I got an article published about why I think young men/men of colour are moving right

Langland88 · 2025-02-22T15:22:55+00:00

I read the whole article but I will say there is one thing that I got out of it that I really would like to comment on. Yes it was this "Pop Feminism" that many of us saw on social media especially around and after 2017 when Trump served his first term as President. That was also when a lot of Universities ramped up their academic requirements to push more Sociology or Gender Studies courses in order to graduate even with degrees in all the STEM fields. So there was a lot of Academic Feminism that was created and merged with the Pop Feminism. So therefore this Pop Feminism kind of became the mainstream Feminism and the face of the whole movement to this day.

What I am getting at is that the "Real Feminism" that we saw back in early 1900's with the suffragettes or in the 1960's with the women demanding equality in the workplace, is long gone. Now we have a Feminism that is out to demonize men and call it "Fighting for Equality". We have a Feminism where you ask them to name a right that women don't have but men do and they move the goal post. They point to issues like manspreading or point out that scientific studies excluded women historically or some still do now. My point is that Pop Feminism is the Feminism of today and it merge with the Academic Feminism to become that. Pop Feminism is today's Real Feminism.

Exavior31 · 2025-02-22T11:48:38+00:00

An excellent article. A great read, hope to see more from you in future.

Excellent_You5494 · 2025-02-22T06:17:30+00:00

I think it's sad that we have to make it about women simply to be heard.

I have a feeling you were published, if you didn't self publish as I'm not familiar with the site, because you blamed patriarchy. We shouldn't have to commit hate speech against ourselves, or diminish our own issues by mentioning women's, to be heard.

But you're missing the main reason males moved right.

It's because the wider left hates them, we are the oppressors, we are the bourgeoisie to them, they cannot see us as systemically discriminated against. The conservatives don't believe in any of that, they treat male issues and concerns with empathy, as human beings. The wider left sees men as animals at best.

leroy2007 · 2025-02-22T15:00:06+00:00

Congratulations on getting your article published! I love that you brought up how Kamala Harris tried using the “women won’t fuck you” carrot to earn male votes. I was so disappointed and insulted by that. They think so little of us that they think we can be so easily swayed with sex. I’m already not getting laid. I can deal with that, I’ve got bigger and more important things I’m dealing with.

JJnanajuana · 2025-02-22T11:47:21+00:00

Congrats on getting this published!

I appreciate this bit

Whilst young women face their own issues, it feels from my perspective as a young man, that their issues are at least acknowledged by the left and progressive movements – if not always solved – whereas young men’s issues get less attention. For example, the fear women have walking home at night due to the threat of rape and sexual assault, and the indignity of catcalling has been drilled into us, and rightly so. The UK government regularly mentions their violence and women and girls scheme. Yet, men are rarely included in the combating violence rhetoric despite being one third of all domestic violence victims.

And this:

left wing politics are better for young men than probably any other section of society. The left advocates for progressive policies that would improve the lives of young men. For example, as pointed out above, young men are at the highest risk of suicide and crime. They do less well at school and are more likely to work in dangerous manual jobs. Left policies like free healthcare and education, prison reform, better pay and working conditions, reducing poverty, and strengthening union support would potentially help young men more than any other demographic. The right offers no such solutions.

During the US presidential election, the Harris campaign didn’t seem to focus on progressive policies that could help young men. Instead, the campaign appealed to Harris’ gender.

I felt that there was a bit of pandering at the start but I'm personally of the belief that that kind of pandering can help reach audiences that wouldn't stay without it so, it feels like a nessasery evil.

I like the description of pop feminism. And how visible and problematic it is.

Even though I have more of a problem with academic feminism, and the way it tries to distort reality (particularly around domestic violence and sexual violence)

But 'pop feminism' is a good description for the 'in your face', 'noticeable to people who aren't looking deeper', simple impressions of feminism people can get.

Its-Over-Buddy-Boyo · 2025-02-22T10:52:22+00:00

"young men and men of color"

Why the distinction? It's this type of racist bullshit that the left pulls every time that pisses me off.

Maj0r-DeCoverley · 2025-02-22T16:13:56+00:00

Good article, I'll just share three opinions I've had when reading it:

It could have been 50% shorter.

Maybe it has to do with the previous sentence, but I feel you started by talking about men of color and then stopped entirely, to switch towards a more general critique.

Words matter. They shape our understanding of the real. For instance, as a french leftist, I scratched my head a little bit: "pop feminism"? There's nothing popular in it (in the sense "coming from the base"). Over here we call it "bourgeois feminism", which I think is both clearer and more precise.

Bourgeois feminism is when women in power, or women/daughters of the men in power, yell "I want my place at the dinner table daddy". "I want female CEOs", etc. With their views, "liberating" one woman requires to exploit 3 others (the nanny, the nurse, the cleaning lady, roughly), and cannot be accomplished without exploiting those women. That's why it's not even feminism, and isn't considered as such in the left, only among the liberals. See? It took me one single paragraph. And a journalist could have been clearer than I am (also with pertinent sources and philosophers).

Bourgeois feminism is neither feminist nor leftist. It's a corporatism. "Partial liberation" means "I want privileges", literally (privilege meaning "special law"). Young men aren't exactly stupid, and so as they're angry and the liberals propose nothing (except suppressing the actual left), they turn to the other guy proposing changes: the far-right. Which is a complete trap, of course, all the far right has to propose them is a rat race of violence and predation.

Due-Heron-5577 · 2025-02-22T10:51:32+00:00

Congratulations on getting published bro!

Former_Range_1730 · 2025-02-22T16:41:26+00:00

It really has nothing to do with race. I always find it funny that people do.

Mobius_Inverto · 2025-02-23T00:54:20+00:00

Hit, slap, molested

Title	I got an article published about why I think young men/men of colour are moving right
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Date	February 22, 2025 12:33 AM UTC (1 year ago)
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