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.
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.