I dunno, maybe 18-21 years of being told everything wrong in the world is a guy’s fault has something to do with it. Putting all the blame on people that had no hand in the state of things doesn’t exactly enamour them to your cause…
Y’all choose the bear over random dudes this summer. These young guys saw all that happening, right in front of them in real time. Where were they supposed to turn? One side was offering them answers, even if falsely. The other side was blaming them for everything. The shift right wasn’t all because of the Trump’s and Bannon’s of the world.
Oh woe is me?! Cry me a river. No one is blaming young men for these things. It’s a call to action to dismantle a system of oppression on marginalized groups. Some of those marginalized groups include white people, white men, and young white men. This whole election just allowed the worst to flourish.
An actual opportunity to talk about an issue, rather than reinforce my own beliefs. Dont mind if i do…
Dont you think this is more of an artifact of personalizing newsfeeds and those separated viewpointa clashing with other personalized newsfeeds?
Every opinion exists, and the internet allows opinions to be magnified without a basis in people’s true opinions. We need to learn how to navigate and develop our social beliefs without fixating on who’s opinion is percieved as majority or being shown the most in media… that includes overreacting to polarized opinions and validating them.
Real peoples opinions are different than the popularity of memeified opinions. When people talk to each other there is understanding. When people arm themselves with memes instead of forming their own opinions, we are parroting ideas that might be manufactored so we have no choice but to deny meme ideologies unless their merit is unavoidable.
I sometimes wonder if this is a mass psychosis of sorts that happens when you have a surplus of military age men. In history how many of these impotents would just be given a spear or a rifle and told to go die for the Emperor/King/Fatherland on some pointless military adventurism? Then they wouldn’t have the time to ruminate and make up their own cause to lash out for. “Women are against you, academia is against you, society itself is against you.”
Look, I’ll be honest with you, I just don’t want to misunderstand you, but the implication made me throw up a little in my mouth.
Did you just say that young men need to be killed off periodically because you think they are otherwise a burden to society?
No. I’m saying that’s how the issue has been handled historically, possibly deliberately in some cases, but more likely just coincidentally. Not that we need to go back to it in some exercise in eugenics. “The issue” being something to do with an outmoded view of masculinity that was never substantially replaced as the world got less violent and dire. I would rather fix that. How? I don’t know.
That said, your disgust with the phenomenon does not necessarily make it wholly untrue. Right now we have a bunch of maldeveloped, entitled sex pests with violent ideation who just helped vote in a thousand-year Reich. “Burden” is not the right word for them. Rejected by polite society, they have had no outward outlet for their chauvinism and rage, and so they have turned it inward on the rest of us.
How many American military age men do you think are going to be killed in the next 5-10 years?
Just because your politics has managed to alienate young men the most, so they are the most likely to be voting for anything but establishment, does not mean military age men in general are “maldeveloped, entitled sex pests”. In fact, I would bet more military age men just didn’t vote than vote Trump, because they felt Harris doesn’t represent them, and not because she’s a woman. This is a wholly US culture war driven phenomenon. Fun fact, Orbán’s voters are majority female, most men vote for the opposition, especially among military age men.
Military age men historically have been the driving force behind the greatest examples of rapid societal progress. Military age men coming back from the hell of WWI have been the ones to destroy the divine right of kings and the feudal world order. Military age men fought in the revolutions against the authoritarian communist world.
Of course, a lot of governments did things to get rid of military aged men, but it was almost always because they were the primary threat to outmoded world views, not the ones to preserve it.
I blame their mothers.
I see your point. I don’t mean it like that. Then again I didn’t say what I meant. I just feel you wouldn’t treat other women in a way you wouldn’t treat your mother. A lot of sensitivity, traditionally (and therefore I may not have a great eye on things), comes from a mother. But I’m not very skilled at social engineering so I don’t know what has gone wrong. A lack of manners isn’t acceptable no matter where you got it from.
Oh look, a complete failure of which government responsibility which everyone was saying was underfunded and neglected for years?
Rhymes with masturbation (yes, thats the first one to my head)
Pale bros are already the most coddled demographic in this country. It’s absurd that politicians are still pandering to their historic privilege. Politicians are too ignorant and brainwashed to confront the reality of racism, patriarchy, etc. That’s the actual problem.
