What is left of the Manosphere? There used to be huge groups of various blogs connected together on dealing with feminism's attack on men and the fate of the west. Many of them have quit or been deleted. For example, the Spearhead is gone, Dalrock quit a few years back, Heartiste is on Gab as Kingofallnads (if it is even the same dude) and Viva La Manosphere stopped posting lists of Manosphere articles last year. Are there any groups left, any large lists of blogs?
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Same thing that happened to a lot of the earlier online "dissident communities." Trump.
When 2016 happened, a lot of the more realistic elements of the Manosphere got absorbed into the broader space that was the dissident right. As soon as someone who was (nominally at least) openly opposed to the prevailing leftist narrative paradigm actually gained political power, it became very difficult to be a part of any anti-left space without becoming fully absorbed into the political and societal narratives of the larger dissident space. Niche markets like the "Manosphere" couldn't just stay in their one narrow lane because so many people involved in it had broader political interests.
A significant portion of the group calling themselves MRAs were always leftists, who genuinely thought it would be possible to change the way society looks at men without abandoning their progressive politics or their simping. Most of them are just plain leftists now: women's approval was just too important for them to continue participating in a space that garnered so much societal disapproval. When Trump happened, a lot of them just couldn't deal with it for the same reason a lot of women, even nominally right wing women, couldn't deal with it: because the language Trump used was too mean.
Other groups always had limited growth potential. MGTOW was never going to be very big, because there's only a small proportion of men who are ever going to be psychologically able or willing to leave the reservation and just choose to live without women. Having a family is just too important to most men, and that's probably a good thing.
TRP and PUA types were always very juvenile, comprised of a few older grifters like Roosh and others who were just in it for the money, and a large number of very young men and teenagers who worshiped the ground they walked on. That was never going to last longer than it took for those guys to just grow up a bit.
As far as specific creators: HBR is still producing content that only a few hundred people watch. Some MGTOW YouTubers are still producing content, guys like Sandman (cringe), Independent Man and Thinking Ape (less cringe), but really interesting guys like Colttaine appear to have mostly disappeared. The MGTOW win still has links to some blogs.
This was me. I was still in my 20's then.
Between 2014 and 2016 I accepted the reality that this is hopeless idealism and that human nature is a product of our genes and cannot be legislated away.
I've never seen the point in MGTOW content. You choose to live alone with your videogames and anime, or in the woods with your goats. Ok? What more is there to say about it? You've quit the race, it's over. Why keep talking about it?
MGTOW's not a vow of hermitage, they can still have a strong community with other dudes if they want. And for that they still need to talk to each other
Which is why feminists set up spaces that pretend to fulfill that need so they can control it. The fact that they're attempting to control a group that doesn't want anything to do with them (so they can't claim they're harming them) says it all.
Case in point: MRA
Trump was part of it.
But I also believe Jordan Peterson and Douglas Murray were part of it. Whatever path to fame the Spearhead crowd might have had pre-Trump evaporated when you started getting respected academics selling the same ideas but with the rough edges filed off.
Fast forward to today and you have the fukking Hoover Institution talking about culture war.
Same thing happened to gamergate as it was absorbed by the greater anti-regressive movement, which itself was absorbed by the dissident right along with opposition to Islam.
What's an MRA?
men's rights activist.
think feminist activists but 900% less effective
Only 900%?
I've probably achieved more posting here than they have from their last 50 years of actions.
It stands for Men's Rights Activist or Men's Rights Advocate. No one really uses that label anymore. It was as cringe as it sounds.
MRAs resorted to inverted feminist talking points too often to ever be effective. However much truth there was to some of their arguments, and there was, too much of it ultimately came across as whining.
It's first that people inherently care less about men than they do women.
It's second that feminism is a well funded political group entrenched in society, while mra's are just some random people.
There's still Deepstrength (iirc that's Christianity and Masculinity) and Sigma Frame but yeah it's really dead now compared to the 10s.
And now with Kevin Samuels dead we have trash like Fresh & Fit repping these sorts of issues anywhere close to the mainstream
Fresh and Fit just find the most vapid, insane whores to bring on the show and then make fun of them. They make some good points sometimes, but they're just the inverse of those hoes.
That's my take. I've watched them a time or two and they're OK for a laff but eh, I always left their streams with a greasy feeling.
Samuels would be tough on women in his show but he only gave them shit if they gave him the same. (And he'd be even worse on the guys calling in!) What I especially liked is he'd occasionally talk about the societal issues affecting the current relationship landscape.
He was a rare one. Rip
I don't know about blogs but the MGTOW community on this site has links to content creators who make videos.
A lot of it seems to have been a grift
Women shut it all down and made sure they couldn't gain traction in the mainstream.
Because this is mostly a solo journey, having someone spoil it to you or injecting their brand of pills isn't usually how dudes operates, there will be plenty of shit going around you that will teach you real fast. But that's barely scratching the surface, it's like GamerGate, it's technically dead, why? Because those were the "gateway drug", GG was the first redpills for many people but I'll argue that GG outlived it's usefulness, the journos are corrupts, so are the governments, online activism don't do shit for us since it's still "immoral" to think like that openly... yet
Also, any form of organized group, not even for pushing back, just for informing, will be hunted down by the usual suspects.
I like better bachelor on YouTube etc and casual bachelor. Start there and dig into those communities.
I think Rollo Tomassi is the only person left seriously discussing the gender warfare/dating stuff. If your goal is to get away from the women-are-wonderful effect fresh and fit kinda illustrate which kind of women you're actually talking to online.
The "here's my exciting adventure of sleeping with women" types - from grifters to the halfway serious - always sorta fade out after a while. It's kinda predictable whether they're attacked or whether they're exalted, the game gets old and you lose interest in churning through more numbers and you get tired of reteaching the same stuff to people who react incredulously each time.
They are on TikTok and Discord.