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That’s very disappointing, to put it lightly. I guess I was just coping a little bit because I couldn’t find much information. I suppose that this isn’t even going to get any media coverage because it is seen as a non-issue in the eyes of the common person, among other things.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/06/26 01:21 AM
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Hopefully National Coalition for Men can shine a light on what is happening? The last update I can see from NCFM is Jun 05, with this article covering the Amicus brief of May 29, tldr National Women Veterans United turned it in past the deadline so it was not eligible. Maybe the Jun 08 timestamp is denying a petition from National Women Veterans United for their Amicus brief to be accepted? If the entire lawsuit really was rejected I expect another article to go up on NCFM. It has only been one …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates09/06/26 12:44 AM
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I agree with pretty much all of these. Adding onto the legal part, one of the most important left-wing positions is a focus on rehabilitation over punishment in the legal system. Obviously this mostly effects men, which make up (If I remember right) around 93% of the U.S. prison population. Obviously there is the caveat that when attention is brought to these issues, they often disproportionately focus on women to the detriment of the vast majority of the prison population. Happens with all of t…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/05/26 01:33 PM
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Thank you for the continued discussion. Of course, I agree that we should not be hateful to women in general. To do so would be just as indiscriminately cruel as the generalized bigotry that is often directed towards men. And there is of course no reason to be defensive towards women in general, because unless they say something bigoted, there is nothing to be defensive about. But if men’s reactions to hurtful rhetoric is valid, then that rhetoric deserves to be critiqued. To properly acknowledg…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/01/26 10:24 PM
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Not the comment OP, but I think this Politico article is one of the first to touch on it. Not that it changes the point being made, but technically the factoid specifically concerns the five biggest contractors, as I assume there are probably more than five CEO’s concerning the military industrial complex. The articles don’t mention the age/racial makeup, but it seems likely, especially looking at the image used for this article. If you did some more digging it probably wouldn’t be too hard to v…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates20/01/26 09:23 AM
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First, I would like to say that I appreciate you coming here to try and explain your point better. I presume that you have seen some of the criticism you receive here, and I genuinely respect that you are still willing to reach out in what I presume is in good faith to discuss. I agree with your statement that people should “Deescalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy”. The specific women, feminists, etc. saying these harmful things should not be our enemies. In an ideal world, we should b…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/01/26 11:26 PM
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Pretty much agree. I appreciate that such things stay mostly away from here. Was one of the reasons that kept me away from /MensRights back when I was young and struggling to justify my existence within a feminist framework. (because that was the only gendered framework that I was given.) Stayed away from /MensLib because even just the titles made me feel worse about myself. (although obviously not in a way related to what we are discussing here) I believe it was mostly stuff like “pussies” or “…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/01/26 07:30 AM
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Grudging "respect" for Governor Gavin Newsom. I don’t really trust him, but this would be a part of a continuing pattern of him giving some sort of male-focused policy. Hopefully a few more states can follow suit in the coming years. I know that both Washington State and Virginia have ongoing attempts at creating similar councils/commissions. (I don’t want to be cynical, but I hope Harry Crouch puts a post on the official ncfm website. The only things I can find refer to the earlier Executive Or…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/11/25 08:31 AM
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News sources are trying to make a big deal of it, but looking at the actual announcement, there isn't any emphasis on picking them because they are women. Plus one of them is literally his senior campaign advisor, which makes sense. I don't disagree that if the team was all men the news would be making a big deal of it in a different way, but to say he is "excluding men on purpose" is entirely speculative.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates08/11/25 07:40 AM
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The video is very much left leaning, you can tell because it is primarily centered on the work of Richard Reeves/Scott Galloway. Both of them are solidly left and generally the only “mainstream” option for left-oriented male issues. Unfortunately people love to equate having a modicum of empathy for men as being “right wing”.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/11/25 06:43 PM
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To be honest this is about what I would expect from Bernie. I respect him for his focus on economic issues that diffuses a lot of the volatility of identity politics, not for his takes(not that he has many) on gender issues. If anything I am fairly impressed that he brought up the college disparities by gender on his own, even if he didn’t know the exact statistic. (1:59 to 2:59) So a part of me is a little hopeful that things are moving in a positive direction.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates28/10/25 09:16 PM
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The reproductive coercion part is a little weird because it doesn’t take into account, for example, a partner lying about being on birth control. It might depend on how someone interprets the question, but in such a case the “got pregnant” question would probably not capture the fact that a pregnancy had occurred from the reproductive coercion. Plus the questions for women are much more in detail, even though some of it would be just as applicable to the male category.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/10/25 04:59 PM
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It would count a women being forced to perform oral on a man, but not oral on another women. It’s one of those curious cases where including the measure would measure more people, certainly mostly men, but still everyone, but they still don’t include it. Being forced to penetrate someone with an object doesn’t make sense and isn’t measured for men anyways either. If you are speaking of being forced to penetrate with fingers or something similar, it does not, and it isn’t a question asked to men …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates01/10/25 04:46 PM
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Unsurprisingly I think a lot of old critique of the NISVS methodology still applies, but some of the additions seem pretty interesting and potentially enlightening. I am most interested in the section added for psychological aggression, particularly the “Threatened to hurt themselves or commit suicide because they were upset with you”. It’s a shame that the report will probably aggregate all the questions together though. But I agree that psychological aggression is a relevant factor when we are…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/09/25 11:03 PM
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I’m not super familiar with her work, but I think your main points of “we need to speak directly to the people(men) we are studying” ties in well with the work of Dr. Susie Bennett. She does research on male suicide and speaks directly to suicidal men, and I believe that when speaking to those men, and asking what should be further researched in regards to male suicide risk, male loneliness was placed in one of the top positions by the vast majority of participants. (at about 20:07, the entire p…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates27/09/25 05:16 PM
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I think it is quite possible to hold that there is some sort of “female power structure”, and simultaneously hold that capitalism is still generally the more relevant structure to target. I believe this is similar to a point made from perspectives of some racial studies authors, that racial power structures are major and real but that targeting capitalism is still the most relevant structure. But “female power structure” is rather vague and immaterial, so I am rather hesitant to point to such a …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates24/09/25 06:02 PM
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The substack for Washington Initiative for Boys & Men has nice articles from a variety of perspectives, although it is an advocacy group and not a media outlet. It’s focused mostly on Washington State, but the conversations are pretty applicable to many places in the U.S.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates29/08/25 05:31 PM
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I think this is a good move in the right direction, but I have no doubt Gavin Newsom is doing it for political clout and not genuine care. I believe he’s a politician in the most negative sense of the word, as I think he made very clear when he campaigned on progressive promises in the wake of Bernie Sanders and then proceeded to not follow through on many those promises. But even then he did make more useful progress than his predecessors, so even politically motivated improvements are still im…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates22/08/25 06:25 PM
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I believe that comment op is referring to the beliefs espoused by Wrangham as being “great recruiting material for right wing extremism”, not the post itself. A common claim by the right is that “masculinity is under attack”, Wrangham thus adding credence to those claims by demonizing males here. The right can then use the claims of “masculinity is under attack” to make a case to take us back to regressive, “stay in your lane” gender roles.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates18/08/25 10:13 PM
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Yes, it’s pretty messed up. If you have time you could watch this podcast with Donald D. Dutton, who is a leading researcher on Domestic Violence. Erin Pizzey, who opened up the first women’s shelters and also tried to do the same for men, would describe things in terms of generational family violence. You can watch a short clip of her here. Edit: minor wording changes
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/08/25 06:12 AM
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So I don’t want to disparage your experience of being helped by the Power and Control Wheel. If it helped you get out of your abusive situation that’s great. I don’t want anyone to experience abuse, and at the end of the day, that’s whats most important. But ultimately the Power and Control Wheel and it’s origin, the Duluth Model of Domestic Violence, is is highly gendered, feminist model of DV that both historically and currently denies the reality of the abuse of men, by women. You’ll note tha…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/08/25 05:24 AM
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No disagreement here, the sorting of populations in to “men” and “women and children” been used in wide-ranging situations for a vast deal of recorded history, and especially so in times of war. Here I am just drawing a specific modern example in relation to genocide and imperialism, as being against these is usually a strong commitment that the progressive left holds to.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/08/25 05:07 PM
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I agree that people are not doing “women and children” rhetoric to make the genocide seem less serious, I don’t mean to imply that. After all, they are doing conservative estimates to highlight just how serious the situation is, not to downplay it. Conservative estimates for situations like these are a good tactic to highlight how bad things are. What I mean to say is that there is a clear connection between “women and children” rhetoric and the “military aged male” rule, namely the presumption …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/08/25 07:43 PM
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Everyone who use “women and children” to make conservative estimates in Gaza need to remember that they are making use of the same logic as the “military aged male” rule, you can read up on it here. Conservative estimates can be useful, that is true. It emphasizes how bad things are even if we purposefully undercount. But where is the discussion, after the conservative estimate is made, of the damage that the “military aged male” rule has done to our treatment of male civilians? If one is agains…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/08/25 05:25 PM
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“Women and children” rhetoric implicitly agrees with, and is in ways a result of, “Military Aged Male” rhetoric. For those unaware, that is an Obama era rule that labeled all men over 16 years of age as being a “military aged male”, not subject to the same rules as people that are not, ie, the women and children. This rule is used to make civilian casualties from drone strikes seems smaller than they are, because all men are not counted as “true civilians”, they are judged guilty of being combat…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/08/25 05:19 PM
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2016 pushed the Democratic party to embrace more economically progressive positions. 2024 pushed the male vote to the forefront of discussion, and will hopefully push the Democratic party to embrace more male-positive positions/policies, if at least a little. Oftentimes the vote feels like the only piece of leverage the common people have over the workings of establishment parties, so if losing 2024 is what makes the Democratic party pretend to care a bit more about men, so be it.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/08/25 05:06 PM
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I agree that we need to be careful with Reeves, because even though there are places where he could have positive effects for men, there are others where his policies would have detrimental(putting it mildly) effects for men. Redshirting of course being an intellectually bankrupt “solution” that doesn’t even solve the problem it purports to solve. (Putting boys behind a year in education, will, at best… put boys behind a year in education.) But if Reeves will bring attention to health disparitie…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates10/08/25 05:50 PM
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I think the framing of your survey is highly flawed. The way you phrase things make it seem like “Pro Gender Segregation” means that public/private spaces “Ought” be gender segregated, and not just that they should be “allowed” to be gender segregated. Perhaps others interpret that differently though. Certainly gender segregation ought not be a common sort of thing, even if it might be acceptable in some circumstances, perhaps if it arises in a natural, emergent way. Men having to walk on eggshe…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates05/08/25 06:10 AM
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To put it bluntly, we ought not win civil/legal/sovereignty rights for some individuals by violating them for others, which is what conscription does. Particularly when it is a question of life and death.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/07/25 07:11 PM
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This article(I had to use google translate) says that 55% of men support gender neutral conscription, so “men think it is their(mens) duty to fight in war” doesn’t really explain it. That said, I agree with your other comment that women being drafted will lead to more men being pushed to the frontlines. In my opinion what we need is a recognition that conscription(primarily done to men) is a serious human right violation and ought not be tolerated in a civil society.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/07/25 04:07 PM
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According to this article(I had to use google translate) while more men than women support reintroducing conscription(69% compared to 56%) Of those who support conscription, about 2/3 of men want it to be gender neutral, while only around 1/2 pf the women want it to be gender neutral. Every man in support of conscription is putting men’s lives on the line, while half of women in support of conscription are putting men’s lives on the line, while themselves putting nothing on the line. Survey does…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/07/25 04:06 PM
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OP is probably referencing this podcast episode that Obama was in. Here is a different article discussing what was said. It’s baby steps, but I think it is notable.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates30/07/25 03:43 PM
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I know Tommy J. Curry focuses specifically on black men and boys, but a lot of his work can also be extrapolated to men and boys more generally. You'll note that in many of the statistics he shows that men more broadly also share characteristics of being more susceptible to death and dying, such as in life expectancy. I recommend the section from 29:33 for a critique of black feminism. In popular culture intersectionality has been turned into “when you take into account intersecting identity fac…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/07/25 07:58 PM
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I agree that organized men are generally seen as the greater "threat" in terms of revolutions, but I would argue that organized women are also almost as much of a threat to the bourgeois, just in more indirect ways, such as freeing men up to “do” the revolutions. This of course means that men face the brunt of violence from the state, but the men are often spurred to action in part because of the organized women from their communities. That said, I agree that warfare, or the threat of warfare, n…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates23/07/25 05:40 AM
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I have no doubt the democrats will keep messing up again and again, I am just more optimistic when it comes to Waltz specifically. I also agree that there has been an issue where progressivism has been taken over by cultural issues instead of economic ones.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/07/25 08:35 PM
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Maybe. I picked homelessness because it was specifically highlighted in campaigning. For gun violence I can’t help but feel a bit worried that it would turn into a “men need to be better” sort of thing. Perhaps I’m wrong though.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/07/25 08:26 PM
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In my opinion the way they used Waltz for performative masculinity was tone-deaf and unhelpful. But it probably wasn’t the reason why they picked him for VP. From what I could tell Tim Walz as VP was notable because he was a more Progressive pick than the other possible candidates. The campaign trotting him out like some kind of performative masculinity kept him from actually talking about concrete policy that could help people. He seems to be pretty up-front that they messed up in the 2024 camp…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/07/25 05:33 PM
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The fact that men are currently not addressed in conversations about homelessness is precisely why we should push for the discussion to be entertained, no? We don’t even need men centered per say, just considered, which is not done right now. Consideration of men in homelessness is 100% more plausible than say, domestic violence. Not gun violence, but I did consider doing this on the prison system instead, which seems to be a high priority for a number of lawmakers, probably as an outgrowth of r…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates21/07/25 05:02 PM
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Really hope there is more research done on this in the future. I thought a little about this, but anything I come up with feels really speculative. Whatever the reason, this suggests that not only are less men going into college, but that the men that do are also getting less out of college. Which seems really bad. Edit: grammar
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates19/07/25 08:24 PM
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This idea of the 100% traditional man/women has always struck me as a strange thing, and I think your example from a more conservative place in the country helps show why this is. People on the right claim that men have always been so and so. People on the left claim the same thing. The difference is that the right looks to this caricature of a man and says, "all men should be like this", while the left looks at it and says "no man should be like this". Both narratives feed into one another, as …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates17/07/25 06:05 AM
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Thank you for the correction. I should have been more careful looking through the stats, as the funkiness about attempted/completed sometimes being stated or not is something I have noticed in the past when looking through the NISVS. Unfortunately the lack of measurement of attempted “made to penetrate”, despite the presence of a measurement of attempted rape, is still something that I have seen on some surveys, including one I have personally participated in. Edit: That said, “common” is likely…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates15/07/25 02:08 AM
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Yes, I have read a number of the actual CDC reports. If I recall correctly, starting in the 2015 reports, the ratio of rape to “made to penetrate” suddenly increased, while in the reports before that, such as the 2010 report, which the paper I linked references, had gender parity. Even looking at the 2016 report, it lists 2.9 million cases of the rape of women, and 1.6 million cases for men being “made to penetrate” in 12-month data. So here, about 64.44% of rape is the rape of women, again, abo…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/25 11:38 PM
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Thank you, that makes a lot of sense. Always love reading your posts.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/25 10:15 PM
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The reason why you believe that men only make up 10% of rape victims is because the rape of men has been systematically erased in culture and research, through denying that men can be raped by women and by classifying the rape of men, by women, as a “lesser” form of sexual violence labeled “made to penetrate” instead of rape. On a moral and ethical level, “made to penetrate” and rape are the exact same thing. They are forms of “non-consensual sex”, that is, rape. There is a paper discussing this…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/25 09:51 PM
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I encourage you to look through this website, which is the worlds largest domestic violence research database. The majority of domestic violence is bi-directional at 57.9%. For unidirectional domestic violence, female perpetrated domestic violence makes up a majority, at 28.4% versus 13.8% for male perpetrated. To state that women make up a majority of domestic abuse victims is misleading. Moreover, this mistaken belief of gendered violence likely leads to mass discrimination against male victim…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates14/07/25 05:54 AM
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I appreciate your point on how empathy is one of the reasons that young men were drawn to people such as Peterson. Empathy for young men, is, unfortunately, sorely lacking in many communities. I hold some issue with the focus on “masculinity” and not on broader social issues, as it frames men as being problems to be fixed rather than having problems to be fixed. If you want to explore male issues more, I would recommend checking out TheTinMen, who produces great, evidence based content. As you’r…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/07/25 06:44 AM
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To tie stuff into some of the tactics being used right now, deportations have always been massively gendered, consistently over 90% male. This is a uniquely high sort of statistic in the same ballpark as mass incarceration(93% male) and lynchings(97% male). All of these are justified through accusations of criminality, real or false, where proximity to masculinity equals proximity to criminality. Most any rhetoric that targets “criminality” should be understood as something implicitly targeting …
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates13/07/25 06:15 AM
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I wouldn’t say “completely closed”, but this meta-analysis found that discrimination against women in male-typed jobs has significantly decreased over time, while discrimination against men for female-typed jobs have remained stable. (In fact, bias against women was found to have been eliminated, and in some cases, slightly reversed.) The study further found that people tended to guess that all gender discrimination would have decreased over time, which, again, was not true. So it does seem plau…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/07/25 07:16 AM
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For what it's worth, I did say "varying levels". For sure, bell hooks is nowhere near as bad as Mary Koss. A thorough critique of bell hooks is beyond the scope of this comment. (In no small part because bell hooks is fond of contradicting herself.) So I will keep this short. Certainly, sometimes bell hooks says something empathetic towards men. I recall reading her describing a young boy who liked feminine things, and how his mother tried supporting him through that, which, as a more feminine m…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/07/25 07:03 AM
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I agree that she is in a bit of a grey area. It might be more appropriate to simply identify her as an activist for women’s suffrage and a writer on women’s history. Even so I would hope that feminist readers would at least be more open to hearing her arguments than they would be to hearing ours.
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates12/07/25 06:42 AM
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I would not consider said subreddit to be representative of feminism, although it is probably representative of popular internet feminism. And popular internet feminism is the kind people are most likely to encounter, engage, and believe in. You will likely find slightly better acceptance within academia. But I think it is also worth acknowledging that academic feminism can also be varying levels of bad, just in different ways from popular feminism. (Mary Koss, bell hooks, Ellen Pence...) Plus a…
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates11/07/25 05:25 AM
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