Reviewing the Rationale.

Readership: All
Theme: Rationalism
Length: 400 words
Reading Time: 2 minutes

Intro

The theme for the month of November 2025 was Rationalism.

Honestly, I don’t know how I do it (except by the inscrutable impartations from the gracious Lord above), but I’m amazed at how well I can predict the overall tone and topics of the Based Sphere / Manosphere in advance.  Looking back at all that has been said and written this month, if I could sum up all the discussion in one word, Rationalism pretty well nails it.

Here are the noteworthy posts that appeared around the Based / Manosphere this month, listed by categories.

Awareness

  1. Σ Frame: The Power of the Imagination (2025/11/3)
  2. Σ Frame: What is “Meaning”? (2025/11/17)
  3. Catacomb Resident: Another Destruction (2025/11/19)
  4. Σ Frame: Recent Advances in Imparting Meaning in Education (2025/11/19)
  5. Σ Frame: Abortion vs Crime (2025/11/21)
  6. Catacomb Resident: It Will Not Fail (2025/11/23)
  7. The Rational Male: Aren’t We Above All of This? (2025/11/25)

The Corruption of ¡$c!əNcε! and Education

  1. Σ Game: Let Reason Be Silent (2025/11/1)
  2. Men Are Good (Tom Golden, Janice Fiamengo, Hannah Spier, James Nuzzo): Deciphering Women’s Studies Feminist Jargon (2025/11/1)
  3. Janice Fiamengo: How Universities Radicalized Young Women and Launched the Sex Wars (2025/11/3)
  4. Men Are Good: Implicit Bias? Men Have it Worse (2025/11/9)
  5. Σ Frame: ¡Science! gone Woke! (2025/11/12)
  6. Σ Frame: The New Peer Review Process is Collective, NOT ¡$c!eNt!f!c! (2025/11/14)
  7. Men Are Good: The Psychology of Prejudice Against Men (2025/11/16)
  8. The Orthosphere (Richard Cocks): Scott Adams and Cognitive Dissonance (2025/11/18)
  9. The Orthosphere (J.M. Smith): No Doctor in the House (2025/11/20)
  10. The Orthosphere (J.M. Smith): Pathfinders (2025/11/21)
  11. Men Are Good: How Feminist Researchers Lied (2025/11/22)
  12. The Orthosphere (J.M. Smith): Engineered Forgetting (2025/11/25)
  13. Men Are Good: Teen Violence — When Ideology Trumps Data (3 — Bias Against Men and Boys in Psychological Research) 2010 (2025/11/30)
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Men’s Issues

  1. Aaron Renn: Gen-Z’s Pornography Cult (2025/11/1)
  2. Men Are Good: November Is Men’s Equality Month (2025/11/3)
  3. Men Are Good: When “Helping Men” Comes With a Hidden Asterisk (2025/11/5)
  4. Cosmonaut: Sensitive Young Men (2025/11/12)
  5. Men Are Good (Tom Golden, Jim Nuzzo, Hannah Spier, Lisa Britton, David Maywald): The Relentless War on Masculinity (2025/11/19)
  6. Uncharted Father (Tim Hicks): Intent to Silence (2025/11/21)
  7. Stephen Baskerville: Why Can’t Tucker Carlson Criticize the Divorce Industry? (2025/11/22)
  8. Men Are Good: The Bias We Pretend Doesn’t Hurt Boys (2025/11/24)
  9. Janice Fiamengo: Dispatches from the Long War on Fathers (2025/11/28)

Sex and Intersexual Relations

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  1. Stephen Baskerville: Statistics From the Ministry of Truth (2025/11/1)
  2. Σ Game: The Transactional Mindset (2025/11/2)
  3. Aaron Renn: The Dignity of Dependence | Leah Libresco Sargeant (2025/11/3)
  4. Christianity and Masculinity: The history of the collapse of dating and marriage (2025/11/3)
  5. Σ Frame: Sexual Fantasy is NOT Mental Practice (2025/11/5)
  6. Σ Frame: Women Must Trust and Submit if they Expect Men to Step Up (2025/11/7)
  7. The MGTOW Infinium: The Ultimate Power Of NO! And Why MGTOW Men Must Use That Ultimate Power. (2025/11/7)
  8. Christianity and Masculinity: Men with more prestigious jobs are more likely to cheat versus general commentary on cheating and divorce (2025/11/10)
  9. Σ Frame: The Power Play of Female Self-Objectification (2025/11/10)
  10. Christianity and Masculinity: Value Blindness (2025/11/12)
  11. Christianity and Masculinity: Landmines to Avoid while Dating (2025/11/14)
  12. Σ Frame: Exposing the Negotiative Mentality (2025/11/24)
  13. Christianity and Masculinity: Say Please (2025/11/25)
  14. Σ Frame: Mental Breakdown (2025/11/26)
  15. Σ Frame: Buyer’s Remorse (2025/11/28)
  16. Christianity and Masculinity: All the good men are married — Data on which men are most likely to get married (2025/11/29)

The Great Societal Feminization and Disintegration

  1. Lew Rockwell (Paul Craig Roberts): Societal Death by Feminization (2025/11/6)
  2. Men Are Good: The Perils of Seeing Yourself as a Victim (2025/11/10)
  3. The Rational Male: The (Real) Great Feminization (2025/11/12)
  4. Men Are Good: The Psychology of Collective Victimhood (2025/11/13)
  5. Mary Harrington: Feminism and Identity in the Transhuman Age (2025/11/14)
  6. Steve Brule: Freedom vs Equality (2025/11/17)
  7. Catacomb Resident: We Are the Chosen (2025/11/20)

Socioeconomic Class Bifurcation

  1. The Orthosphere (J.M. Smith): The New Generation Ticks Off the Old Farts (2025/11/14)
  2. Aaron Renn: The Rich, the Poor, and the Ultra-Rich (2025/11/19)
  3. Aaron Renn: Between Empathy and Agency (2025/11/21)
  4. Σ Game: Boomer Advice (2025/11/22)
  5. Cosmonaut: Word from the Dark Side — Akka Dakka, freeing aspiring rappers, the poor are in the crapper, and the Taiwan sapper (2025/11/24)

Spiritual Erosion

  1. Catacomb Resident: Let It Pour (2025/11/1)
  2. Catacomb Resident: Yes and No (2025/11/6)
  3. Aaron Renn (John Seel): The Evaporation of the Sacred (2025/11/12)
  4. Catacomb Resident: Signatures of Heaven and Hell (2025/11/12)

Epilogue

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As you can see, the broader issues involve not only Rationalism in the form of sorting things out, but also the widespread problem of Rationalizing in the sense of denying the obvious truth and excusing the erroneous status quo.

If I’ve missed any noteworthy posts or videos, please leave a link in the comments.

The theme for December 2025 will be a reprise of the earlier theme of Awareness and Introspection in the form of Christian / Mystical Awareness.

Thanks for reading Σ Frame.

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