I'm getting really sick of leftist social media like Bluesky just being about being another echo chamber and completely unaware of it because "we're the good politics!"
The sentiment that men are only men if they're associated with the right has been out in full swing for a few years now and it's just tiring.
Harris didn't win because men will never accept a woman president. Except all the men who voted for her, they don't count, the left gets told it has a problem with men all the time and deflects by saying that it's men who have the problem by going to the right and supporting them.
Never, not once, are men acknowledged for supporting leftist beliefs or voting for the party, and it's even looked down upon when they ask for acknowledgement, like it's entitlement while men on the right live rent free in the heads of the leftist base.
Men get shit on for being asked to be recognized as men on the left but that identity is freely given to men on the right, they don't have to ask to be acknowledged or recognized because they're doing what is expected by being the bad guys.
Straight men in particular, you'll be recognized as a man on the left if you're gay because it assures everyone who isn't a man you don't want anything from them.
Like for fuck's sake the right is abhorrent and shames women and LBGTQ people for their existence I don't know how the left got to this point of also saying "you're not really a man unless you hate women" and not realizing they're perpetuating the same bullshit.
Like I don't hate women for being women, but I fucking hate when people assert "all men just hate women" because it's dumb shit gender essentialism that is just dismissing anything a guy might say in response that isn't telling the speaker to go fuck themselves.
Yeah of course the right is doing better with men, they aren't shaming them for existing and only acknowledging them as being pieces of shit.
It's frustrating because there's days where I want to say fuck it and go join the other side and I think the left actually wants that more than the right does because they validate men who do it and men who stick with the left? "Yeah whatever do you want a medal?"
How about to be recognized as the gender I identify as and a human being? Apparently too much to ask when it's a man.
It's often easier to point to a problem than to suggest a solution. That's mostly the problem of the left in fact : they (we) point at the problems of minority, and this makes it mostly like the solution is to stop the problematic behaviour.
But it's much harder than that in practice when the problem is patriarchy. The whole society is the problem. And the left doesn't show a 'ew model, it only says that the old model must be destroyed. Which is completely true. But what will be left of the chaos?
A society must be build on culture. And right now the left destroys the old culture that must be destroyed, and it can feel that nothing is built to replace it.
IMO the center of the problem is the heterosexual relationships. How do you interact with the other sex. And it is not about what you shouldn't do, but what you should do.
For an example, courteous love was invented in the middle ages for this purpose. As was the ideal of the knight. Later it became the renaissance man, although the name is from modern history.
The question is what the modern men and women be. It is cultural work that must be done, and very, very few people ever touch on this subject.
And this absence means that all that progressive men ear is what's targeting at the conservative assholes. And more often than not it makes no distinction. In fact, very often it even warns those men that pretend to be allies but aren't. This antagonistic discourse is wearing and tearing on the soul.
Yeah well put