Is The Left For Men Anymore?

Global-Bluejay-3577 · 2025-10-30T15:51:50+00:00

In my opinion, yes, and no. As it currently stands I'm pretty disgusted with what the left offers both women and men, but am especially disgusted with the double standards we are seeing as ok or even a necessity

For this reason I count myself as actually more left than most people, and way more left than any party. Our community is slowly spreading though, hopefully more and more

cheapcheap1 · 2025-10-30T12:25:29+00:00

I hear people on all sides say some variation of "people on the other side are crazy and hate me/my values/my identity, so that's why I oppose them."

It's so easy to polarize society by signal boosting idiots and assholes. Don't define your own politics in opposition to assholes who spread hate. Define it in agreement with good people who say smart and compassionate things.

I think that's the solution to staying the course and maintaining a steady and integrous moral compass in this polarized world. Try to agree with the good instead of getting angry at the bad.

Because the truth is that a good person will be upset with assholes on either side of the spectrum. People who decide their politics in opposition to those assholes really just decide their politics based on which media they consume, because that media decides which assholes they see more.

Sure-Vermicelli4369 · 2025-10-30T19:44:52+00:00

Even if the left (or liberals since we're talking about mainstream political parties) grew a spine and actually started pushing meaningful social reforms to help the working class what would stop them from going "Well the 'oppressor' class doesn't need access to these benefits" and only grant them to women and other select demographics. They just did it with DEI, it's not like there isn't precedent.

Been thinking about this a lot lately. We're literally stuck between voting for a fascist or voting to make things worse for ourselves (in USA anyway).

RevolutionaryClue364 · 2025-10-30T23:49:26+00:00

I think at this point any “Voice For Men” on the left are a very small minority — very rarely do I ever see anyone advocating for Men’s Rights

BhryaenDagger · 2025-10-30T20:59:37+00:00

Actually a new party in the US sounds less difficult simply because the Left party- Dems- is so clearly a big business party. In the UK there’s a declaredly Left party (Greens) AND a Labour Party, both of which sound like they’re kinda what the US Dems are lacking… but aren’t. So a US Labor Party would both signal a return to a working class orientation and set a new political precedent for the Left against the demoralizing bigotry it’s become associated with.

For sure I don’t see how the contemporary Dems can shake their contemporary errors. Once bigotry becomes a party platform, it’s hard to see anyone backpedaling w “Uh, so, about men and whites and straights being evil and oppressors and the enemy based purely on a trait they’re born with… yeah, just kidding?” We’ve already seen how lame their attempt to solve the “man problem” was: power-lunch at an isolated, expensive hotel to discuss ways to further infiltrate the “manosphere” w feminist messaging. That’ll work!

The Left used to prioritize questions of the standard of living of working people and those who simply aren’t rich- or at least maintained that orientation in their rhetoric. Now that that’s not the primary, overriding concern of the Dems, Trump is ripping apart standards going back to post-WW2 gains and protections without any meaningful opposition from the Left, much less consequences. It’s literally the dismantling of capitalism’s infrastructure of social stability.

It’s truly the case nowadays that both the established US Left party and US Right party come bundled w an intolerable reprehensibility- correct in some rhetoric but demonstrably part of the problem not solution. I see no reason a new Left party couldn’t be salient w the US masses looking for an alternative to the errors of the contemporary Left and Right.

Rayvinblade · 2025-10-30T21:11:05+00:00

I can't read the words "Classical Liberal" without thinking of Sargon of Akkad. And he is a staunch right winger and Reform advocate. Consequently as a fellow Brit, I am unsure exactly where to place you politically.

The point of being left wing for me is to support change and progress that I believe takes us towards a fairer outcome for society - I am left wing because my values are left wing. Not because I think the left is 'doing anything' for me. That's a very right wing mindset, the idea that you should only ever worry about yourself.

I advocate for male focused policies for the same reason - because I believe they would be fair. It doesn't take me away from my principles as a left winger. Indeed I think opposition to this takes a lot of other people who claim to be left wing, away from what should be their own principles and values.

LordAshur · 2025-10-31T23:43:41+00:00

The true left, Not the democrats if you’re from the USA, is for anyone who is a worker and doesn’t own capital. I’m very progressive both socially and economically. It’s that progressivism that leads me to see the injustices perpetuated against men and women in society.

Glass-Pain3562 · 2025-11-05T17:19:17+00:00

I think the issue here is most of the global left is pretty much center or even center right with some paltry social progressive camouflage. A lot of men in NYC loved Mamdani, who ran as a socialist. Men just want someone who is genuine and doesn't feel like they just want their vote before kicking them to the curb.

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CheapDig3148 · 2025-11-01T16:11:26+00:00

It was never

Macdui90 · 2025-11-10T13:15:00+00:00

The right is for a specific man.

A man they can control, who acts like “a man should act”, a man who doesn’t speak up for himself, a man who puts his country before his self-respect or common sense, a man who believes he is above women, a man who is mainly for other men who look like him.

I’m a hard left of that guy.

ActualInteraction0 · 2025-10-30T13:43:05+00:00

How very vague of you.

You don't seem to share the "crazy left" ideas.

You don't say which group/s have those "crazy" views.

Your post reads like a reform psyop. Fueling further divisions.

If you're an oppressed white man in the uk, give a specific example.

jacobelmosehjordsvar · 2025-10-30T18:18:54+00:00

No such thing as free Healthcare.

Title	Is The Left For Men Anymore?
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Date	October 28, 2025 11:28 AM UTC (9 months ago)
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