Edit. I want to kill myself reading the comments. Guess it's because I deserve it as a toxic male.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is broadly true in capitalist society of course, but 48 is right about the perfect for age for dealing with jaded, single men. At that age most of the single men are either divorced and bitter about it, or never married and bitter about it. I don't want to over-generalize and of course there are plenty of exceptions, but just something I noticed.

          • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Or there could just be an actual problem with alienation that fascists are exploiting

            • read_freire [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              porque no los dos

              it's a good point though. real or not doesn't matter when it matches underlying conditions

          • carbohydra [des/pair]
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            3 years ago

            wouldn't attempts to alienate try to deflect from digging into the actual psychology and try to blame it on the women instead?

            • read_freire [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              yeah but that's what comments are for

              idk I don't reddit anymore. but this fits the trope

              I assure you, I am in fact a real woman, and I noticed this about men I interact with. Just an anectdote, but also [hand-wavy generalization]

              the one thing that makes me think it's real is the demographic, which is right around where reddit's at nowadays, so it could be earnest

    • FidelCastro [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      A lot of the time guys of that age and generation have also been aggressively against dealing with any of their shit and accumulated decades of toxic behaviors and self loathing. Especially common in boomers who internalized the whole "shut up and deal with it like a man" thing.

      • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I don't think it's a coincidence that every man of that age range I've ever met that wasn't a horrible person was a functional alcoholic, smoked a shitton of weed, or both. You need substances to survive that without becoming a bitter ball of hatred.

        • FidelCastro [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          You need substances to survive that without becoming a bitter ball of hatred.

          If you’ve been avoiding your entire mental health for decades, then yeah, you’re going to be self-medicating.

      • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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        3 years ago

        by 48, it’s mostly the worst men alive who are still single

        they are single because they are the most emotionally twisted dudes around

        ....Or maybe because they haven't found a partner yet for whatever other reason (stress, mental health, general alienation) and/or just don't want to get married?

        What about the people who are 48+, married, and are shitty, disgusting domestic abusers?

        Here we see undercurrents of the christian mind prison present within western angloids, where marriage/human relations are seen as part of a measure of an individual's purity and moral worth. If person is not married by age X this means they suck shit, are a sinner, are most likely a psycho etc. etc.

        I am not saying this isn't a phenomenon, but, before making such sweeping claims about marriage as a measure of human morality it would be better to at least find robust empirical data to back such claims up. Otherwise, it just sounds like a strawman to spur hatred against alienated individuals spurred on by slave morality and magical thinking.

          • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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            3 years ago

            Exactly. Because MRAs are a mostly online movement with no substantive bearing to real life. Your response does not address the key issues of rightist christian moralistic thinking and the resulting views on marriage based on a correlation fallacy and slave morality.

            Even assuming I have seen an MRA protest in the flesh (from a distance due to their rancid stench), their numbers would still be nothing in comparison to the total population of men in the area of protest, an unknown portion of which would be partnered/married. Therefore, a generalization cannot be drawn between the aforementioned rotten acolytes of nurgle and the majority of men.

              • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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                3 years ago

                I really shouldn't bother to respond beyond this because I have already addressed that point, while you have yet again failed to address my key point of the right wing christian mind prison. However:

                MRAs are largely drawn from the 48+ single/divorced and boo-hoo-hoo about it crowd.

                Once again you take a tiny, tiny minority of antifeminist nurglings who are limited to the online and have no bearing on reality, then, you extrapolate their behaviour/character to make a universal judgement (one might say, god's eye) to the majority of men with no other empirical datapoints besides "muh christian morality" and "muh fee fees". Its absolutely nonsensical, the "crowd" of psychopathic human failures you allude to simply does not exist, what exists in its place are rather tired, alienated, beaten down people.

                If you even want to respond after this then please address your christian morality before anything instead of dilly dallying around this point which you have lost on.

                whoosh

                :cringe:

                Actually go do your homework you plebbit simp.

                • FidelCastro [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  This account is like two weeks old and likely a wrecker. I wouldn't bother.

                  Edit: I checked the mod log and they were apologizing for America's nuclear war crimes and imperialism. They're an asshole.

                  • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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                    3 years ago

                    Yet another example of the incel's projection of their own character onto men as a whole. :stupidpol:

                    • FidelCastro [he/him]
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                      3 years ago

                      Are you intending this as a dunk on me or the guy who argued it was cool to nuke Japan?

                      • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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                        3 years ago

                        argued it was cool to nuke Japan

                        :le-pol-face: in action

                        yes it was a dunk on the incel who assumes all men are bad because MRAs (and himself) are bad

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        still single.

        You do know that's a fairly common age to get divorced, right?

        • FidelCastro [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          A good (i.e. frequent) sex life (not just masturbation but human touch) is incredibly important to individual’s physical and psychological wellbeing, especially men’s. These men didn’t get it because they didn’t deserve it. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to be around them. They are toxic and poison everyone they come in contact with.

          What the fuck? This reads like what a chud thinks a feminist believes in.

          • bigboopballs [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Do you really believe that the female touch has some magical ability to make men more mentally healthy lol

            I think affection can have that power, yes. Not siding with that weird chud poster though.