument only applies to men having sex with women and not with say: 18 year-old men getting drafted or 18-year-olds taking out loans. Let's see someone try to refuse to pay back a loan, because they were younger than 25 when they signed, and their brain wasn't fully developed. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/02/23 08:53 PM |
| 3 | My thoughts on the Internet retards bullying Leo and His supposed girlfriendI swear there's going to be a debate about seriously raising the age of consent to 25 in the near future. Anyone who voices the slightest disagreement will be slandered as a creep and pedophile. | /r/MensRights | 09/02/23 05:22 PM |
| 2 | how the bias of the feminist patriarchy theory prevents men's issues from being addressed by treating men as a monolith.Ironically, you can't be a feminist if you respect women too much. "Benevolent sexism," I suppose. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/02/23 04:39 AM |
| 1 | UK: Church of England considers alternatives to calling God ‘he’.Supposedly, the original Proto-Germanic word from which "God" derives was originally grammatically neuter. The word only became masculine due to the influence of Christianity. And now we're coming full circle. | /r/MensRights | 08/02/23 02:56 PM |
| 2 | I think that positive masculinity is just traditional masculinity without of the negatives of traditional masculinity, how it really isn't realistic for most men, and how some on the left use this to push bootstraps narrative for menI've noticed this too. I've heard a lot of discussion about preserving the positive elements of traditional masculinity, while discarding the negative aspects of it. But negative for whom though? Something like self-sacrifice might be socially beneficial, especially for those running the show, but it is individually harmful. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/02/23 05:57 PM |
| 2 | Every man pays for sex in one way or another.The most expensive kind of sex is the kind that's ostensibly for free. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/02/23 05:30 PM |
| 19 | Let's stop using 'incel' as an insultIt's because "incel" is the progressive politically correct way of calling a guy a "virgin" who can't get laid. For good reason, blatant virgin-shaming is increasingly looked down upon. However, because it remains an effective insult against men, targeting a sensitive area of male insecurity, people still want to do it. The incel slur squares this circle. By calling a guy an "incel," you aren't really virgin-shaming him, because the word has acquired the connotation of "violent misogynist." Inso… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/01/23 03:49 AM |
| 25 | Let's stop using 'incel' as an insultFor a while, especially after the Toronto van attack, the term seemed synonymous with "violent misogynist" in the media. Now, however, it's increasingly just used to refer to real or imagined male misogyny and antifeminism. Consider how Western media outlets called the most recent South Korean election an "incel election" and the winning candidate an "incel president." Given that the man was married, they clearly could not have meant that literally. "Incel" is going the way of "fascist." It's ju… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/01/23 12:29 AM |
| 2 | A Modest Proposal: The Bachelorette TaxNo exemption for sex workers? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/01/23 12:22 AM |
| 18 | why would I go to war for my country that is so anti maleAt least there's no conscription in Canada. And if they somehow do start drafting citizens (male citizens probably), I have zero shame in saying that I'm going to do everything I can to dodge the draft. I'm willing to go to work, pay my taxes, and be a more or less law-abiding citizen, but having to fight and die for this country is asking for too much. At that point, the government could go shove it. | /r/MensRights | 13/01/23 12:42 AM |
| 1 | Misogynistic men get laid moreIsn't it funny that a certain fictional character, often cited as the quintessential womanizer, James Bond is, especially by modern standards, a misogynist and rapist? When Bond forced himself onto Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, what were the women in the audience thinking back in 1964? I'm willing to bet it was less outrage that a rape scene was accompanied by romantic music and more along the lines of: "I wish James Bond/Sean Connery did that to me!" Now, maybe a lot of that is social conditioned… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/01/23 10:36 PM |
| 13 | Man legally changes gender to win custody of his daughters: Now I am also a mother (news story from Ecuador)So, just looking at the Wikipedia article on gender self-ID laws in Ecuador, Since 2016, Ecuadorians are allowed to change their “sex” marker in the personal identity document for a “gender” marker as masculine or feminine. The person who wants to change the word "sex" for "gender" in the identity card shall present two witnesses to accredit the self-determination of the applicant. To change the “sex” marker in the civil registry, they must have a judicial order. I find that fascinating. Ecuador… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 05/01/23 06:50 PM |
| 12 | Has the political left failed men?Yes, they have. Though that failure should be understood as a broader failure of the mainstream Left in abandoning working-class interests in favour of the sort of identity politics that makes men, often working-class men, out to be the enemy. In spite of whatever failings one might attribute to the "old" Left, they never declared the ordinary man on the street to be a privileged member of a patriarchy that needed to be overthrown. There was room to point out the unique issues faced by men, as d… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 05/01/23 01:54 AM |
| 7 | Has Men's Rights Activism entered a new Phase?Patience, friend. We're still very much in the awareness phase, and there are no guarantees we will move beyond it. This sort of change can take decades. Still, there are some encouraging signs of progress that we can and should build on. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/01/23 04:22 PM |
| 9 | Radical Feminist Catharine A MacKinnon is Sexist! She infantilizes women! She wants to get rid of consent legally!I took a look at that website you linked, and it is truly disturbing that MacKinnon's approach is being presented alongside the affirmative consent standard as equally worthy of consideration. I mean both are problematic, but MacKinnon's is just insane. I might go see if I can pop this into a different sub, cop some down votes/hate, but hopefully reach some other women who don't like being infantilized and... You would have my full encouragement to do so. Good luck! Though you can forget about p… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/01/23 04:03 AM |
| 8 | Radical Feminist Catharine A MacKinnon is Sexist! She infantilizes women! She wants to get rid of consent legally!Absolutely, yes. The 40th most cited legal scholar of all time thinks pretty much all sex is rape and has helped rewrite the law in Canada according to her theories. If you ask me, we should be talking about her much more. People need to know that the most extreme radical feminist jurisprudes have far more influence than most people can possibly imagine. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/01/23 03:34 AM |
| 3 | LWMA LoungeHave a very Happy New Year, everybody! May this sub continue to grow and grow. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/01/23 05:06 AM |
| 54 | Radical Feminist Catharine A MacKinnon is Sexist! She infantilizes women! She wants to get rid of consent legally!If only MacKinnon was just some obscure Tumblr radfem that we could either ignore or laugh at. Unfortunately, that's not the case. By some mistake of nature, she's an extremely influential legal scholar (the 40th most cited of all time!). In Canada, she even managed to directly influence changes to our sexual assault laws back in 1992. It is incredibly sadly ironic that a woman who rejects the entire concept of sexual consent would contribute to changing an entire country's law on sexual consent… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/01/23 04:37 AM |
| 32 | Radical Feminist Catharine A MacKinnon is Sexist! She infantilizes women! She wants to get rid of consent legally!I wouldn't be surprised if Catharine MacKinnon was secretly married, lives like a submissive 1950's housewife, and asks her husband how she should vote. At least then it would make sense why she wants to undermine feminism with conservative values. That actually isn't that crazy of a theory. MacKinnon was previously engaged to a man, a "repentant womanizer" who supposedly bedded (or by her definition "raped") 1,000 women. How, I asked MacKinnon during our interview, could she justify marriage wh… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/01/23 03:05 AM |
| 1 | LWMA LoungeHow is the alt-right anything close to being our ally? That's a baseless media smear. If that's the public perception, then all the more reason for us to make ourselves heard, to show them we are nothing like the alt-right and want nothing to do with them. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 31/12/22 04:05 AM |
| 7 | The soft eugenics of male-hatredThere's nothing new about this, I'm afraid. What was Sally Miller Gearhart's "future is female" proposal to reduce men to 10% of the human race but a kind of utopian feminist eugenics program? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/12/22 04:56 AM |
| 5 | Quotes that represent my views on masculinityGood to see a fellow "class reductionist" here. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/12/22 04:15 PM |
| 1 | What's missing from the incel conversation?This will probably sound awfully depressing, but I think if there is such a thing as a real solution to the incel problem, it is going to involve the end of romance. It's often said that prostitution isn't any kind of solution, even if it were completely legal and free from stigma, because incels don't just want sex, they want all this other stuff that they imagine has to accompany sex to be "real" sex. Hence, the existence of the incelese term escortcel, an incel who has sex with sex workers, b… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/12/22 03:48 AM |
| 2 | Do you think some women are against sex work because it takes away a lot of their power over men?Yes, and it's pretty much an open secret too. It's often forgotten today that prostitution was criminalized in much of the Anglosphere because of first-wave feminism, and those feminists explicitly said that their opposition to sex work was because they believed it undermined women's power over men. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 13/12/22 03:03 AM |
| 15 | What's missing from the incel conversation?There was this old study on involuntary celibacy, in which they needed a working definition who an involuntary celibate was exactly. They came up with: "one who desires to have sex, but has been unable to find a willing partner for at least 6 months prior." Even by that definition, I think nearly everyone has been an incel at least once in their life. The COVID pandemic certainly made incels out of a lot of people. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 12/12/22 11:20 PM |
| 11 | What's missing from the incel conversation?Indeed. Who doesn't like a good Virgin vs. Chad meme? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 12/12/22 10:46 PM |
| 8 | What's inside the gap?I also speculate that a lot of the pay gap has to do with the gender gap in high-paying professions being more pronounced in the old generations. We will doubtlessly see these gaps narrow significantly as these older men retire. For instance, in Canada, men are around 54% of lawyers. However, among newer/younger lawyers, those having practiced for 5 years or less, the gender divide is pretty much even. Where I live, in Ontario, women are actually the majority of these newer lawyers. Therefore, g… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/12/22 04:56 AM |
| 8 | The relationship between some "feminists" and "allies" looks an awful lot like the relationship between and abuser and their victim.There are the "patriarchy hurts men too" sort of male feminists, and then you have the self-flagellating male feminist "allies." They are quite aware that they have nothing to gain, rather, they have everything to lose, viz. all their supposed powers and privileges. Far from being unhappy by the fact that this is of zero benefit to them, they embrace it for that very reason, out of an intense feeling of collective male guilt that cannot be mentally healthy to have. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/12/22 11:21 PM |
| 3 | LWMA LoungeThey don't like us. We don't like them either. I believe one of the main reasons this sub was founded in the first place was because of dissatisfaction with Menslib. See the mission statement for more. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 05/12/22 09:52 PM |
| 14 | The Dancing Boys of AfghanistanThe Taliban have always considered it against Islam. They banned it the last time they were in power, and AFAIK they've banned it again after regaining power. It's led to this bizarre situation where the Taliban of all people can claim the moral high ground on this issue. There are no shortage of Afghans who are disgusted by the practice, who are not blind to the blatant religious hypocrisy at work here. It's not hard to see how this helped the Taliban gain power both in 1996 and in 2021. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/12/22 01:00 AM |
| 2 | What do you love about being a man?Ah, right. Somehow, I forgot about that. Still, I think I'll pass on this option. Not being much of an outdoorsman, and being a bit sickly, I don't like my odds of surviving even a day in the desert. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/11/22 11:57 PM |
| 7 | What do you love about being a man?You can survive a couple of days in the middle of a desert. Is that an "immediate" risk of death? Regardless, I'll take the 100m around my current address. I can order everything I need online, and I get to work from home for the rest of my life! | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/11/22 10:10 PM |
| 4 | Do MRAs support a woman’s right to an abortion? If no, then do MRAs support a man’s right to a “paper” or “legal” abortion?They should support either both or neither. The whole concept of paper abortion derives from a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. You can't really be in favour of one but not the other. I, for one, support both. As the former President of the United States once said, "I am very pro-choice." | /r/MensRights | 26/11/22 02:32 AM |
| 1 | So we understand that a major part of the incel identity is feeling unworthy of attention from women. I'd like to highlight that this is largely due to the toxic dating environment we've forced upon awkward men.The legal definitions of consent are currently being changed to demand affirmative and continuous consent. On a surface level, this sounds all well and good, but there is great uncertainty as to what that's supposed to mean in practice. How affirmative and continuous does it have to be? Nobody really knows yet. Does every sexual interaction need to be like that infamous "consent is sexy" video, otherwise it's technically sexual assault? Because right now we are in serious danger of declaring nea… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/11/22 06:25 PM |
| 5 | So we understand that a major part of the incel identity is feeling unworthy of attention from women. I'd like to highlight that this is largely due to the toxic dating environment we've forced upon awkward men.Romance is enough of a minefield without the climate of fear created by meToo. In combination with legal changes, viz. sexual harassment and affirmative consent standards, potentially criminalizing large swathes of what ordinary people would call normal human sexual behaviour, it makes me wonder what the long-term effects of this are going to be. Are we all eventually going to become too afraid to even attempt sex and romance with another human being? Meanwhile, advances in VR and sex robots are… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/11/22 04:14 AM |
| 19 | There is no ‘war on men’ – we now know feminism is good for boys (Article)There are basically two feminisms, which often contradict one another. There's feminism as gender equality and the dismantling of gender roles, and then there's feminism as the advocacy for the interests of women and girls. The former would, if applied fairly and consistently, be beneficial to men and boys. However, when mixed up with the latter, you find yourself in a bit of a dilemma: What is to be done with traditional gender roles and inequalities, when they benefit women? Should those be di… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/11/22 03:38 AM |
| 0 | Most left-wingers and progressives have a huge problem with hypocrisy in their beliefs and the way they talk about gender issues is a prime example of that.That's the thing about a hypothetical post-scarcity society. There's no need for an authoritarian government or even a state. Social relations and human motivations would fundamentally change with the existence of replicators and whatever fantastical energy source it is that powers those things. What's the point of accumulating wealth and possessions when replicators can just produce anything and everything we might need and want? Private property wouldn't need to be abolished by state violence,… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/11/22 04:13 AM |
| 1 | Most left-wingers and progressives have a huge problem with hypocrisy in their beliefs and the way they talk about gender issues is a prime example of that.Maybe I'm just a depressed hardcore pessimist at this point in my life, but I'm not even sure I agree with that. Yes, life expectancy and standards of living are at their highest ever, but what does that mean if people are lonelier and unhappier than ever? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/11/22 10:47 PM |
| 2 | Most left-wingers and progressives have a huge problem with hypocrisy in their beliefs and the way they talk about gender issues is a prime example of that.My understanding as a non-Trekkie is that it's left pretty vague how exactly the Star Trek economy works. Also, with so many different writers over the decades, things are not always consistent, and such questions usually aren't relevant to the stories being told anyhow. So there's room for interpretation is what I'm saying. As I see it, this is a world in which "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" has been realized, and that sounds pretty communist to me. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/11/22 06:09 PM |
| 2 | Most left-wingers and progressives have a huge problem with hypocrisy in their beliefs and the way they talk about gender issues is a prime example of that.In terms of the abundance of material possessions and technological wonders that we have access to, yes, absolutely. In terms of our social lives and our mental well-being, I'm not so sure about that. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/11/22 11:43 PM |
| 5 | Most left-wingers and progressives have a huge problem with hypocrisy in their beliefs and the way they talk about gender issues is a prime example of that.A communist society, to use the Marxist definition, would mean a stateless, post-work, post-scarcity society brought about through technological developments. The term "communist state" is technically an oxymoron. Such countries are more accurately called Marxist-Leninist states. Star Trek is heavily implied to take place in such a society. Though the specifics are not fully detailed, it's mentioned that things like poverty, money, and the need to work have gone into the dustbin of history. A mo… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/11/22 11:30 PM |
| 2 | Equality of outcome for women, equality of opportunity for menEDIT: yes, you are right, feminists often advocate AGAINST equality of opportunity for men. How about this: Socialism for women, capitalism for men? Allow me to quote myself. "The personal is political" only applies to women for [feminists]. Women's issues are systemic. Men's are individual. For women - cushy Scandinavian social democracy. For men - brutal dog-eat-dog neoliberalism. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/11/22 03:14 AM |
| 3 | Is it better to reject the labels, or reclaim them?On the one hand, saying "That's not me so I must not be male" feels like a cop-out. It feels like a concession to those who slander people based on their gender. On the other hand, "I'm male and I'm not like that" seems to carry zero weight as an argument. It's always met with "That's exactly what you'd say if you were like that" or else, "obviously I don't mean you, when I say 'men' I'm using it as a synecdoche for 'bad men', not 'all men'--and before you ask, no, I don't hear the shocking sexi… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/11/22 03:12 AM |
| 6 | "Men's Day is Every Day""Every day is International Men's Day" would be an odd thing for one of my co-workers to retort, given that we work for a woman, in a profession that is 82.6% female, and every single one of the lawyers at our law firm is a woman. If somebody here told me that, I would start with asking: why then am I pretty much the only dude here? The full answer would involve a broader discussion about power and patriarchy theory. If somebody believes that women have been subject to millennia of male oppressi… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 14/11/22 05:33 PM |
| 5 | LWMA LoungeNot quite what you're looking for, but there was this study, which caused a minor stir a while back, which found that self-identified male feminists self-reported themselves as having had more sex with women than non-self-identified feminists. David Futrelle was giddily proclaiming it as proof that feminists have more sex, so all them Incel/MRAs should just STFU and get on board with feminism already. The most obvious limitation, as it freely admits, is that it does not take into account the bel… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/11/22 04:59 AM |
| 11 | Top AskFeminists post: "zero pity for men for not having sex"It's actually a pretty common social conservative talking point that abortion allows men to skirt their responsibilities, to have consequence-free sex, and by extension, have more sex. If abortion were heavily restricted, male sexlessness would probably go up. Women would be incentivized to withhold sex more, because of the higher potential costs. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/11/22 08:58 PM |
| 7 | Top AskFeminists post: "zero pity for men for not having sex"Why would pity sex violate a woman's bodily autonomy? Regardless, I think the replies have already explained why that wouldn't be any kind of solution. Lonely men don't want a pity fuck. They want to be genuinely desired by a woman. Maybe this is just blindingly obvious, but I see a lot of women, influenced by certain feminist theories on sexuality, who see male sexuality as violent and malicious towards women. They think men delight in a sexual partner's discomfort, hurt, and degradation. All t… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/11/22 08:37 PM |
| 7 | Top AskFeminists post: "zero pity for men for not having sex"Yeah, I know what you're saying. Loneliness won't kill you directly, but it certainly might make you want to do its job for it. Sexlessness and sexual repression are also unhealthy. They also often go hand-in-hand with loneliness and isolation. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/11/22 03:40 AM |
| 16 | Top AskFeminists post: "zero pity for men for not having sex"The top comment there reads: I'm much more concerned with the study that many people have no friends than about men having less sex. Maybe it hasn't crossed her mind, but it seems obvious to me that the two are interlinked. You can't talk about one problem without talking about the other. Fewer friends and fewer social interactions means fewer opportunities to meet potential partners, meaning less sex. Nobody can seriously deny the importance of socializing, companionship, and friendship to huma… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/11/22 02:09 AM |
| 7 | It’s absurd to me not even gay men are safe from false allegationsThe feminist mantra: “rape is about power, not sex” has become accepted folk wisdom, even though there is little evidence to support it, while there is reason to believe the opposite. Think about it, if rape has nothing to do with sex, that it is essentially asexual, that it is completely about men exercising their patriarchal power over women, then that wouldn't excuse gay men in the slightest, because in feminist theory gay men also benefit from male privilege, are misogynistic, want to oppres… | /r/MensRights | 08/11/22 02:57 PM |
| 3 | The Anti-Due Process/False Accusers Movement, and What You Can Do About It (Title IX/Education)That is fucked up, man. I really sorry that happened to you. You might want to make a full-length post about this sometime. It really goes to show how these overzealous, to put it mildly, policies hurt the most vulnerable the most. You were clearly in a rough spot at the time and needed mental health help, not a goddamn Title IX charge. Also, regarding the offense you were accused of, doesn't that happen dozens of times every weekend on every campus everywhere? Grinding against someone at a part… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/11/22 08:44 PM |
| 16 | Chilean girls at school harass, bully boys, singing hateful songs to their classmates for being maleCould somebody translate what they are chanting? Also, I get that it's some sort of protest, but what are they protesting exactly? Why? | /r/MensRights | 07/11/22 04:43 AM |
| 1 | a lot of high value men did not work for itTo be fair to FDS, which just to be clear I despise with a passion, they did list Trump as an example of a rich man who's also an LVM/NVM pornsick small-dick scrote. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/11/22 09:02 PM |
| 2 | At least for heterosexuals, western society is going to become more sexually conservative, not lessThe backlash to the Sexual Revolution, which led to the Feminist Sex Wars of the 80s, has turned into a full-blown Sexual Counter-revolution. The Sexual Revolution is being reinterpreted as a patriarchical plot to trick women to put out more for men, while thinking it is sexually liberating for them. For free too! How very sneaky of the patriarchy! I sincerely hope this is like a pendulum. The sexual conservatism can only go on for so long before it eventually swings back the other way. When wha… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 06/11/22 06:27 PM |
| 2 | Perhaps the only man talking about sex-positivity on YouTube from a heterosexual male perspectiveThis looks interesting. He looks criminally undersubscribed too. I will definitely take a look and give him an extra subscriber. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/11/22 03:57 PM |
| 2 | How important is dating in high school/college for future success in your opinion?It's very important, yes. While I'm not saying a lack of dating in high school means you're doomed for life, it is an extremely important foundation for future success. Think of it this way, do professional athletes start playing their sport of choice before or after high school? Do they start getting good before or after high school? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 05/11/22 06:09 PM |
| 5 | The Anti-Due Process/False Accusers Movement, and What You Can Do About It (Title IX/Education)What happened exactly? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 05/11/22 03:47 AM |
| 62 | "Of all journalists killed in 2021, 11% were women."Around 75% of war correspondents are men. If that was 50/50, i.e. gender parity, there is no way female journalists would be only 11%. Paradoxically, it would be both less sexist and more sexist somehow. Unless, of course, their idea of gender equality is a 50/50 split in war correspondents, but a 100/0 male-female death ratio. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/11/22 09:20 PM |
| 2 | Vaush showing a heavier MRA leanI hope it goes without saying you don't take those radfem arguments seriously, right? The logical conclusion of such arguments is that authentic consent (for women) is more or less impossible under conditions of male dominance, hence, the much maligned, but very fair IMO, interpretation of their views as: "all sex is rape." Not a very healthy attitude to have towards sex and sexuality to say the least. We literally buy consent every time we buy any good or service from anybody. Nobody bats an ey… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/11/22 06:55 PM |
| 9 | 81% of victims are men. But it’s the women who are being targetedThe overwhelming number of journalists killed are male. If anything, a 50% increase in one year should be cause for celebration from UN Women. It means more women are becoming war correspondents, of whom something like 75% are men, and taking other more risky assignments, i.e. it means we are moving towards gender parity in journalism. Of course, I'd imagine their idea of gender equality would be a 50/50 gender split in war correspondents, but a 100% male death ratio. | /r/EverydayMisandry | 04/11/22 06:00 PM |
| 4 | Vaush showing a heavier MRA leanNot just legal destigmatized sex work. It would have to be that as part of a broader sociocultural embrace of sex-positivity, that is fully inclusive of men and male sexuality. No more of this misandrist "unexamined brutality of the male libido" nonsense. The ghost of Andrea Dworkin that Metoo resurrected will have to be exorcised. In what way do you think sex work is exploitative? I don't agree with Vaush on a lot of things, not by a long shot, but overall I agree: 1) Society needs to embrace s… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/11/22 11:40 PM |
| 85 | Vaush showing a heavier MRA leanVaush sincerely thinks intersectional feminism is for everyone, men included, and adequately addresses men's issues. In that sense, he's of the opinion that the MRM is unnecessary because third-wave feminism has already got everybody covered. How he squares that with the fact that intersectional Twitter calls for his head on a pike, if he so much as suggests that men have problems too, is beyond me. Give him credit where credit is due, he appears fully aware that men today face many social probl… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/10/22 12:28 AM |
| 12 | Is There A ‘Right To Sex’? | Krystal Kyle & Friends Podcast"Betraying the sisterhood," "making a patriarchical bargain," or more crudely "being a pickme." Basically, the feminist version of calling someone a simp or white knight. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/10/22 08:21 PM |
| 14 | Is There A ‘Right To Sex’? | Krystal Kyle & Friends PodcastSocietal attitudes, i.e. through virgin shaming, can exacerbate the problem, yes. However, let's not pretend that if society stopped judging people based on the amount of sex they were having, sexual frustration would cease to exist, that we would all become indifferent to how much sex we were having. Contrary to what some radical feminist social constructivists would claim, libido (especially male libido) is not a social construct. It is a natural, normal, and healthy biological drive. When it … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/10/22 08:13 PM |
| 20 | 232K likesMen are overwhelmingly both the victims and perpetrators of violence. By her logic, it would be more fitting to say that it is gay men who are stuck dating their "natural predators." | /r/EverydayMisandry | 29/10/22 05:11 PM |
| 1 | Hot Take: MGTOW promotes women’s safety more than feminism these days.An interesting post. I don't mean the usual radfem nonsense, that's pretty run-of-the-mill. The Feminist Sex War will lead to strange bedfellows, perhaps? An alliance between radical feminism and MGTOW? That'll be the day! Or perhaps, this is evidence of the horseshoe theory, as applied to the extremes of feminism and the manosphere. After all, it has been pointed out that MGTOW in some ways mirrors the lesbian separatists of radical feminism. That being said, I don't think your claim that MGTOW… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/10/22 05:19 AM |
| 0 | including all the benefits and disadvantages,if you could choose what sex to be at birth which one would you choose?It 100% depends on the time, the place, and one's social position. I'd like to imagine that even the raddest of radfems would admit: better to be the wife of a wealthy CEO in Monaco than a male subsistence farmer in South Sudan. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 29/10/22 01:53 AM |
| 61 | Is There A ‘Right To Sex’? | Krystal Kyle & Friends PodcastWell, that was remarkably reasonable and level-headed, a real breath of fresh air after having seen that absolute shitshow of a Twitter thread. The Twitter mob was very unfair piling on Alexandra Hunt, accusing her of promoting patriarchy/rape/state-mandated girlfriends or something ludicrous. That's how things are, unfortunately, if a woman brings up an issue affecting men, male sexlessness in this instance, the accusations of internalized misogyny will not be far behind. Anyhow, good of you fo… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/10/22 01:47 AM |
| 5 | "The Future Is Female" Is Hate SpeechIf women are the future, what does that make men? The past? What a godawful thing to tell young boys, that they have nothing to look forward to except their own obsolescence. Automation has hit men particularly hard, given that the first jobs that get replaced have been and will be manual labour jobs, the ones that are traditionally male gendered. Traditionally female gendered jobs, i.e. service sector and hospitality jobs, will be the last to get replaced. We ought to be thinking of ways to, at… | /r/EverydayMisandry | 28/10/22 01:34 PM |
| 6 | what should we do for Incels?I genuinely think there's a place for sex workers - health service sex workers - who can help teach men how to be safely and comfortably intimate. I really think that's a role that could be helpful. Are you familiar with partner surrogates/sex surrogates? I suppose one could call them a kind of health service sex worker. Unfortunately, they are not very widespread these days, being something of a vestige of a more sex-positive time, because I think a lot of incels would benefit greatly from this… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/10/22 03:27 AM |
| 28 | Isolation kills again.As someone who just turned 30, I guess that makes me one of the older guys now. That's kind of a sad thought: it's up to guys like me now, and I'm just barely hanging in there myself sometimes. The social isolation and alienation among men today is a symptom of broader social forces beyond any one individual's control. Any suggestions on things we can do together to help? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/10/22 01:54 AM |
| 9 | what should we do for Incels?Yes and no. Yes, most self-proclaimed incels only see prostitution as a cope that doesn't fill the void. The existence of the term "escortcel," i.e. an incel who sees escorts, implies they don't think it "counts," that it's an inauthentic form of sex and intimacy. That being said, consider how much their feeling this way is caused by society's very negative attitudes towards the men that see sex workers. We live in a society that regards such men as some combination of desperate losers, sick per… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/10/22 08:28 PM |
| 5 | Shower thought: If a woman lies about her intentions during sex, for example by secretly not wanting to have sex, does that mean the guy was unable to give informed consent, and was raped?I think we're inching towards a conception of rape that sees consent as only being valid when it stems from genuine desire. Your example brings up a good objection: what if even you are not sure what you genuinely desire? Even mind readers would not be able to meet such a high standard of informed consent. What if figuring out what you genuinely desire requires exploration? Exploration, however, means risking unpleasant experiences. People don't just hit puberty and know what they want. Often, i… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/10/22 03:58 AM |
| 9 | Mensday is coming. What are you planning?Now that you ask, I have an idea. On Friday, November 18, I'll offer to buy dinner for any colleague at work who can identify the special occasion tomorrow. Then I'll treat myself to dinner. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/10/22 03:21 AM |
| 4 | Men, Intimacy & The "Right to Sex" - Between The Scenes | The Daily ShowSame. Luckily VPNs are a thing, so I was able to watch it. Intimacy is all nice and good, but why the constant separation of sex and intimacy, like they aren't closely linked? Sex is a form of intimacy. An extremely important one. Why is it acceptable to say that men suffer without intimacy, but so politically incorrect to say the same about sex? Hugs and cuddles are nice and all, and I'm sure men would benefit from more touch and the sweet release of oxytocin, but let's not pretend like men hug… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/10/22 03:17 AM |
| 2 | I'm a Wizard Today, and I Feel AwfulActually, the only reason I ended up a wizard is because my appointment with an escort got postponed. Probably should've mentioned that in my post. Still felt like shit on Wizard Day though. But yeah, I totally agree with you. I've come to the realization that the most expensive kind of sex is the kind that's ostensibly for free. I've actually already seen an escort once, but I couldn't perform. Next time will be different. | /r/MenSupportMen | 11/10/22 05:04 PM |
| 1 | I'm a Wizard Today, and I Feel AwfulYes. | /r/MenSupportMen | 11/10/22 04:28 PM |
| 7 | Is The Left Finally Waking Up On Men's Issues?It's far too early to call this an awakening for the Left regarding men's issues. Still, it's encouraging to see some talk of it. Remember that to some, any talk of male issues constitutes unacceptable downplaying of women's issues. I won't get my hopes up, but hopefully, it can be the foothold to a broader conversation. For far too long, the Left has too often denied that men have problems, insisting instead that men are themselves the problem. The result, which can be clearly seen today, is a … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/10/22 02:24 AM |
| 2 | Why I hate strip clubs, and what they reveal about sexual dynamics. (A critique of Norah Vincent's "Self Made Man")Revenge? Against whom? Women? I mean I've struggled with feelings of resentment towards women, having been unlucky in love and unbelievably bad at dealing with rejection, not to mention being a wizard now, so I know how you feel. However, you realize it's not healthy, it just leaves you feeling even more miserable and bitter. Eventually, you realize the old romantic notion you had of women as these angelic creatures was a load of hogwash, but at the same time, you realize they aren't demons eith… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/10/22 04:33 AM |
| 23 | Why I hate strip clubs, and what they reveal about sexual dynamics. (A critique of Norah Vincent's "Self Made Man")Secondly, she completely ignores the fact that in strip clubs, its women who have all the power, and men who have none. Think about it. Strip clubs are places that not only celebrate and advertise female beauty, but also give them a way to make money off of desperate men. Essentially, they're paid to feel desirable, beautiful, and sexy. Sounds like a win-win to me. A lot of people seem to have difficulty wrapping their heads around the idea that strippers, and sex workers more broadly, can like … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/10/22 02:30 AM |
| 1 | I'm a Wizard Today, and I Feel AwfulNot today but eventually, yes, that's going to happen. | /r/MenSupportMen | 07/10/22 12:57 AM |
| 6 | I'm a Wizard Today, and I Feel AwfulI've seriously thought about calling myself aromantic. I don't it's fair to call yourself asexual; you can't shut off your sexuality. Contra radfem ideology, human sexuality isn't socially constructed. But romance? I'm starting to think that's mostly socially constructed, a cultural meme that's learned from books and films. Sex is genetic. Romance is memetic. I can imagine myself unlearning romance and stop desiring it. Sex on the other hand is like a primal thing. You can engage in good old sex… | /r/MenSupportMen | 07/10/22 12:51 AM |
| 10 | Forced male prostitution in Russian armySee here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6356707.stm https://xtramagazine.com/power/army-of-lovers-46096 It's been known for decades now that extreme abuse and hazing of Russian conscripts is rampant, leading to low morale, alcoholism, and suicides. The claims of forced prostitution sounds outlandish, but in the context of an extremely fucked up system it actually makes sense. Also, Russia's history of complicated and confused attitudes towards homosexuality would play a role. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/09/22 08:19 PM |
| 8 | Concerning the events in IranGiven how proudly the "Saudi Arabia of feminism" takes a stand against the so-called sexualization and commodification of women's bodies, the Swedish PM should have defended herself by putting a feminist spin on the whole thing: By wearing this headscarf I tell the world that women's bodies are not for sale, not for male consumption; it is a middle finger to the Western patriarchy. Next time they can put the Iranians to shame by going in a burqa. Extra protection against the male gaze. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/09/22 07:14 PM |
| 42 | Concerning the events in IranFirst of all, fuck the morality police and people who think they have the moral right to use the long arm of the law to meddle in people's personal lives. There actually is a rough equivalent to the morality police here in the West. They're called Vice Squads, dedicated to stamping out things that busybodies find morally repulsive: gambling, prostitution, drugs, and (historically) alcohol. Secondly, there's a lot more nuance to the hijab debate than the usual men oppressing women narrative seems… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/09/22 02:43 PM |
| 8 | Complex problems deserve complex answersIn trying to attribute every social ill to the patriarchy, the word patriarchy has become increasingly synonymous with all human civilization as we know it. Not that we shouldn't critique civilization and class society; we should actually do more of that in my opinion. However, saying the solution to all our problems is simply to "smash the patriarchy," that is to say, smash everything, reveals some childishly black-and-white thinking. Civilization = patriarchy, patriarchy = bad, therefore we sh… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/09/22 03:32 AM |
| 3 | Biden administration guts due process protections for students accused of sexual misconductI don't think they're as rare as you think. I think most of them are just terrified of expressing their real opinion and being branded as sexist misogynist brocialists. That might be why I listed three women as examples. They can get more easily get away with going against the left-wing party line because it's hard to accuse them of being sexists. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/09/22 05:19 PM |
| 28 | What are the general rebuttals to "Men Commit the Vast Majority of Crime!" talking point?By imagining that men hold all the power, people overlook the power that women can wield by being the ones engaging in sexual selection. Imagine a sex strike in which women refused sex with violent criminals. Actually no need to imagine, it happened in Colombia. "this is about changing the cultural parameters: Some women thought that men wearing fatigues and holding guns looked more attractive, and most men are members of gangs not because of financial necessity but because killing is associated… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/09/22 05:03 PM |
| 13 | Biden administration guts due process protections for students accused of sexual misconductBiden and Obama are centrist New Democrats. Not left-wingers by a long shot. Also, there have been actual left-wingers who have spoken out against the Title IX policies of the Obama and Biden administrations. Laura Kipnis, Janet Halley, and Heidi Matthews immediately come to mind. I remember reading through this article in Jacobin, in which the author spends much of it attacking Kipnis for being a leftist who's also critical of Title IX and MeToo, then getting to the bottom and excitedly seeing … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/09/22 09:42 PM |
| 24 | At what age do male persons cease to be considered just as innocent and worthy of protection as their female counterparts?I would say it occurs when a boy becomes a man. When a male leaves the world of women and children and enters the world of men. When and how that happens of course differs between cultures, though interestingly there are many cultures that mark this transitionary moment with a circumcision ceremony. For instance, Nelson Mandela recounted how during his ritual circumcision he was expected to "suffer in silence," as it would be unmanly to cry out in pain. After stoically enduring the intense pain,… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 22/09/22 01:49 AM |
| 4 | Disturbing story of guilty until proven innocentI'm sure jury selection would have easily weeded out the worst ones. Do you hold any beliefs that may prevent you from making a decision strictly on the basis of the law? Yes, I believe that the legal system was created by the patriarchy, and rape laws exist to protect rapists, not protect victims. I also subscribe to a radical feminist definition of rape, not the patriarchical one recognized by this court. Thank you, ma'am. Next please! I exaggerate of course but still, if you think you should … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/09/22 10:04 PM |
| 39 | Why are women so often highlighted in addition to children (e.g. in reports)?Men are the primary victims of violence, and as a result, violence against men is seen as normal. On the other hand, violence against women and children is seen as abnormal. "Hundreds of Men Killed" isn't much of a headline. It's describing something pretty mundane. "Hundreds Killed Including Women and Children" on the other hand is describing something unusual. Violence is supposed to be reserved for men, women and children are supposed to be spared. For the same reason, violence against women … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/09/22 09:11 PM |
| 14 | what are your thoughts on people saying feminism benefits men?I'm reminded of a book I encountered that had the subtitle "Radical Feminism for Men." I couldn't help but joke to myself, what other books would be in this series? Nazism for Jews or maybe Marxism for the Bourgeoisie. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/09/22 11:49 PM |
| 6 | Modern Feminism and Red Pill are horseshoe ideologies.Different, yes, but I would argue that they have similar beliefs about "female nature" and traditional gender roles. Interesting detail: some second wave feminists accused gays of misogyny. They probably projected lesbian feminism in the male homosexual community. Yes, I believe it was the Redstockings and others who equated male homosexuality with misogyny. "They hate women so much that they won't have sex with us!" Conversely, you have the lesbian separatists who thought the opposite. There wa… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/09/22 09:14 PM |
| 35 | Modern Feminism and Red Pill are horseshoe ideologies.Making sweeping statements about male/female nature by taking one's personal experiences and extrapolating that to AWALT/AMALT. I.e.: every single boy/girlfriend I've ever had was a horrible person who did all these bad things, therefore all men/women are trash. Also, it's been pointed out that MGTOW has more than a passing resemblance to the lesbian separatism espoused by certain radical feminists. If MGTOWs were to start advocating that men start "choosing" to be gay, then it'd be a near perfe… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/09/22 11:39 PM |
| 21 | Post-2015 feminism has been an extremely well timed help for the CIA and Wall StreetWhen the FBI's COINTELPRO, a series of programs to infiltrate and undermine groups deemed subversive, started looking to surveil feminist groups, FBI field officers actually advised against it. The San Francisco FBI office reported: The Women's Liberation Movement may be considered as subversive to the New Left and revolutionary movements as they have proven to be a divisive and factionalizing factor... It could be well recommended as a counterintelligence movement to weaken the revolutionary mo… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/09/22 07:25 PM |
| 9 | The role of women in promoting voluntary medical male circumcision uptake: Literature reviewIt's insane that the mass circumcision of African men has been less controversial than condoms. Why is it sinful to promote condom use, but it's perfectly ok to shame and socially pressure people into lopping off their foreskins? Where's the papal statement condemning that? | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/09/22 07:24 PM |
| 9 | Ten years of Tinder, and how it changed the dating marketThere's definitely confirmation bias at work here, but reading these sorts of articles always makes me thankful that I disregarded my friends' suggestions to give Tinder a try. Thanks, but no thanks. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/09/22 12:53 AM |
| 5 | We have to really discuss ways to improve our movement.With respect to #1 dating, it's worth pointing out that feminism talks about this a lot, with respect to women. The dating problems of heterosexual women are analyzed as systemic. There's a lot talk of imposed beauty standards and discrimination against women who are black, brown, trans, fat, etc. I see the MRM's frequent discussion of the dating problems of men as similarly systemic to be the flipside of this. It is the application of "the personal is the political" to men. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/09/22 10:16 PM |
| 31 | Another article about #MeToo and ‘harassment’.I don't like the climate of fear that meToo has brought about, making any even vaguely sexual social interaction fraught with danger. In a digital age, face-to-face interaction is difficult enough. This is going to encourage people to retreat more and more into video games and porn. Maybe, once the Metaverse arrives, we'll all just have virtual sex with porn stars in lieu of actual people. Safer, easier, and not liable to get you meTooed. On a more personal note, I've wondered if I'd even exist … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/09/22 06:23 PM |
| 4 | Economic based virginity. Or how I still need to do everything as a man in a more expensive and demanding economy. Move out, become "independent," get a "good" job, become a supporter etc.Two things going on here. Firstly, millennials are getting screwed over economically in the real estate/rental market. Not to start a generational war or anything, but the boomers who say millennials are irresponsible and lazy for not saving for a house and living with their parents into their 20s and 30s need to understand that times have changed. The economy has changed. Home ownership is increasingly out of reach for more and more people, younger people especially, and a lot of us have given … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 12/09/22 07:43 PM |
| 4 | Thoughts on TERFs and the general reaction to them?Non-exclusionary Radical Feminist. TIRF would be Trans-inclusive Radical Feminist. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/09/22 01:12 PM |
| 5 | Thoughts on TERFs and the general reaction to them?TIRFs and NERFs I've seen some of them call themselves on Reddit. They can count the most infamous radical feminist duo amongst their ranks actually, Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon. Good for you for not being transphobic. Your ideology is still abhorrent. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 08/09/22 03:32 AM |
| 4 | The pros and cons of total sexual freedom, and the possibility of nuance.The Feminist Case for Marriage by Louise Perry Feminists by and large see marriage as an anti-woman institution. Now you see these contrarian feminists realizing that that was a oversimplification and that good-old fashioned marriage was more of a mixed bag than some patriarchal plot to oppress women. I agree with that. However, it's kind of hilarious how they want to take back all those decades of marriage-bashing now that the going gets tough for them. Women's liberation from the traditional o… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 07/09/22 09:56 PM |
| 10 | Struggling to find any good argument against mandatory paternity testingHaving to raise another man's child was an inevitable consequence of the fact that, until very very recently, paternity was impossible to determine with certainty. This is why, under both common law and civil law systems, married men were legally presumed to be the fathers of any of his wife's children. And you were of course expected to provide for all of them, regardless of whether they were actually yours (not that anyone could prove definitively one way or the other). If you didn't want to r… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/09/22 09:41 PM |
| 34 | The pros and cons of total sexual freedom, and the possibility of nuance.she points out that the two authors sometimes ignore that men can get the short end of the stick too. To give credit where credit is due, both of these women have written elsewhere on how a lot of men have gotten the short end of the stick of the Sexual Revolution too. They've both shown "an unusual degree of sympathy" towards incels. Perry in particular, who I do have genuine respect for for her honesty, had this very interesting letter exchange with James Bloodworth a while back about incels a… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/09/22 09:16 PM |
| 10 | Research on gender difference in sexual preferenceSex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication In this study, which surveyed more than 14,000 men and women across 45 countries, finds cross-cultural evidence for precisely what you say about sexual preferences. "Men, more than women, prefer attractive, young mates, and women, more than men, prefer older mates with financial prospects." It's not mere folk wisdom. The real debate is about how these differences came about and to what extent it has to with social… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/09/22 02:13 PM |
| 64 | Struggling to find any good argument against mandatory paternity testing"If all fathers start asking whether they’re really the fathers of their children, we enter into a society of doubt that imperils the family." In other words, modern technology threatens the traditional family, and this is a socially conservative response to preserve it. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 06/09/22 12:26 AM |
| 13 | I need help.For some circumcised men, the very suggestion that their son shouldn't be circumcised is taken very personally. It suggests that there's something wrong with them, so they will stubbornly insist on the procedure so that their kid looks like their dad. It is very difficult for reasoned arguments to get through against such a mindset. I would therefore suggest avoiding any insinuation that there's something inherently wrong with circumcision. That might be counterproductive here. Instead, emphasiz… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/09/22 02:05 PM |
| 1 | Why do you think most women are hostile about manly traits but seem to be attracted to them?Many thanks. From Sexual Personae, yes. Or more accurately, the chapter that's included in Free Women, Free Men. The famous dog at the taxidermist quote is from the essay "Rape and Modern Sex War." | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/09/22 05:27 AM |
| 4 | What can be done to help solve the under/desexualization, sexlessness, loneliness, etc. of so many men?That doesn't sound much like a girlfriend experience if it's so short. I see the glass half-full, and think of it like a relationship with all the difficult troublesome parts cut out, where we can skip straight to the good part. With how cost prohibitive it is average people could experience it for maybe a couple days a year if that's all they spend their money on Yes, that's unfortunately quite true. I'm not going to pretend that this is an inexpensive hobby. However, it would be cheaper if it … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/09/22 05:22 AM |
| 3 | What can be done to help solve the under/desexualization, sexlessness, loneliness, etc. of so many men?Prices vary, but it's generally more like $USD 250-300 per hour where I live. Only the filthy rich would book a full day. Us plebs book 1-2 hours. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/09/22 04:21 AM |
| 6 | What can be done to help solve the under/desexualization, sexlessness, loneliness, etc. of so many men?Not necessarily. Escort clients aren't necessarily just after sex and nothing else. There's a reason the girlfriend experience is such a popular offering, even when you need to pay a premium for it. You can call it a kind of intimacy or at least a reasonable facsimile of it. As somebody who has gotten the GFE before, let me tell you, it can be very very fulfilling, especially when you've never really gotten that kind of treatment before. It's possible to look past the social stigma, and get over… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/09/22 03:30 AM |
| 3 | What can be done to help solve the under/desexualization, sexlessness, loneliness, etc. of so many men?Well, according to Christianity we do; I claim no such thing. Christianity has a really weird relationship with sex. Sex is evil, but unfortunately we're stuck with evil in this world. The whole "eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake" comes to mind. Traditionally, Christians like Augustine therefore regarded the abolition of prostitution in this world to be impossible. It would be reluctantly tolerated. For a number for reasons that started to change in late 19th century. Religious revivalism… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/09/22 12:35 AM |
| 5 | What can be done to help solve the under/desexualization, sexlessness, loneliness, etc. of so many men?Christianity regarded it as sinful, yes, but the Christian world, by and large, never banned it, instead seeing it as a necessary evil. We do live in a sinful fallen world after all. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/09/22 12:02 AM |
| 13 | In my personal opinion, I don't think current feminism is left wing.Modern feminism is about as integrated with institutional neoliberal power structures as you can get. Not very left-wing of it. Case in point: the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. If she had been elected president in 2016, it would have regarded as a great feminist triumph, a woman finally breaking the ultimate glass ceiling. You can bet we'll never hear the end of the triumph of feminism if Kamala Harris becomes president too. A moderate (i.e. right wing) New Democrat becoming presiden… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/09/22 09:56 PM |
| 5 | What can be done to help solve the under/desexualization, sexlessness, loneliness, etc. of so many men?As things stand now, unfortunately, many men regard seeing a sex worker as something shameful, something only a loser, who can't get it for free, would need to resort to doing. There's also this radical feminist view, which I've found to be gaining an alarming amount of prominence lately, that seeing a sex worker is a form of violence against women and rape, and therefore, men should feel guilty for even considering such a thing. Both perspectives are nonsense and discourage people from even con… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/09/22 09:28 PM |
| 7 | What can be done to help solve the under/desexualization, sexlessness, loneliness, etc. of so many men?Why is sex work illegal in the first place? The short answer: First-Wave Feminism. While most people are familiar with the suffragettes' connection with the temperance movement, fewer are familiar with their anti-prostitution views as part of the whole social purity movement. It was all very explicitly about controlling men's sexuality as part of this moralistic social conservative crusade. One of the suffragette slogans was literally "Votes for Women, Chastity for Men." Remember this the next t… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 02/09/22 09:03 PM |
| 7 | Why do you think most women are hostile about manly traits but seem to be attracted to them?Camille Paglia's theory of human sexuality is useful here. In the struggle between society and nature, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, sex is a force of nature that civilizational forces struggle to repress. As a result, sexual attraction often flies in the face of our social conventions and professed beliefs. Feminists, however, hold the opposite view. For them, sex as we know it is not natural, it is societal, socially constructed, an invention of the patriarchy. Therefore, if women are attr… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/09/22 11:27 PM |
| 13 | Feminists hate lonely men the same way conservatives hate poor peopleIt's what called the Nordic Gender Equality Paradox. Despite having very high standards of living, a very generous social safety net, and state-sponsored feminism promoting gender equality in all things, the Nordic countries actually have greater gender disparities than other more conservative countries in fields like business and STEM. Why is this exactly? Well, it's been proposed that such countries, in giving more freedom and choice to women in choosing their careers, with fewer economic pres… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/08/22 12:47 AM |
| 33 | The misandrist idea that single men are lonely because they should be ‘emotionally available’ and ‘open up more’ totally debunked.How is it even possible for a woman to evaluate a man's emotional sensitivity through a dating app that reduces everybody to a photograph and a short bio? Of course women are choosing men for their looks and superficial qualities. And can you really blame them? With dating apps, that's literally all they have to work with! Of interest to a left-wing group, I've seen articles about the pipeline between angry, lonely, dissatisfied young men to mass shootings,and extreme right-wing ideology. Sadly … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 28/08/22 07:49 PM |
| 185 | Feminists hate lonely men the same way conservatives hate poor people"The personal is political" only applies to women for them. Women's issues are systemic. Men's are individual. For women - cushy Scandinavian social democracy. For men - brutal dog-eat-dog neoliberalism. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/08/22 10:59 PM |
| 1 | Why cheating is now a good thingIt's actually possible for a normal dude to get "pussy around every corner," to put it vulgarly. It's called "the oldest profession." Why do you think the radfems are so against it? Why do you think all these governments are doing Swedish-style criminalization, criminalizing only the men in such transactions? Imagine if there were a brothel on every corner, and if going to one was seen as no different to going to a spa. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/08/22 04:21 PM |
| 0 | Why cheating is now a good thingIt's definitely the case that more and more men are finding themselves sexless and single for a multitude of reasons. Under current conditions, yes, I do think formalizing something like polyamory would just make the problem worse. But what exactly do you propose then? Go back to the good old days of enforced monogamy? It's not possible to go back; that genie is out of the bottle. Nor is it even desirable, because monogamy is artificial, going against our natures. As I've said, we all want varie… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/08/22 11:27 PM |
| -7 | Why cheating is now a good thingWell, sexual conservatism is a dead end. Men AND women generally want sexual variety. Not sure how these researchers came to the conclusion that it's mainly women, given how powerful men have always used their power to be polygynous. Non-monogamous arrangements like open relationships are already becoming more common, like it or not. I don't think we should fight against it, so long as we don't hold men to some double standard and as long as men can get comparable variety to the women. Though, a… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/08/22 05:17 PM |
| -16 | Why cheating is now a good thingMonogamy has worn out its welcome. Personally, I believe it's a recent social construction in the grand scheme of things. In pre-civilizational primitive communism, we were neither monogamous nor polygamous; we were promiscuous under hetaerism. More like bonobos. I don't have a problem with what this article is saying per se. What bothers me is that if the article were talking about how men cheating was understandable, because men "need variety and novelty," people would dogpile it for being sex… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/08/22 01:07 PM |
| 7 | Reading 'The Myth of Male Power': intro + ch.1He makes an important distinction in the Introduction between perception and reality. Many women have come to perceive the world as "patriarchal, sexist, and male-dominated," but that is distinct from their claim about reality: the world is "patriarchal, sexist, and male-dominated." Feminism considers the distinction nonexistent and declared women's perceptions to be real and complete in a manner that men's perceptions are not. All sorts of fancy theories have been used to explain this, but Farr… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 21/08/22 04:51 PM |
| 23 | Why men's sexuality get criminalisedThe Tvtropes page All Men Are Perverts is the closest I have to a name for this phenomenon. This double standard has its roots in the "virgin era," as you call it. Traditionally, many cultures had a Madonna-Whore Complex. Women were expected to be chaste and virgins until marriage, like Madonnas, otherwise they'd be Whores. Men, on the other hand, were allowed to be more sexual but only with the "Whores." If you fooled around with a respectable lady and ruined her marriageability, you would be i… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 18/08/22 12:32 PM |
| 3 | Loneliness and the EconomyI didn't make it up admittedly. This lady did: https://thenewinquiry.com/on-heteropessimism/ | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/08/22 10:12 PM |
| 3 | Loneliness and the EconomyThank you for pointing it out. I'm a real stickler for such things. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/08/22 10:03 PM |
| 26 | The demonization of sexually frustrated menWell, I'm talking about a particularly deranged feminist group here. Not saying they're the mainstream, however, MacKinnon and her partner in crime Dworkin have been far more influential in feminism than the "sex-positives" would care to admit. Post-meToo, their ideas are coming back with a vengeance. And yes, there's also political lesbianism. Not good enough for MacKinnon, however. Even lesbian relationships are corrupted by patriarchy somehow. "Some have argued that lesbian sexuality-meaning … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/08/22 09:25 PM |
| 55 | The demonization of sexually frustrated menRadical feminism sees sexuality and libido as patriarchal social constructs, not natural drives and instincts. Any man complaining about sexual frustration just needs it beaten into him that he's not entitled to anything and that his desires are merely the result of patriarchical brainwashing that he needs to overcome. Perhaps you ask: But doesn't sex have something to do with reproduction? Doesn't that imply that our desire for sex is natural and biological, not something socially-constructed? … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/08/22 09:02 PM |
| 2 | Found an abnormal psychology pamphlet at my campus store that noted some interesting thoughts on ED treatment.Not saying it necessarily is. Though there is I feel an alarming cultural tendency to do so, especially post-MeToo, exemplified by that article "The Unexamined Brutality of the Male Libido." Also, with all this talk of men as rapists, I can't help but wonder if there are some deranged Dworkin-inspired types out there who would oppose treating ED because, hey, men with functioning penises are just going to use them to rape women /s | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/08/22 07:30 PM |
| 23 | Found an abnormal psychology pamphlet at my campus store that noted some interesting thoughts on ED treatment.There are actually people opposed to treating ED? Who? I suppose Andrea "Limp Penis" Dworkin would. It'd be easy to dismiss her as some nutcase, but then again she was spoken about favourably in a certain notorious New York Times article demonizing male sexuality as inherently violent and brutal. Not sure who needs to hear this, it should really go without saying, but there's nothing wrong with erections and nothing wrong with male sexuality. In fact, erections are good, natural, and healthy. Pe… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/08/22 11:18 PM |
| 14 | Found an abnormal psychology pamphlet at my campus store that noted some interesting thoughts on ED treatment.I do agree that men's (and every other gender) worth shouldn't be measured by their sexual process. Well yeah but this is being presented as a nonsensical argument against treating ED. It's like saying someone's worth shouldn't be measured by their ability to walk, and then using that as an argument against leg prosthetics. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/08/22 11:00 PM |
| 19 | Do we do videos around here? | The Emotional Objectification of MenHe makes some really good points. I see him as a kind of dissident feminist, unafraid to ruffle some feathers and harshly criticize feminism where he feels it has gone astray. This video was posted twice to Menslib, and both times they were removed. He's definitely the wrong kind of feminist. I wasn't sure what to make of his constant use of the word "patriarchy" at first, but having watched the whole thing, it's clear what he means by patriarchy goes beyond the usual "patriarchy hurts men too" … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 15/08/22 04:17 AM |
| 9 | Feminist FascismYou can't. Most of these AskX subreddits rely on the honour system. So if you don't consider yourself a feminist, I don't think you should be commenting on AskFeminists. How they want to enforce that isn't really my business. The problem is that a lot of feminists would reject as feminists a lot of self-identified feminists based on some litmus test of theirs. IMO if you call yourself a feminist, and you fit the very broad dictionary definition, you're a feminist. If other feminists think you're… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/08/22 08:54 PM |
| 26 | Loneliness and the EconomyIs the decline more to do with the economy and men (and all of us) having a harder time being able to support a family financially? Pretty much. I think this guy vastly overestimates any changes in expectations for romantic partners. I think the expectations among heterosexual men and women remain far more traditional than a lot of us want to admit. Men still prioritize youth and beauty. Women still prioritize wealth and status. Neoliberalism has moved the West towards a knowledge-based economy,… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/08/22 07:59 PM |
| 0 | Feminist FascismHow so? They acknowledged that the the sub had deviated from its original purpose and had become filled with antifeminists and non-feminists, which they wanted to correct for with a new moderation policy. Four months later, I still see tons of posts criticizing feminism, talking about major MRA figures like Erin Pizzey and Warren Farrell. The sort of stuff no one could get away with on any other feminist sub. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/08/22 05:07 PM |
| 39 | Feminist FascismThere's a reason r/FeminismUncensored exists. Feminist subs are notoriously censorious and ban-happy. AskFeminists only allows non-feminists to ask questions, not answer. I suppose that's somewhat fair. You wouldn't want non-Americans answering over at r/AskAnAmerican. You post in MensRights, so the assumption is you're not a feminist, ergo you have no business commenting. What's not so forgivable is how they limit the the kind of answers that can be given to whatever the founders decided is the… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 13/08/22 04:52 PM |
| 5 | LWMA Book Club poll for first bookThe Myth of Male Power, the so-called "Bible of men's studies," being so foundational would be the logical book to start with. It's also the only one of these books that I actually own a copy of, so there's that too. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 12/08/22 03:28 PM |
| 26 | Theories of Patriarchy. What feminists often get wrong.Marxism analyzes things like traditional gender roles from a materialist perspective, as opposed to the "vague feelings" of feminism as the author of the article puts it. To quote the Communist Manifesto: The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. Note how modern mainstream feminism is all about celebrating female bankers, CEOs, and drone pilots. Note how its not fringe elements promoting such views; it's governments, corpor… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/08/22 03:33 PM |
| 15 | Theories of Patriarchy. What feminists often get wrong.Excellent article! My TLDR of it would be: No more Sex War! No war but the class war! | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/08/22 02:52 PM |
| 19 | PatriarchyIf patriarchy is defined as men running the world for the benefit of men as a whole and at the expense of women, then the existence of systemic discrimination against men would in fact disprove patriarchy. At most, one could say that a small group of men at the upper echelons of society made the rules for their benefit and at the expense of the vast majority of men. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 11/08/22 12:54 AM |
| 10 | Do You Dislike The Term "Men's Rights?"Aside from the negative connotations, such that MRA has become something of a slur, the term doesn't really capture what's ultimately being advocated for. Warren Farrell I think has the right idea. Despite often being called the "father of men's rights," he has long proposed a gender liberation movement. The common denominator behind all men's rights issues, when you think about it, is for men to be similarly freed from the traditional gender roles that women have been freed from thanks to femin… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/08/22 03:46 AM |
| 5 | Would there be interest in a book club?Sounds like a good idea. May I suggest What Do Men Want? : Masculinity and Its Discontents by Nina Power? I've been meaning to read that for a while now. It's by a Marxist feminist, who takes seriously the ongoing crisis of masculinity, and is not afraid to criticize modern feminism and its talk of "toxic masculinity" and "smashing the patriarchy." I think it'd be a good fit for this sub, and would stimulate some good discussion. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/07/22 03:53 PM |
| 1 | Do we need to address the nature-nurture issue again?No, I read the whole thing. Though, admittedly a lot of what you said flew past my head so I didn't have much to say. Still, I had to respond to that initial paragraph, which suggested that I am calling for reactionary politics, and I feel I need to make it really clear that that's not what I'm doing. I can totally get behind being cautious about accepting that some things are immutable, and that as leftists we ought to question what those in positions of power tell us is unchangeable. I'm quite… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/07/22 04:48 AM |
| 6 | Do we need to address the nature-nurture issue again?And for good reasons. You’re just effectively calling for reactionary politics with this, I suggest you look at differentialist feminism to get a sense of what you’re asking for. I fully understand why people are uneasy, hence, the hostility to evopsych. Difference feminism, as I understand it, has some disturbing female supremacist tendencies, being the other side of the same coin to male supremacism. It all comes back to gender essentialism, which, yes, some people would use to advance reactio… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 26/07/22 06:59 PM |
| 37 | Reason for the creation of the men's rights movement.In short, yes. There's no reconciling these two movements. That ship sailed a long time ago. That being said, there are a number of figures seen as adjacent or sympathetic to the MRM who would identify as feminists (Camille Paglia, Christina Hoff Sommers, Cathy Young). "Dissident feminists," if you will, who feel modern feminism has lost its way, and that "true feminism" is compatible with men's issues. Most feminists today, however, would consider such people antifeminists. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/07/22 08:15 PM |
| 32 | Reason for the creation of the men's rights movement.The modern MRM traces its roots to the Men's liberation movement, which emerged in the 1970s as a movement explicitly aligned with feminism. Just as women sought liberation from their gender roles, men demanded the same. The split occurred because a lot of men felt disillusioned with feminism, felt it was hypocritically advancing the dissolution of gender roles only when it benefited women (i.e. with respect to child custody after separation). As for E. Belfort Bax, there isn't much of a direct … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/07/22 07:43 PM |
| 46 | Do we need to address the nature-nurture issue again?The fact that evolutionary psychology is often so viciously smeared as sexist pseudoscience is an indication of just how much the "nurture" side has succeeded in winning popular opinion. Unfortunately, a lot of people, especially those on the left, are really uncomfortable even entertaining the idea that biology has an influence on gender. The idea that some differences might be innate, and therefore unchangeable by social conditioning, runs counter to a lot of people's gender egalitarian values… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/07/22 07:03 PM |
| 5 | We need to spread our message widerI think it's a generational thing. I think I speak for a lot of millenials in saying TikTok has little to no appeal for me. If TikTok's the future, it's up to you guys to seize the platform and spread the message there. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 20/07/22 12:55 AM |
| 39 | Inceldom and capitalism: Is there a connection?Also, in a consumerist capitalistic profit-driven society, relationships definitely feel more transactional and exchange-based rather than intimate. I believe that relationships were always transactional to some extent, but yes, neoliberal capitalism has basically laid bare their transactional nature and put them on steroids. This is probably the most obvious in Japan. There, something like Valentine's Day has no established traditions, it was entirely introduced by the confectionary industry, a… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/07/22 09:29 PM |
| 32 | Inceldom and capitalism: Is there a connection?This exactly. Human sexual relations have always had an element of exchange; they have always been analyzable as markets, as unpopular as that idea may be. Think dowries, bride prices, and the oldest profession. These long predate capitalism, and have been almost ubiquitous parts of class society (even in modern Western society, think of how the man in a heterosexual relationship is still expected to pay for dates, dinners, and gifts). Combine a sexual market economy with vast wealth inequality,… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/07/22 09:01 PM |
| 8 | We need to spread our message widerThere's TheTinMen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetinmen/?hl=en. Very good work from them. As for TikTok... I feel like I'm way too old for that app. Any zoomers here? It's all up to you, kids! It's up to you to reach out to the younger generations, your fellow zoomers and Gen Alphas. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 19/07/22 07:46 PM |
| 2 | Women can be multi-orgasmic but men should not. Males activate their reproductive functions every time they have sex, females don't. The male expels his essence and energy and the female absorbs it. Sexual pleasure and lust are the downfall for men? Is sex a trap for men?The hell did I just read. So you rewrote the biblical story of Samson to be this -- what is this even? Something written by the Junior Anti-Sex League? What exactly are you trying to say? All men should become celibate monks because women are evil temptresses trying to steal our precious bodily fluids? That kinda shit doesn't fly here, dude. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 17/07/22 04:16 PM |
| 56 | Women currently make up ~28% of the US Congress. Do you think things would be better if their representation were more proportional to population?The idea that if only there were more women in Congress, if only there was a woman in the White House, everything would be sunshine and roses for the average woman is neoliberal idpol nonsense. For much of U.S. history, and the history of most Western democracies for that matter, ~100% of legislators were men. Also, 100% of U.S. Presidents have been men. Presumably, then, the concerns and interests of the average man were well represented in the halls of power. Presumably, given all these years … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 16/07/22 01:30 AM |
| 13 | Is there any truth to the idea that modern society highly values fulfilling the sexual desires of men?I'm familiar with the post being referenced. It's this: https://np.reddit.com/r/AskFeminists/comments/vpwtss/why_is_the_sexual_gratification_of_men_seen_as_so/. I'm also very familiar with the person that the post quotes at length, her breakout article on this topic, and I've read her book, an essay collection released to piggyback off the success of her article. I'd really like to make an essay-length post on her problematic views on sexuality sometime, but for now I'll just say this: Consider … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 10/07/22 09:57 PM |
| 6 | Thank youAlso, that ICMI guy Mike Buchanan is on the record saying his role model is Margaret Thatcher FFS. Being such a prominent MRA figure, doing TV debates and interviews, it's small wonder the perception of the MRM is that it's right-wing. What I wouldn't give for a leftist to come out as an MRA. We really need to balance out people like this. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/07/22 09:41 PM |
| 44 | If feminist notions of equity as preferable to equality were also applied to the gender earnings gap, then shouldn't men deserve to be paid more?Well, I suppose the feminist perspective here would be: both the provider role that is expected of men and the gender earnings gap arise from male privilege, therefore the solution is get rid of male privilege. Of course, this completely ignores the possibility that that there is a relation between the earnings gap and the expected provider role. Maybe, just maybe, men earn more money because they have to? Because society expects them to make more? Because women prefer men who make more? It's a … | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 09/07/22 07:34 PM |
| 4 | What is your definition of masculinity?Yes, I agree. My definition was descriptive, not prescriptive. I think it's something we internalize as men that our worth is dependent on our usefulness to women. It's really hard deprogramming yourself out of that social conditioning, and some people will perceive it as sexist that you're not kowtowing to the wants of women, but it is a necessary part of moving past these antiquated gender roles and conceptions of masculinity. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 04/07/22 03:00 AM |
| 2 | What is your definition of masculinity?You know the feminist line of thought that goes something like this? Women don’t exist for men. Women shouldn't define themselves in relation to men. Because of compulsory heterosexuality, women base their femininity on their sexual desirability to men, hence, why women sexually objectify themselves. That's wrong. One's femininity shouldn't pander to the "male gaze". I actually sincerely think there's a good point in there somewhere. It's just that I think this line of thinking applies to men an… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 03/07/22 09:14 PM |
| 0 | We stand with American men and women in decrying the political ineptitude in protecting abortion rightsThis is an unbelievably silly question. First of all, such a blatantly racially discriminatory law would be unconstitutional, if not under the constitution of this fictional state of yours (what is this? a state run by the Klan?), then certainly under U.S. Federal Law. Secondly, given that I'm not white, I would immediately resign, leave the state, and move somewhere where it's not legal to murder me. So, no, it's not preferable to racially discriminate against people. People should be treated e… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 01/07/22 03:40 AM |
| 4 | Circumcision and RapeThat's a extraordinary statistic! A little too extraordinary I'm afraid. I looked into the source, which itself cited nothing, so naturally I'm more than a little skeptical. A better source, i.e.: actually Norwegian government/police data is really needed. Also, wouldn't the circumcised Norwegian male population would be basically the same as the Norwegian male Muslim population? Outside of the Muslim community there, I'd imagine hardly anyone gets circumcised (the Jewish population is negligibl… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 30/06/22 03:40 AM |
| 12 | Why are men being blamed for the overturn of Roe v. Wade when recent surveys show that the majority of men AND women are pro-choice?Come to think of it, a lot of anti-abortion people flip it around and blame men for abortion being widespread. They would say that it's men who pressure women to have abortions, giving them the opportunity to have consequence-free sex. I saw some conservative pro-lifer last night on CNN saying how under Roe men were using abortion to escape their responsibilities. Of course, it would be some sick sick man who would try to "murder" his way out of an inconvenient situation. Of course, a woman woul… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 29/06/22 03:41 AM |
| 2 | We stand with American men and women in decrying the political ineptitude in protecting abortion rightsDoes anyone know how much support paper abortion has in the US? It's safe to say that it's insignificant. It's a fringe idea. However, now that that the initial premise: "women have an absolute right to abortion on demand" is no longer a thing, you've just lost your best argument for paper abortion, i.e.: men should have a comparable right, because men and women have equal rights and duties. So now it's harder to argue for paper abortion and build that necessary support. I think it's a good thin… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 27/06/22 03:27 AM |
| 2 | We stand with American men and women in decrying the political ineptitude in protecting abortion rightsHowever, I do wonder if it might provide a fresh start to promote gender-equal reproductive rights. Paper abortion can and should still be promoted in the 34 states where abortion is not banned or excessively restricted (i.e., with "heartbeat" laws). Hopefully. Maybe. But realistically speaking, like it or not, women's rights are the priority, and with those now being on the chopping block, all the attention is going to be on them, even in states where it isn't banned. To even suggest a gender e… | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/06/22 09:50 PM |
| 48 | We stand with American men and women in decrying the political ineptitude in protecting abortion rightsPaper abortion, this key men's rights issue, begins with the presupposition that women have the right to abortion. I really don't get how some people can express Schadenfreude over this decision, like it's payback for women not supporting men's reproductive rights. It's petty crabs in the bucket thinking, which benefits nobody. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 25/06/22 02:23 AM |
| 6 | Roe vs. Wade thoughtTo be consistently pro-choice pro-bodily autonomy means to oppose infant circumcision and support abortion rights. We can and should do both. The hypocrisy of society at large, doesn't mean we should be hypocritical back. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/06/22 09:43 PM |
| 11 | Roe vs. Wade thoughtwomen not having sex is throwing off the yoke of patriarchal tyranny. Just saw someone on Twitter say: "No better time to be a political lesbian." Expect the radfems to start promoting that again. So much for "no war but the class war." They're going to use this as an opportunity to wage their ridiculous "sex war" instead. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 24/06/22 09:12 PM |
| 5 | Why be on the Left when modern leftism is a virulently anti-male movement?I'd say it's more like a perversion of Marxist theory that is no longer recognizably Marxist. It's not fair to call it Marxism anymore. Having replaced the centrality of socioeconomic class with sex and sexuality, what's left of Marxism after you've stripped it of its defining features? A kind of Marxism, which, ironically enough, is perfectly compatible with modern neoliberal capitalism. Indeed, wokism and idpol have already made themselves a feature of neoliberal capitalism. | /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates | 23/06/22 12:11 AM |
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