The problem for Democrats is that a lot of men believe that the party wants to harm them and that Republicans want to help them.
This is false!
And articles like this, rather than exploring why the false belief persists or correcting it, end up reinforcing it.
https://bsky.app/profile/uhjustin.bsky.social/post/3lkdpxwcwqs2v
This is false!
And articles like this, rather than exploring why the false belief persists or correcting it, end up reinforcing it.
https://bsky.app/profile/uhjustin.bsky.social/post/3lkdpxwcwqs2v
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Justin.
They’re microwaving this take for the 6th time while doing their best to avoid coverage of conservatives obliterating unions, jobs, and dignity for working and middle class men. I’m sick of the Atlantic’s obsession with aesthetics over substance. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy.
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Here's the reality tho, people describe the problematic behaviors of men. They rarely direct it specifically at individuals, if you are reading into that an attack. That is an opportunity for self reflection as to why.
Dems “I can’t combat this”
The most obvious one is "billionaires are making your life worse" but Dems have completely abandoned any semblance of class consciousness because donors.
But to actually do that believably, they themselves would have to shed THEIR weakness which...
I’ve watched his friends lurch to the right because the right wing media at least knowledges some of what young men are going through. And yes, what they’re going through is due to a LOT of what …/3
And that doesn’t even cover the challenges they face day to day. Worries about getting shot at school, job prospects, being able to even move out of your parents’ house…/5
But for things like addiction, low college enrollment, biases in child custody battles, social isolation, and many more, the data is real & clear, men are falling behind.
However - the follow is useful to pick out outrage addicts, like yourself, who are more interested in purity tests & yelling at people than actual discussion or the ideas that are shared.
And your pile on isn’t about my moral consistency.
Listen, if you had an AI agent that looked through all my posts & found I was a right wing troll, then I get the pile on.
But this is all based on nothing I’ve said, but one of my how many hundred followers.
I just also see that men, as a class, need help.
Feminists have been talking about this exact thing for a very long time, and arent a monolith on the best way to go about it.
I remember bell hooks wrote a lot about men.
Feminists are more often than not doing that "also"ing you mention
https://bsky.app/profile/proudbulba.bsky.social/post/3lkebrjxpzs26
They want a job but not the jobs the migrants do.
They want good pay but hate unions and education.
They want women to like them but treat women like crap.
It is their own fault but MAGA won't tell them.
There is a massive right wing propaganda machine that tells them that "liberals" are giving "others" a cut in the line for their women, their jobs, their guns, their religion and their entire "way of life".
White men are told 24/7 they are under attack.
That's why.
And you don’t need a study or a poll to know that a large % of men, especially working class / less educated, are not well socialized for this modern, more equitable & collaborative world.
So maybe RW media..
Maybe they’re amplifying something they’ve found that’s real.
Especially when it comes to young men & boys who have less educational potential. Society is socially & emotionally very harsh for them. For youth, I don’t buy the answer of blaming them.
Men are viscous towards each other. Emotionally stone cold, competitive & hierarchical.
The men who succeed in the games rise to the top & the benefits outweigh the price paid.
And the rest are left behind.
But truthfully, in real life, you get a range of responses.
Most of them get it, especially liberal / educated types. It’s brutal out there.
I’ve had one friend who fought me on it years ago. Now he has boys & he sees it, how it’s affecting his own kids.
I did follow up my first post, immediately, with:
“Not that women are all good. I’m a progressive and believe in women’s rights & raising women up & identifying areas where women struggle and using govt to provide supports to correct this.”
In fact most of those problems are things that Democrats have tried to put social programs in to help with
As a man who does not understand why so many dudes suck, I do not get your argument
Give one example.
https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2010-12-15/study-seeks-explain-feminization-veterinary-profession
“There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”
“Not that women are all good. I’m a progressive and believe in women’s rights & raising women up & identifying areas where women struggle and using govt to provide supports to correct this.”
I thought this was pretty clear!
women literally risked their lives and gave over their bodies to birth those children.
high-participation dads are still far off from being equivalent to mom. delusional to think they're 'co-parents' no matter how much time they spend with kids.
Also ask a woman what it's like to speak up for their rights on the modern internet
BUT this is only because liberals have ceded the space and offered no support, no solutions, not even an ear to listen.
or Biden pushes to invest in schooling ( and yes vocational schools ) and there is pushback on that too...
A lot of this is tied to IMO perspectives of that infamous "toxic masculinity" which insists if I talk about my feelings, or want to be a parent, that I'm not manly enough etc.
Social that Republicans are worse at.
Or maybe there's something wrong with our delivery system.
When we dismantle those? Men will free ourselves from those shackles.
The problem is inside of the house, man.
Unions won't solve loneliness alone but they would help a lot
It’s just that, for men, especially working class, I also believe this should be done.
The last thing white men need are handouts. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps
I have him muted, don’t care what he says, but it lets me know a lot of you 🤡 who aren’t interested in any sort of discussion of ideas.
What you call "purity tests" most people call "having standards."
Eat shit.
My arguments still stand. Stronger than before, actually.
The impact is important, but it's not like they're being prevented from going out.
You think this is an anomaly?
People are trolling you on this post is in fact not evidence you were called a bigot previously, sorry bub