So I got dumped in 2014. I discovered Bill Burr's You People Are All The Same standup routine, and for my broken hearted self then, it spoke to me. For those of you don't know, Burr jokes about women unable to have a rational argument, and using cheap debate tricks and emotional ploys to win arguments with men. Sorry, but the place I was in wasn't great. My thinking towards Burr in early 2015 was "OMG this guy is funny", late 2015 was "this is funny, but problematic", then in 2016 "OMG this guy is a fascist".

Another time I randomly found a dating app and profile on a girlfriend's phone when I was trying to connect her phone to the smart TV. There was a 45 minute space of time where I channeled all the hurt I ever felt in my past, and I started to think "yes all women are inherently selfish and deceitful". For that time, I was quite literally open to red-pill ideology. Thankfully I shook out of it. Having a support network to whinge about my pain helped too.

One bazillion percent, the dudes in my life have been worse than the women. Long term misogyny seems impossible.

  • CommieElon [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I love Bill Burr. It’s honestly great how his perspective on life has changed considerably. As he’s gotten better, Joe Rogan went full conservative. Interesting how they came out of the same stand up comic sphere but are completely different now.

    For me, I never went full red pill but I did like the anti intellectual dark web around the time Trump was elected. I loved Bernie, hated Trump, but I hated Clinton more. So naturally I gravitated toward Jordan Peterson and the like. Luckily my girlfriend walked me through the MeToo movement and understood why I was feeling iffy about it. But she gave me reasonable solutions to misogyny and patriarchy and it kept me grounded. I eventually was like “why do we bash Socialism when we’ve never even read or studied it?” I think I read some Orwell and I made my way to r/socialism101 and then r/chapotraphouse.

    Edit: just remembered Christopher Hitchens turned me onto socialism because he was talking about Marx in a serious way and it intrigued me.