SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]

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  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]tomenbyWhat is masculinity anyway?!
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    3 days ago

    I made it the fuck up as a ballpark because I forgot the exact figure but the simple answer is that the western masculine and feminine social roles that he constantly gestures towards were invented to serve the interests of the elite land/private-property owning class as western powers moved away from feudalism towards mercantile capitalism and eventually the industrial revolution and imperialist global conquest.

    The men go to work and have the surplus value they generate for the boss stolen while women stay at home and perform all the maintenance labor for free (such as taking care of the kids). This was the social model pushed on the masses by the elites because it ensured smooth operation of a system where they benefited the most.

    He attributes real social problems like expensive cost of living/nonexistant employee bargaining power/social malaise due to the systems we use to relate to each other being fundamentally antagonistic and anti-human solely to a mystical individualist problem (a crisis of initiation), an interesting theory but a gross oversimplification of reality.


  • Also I guess my point originally was to emphasize that men frustrated with a lack of companionship/relationships and searching for "answers" are almost definitely in need of learning to be a good person first.

    Yeah I agree too, like "learning to be a good person" as in making sure you're not going to be abusive/violent/manipulative to your partner? I think everyone should learn this regardless of whether they are in a relationship or not tbh.


  • The amount of suffering in Gaza over the past year is unimaginable. The number of dead is unimaginable. Sure, you can count the deaths and recite the number. But I think it has as much emotional resonance as if I tell you the sun weighs 2 x 10³⁰ kilograms. It hits the limit of your understanding of scale. it maxes out the dial. All you really understood was “big number”.

    Guys what if I told you that Palestinian lives matter only as much as inert physical matter?!??! so-true

    And the concrete operationals who’ve been hoodwinked into following the tankie movement are conditioned to reject any chance to care about the difference.

    god fucking damn it the mental model these people have of the world is literally a shitty american YA novel like "Divergent", at least they read another book



  • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]tomenbyWhat is masculinity anyway?!
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    3 days ago

    "Under Saturn's shadow"

    50% of what this author says is reasonable but the other 50% is conservative propaganda and acceptance of the status quo based on creepy mystical arguments that assume there is some primordial truth in a social order that was invented within the last 400 years



  • Ok no worries yeah I completely agree with your overall point. That men should be taught not to be misogynists before they have relationships. If successful this will prevent a whole lot of abuse and suffering.

    Awful people build relationships and win friends and all that all the time. Its just that the sort of relationships that result from those are either bad for the people involved or everyone else.

    The world is a sick place and you are right that things should not be this way. This is why its important to be good and support anti-imperialist struggle, as you said.




  • helping men understand their social situation and how to be good people (and how that is the real trick to building companionship or even short term relationships)

    Can you please explain what you mean by this?

    Because I'm really sorry but I think this view is incorrect and harmful.

    Using the number of an individual's companions and sexual encounters as a means of assessing their moral character (logical implication of telling people that "being good is the real trick to building companionship and even short term relationships") is highly unreliable.

    I could go on but lets see what you have to say first.




  • How about a leftist podcaster that also helps guys socialize, get girls, but then leads them to left wing views? Why is that soooo hard to do?

    Because most principled leftists are not scammers who shill their $9999.99 a year hamza hustler redpill mogwarts university deluxe course to prey on vulnerable young men's sex drives. Which is what most of these "young male" oriented podcasts are these days, just a means to get an audience to shill products to *based on false promises. Very unethical.

    Furthermore it is very unlikely that someone would be able to learn how to socialize and get girls from a podcast unless they are a teenager with potential and just need to be pointed in the right direction.