“How do we get young men into progressive politics?”
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StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Christ - some of these replies are exactly what a lot of women talk about when we say that Lemmy has a misogyny problem.
Blokes really don’t recognize how much harder shit actually is for women, overall. It would be lovely to just sit on a bench for 5 mins without a stranger coming to chat me up, or if people would stop crediting men for my work when they don’t even ask for it.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
when we say that Lemmy has a misogyny problem.
Yeah, it’s really disheartening that young men have decided to blame women for all their woes. I’m in my late thirties and it really seems like a reversal to me, instead of blaming late stage capitalism for disenfranchising their demographic they are somehow are blaming women.
Even if we hypothetically accept that “there is an attack on masculinity” who’s doing it? The vast majority of politicians are men, the vast majority of CEO are men, the vast majority of judges, lawyers, prosecutors… The list goes on and on. In nearly any hierarchical system of power in the world, men are in charge. So from whom is our masculinity really being attacked?
Gonna catch the down votes for this, but imo because our economic system has already exploited all other demographics, young white men are being systemically disenfranchised for the first time and are not dealing with it very well. Welcome to the club fellas, POC and especially women have been here the whole time!
jj4211@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I apologize in advance if I missed some very bad0 comments by not going into the deeply down voted comments.
But at least some of the concerns are about the young men being declared the “villains” and the other side declaring them to be the victims of injustice and they will gravitate toward the more workable message.
Like bystanders seeing the people making life hard for women and being jerks, but not themselves participating and the commentary is less “that guy is a dick” and more “why are all men so terrible?”
Sure a lot of guys are terrible, but the generalizations can make it feel like you can’t win.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
at least some of the concerns are about the young men being declared the “villains” and the other side declaring them to be the victims of injustice and they will gravitate toward the more workable messag
That’s because people are framing this as a false dichotomy. All the masculinity warriors all try to frame the world as men are warriors under attack, and if you don’t think so you’re a man hating feminist.
In reality the majority of young dudes are just spending too much time being manipulated online and are blaming hardships created by our form of economics on wokeness.
Sure a lot of guys are terrible, but the generalizations can make it feel like you can’t win.
Only if you are weak of mind. I’m a dude, when someone says all men are bad…which never really happens. I don’t really take them literally, and even if I someday do run into someone who means it literally. Who cares, people are allowed to have opinions.
generalizations can make it feel like you can’t win.
Says the person who based their rebuttal by believing in a fabricated false dichotomy.
jj4211@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Frankly the online stuff doesn’t get to me, but I could see how the generalizations could leave a person succeptible to a narrative. Online interactions tend to have some people taking the easy way and espousing simplified generalizations and on the receiving end are a lot of people that may take the online stuff too serious.
The false dichotomy works because those are the two loudest viewpoints online, that men are villains without a clear path to being accepted or to embrace horribly harmful toxic masculinity to get some screwed up sense of belonging and success. Young men online are at risk of being ill equipped to navigate the nuance That tends to be quieter over the noise of the two more passionate perspectives.
drmoose@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
What are you even talking about
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think you understand how politics works in a democracy.
scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Some things of the comments literally boil down to “just let the patriarchy continue and let the men keep pushing women out of certain fields”
I don’t see how that is actually progressive. It has similar vibes to when after the election a whole bunch of people started saying to just throw trans people under the bus and basically run a republican for the next one.