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Men are increasingly dropping out of work during their prime working years, overdosing, drinking themselves to death, and generally dying earlier, including by
by recuter 4y ago
Men are increasingly dropping out of work during their prime working years, overdosing, drinking themselves to death, and generally dying earlier, including by suicide.
..And men are powering the new brand of reactionary Republican politics.
..Yet, for all the strides that women have made since gaining the right to vote, the highest echelons of power remain lopsidedly male. The detoxification of masculinity, progressives say, is a messy and necessary process; sore losers of undeserved privilege don’t merit much sympathy.
-- I mean, wow. This is like some Chinese cultural revolution shit.
- mcphage 4y ago> The detoxification of masculinity, progressives say, is a messy and necessary process; sore losers of undeserved privilege don’t merit much sympathy. That's a really aggressively nasty take on progressives.
- winReInstall 4y agoAt the bitter bottles bottom waits the truths for those who seek. Socrates the greek. All situation stakeholders involved want to escalate, thinking themselves the winner ones the smoke clears. Romantic narratives replace situational awareness, as the generation who experienced a similar escalation leaves the stage.
- elil17 4y agoTo be clear, the article isn't endorsing the statement that "sore losers of undeserved privilege don't merit much sympathy." It takes seriously the idea that men are facing real problems.
- kevinmrose 4y agoIt sounds like the author is getting exactly what she wants, not sure why she's complaining.
- shrimp_emoji 4y agoFor lack of pronouns, the author is a man: https://twitter.com/imkahloon https://twitter.com/imkahloon
- AndrewPGameDev 4y agoI do not understand why you think this, why do you think the author wants the downfall of men?
- kevinmrose 4y ago"The detoxification of masculinity, progressives say, is a messy and necessary process; sore losers of undeserved privilege don’t merit much sympathy."
- syzarian 4y agoThat was the author, briefly stating, what some progressives think. The author neither endorses or condemns said viewpoint. Before this sentence the author writes briefly what some conservatives think. Right after the sentence the author quotes an expert on the topic whose scholarly work tries to avoid moralizing about the causes of the problem and discuss what is going on. This is all obvious if you actually read the article and can understand that a reporter can write about the views of some people without endorsing those views.
- recuter 4y agoBesides, if our model of gender politics is zero-sum, the educational and economic decline of men may even be welcome.
- syzarian 4y agoI think it is indisputable that the Republican party of today is vastly different than it was in 1980. It is a historical fact that marginalized men are prone to radicalization. It is bad for a society to have so many young men who are not finding sexual partners, or who are not participating in society in normative ways. The radicalization appears to be more on the right leaning side of things than on the left leaning side in terms of absolute numbers in the United States.
- PicassoCTs 4y agoMy impression is that at least some part of that vitriol is a sort of "dominance" baiting by woman dissatisfied with the current situation.
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- recuter 4y agoYou got to break a few eggs to make an omelette you know? The detoxification of masculinity is a messy and necessary process after all. Some may die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make as the ends justify the means. Do not pity them, they deserve it. They are reactionary radicals. ..Cool and normal.
- polotics 4y agoHi recuter. You wrote: "Some may die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make". That is super weird: in what way would some person dying involve you making a sacrifice? - Do you include yourself in the list of the persons that would die? - Is it a sacrifice because you own these persons? - or is it something else I can't understand?
- mcphage 4y agoThat's a quote from Lord Farquad, the villain in the first Shrek film.
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- 0xbadc0de5 4y agoThe beatings will continue until morale improves.
- purple08 4y ago[dead]