I want to clarify one thing I touched on in this piece. The ideology I was exposed to was circling on extreme-left tumblr circa 2015. The people saying "kill all men", "I wish men didn't exist", or similar were often (but not always) teenagers, college activists, or in moments of emotional distress. Some of the most vociferous advocates of these positions were trans women. I’m not an anti-feminist; I think that, especially in the face of the modern trans movement, feminists standing up for women's sex-based rights are doing something important. I just want everyone to understand that when this rhetoric is tossed around, devoid of nuance, it can be harmful to both young men and young women. To many autistic teenagers, men voluntarily making themselves eunuchs and women taking steroids and removing their breasts seems like a logical response to the narrative that human biology makes men inherent oppressors and women inherent victims. The radical feminist movement is the source of this message. I think the important work of fighting for women's rights can and should be done without spreading this harmful ideology to children and demonizing men.
He says he's not an anti-feminist and supports women's rights. What's the enemy?
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I read this with my lovely, sensitive 13 year-old son in mind. With ALL children in mind. Any adult that facilitates or condones the 'transition' of a child has forgotten what it is to be a child, never truly engaged with a child, or...has malign intent. I used to think Feminism was tiresome and didn't give it the time of day. These days I think it's malevolent. I'm so very very sorry you met not one adult, it seems, who just said, NO. And from me, a woman, to you, a man, men are every bit as 'good' and every bit as 'bad' and as everything-in-between, as women. The men I know are wonderful, and life would have been a lot less rich without them. The world NEEDS men.
I'm a White man like the author, and like him, my testosterone causes me to have a biological drive to procreate. What are your thoughts on White men procreating and our desire to do so? Is the testosterone that causes this desire good or bad to you?
My own parents are divorced, and it was far from the end of the world for either of them. They managed to both still take part in raising me and my siblings, and it was the most important thing in the world to them. They never restarted a romantic relationship but did become good friends after the dust cleared.
Even if the divorce rate is high, divorce isn't the "ruin his life" button you make it out to be. Is 50% the rate you are going with?
Speaking of both Israel and self-interest, how is it in my interest to be a Zionist as a White male? Supporting Zionism has a 0% chance of ever contributing anything positive to my life, ever, yet you insist I have a moral duty to do so.
So, you have a 50% chance of your marriage succeeding
This assumes that I'm on the left side of the bell curve. It's not like for every marriage you flip a coin, and if it's tails you get divorced. These numbers are hugely inflated by idiots getting married when they have no business doing so.
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He says he's not an anti-feminist and supports women's rights. What's the enemy?
He then liked this comment.
I'm a White man like the author, and like him, my testosterone causes me to have a biological drive to procreate. What are your thoughts on White men procreating and our desire to do so? Is the testosterone that causes this desire good or bad to you?
Is it always against men's best interests to procreate?
My own parents are divorced, and it was far from the end of the world for either of them. They managed to both still take part in raising me and my siblings, and it was the most important thing in the world to them. They never restarted a romantic relationship but did become good friends after the dust cleared.
Even if the divorce rate is high, divorce isn't the "ruin his life" button you make it out to be. Is 50% the rate you are going with?
Speaking of both Israel and self-interest, how is it in my interest to be a Zionist as a White male? Supporting Zionism has a 0% chance of ever contributing anything positive to my life, ever, yet you insist I have a moral duty to do so.
This assumes that I'm on the left side of the bell curve. It's not like for every marriage you flip a coin, and if it's tails you get divorced. These numbers are hugely inflated by idiots getting married when they have no business doing so.