I notice when I read it about the media they write article about everyone in a while, but then forget about for a while. shouldn't it be really concerning lots of young men are going to the far right, and the issues that could come from that years down the line? There is also plenty of places that these men can get radicalized that isn't even technically political like MGTOW, Red Pill, and Incels.

  • quartz242 [she/her]M
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    4 years ago

    I recently wrote on the commodification of gender and I beleive this to be a by product of that.

    When masculinity is commodified young men are alienated in a way the leaves them susceptible to the allure of strong /s fascist tendencies and conspiracy theories to make sense of the constant state of exploitation and alienation.

    I personally think that raising up vulnerability and empathy will reverse that but there is no profit in community building.

    • MichoganGayFrog [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Gender roles being a fuck plays into things as well, or at least from personal experience. Considering certain traits either masculine or feminine. I've seen a lot of just replacing traits that are seen as masculine with the seen as feminine equivalent being done or encouraged a lot and it seems both like a cop out on everyone's part at times. I'm probably explaining this badly.

    • Pirate [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Would you mind dropping the link to what you wrote? If it wouldn't reveal your identity that is :)