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The more I hear people talk about it who aren't cis-het men, the more I hear criticism about the concept. But so far, I've only heard people say that it's stupid, that it's not a thing, that it's men's own fault etc. But I've yet to understand where that criticism comes from. I don't want to start a discussion on whether or not it's real or not. I just want to understand where the critics are coming from.

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 41 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

The comment section here speaks for itself.

These idiots are still doing the culture war when we should be fighting the class war.

Blaming a bunch of 20s something losers for "patriarchy" is peak useful idiot behaviour.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That flank. Sigh. I remember the turn after Occupy. It went from economics to being cool to just broadly bash men. I specifically remember outspoken, angry women at marches and protests and was like wait, where did the economics go? Like 60% of Republicans wanted wealth reform during occupy. It unfortunately coincided with really great--though apparently transitory--improvements in lgbtq rights. It was so weird to me that self-labeling "feminists" were suddenly talking like it was a zero sum game; for women to rise and improve and build and grow, men had to be put down. That is of course the language of someone seeking power, a charlatan, but it became quite normal. Even questioning the broad criticism of men wasn't appropriate in "liberal" press or circles for a good decade. The whole "yeah but bashing men isn't right/fair or clumsy” finally started working into the Atlantic, NYT and other large publications in 2023 but the damage had been done.

It of course drove lots of men right to the tall radio, podcasters--and those were young adults then--i can't imagine what it was like growing up since then as a young person with the normalization of some of this stuff.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

It was all intentional. It sounds like a conspiracy theory but these elites have access to how many decades of psychological research (or their employees do at any rate) to be used in marketing to make people think and feel WHATEVER THE POWERFUL WANT to an extent. that's what marketing is:manipulations. Most of it is used to drive capital upwards. But it can be easily subverted to distract and deflect attention from those at the top. Media would spin pieces about male aggression, algorithms would make sure they get into the right feeds.

It's all absolutely psychopathic. When done on an entire population, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work very well or works great (people are amazingly easy to manipulate) the average will be a noticeable shift in the direction they intend. Over years, we get fascism. Yaaaayyy.....

[–] zeropointone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

The class war is over. The capitalist elite won. They are the ones who invented culture war in the first place, the ultimate weapon to silence their enemies.