These teens are getting roped into neo-fascism in absence of Marxist guidance showing them what the “matrix” actually represents. Vulnerable young men are getting told that yes, corporations are oppressing them, and yes, the US government is a puppet of the rich - but the solution being presented to them is to become an exploiter themselves rather than any form of class solidarity or dialectical materialism. I really feel like this “escape the matrix” rhetoric is the kind of thing we can capitalise on instead of just standing idly by as young men have their very real grievances with modern life twisted into something wholly unhealthy

There really needs to be some solid communist dating advice for these young men, other than "just be yourself" and "be a good person" kind of stuff. Like real, concrete steps on how a guy can be diverted from the incel/pua/tate path. Tbh a lot of the pua advice is common sense stuff (try to groom yourself well, don't be afraid to put yourself out there, etc.).

I remember there were some good comments in a thread somewhere here (I'm pretty sure it was on c/menby but I can't seem to find it)

  • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I feel like the last thing these people need is a girlfriend lol.

    i dunno i chilled out a lot when i got to college and got laid. I was already reading the progessive atheist bloggers instead of the reactionary ones so that might've inoculated me against the worst of the toxic masculinity stuff but more years of constant rejection and failure, maybe i would've been hijacked by attacks on buzzfeed white feminism?

    of course you can't really ask or expect women to want to be around these actual shitty guys so I don't know what to do with that.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      I would say you chilled out because socially, you had expanded and felt self-sufficient.