I was just speaking on this (my thoughts from a previous note below).

If you’re interested in institutional covert aggression and/or men’s issues, this is a must-read!

Lisa Britton puts a finger on the pulse of the campaign of reputation destruction to mischaracterise and dismiss men’s advocates and voices.

A big thanks to Grainger for yet again bringing attention to important voices on this platform!

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[Previous Note]

The Left’s current obsession with “The Manosphere” —whatever that actually is or isn’t— is reminiscent of a college student who learned a new word and attempts —rather buffoonishly— to wield it before actually comprehending it. Applying it to anything that merely mentions men without a whiff of disdain.

If they were actually interested in understanding anything before criticising it, they would have discovered that the “manosphere” itself doesn’t even know what it is or who’s who within it.

Instead, they took notice of the absolute reprobates and how they could use them as an evil caricature of the “manosphere”—which they use as a proxy for men and boys as a whole— in an effort to scapegoat it along with anyone who cares about boy’s and men’s issues.

This compositional fallacy then gets touted around as “yet another example of the oppressive patriarchy wallowing in its fits of death-throes”.

While there are some seriously problematic characters in what one might call the “manosphere”, the nuance goes deeper.

Many of these hyperbolic brutes (Tate et. al) are not as popular for their Prescriptions as much as they are for their Diagnoses and Descriptions. It seems most young men who are enthralled by these characters are not necessarily interested in everything they have to say. On the contrary, people like Tate are rightly resented for the prescriptions they assert; both because they are tone deaf and non-viable options for those disenchanted young men and because they’re obviously antisocial/non-conducive ways to operate in the social world.

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*The zero-sum BS framed in the subtitle deserves its own rant. But I’ll just say that it’s an insanely divisive —par for the course— way to approach the subject —screams bad-faith.