on manosphere and incel culture
7mon 1d ago by piefed.social/u/huppakee in microblogmemes from media.piefed.social
Isn't this basically what religion does, as well?
Some religions.
At-will employment too.
"You're nothing special - easily replaceable. I'm doing you a favour by letting you have this job."
Basically anywhere where a power imbalance is an intended feature, not a necessary evil.
In a broader sense, it is what cults do.
"Nobody accepts you... but us" "You will die alone... unless you help us" and so forth.
or... "They just can't take a joke... but we can"
Exactly this. It’s the same playbook for more than just those two groups.
how else does incel communities capture more incels into the fold, by extension conservative politicians.
Some religions do, yes, and it works, which is why they do it. The important thing is to identify these behaviors and find social groups that will empower you instead of disempowering you.
Unfortunately, humanity is better at making people feel small than building them up. And the folks who succumb to this are likely already in a compromised state so it will be hard, if not impossible, for them to pull themselves out alone.
This is essentially cult tactics, yeah. As much as I loathe incels... Some of them genuinely need help.
The ones who are in too deep to literally start calling women "foids" tho? Throw them in the woodchipper. Dick first.
They're in a decentralized cult. They all need help, but some of them need a lot more help before they're going to be release candidate males
Ive never heard that term before. I'm guessing it's some sort of shortening of "femoid" (a word I believe to have made up right now, but can imagine incels using regularly)
I'm sorry to tell you you're exactly right.
a word I believe to have made up right now
if only
*sighs*
Yes, that's literally a shortening of that, and "femoid" was a word they DID use constantly. And then they shortened it further to disguise it more, I guess. I'm sorry you had to find it out this way :|
they are so chickenshit they cant even admit they are woman haters, aka mysogynists. they dont like being called out being a mysogynist, so they disguise it as something else, like blaming them for causing thier own problems.
thats why conservatives have captured them as voters, give them something to hate: women, trans people,,,etc/.
5'8" (1.73m) here. Married for 13 years.
A touch shorter and celebrated 24 years married last month.
I've seen 5'2" guys who are regularly seeing incredibly attractive women.
I also know a guy whose face is not what one would call conventionally attractive but his personality means he's often had his pick of men and women because he just feels good to spend time with.
even 5ft men can get with girls. girls can detect thirsty desperate , creepy men(nice guys) very easily. i had unfortunate experience of hearing and watching my olders bro pickup videos he always binged on. they all sound desperate and creepy.
Conversely, I'm 6'2" and chronically single
5'3" (1.6m) and closing in on 25 years. It's amazing how far a bit of kindness, compassion, and a sense of humor can go.
You mean 4'20"
Aka the goated height
Women always had height requirements, you just started seeing them written down.
Online dating certainly brought some new problems, but most women hate it too so if it doesn't work for you the old staples of finding a partner through friends, a hobby or at work are still there, as well as specific dating activities.
Or just don't put your height in your bio and be funny. Those "non negotiable height requirements" turn out to be very negotiable in a lot of cases.
How'd those lies taste coming out of your mouth?
Sorry, didn't realise you were a lost cause. Hope you escape.
if men have requirements of woman, its only fair for women to have standards and requirements of thier own. its not a one way relationship, that only breeds toxicity, and women not dating you.
Really? For decades I was told it's unfair for men to have requirements of women?
Men hate women, and women hate men. Men like vaginas and women like shoes. So let's fight. That's where I see society at right now. Am I wrong in any way?
I hope you find someone for you soon.
Look at the username. You are falling for bait.
Well I agree with him on Futurama at least.
I assure you sir, I am not trolling. All of my misanthropy is 100% genuine and of my own design. But in the words of Jayson Street, "I come with warning labels."
Middle Age Pilot Yells At Clouds, Says GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY!
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Stop lying. No you don't. You look like a Baptist saying he loves Jesus. Just who are you trying to fool? Whose brownie points do you think you're earning?
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I don't. I haven't tried looking for a date since the pandemic and I don't plan to start again. Women don't want me, they want the quarter million dollars of real estate I own and the 2 million dollars of real estate I'm heir to. Well guess what? Unlike the majority of married men, I'm not losing my home in a divorce. I'm gonna die right there on my grandfather's land on my grandfather's couch and my three month rotted corpse will be found by police on a wellness check initiated by the town water company. I'm not gonna be taken to the hospital, forced to keep my heart beating after the stroke and live to be an 86 year old shambling corpse of a social security check for others to cash.
Hmmm, yes, no doubt it’s the women’s height requirements that are to blame, since you have such a sterling personality.
It was an abusive exwife in my case, but yes. It's abuse all the same. It does the same thing.
It isolates, it breaks you down, it makes you forget who you were, and then when you least expect it, they are no longer dependable for anything and you have nothing left.
And they feel nothing.
Yup, that's why tate sold the worst dating advice in the world while being a sex trafficker, ensuring repeat business.
The solution to many problems in our Society is to make fraud laws stronger and prosecute them more fully
and "get rick quick" schemes with extremely bad trading advice, which require high memberships.
Study on men who are chronically single showed the common denominator: having extremely low confidence. Now that I think about it, this post corroborates the target profile of negging by abusers-- victims who have low self-esteem.
There are, for the lack of a better word, not so good looking men or short men having relationships, in one form or another, with ridiculously good looking women because these men have confidence without being too bragadacious. Of course, there are shallow women who go for looks alone (same as men), but there are just as many kind-hearted and less shallow women who prefer men with personality over looks and vice versa.
Low confidence and self-critical thoughts are what impedes chronically single men. Sometimes, it is indeed on the state of mind. And this vulnerability of lonely men is exploited by manosphere to create incels. I don't have a solution to address the problem but this is a general observation.
yea, incelism is all about blaming women for all thier inadquecies, the reason they dont have a job, or they not tall, or they dont have large dong. or they are not hot. they could be looking the wrong places, if a psychopath can have a SO, so can "incels"
so many comments claiming this post blames or makes fun of men and incels that i went back and reread the whole thing... what the fuck are the lot of you even responding to‽ there's nothing like that in the post, and on the contrary it says men are victimized by this. Jesus, some of you are really willing to take anything as a slight. beats self reflection i guess.
Lemmy becomes completely irrational whenever the words "male loneliness epidemic" appear, once you read that around here (and it shows up in the OP) you can skip the comments as nothing good will come out of the thread.
I kinda get it though
it doesn't blame men
Is your point that manosphere is not "men" but... Idk, a subspecies of a very aggressive and mean bear?
manosphere refers to the online cult created by influencers like Rogan, Tate, etc.
you're literally doing the "if you criticize Israel you're antisemitic" bullshit for manosphere and misandry instead.
It doesn't blame men, except those specific men and all the men who listened or fell for them
Is that your point?
(I'm going to ignore your personal attacks.)
please point to the personal attack in my comment
you’re literally doing the “if you criticize Israel you’re antisemitic” bullshit
calling out your bullshit is not a personal attack. a personal attack is an attack on someone's person, not their actions. i commented on your actions.
If that were true, you wouldn't be trying to derail that conversation but you'd got back to what exactly is your point here? Because I called your point bullshit?
... what? you're the one who doesn't even know what a personal insult is, let alone understand my point. i didn't bring the conversation there. you did.
my point is clear and was made already, no matter how badly you want to interpret it in a way that makes you feel persecuted. no one blamed "men" for the loneliness epidemic. they blamed the cult that preys on men. it's literally a post about men being victims to the manosphere. the fact that you take offense to what's directed at the sex criminal Tator or the grifter piece of shit Rogan personally tells more about you than me.
And pray tell me where did I
the fact that you take offense to what’s directed at the sex criminal Tator or the grifter piece of shit Rogan personally tells more about you than me.
It doesn't blame men, except those specific men and all the men who listened or fell for them
It doesn’t blame men, except those specific men and all the men who listened or fell for them
But... that's what you wrote here: manosphere refers to the online cult created by influencers like Rogan, Tate, etc.
i think you either don't know what blame means, or what cult means
Yeah a good few people are telling on themselves by feeling called out by this.
this post brings up some good points, but I want to be clear that turning men into women hating incels who will die alone is the GOAL of all this rhetoric. it doesn't have to be that way.
if your reaction to this post is "women bad" you should take a step back and realize they've already gotten you to take the first step down the pipeline.
Podcast episode #120 (Invicil) from Reply All should be required listening in this day and age.
Invicil: How a shy, queer Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet’s most toxic male communities.
Man, Reply All was so good... It really bummed me out when I heard that PJ is a major bully/asshole.
Was that ever substantiated? I saw some comments saying that it was just a rumor, I didn't really look to hard into it because the podcast was over by then.
Manosphere being a toxic shitshow of harmful beliefs and self-sabotag is nothing new.
But in 1 way, it is very different to an abusive boyfriend. The abusive bf doesn't necessarily start off being abusive or not as obviously so. The bf adapts to you and slowly undermines your confidence. The manosphere has it in their advertising material. The people fall for the manosphere are not slowly manipulated and abused by the manosphere. The manosphere is the new abusive boyfriend after the breakup with the last abuser. When the abuse already has been normalised and kinda wanted because at least it is "familiar".
So what is the first "abusive boyfriend"?
From what I could witness, most likely the "first abuser" is most likely a close family member, either the (step-)father or some uncle or grandfather - people who themselves believe in such values they call "traditional".
Yeah, but also (step-)mother or some aunt or grandmother, maybe even girlfriend. Not only men are pushing these "traditional" values.
This is true, but if even just one family member protected them from this harmful rhetoric, it saves hope for the kid.
maybe in a ultra conservative household. but more than not its the man of the house that influences the male children more.
In my life, I made a very different experience.
And I believe:
Sexist beliefs, traditions and norms are not only held up by men and ultra conservative women. We all do it together and as long as we act that we don't do it as a collective, we will continue to fail young man and women and turn more people into toxic sexist idiots.
Father's need to support their sons, show empathy, and actually engage with their children in a meaningful way. Hug your fucking kids!
Elephant Graveyard said it first.
so is it just impossible for a woman to do something wrong or?
So what is the first “abusive boyfriend”?
For me it was high school. Constantly being treated like shit by my peers for being weird and quiet really fucked me up. Fortunately things got better in college and I didn't fall into the manosphere crap but I very easily could have had I not found people to give me a break and help me learn to act more "normal" without being abusive towards me.
be 5' 7"
not attractive to most women (aww)
every airplane seat feels like first class
live longer on average (aww)
workout once a week and look buff
no car is too small
sleep like a king in beds of any size
women generally trust you more easily cos your presence is non-threatening
You know it's not that bad of a trade. Y'all sixfooters have fun with the girls.
I'm not quite 5'8, and I was in the Marines, where obviously size was made to be something, especially in the infantry, but I always used to just tell dudes that I'm harder to shoot, and in the unlikely event they get me before you, I'm easier to carry to safety. Fucking win-win as far as I'm concerned.
And with those days long behind me, and married with a short wife and hort kids of my own, I'm the biggest thing in the world to them. So just find an equally short person to spend your life with. Or don't, nothing matter!
I'm gay and everyone is the same height to me once you get 'em horizontal
It's true. Women trust me partially because...wtf am I going to do to them? Sit on her head? Bite her ankles? So, I'm one of the only two being driven by my co-worker nowadays. Bonus points for having given up on relationships, because even if I was in the mood for those, I don't have time for no personal life.
Kinda reminds me of boot camp, using psychological attacks to break down men's will and have him disregulated and complient
it makes sense they want robots, who wont question where and what to shoot.
This is top tier gaslighting. I dont know why people bend over backwards to blame anyone but women for the 6ft meme. Manosphere reacted to a real thing and grifted off it growing it into political campaigning but is was real sentiment experienced by men. I'm not short and I see it happen all the time. Women are open about it.
Before the 6ft meme the redpill meme for guys was to laugh at tall guys and call them skeles until height became a desirable trait and it reversed with short dudes getting laughed at for being manlets.
It used to be niche and restricted to internet cesspits but YouTube and tiktok really brought the most toxic parts of the redpill, pua and lookism into the mainstream. It started ironic as a joke mocking lookism but kids got sucked in hard and lines blurred.
I'm still pissed these people have managed to infect so much of the male fitness community.
I dont know why people bend over backwards to blame anyone but women for the 6ft meme.
Your really going to blame all women for that? I know tons of women who haven't even really given it a passing thought.
Even if it were a common sentiment, <15% of men are 6ft anyway so most will have to settle.
They never said the word all
No but it wouldn't have hurt to use the word "some".
They also never specified a woman or group of women either.
Which is why you shouldn't assume they meant all women.
Why? We don't know that person. They could have meant either option.
Which is why you should ask for clarification instead of making assumptions.
Well then their comment is pointless. There are shitty people everywhere. Men are rapists.
#notallmen
You're saying all men are rapists?
I guess I'm just poking fun at what I see as a dumb line of argument that derails constructive discussion. Trying to strawman someone's argument by suggesting they mean all men/women is not productive.
Why shouldn't he ??? women came out in droves during men's mental health awareness day & to demonize it & no serious pushback was given.
I don't know where you hang out, but I didn't see that at all, that's really unfortunate you experienced that. Where did you see people demonizing it? I'd like to avoid those places.
Men's mental health is just as important as anyone else's. Maybe even more so right now, as a group, many seem to be in crisis.
Corpos have targeted women's insecurities for over a century to sell their ideas/products. They've gotten very good in recent decades capitlizing on this for men. It's culture war bullshit so they can sell you fascism.
Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, mainstream news. The list goes on
Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, mainstream news.
So from social media, which amplifies fringe and minority opinions as if it is a reflection of real life.
Callin it as Fringe minority opinions is a common deflection tactic. They are still people saying things.
Do you realise how social media algorithms work?
Or better yet, that 50% or more interactions are with bots.
I mean come on this is like saying "there's toxicity in my league of legends chat!". that's the whole point, especially with musk at the top.
if it's affecting you this much where you are developing these incel thought patterns you should get off the app.
First stop being a sex-obsessed creep. Imagine saying you don't get to have opinions because you didn't have sex.
You're part of the problem. Invalidation is also a common demonization tactic.
where did I say that? I'm not trying to invalidate anything I'm just saying that those apps are well known echo chamber for those thought patterns. little weird to just bring up having sex like that, it's kinda exactly what I'm talking about.
seriously though. if you have these thought patterns you should take one hell of a look in the mirror. I almost went down that path as a teen and it is ugly and harmful. there's still time to change.
women aren't out to get you. these things talked about online like height and looks mean nothing in the real world. that's not an exaggeration, it really is more about your personality, so I suggest you try to understand why yours seems unlikable.
this isn't a personal dig, as I said I almost went down that same path in highschool and I'm very glad I got out of it while I could.
You've literally made that up. The comment you responded to didn't say that.
It's your lie, tell it how you want I guess.. Why are you punishing yourself by believing in such terrible 'opinions' from others? Especially online, you literally can't verify who's human anymore. You could be getting upset with someone purposely creating rage bait. Opinions are like assholes mate. Bullies only bully to pull a reaction. They're getting it with you, why let them do this to you?
I've never met a woman who only focused on men's looks. Never. Looks for many women come after personality. Confidence sans arrogance wins that race mostly.
You appear not to have peace inside, just making shit up..you don't have to live life with such dark outlook. In fact, you may be creating a self fulfilling prophecy in doing shit like this.
Explain what incel means, it's literally a gender equivalent of the N-word.
You don't get to have opinions cuz I deemed you as an incel
You are going around labelling people's opinion as invalid, because YOU said so, a common bullying tactic. Also women go for status.
equating to a self-describing virgin/celibate is equal to calling someone an N word, thats not even close and not even the same thing at all. i tell you why, incel is a name that men describe themselves, given to themselves. they wernt persecuted or targeted by a group and given deragatory name, incels literally named themselves that way. thats why fatphobia isnt a thing either.
& it is used to invalidate their opinions. This entire comment section is proof of it. Other comments have pointed it out.
This began because you saw people talking shit about men's mental health. I asked where, and vauge responses, all online, were listed. As a wife and mother, not only did my husband and I talk about men's mental health, but we also support our son's mental health and well-being and what this all means for our family. Most online spaces, again, are not real. People say shit to get other's riled up on purpose, all the time, that's their goal. It's working on you.
Online, I often try and speak with disgruntled folks, both male and female, often male, because I know some of y'all hurt. I think I've some complex, I was raised as the eldest daughter with no mother in the home. Only a father, and I watched his decent into becoming, an isolated monster who hated all women, and himself most. I watched my father suffer first, and then turn his suffering onto his children. So, like, I feel real pain when I read about this type of attitude. I have first hand experience with deep pain. I suffer myself often, so I try to relate for that connection. Sometimes all a person needs is to feel connected to the society they live. However, sometimes my optimism is misplaced, but personally, I try anyway.
The responses here read as emotionally charged and defensive. This is why I mentioned finding peace inside. You have to want it for yourself, and I hope one day you find optimism. If you lead life in a negative outlook always, you'll get that back. Stop hurting yourself this way. The world is shit enough, why punish yourself more with isolating ideas?
Just because the Internet said it doesn't mean it's true.
Just because some rando instigator on the Internet shit on something meaningful to you, does not mean it's not meaningful to anyone else in tangible life. Men's mental health is vital for society and personal well-being alike. Take yours seriously. If it matters to you, take it seriously. No one else can do it for you. Fuck the haters. People shit on women all the time online, I don't take it out on the men in my life. They aint the ones who say it. There's a global division market right now, the uptick in division propaganda has grown exponentially over the last ten years, social media being it's largest influencer. It's becoming harder and harder to decipher what is real in online spaces. One must be vigilant and constantly scrutinizing, who is this message for? Why is this message being shared? What is the goal of the poster? How should I respond, if at all?
The Internet's easiest path to engagement is to touch on our deep emotions. Negative emotions are wired into our brains to be more easily recalled, it's just science. It's why one bad visit to, say a restaurant, hypothetically, where the waiter called you a name, is easily recalled, versus 10 great visits that were pleasant. Ten years later you hear the restaurants name, what will you remember about it? That shit waiter.
Anger, pain, fear, and that whole section of emotions are some of the strongest humans can experience and they stick with us for a long duration. Media knows this. So in the virtual world, Why let the marketing win on you? Much of the Internet is marketed this way. Instead of leaving the restaurant and never going back, you are metaphorically arguing with that same waiter everyday, re-engaging that same emotion, over and over, until you're so tied up in it's ideas it can become your truth. Break free mate. You sound here, I'm sorry, but like an emotional instigator yourself. Is that who you are? Is that how you wish to contribute to our society?
Why repeat "no one cares about men's mental health" when you do? You care, are you no one? You're somebody. Instead of saying no one cares, say, I care about men's mental health. Don't repeat lies fed to you on the Internet. You are not no one.
Let's say your initial thought was true, and women en masse, scoffed at mens mental health. I don't care if every woman on the earth laughed at the idea of men's mental health. That doesn't change the message of the movement. If anything, should drive you to work harder so folks understand the message. Men scoffed for centuries at women's rights and well being. They locked women away for hysteria, at the husband's whim, not very long ago. Women didn't give up, and you're not to give up either. Advocate for yourself and your cohort, naysayers be damned.
I care deeply about men's mental health. Many of us out here do. I do not give a flying fuck if some other people don't. I do. Stand for yourself, and I'll stand with you.
One must live the change they want to see.
what's that jon mulaney bit about how you cannot compare to words if you won't even say one?
So, you don't know anyone who's under six foot and is in a happy relationship?
how is that what you got from my comment? I have to tell myself you're trolling to retain my sanity.
"OMG these people are incel losers they have no worth and deserve to die!"
"Incel losers" commits a horrific crime because they were treated like they have no worth and deserve to die
"OMG can you believe it? We should bully them harder, that will fix things!"
Maybe the fucking problem is people treating these poor people so horribly. We want to PREVENT such things happening which means addressing the root of the problem and trying to catch people who could fall into those destructive manoaphere circles BEFORE they get the idea to commit mass murder. I'm PRETTY positive the solution isn't to bully them more.
"Incel losers" commits a horrific crime because they were treated like they have no worth and deserve to die
What makes you think that was why a particular crime was committed? There are lots and lots of people who get bullied and are treated like shit and they don't act out in some horrible, violent way.
I think it's these communities that they're in that encourage that kind of behavior. We need better support structures for our society so that people who need community can find something healthy.
I thought we agreed to treat every life as worthless, unless they have a couple of million dollars on them, regardless of gender or race?
A part that complicates things is that incels, contrary to what the name implies, choose to be incels. Also, working with incels specifically could end up giving a perverse incentive (or whatever it's called when an effort to reduce something instead becomes an incentive to increase it) to be an incel to get help.
thats a volcel, no?
I realize you're probably just making a joke but the reality is that there are few people so ugly that no one would have sex with them. Even if you keep your standards high, I'm sure there's many cases of someone whose own mother would cry at the sight of that managed attract a model who is just into that.
But the attitude is very off-putting, more so than whatever physical characteristics they think disqualifies them from love or sex (and a good number of them aren't even unattractive but just have no self-esteem and hate themselves so much they either can't believe someone else would like them or that someone who does must have big problems of their own or is lying to use them).
Even the niceguy attitude is offputting, and the incel attitude is pretty much that but replace the sadness with anger and the depression with rage, and add a bunch of BS masquerading as the science of attraction that proves they aren't attractive and ignores that it's subjective and that there's this weird "so ugly it's cute" category that some/many people seem to have (though it usually applies to animals rather than people).
This is the Just World Fallacy. Saying "You can't get laid because you have a bad attitude" isn't any different from saying "The reason why you're homeless is because of your bad attitude."
Okay. Does that help at all? Abso-fucking-lutely not.
I disagree that it's unhelpful. I'll agree that it's not an easy thing like "just smile more, you'll get laid!" But step 1 for any incel to actually get laid would be to stop being a fucking incel and recognize that no one owes them sex, affection, or even a moment of their time to hear them out or explain why they won't.
If you choose to wallow in something, whether it be inceldom or depression, you're going to find it very difficult or impossible to come out of that.
Incels sound like a toxic cult, and I'm not sure how much you can blame people for getting indoctrinated into a cult.
Depression is a disease which is treated with medication and therapy, so I don't see that as similar at all.
What I find interesting is that most people try to counter this with "Just do this, and then maybe you'll get laid", instead of pointing out how self-centered the entire concept is in the first place.
But step 1 for any incel to actually get laid would be to stop being a fucking incel and recognize that no one owes them sex, affection, or even a moment of their time to hear them out or explain why they won't.
No, that is not step 1 for actually getting laid, because there is no step 1 for that. Some people are doomed to be alone and miserable, and for some of them, that's never going to change. That's just how it is. I wish we'd built a better society which actually takes care of people, but that isn't the one we live in. I just do my best to try to make things better.
What we really need is legalized sex work, but there'd have to be protections for the workers so they wouldn't have to worry about being abused by their clientele. Legalized sex work with strong sex workers' unions would be ideal.
Well, you choose whether or not to identify as an incel. Which is what you mean, I assume.
Yeah, inceldom is a mindset, choosing to be bitter about their state of affairs and lash out at others for not wanting them. I don't frequent their areas, but some of them blame various ratios of their facial positioning when their face is fine, it's just their attitude that is shitty.
I guess it could be argued how much one can change their personality to be less off-putting, but I've known some real ugly dudes that have had fine dating lives.
Sure, but what you're describing here is more than just an attitude. It's a cult.
lol, quite literally blaming men for everything as usual.
Honestly you arent fucking wrong.
If a woman has a series of bad experiences with a series of asshole dudes and decides she is done with it and would rather be single everyone claps because she is empowered. If a guy has a series of bad experiences with a series of just horrible women and decides he is done with it and would rather be single he is an incel and men are the problem.
Some dudes are incels because being a garbage human being with no regard for the feelings of others isnt limited to men. Women can say and do cruel shit too. I watched my 5'3 buddy ask a girl out and get "Ewww" instead of "No thank you" this shit doesnt happen in a vacuum.
i never heard of a single man being called an incel lol, only when start saying incel things, then yes. nobody cares otherwise
& here we have a fine example. What are these "Incel things" ?
Mysoginists don't represent men, like misandrists don't represent women.
Well men ARE society's punching bags, society either wants men dead or enslaved. (E.g: Conscription)
Update: Well look at that immediate dislike
What is "manosphere"?
It's a sphere made out of naked men. It's a dangerous weapon because of its incredible sexiness.
HOT.
An insulating community of conservative influencers and their fans, focusing on giving lost males "meaning" by feeding their ego.
basically toxic and hyper masculinity encapsulated into a community, a cult of sorts.
a modern day cult and not even a classy one.
I think they mean toxic masculinity
Eh, I agree and disagree with the image text. There are similarities, yes, but I wouldn't view it quite as closely connected as the post implies. Main reason being that there's a difference between using verbal abuse to control someone's actions -- like what it implies an abusive boyfriend would do to control his gf -- and using generally third party reference points to construct an admittedly grim world view for a broad demographic group. The manosphere approach is closer, I'd say, to the marketing done by the women's beauty industry in this regard.
Ie. there are certain trends / norms that women tend to cycle through, and certain beauty standards that people generally seem to expect from women (without digging in to that!). The beauty industry leverages that and puts out products re-enforcing those norms / helping ppl align to those norms. There are lots of people that find alternative body types attractive, and/or that have more realistic expectations. But if you're a woman who's obsessed with beauty trends, it can become an unhealthy obsession leading to potential issues like anorexia.
In that it's toxic when taken to an extreme, and in that its fundamentals are based in "reality", the beauty industry's similar to manosphere rhetoric. The manosphere's "short guys get no girls" mentality is backed by many short guys experiences with dating (especially online, where they're pre-filtered!); similarly, a fat girl with lopsided facial features will have difficulty, making the beauty industries products/message more enticing/convincing. They both leverage the generally negative real world experiences of their target audiences to 'ground' their message. Both movements also have equatable super stars -- "Supermodels"/OnlyFans girls/Twitch Streamers/Whatever who are deemed the most beautiful women, and "Tech bros" who are fathering armies of children and touting right wing eugenics-like ideals.
Mostly pointing this alternative comparison out, because I think there's a bit of grey on the manosphere stuff. An obsession with beauty standards/industry stuff is unhealthy, but in moderation its ok/beneficial; an obsession with "men's rights"/"men's issues" is unhealthy, but in moderation it's likely a good thing. More guys being more conscious about their health, and getting more exercise, isn't a bad thing after all -- and that's one of the themes in that manosphere clusterfuck.
This is quite an insightful comment actually, thanks.
The 6-ft thing is so bizarre because 6-ft is above average. If a man claims to be 6 foot is probably 5 8 or something.
I never understand why height matters anyway I know an absolute giant is about 7 foot and has a duck under doors. But he's not exactly Hercules levels of attractive. He's just tall
As a guy that's exactly 6' tall, when asked how tall I am I've had numerous women argue with me that I must actually be 6'2" or 6'3" because I'm definitely taller than so-and-so who's 6'. Lots of dudes lie about their height, and it's not a recent phenomenon... I remember when the internet didn't exist and it happened back then too. It's worse now however.
Had the USA actually embraced metric, 7cm+ discrepancies wouldn't exist
I'm short and I unironically give people a lower height number just to fuck with them (usually an inch or 2). Gotta keep people just a little off balance.
It has been my observation as a 5'7" tall man that it correlates with the rise/requirement of dating sites.
Prior to 2012, no women made mention of my height. The average American man is 5'10", I'm slightly below average, yet I'm still 3 inches taller than the average American woman who stands at 5'4". My 5'0" tall girlfriend my senior year of high school had to stretch up on her tip toes for a kiss. Hell, when I was out of college and finishing up flight school, I dated a girl who was my height. She never brought up my height. The very few girls I've been with since haven't mentioned it.
You know what happened in September of 2012? Tinder launched.
It wasn't long after that the default way of boy encountering girl transitioned from meatspace to Tinderspace, which meant she experiences his height and overall size not as a visceral "look how my hand fits in his" or the feeling in her back when she stretches up for a kiss, it's now some numbers start with a 5 and some numbers start with a 6, and 6 is more than 5.
Lemmy tends to be a space where being left wing isn't enough, you've got to be so left wing you can barely see the dim red glow of the position light or you might as well be a goose stepping Nazi. "If you're so far left, kiss this painting of Komrade Lenin" kind of place. Which, in practice, makes this the kind of place that will say "People don't make friends because there's a lack of third spaces, which makes in-person relationships difficult if not impossible to initiate or maintain, hence post-school adults having few if any in-person friendships and socializing entirely online especially among younger generations."
...Except on the subject of young men and their romantic exploits, because a boy born in 1999 is the only person who can be to blame for the all-time low earning potential, all-time high cost of formal education, all-time high cost of living, all-time high bullshit to even get a job, all-time high physical beauty standards for men, and all-time high competition given the largely fake landscape of social media, and the ones who say "fuck this shit" you shame as "incels." Which is shaping up to be an utter winner as a feminist tactic, it's gaining women so many civil rights the world over, at this rate there's gonna be a female pope by 2027.
You started off getting so close to self awareness but then veered into incel talking point.
Dating sites aren't real. It's another simulacra.
Also if something is is spouting right wing talking points then it's a right winger. You don't need to along with this insane mental gymnastic concoction of a theory that leftists went so far left they became far right. Occams Razor. Right wingers are right wingers.
This kind of comment is a textbook example of the incel cult narrative. Start off making sense. Then dump the heavy rhetorical bomb.
Not gonna bother refuting your points because that's the whole point. To drag the discourse into incel domain. I know you know.
Contrapoints has a really great video about this.
I think there's more to the manosphere than this.
Maybe, but I don't think that's relevant to this post.
pickup artists seemed to heavily reinforce the manosphere alot prior to the likes of tate, and peterson. and Gymbros fall for it as well. especially the ones that are make jokes about people who are not going to gyms, or they eat certain foods that the gymbro doesnt like, eventhough they arnt the one eating. they always make a snide or passive aggressive comment.(its none of your business)
weird take. There's certainly a feminist supremacist sphere active in demonizing and diminishing "less attractive" men, and women, feminist or not, have always enjoyed the privilege of men seeking their friendship with more passion than other way around. Friendly women of low attractiveness levels have more opportunities to have their sexuality validated.
This is just a supremacist take on demonizing men further.
Are you saying the manosphere isnt targeting men's insecurities in a bully-like fashion?
It's both. Both are the issue.
Which women make fun of men in a systemic way? Can you please name them so I can look them up?
Definitionally, if you're looking at individuals it wouldn't be systemic...
There is a systemic gender advantage of opposite gender wanting to be your friend more than the other way around.
Thank you you’re right , I used the wrong word.
Still interested to know which women prey on men’s insecurities like the Fresh & Fit podcast bros and Andrew Tate do.
Look up #KillAllMen. Don't worry I have more. The real question is how much do you need until you admit it ??
okay and that's like maybe a couple thousand individuals on social media compared to like the what, the millions of women literally married to men and taking care of male family members etc. lol look out your window buddy
A couple thousand. It's a couple billion that has not seen any opposition. Clearly you are willfully ignorant.
Marriage is not a debunking, when those same married women support & don't oppose it
What is it? A hashtag that anyone can make?
Go & see for yourselves.
I already know the answer. Stop being a dumbass using the action of one anonymous person to condemn tens of millions of people.
I don't know what the manosphere is. PUA/Andrew Tate try to elevate men's self esteem. Whether denying men's insecurities is targetting them is grey area. Incels as a defeated group moaning to each other about defeat, get piled on with a lot of supremacist hate, mostly from women/women's groups.
Where is the "bully like" fashion? It can't be "acting like a role model".
Chritofascists, who primarily serve Zionist supremacist establishment, or Feminazis, lie to their audience, but aren't bullying their adherents. They are boosting their "deserved supremacism" by diminishing the rights/humanity of their "inferior" enemies. Supremacists sell "you too can have my advantages if you join us". It can be wrong without it being classified as bullying.
There's certainly a feminist supremacist sphere active in demonizing and diminishing "less attractive" men
What convinced you of this?
probably those posts on reddit where the women are complaining about men about various things, and they dont realize its a man commenting on those subs.
That's why I basically ignore criticism nowadays. I see all criticism not made by AI as being bad faith.
Bullshit, Incels, like everyone else, have access to information, they are choosing to gravitate towards these manosphere wackos because it's the easy way out, a convenient scapegoat instead of actually trying to address THEIR issues. They have zero critical thinking skills and again I put that on them. I have access to all the same propaganda, the women only wanting men 6ft plus, meanwhile I have two ex wives both who were taller than my 167cm giant height.
It seems to me that the existence of incels is evidence of some sort of mental health crisis among this demographic. Blaming someone for not having the adequate emotional maturity doesn't seem like the right move if the goal is to make these people better. They need therapy. I guess in my mind they occupy the same space as drug addicts/alcoholics except they probably do more harm to those around them. They need to take responsibility, but they need a support system that will actually help too.
I agree with much of what you said, I posted that while angry and so it came across unsympathetic. Mental health (I'm a recovering alcoholic, 7+ years sober after 27 years of hell before I took responsibility) is key to a majority of these kids. We also have to acknowledge the fact that many of these kids haven't developed any social skills, in my day, you had to talk to people, you made friends, you learnt social norms by trial and error, there was no screen to hide behind under an alias. No one told them the internet isn't social interaction. Unfortunately, society doesn't seem equipped to deal with this phenomena. I appreciate you calling me out on that.
While what you said is true (at least from the second word on), your argument boils down to "the truth is out there so propaganda only works on people who want it to work on them". And while I wouldn't say that is necessarily false either, it does drastically oversimplify things.
And even if anyone who does fall for it deliberately so, it's still good to know that there is a propaganda effort going on and that inceldom and the manosphere aren't just happening because that's how men are. They likely started naturally (because there absolutely are men like that, and women and others) but it's all being amplified to pull in as many as possible.
That is absolutely NOT how men are, at my age, i feel like I can speak on behalf of ALL real men in that statement. But as usual, a small and very vocal minority makes us all look bad.