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[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 289 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Had a ex-friend who went real hard last year about feeling his masculinity has been challenged. Went deep into the manosphere language. He was extra annoying. Every convo was about how he, a white man in America, was being repressed. He started labelling random shit as masculine/feminine. Got sick this and stopped inviting him.

A few months later, I learned the divorce was finalized and he's been sending me invites to hang with him in his bachelor pad. Nah dog you suck now.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 176 points 2 months ago

yeah and i bet that shit was the reason for the divorce. i got a friend who lost her husband down the right wing rabbithole and now she's processing the grief of losing someone she loved to something so goddamn stupid

[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 83 points 2 months ago

This could have been me. For the longest time I was watching right wing YT channels without really realizing it because they were hiding their messaging well under legitimate critique of the movies and shows I was no longer enjoying. My girlfriend and I got into multiple arguments over this and I could tell that this was something we'd never agree on, which makes sense of course. Eventually I managed to pull myself out by unsubscribing from these channels ocne the messaging became a lot more clear (around 2021, you can probably guess why) and since then things have been much better between us and in general.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 months ago

I have found the subtle messaging in tutorials for software. They're good at hiding it.

[-] coyootje@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

Yeah it's honestly insane how much of it there is. Even channels that appear to be completely innocent at first can suddenly start veering in this direction. I remember watching someone like CinnamonToastKen when I was younger and it always used to be very generic fun for everyone content. But the last few years I started catching on to him saying more and more right leaning, conspiracy theory type stuff.

He made comments about the US (where he no longer even lives) keeps giving money to Ukraine instead of fixing their own problems, the "stolen election" and of course about Trump winning again. I really don't understand why you have to make statements like that, you (on average) alienate about half of your audience by saying stuff like that. But oh well, a quick unsub and moving on.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

They may alienate half of the audience, but the other half starts dumping truckloads of money on their doorstep.

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[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 29 points 2 months ago

i'm proud of you for waking up

[-] Lumelore 28 points 2 months ago

I'm proud of you for realizing something was off and correcting course. I know how easy it is to get sucked into that garbo. I got sucked in myself when I was a young teen. I genuinely don't remember how I pulled myself out of it, but I'm glad I did because I'm positive my life would be miserable if I hadn't.

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[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

It’s also very likely the divorce was the reason for the behavior. Getting lost in the sauce of that nonsense is a tragic but not unreasonable reaction to the trauma of divorce, or just being hurt by a woman. That ideology and the people who make money from it prey on weak, lost men for a reason. Thats what its designed to do.

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[-] riskable@programming.dev 56 points 2 months ago

He started labelling random shit as masculine/feminine.

FYI: This is totally normal in France.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago

Any romance language country, really

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[-] hank_the_tank66@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Germany woke af by having a gender-neutral pronoun already

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

had ex-friend

B-b-but ToLeRaNcE!!!

Similar situation here (there is more than one situation, ofc), but wifey's along for the ride too, and not in a trad wife way (they're late 60s in age). Left them out of the pals' xmas dinner because it's become unbearable for everyone else.

It's no fun losing decades-long relationships over whatever "this" is that's happening.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 months ago

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.

What’s weird about this broader “conversation” on masculinity is I feel more masculine than ever, despite not giving a flying fuck about any of this.

I never really struggled with it except as a teen, but the older I get the less I care.

I still say we made a mistake with communicating to men about feminism. We kind of left people who are terrible like Andrew Tate to dominate the conversation when people shut down men’s rights groups as de facto misogynistic, and now here we are.

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[-] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 178 points 2 months ago

I feel like tech and finance bros turn to the right because bad guys who think they're good get tired of being told by educated people that they are objectively bad guys. And instead of changing, they end up seeking spaces that will reward them for being bad guys and will allow them to ignore or disparage those offering valid criticism.

[-] Hackworth@lemmy.world 81 points 2 months ago

In a culture that exacerbates hierarchy, exonerates ego, and exalts control, true humility is too painful to even consider.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 months ago

dude that's awesome... it should be a meme or something...

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[-] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 22 points 2 months ago

If your values and your behavior doesn't match, you have to either change your behavior or your values.

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[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 158 points 2 months ago

He’s right about one thing: There is a serious lack of actual masculinity among our leaders.

Most public figures who try to present some form of “masculinity” are just desperate and petty, willing to sacrifice nothing to earn their status, and eager to degrade others to look better by comparison.

A real man produces more than he needs, but takes only that much and ensures the rest goes to those who are less able to sustain themselves. They protect the defenseless, elevate those who are ignored, and invest in a future they won’t personally live to enjoy.

Show me a real man among you. It’s not femininity keeping you from finding one. It’s your own greed and hubris.

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago

Real men are also able to access their emotions, express their needs(both emotional and physical), develop and share empathy, and nurture deep relationships within their community.

Though i would argue none of what either of us said has to do with gender.

Relentlessly locking your own humanity away behind a strong man facade built on shame is one of the biggest reason these fuckers become so hateful and make "manliness" seem like such a putrid prospect.

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[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 116 points 2 months ago

When I think of masculine energy I sure as hell don't think of Marky Z.

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

He seems like the type that ever since he was a kid would full on cry and make everything miserable for everyone until they just gave him his way to shut him up.

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[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago

He doesn't even give off "human" energy.

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[-] abbiistabbii 76 points 2 months ago

The fact that a load of billionaires are now embracing the far right to protect their arses sure seems like a familiar theme.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

It’s crazy that they could lose 90% of everything and still have more than 99.999% of the population of the planet, yet they keep fighting to make sure they have more and more and even more.

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[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 75 points 2 months ago

How to alienate your daughter:

[-] db2@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago

Narcissists don't care about things like that unless it boosts their ego.

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago

Daughter? Sounds like major feminine energy

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[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago

I like the thought of masculine and feminine energies wafting around like medieval miasmas.

This guy is smart.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago

Up next: the return of the humoral theory of medicine!

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

All these feminine airs have my cholera up. I'm going to go poison myself and barf a lot.

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[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

Every time I think Zuck is as pathetic as someone can be, he finds a new depth to sink to. Truly an innovator

[-] uriel238 46 points 2 months ago

I assume by more masculine energy, Zuckerberg means:

  • More posturing by Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson and Donald Trump, the US exemplars of manhood.
  • Trolls, more trolls, trolls trolling trolls. People fucking with anyone else that makes them uncomfortable.
  • People boasting about how rich they are, how fast their car goes, and how many women they bed. Comparisons. Leaderboards.
  • Doxing. So much doxing.
  • So much AI porn. So much futa AI porn.
  • So much misogyny. All the misogygy. Al Misogyny. Misogyny leaderboards.
  • Tons of hate speech against the targets of the week. Immigrants, trans folk, Jews Arab Muslims, libs (not liberals, neoliberals or left-wingers, libs )

Essentially Zuck wants Facebook to become 4chan/b... or 4chan/pol, only where everybody knows your name.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago

Probably. As opposed to what masculine used to mean and should mean:

  • Taking responsibility for your actions

  • Taking leadership if you see nobody else is going to

  • Treating others with respect

Of course, in modern times, we've realized this has nothing to do with masculinity or femininity and rather with one's role in society. If you want to be respectable, these are just some of the things you should be doing.

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[-] JigglypuffSeenFromAbove@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

Zuck: "we never let gender play a role in our hiring process."

Also Zuck: "yeah, we need to hire more men."

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[-] ansiz@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

It fits his whole revamp with the judo and working out and human haircut. I assume in the near future he'll go on Rogan and then end up launching a podcast of his own.

[-] Dotcom@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 months ago

He was on Joe Rogan a week or two ago

[-] dellish@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago
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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

maybe you should start with humanoid energy you fucking lizardbot

[-] KnowledgeableNip@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 months ago

He knows he'll never make up the loss of subscribers on the left since he's burned those bridges so he has to double down on the far right to carry his platform.

This way he gets to compete with X for a race to the bottom and see who can gather the most shitbags to support their plateauing businesses.

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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 29 points 2 months ago

What even is masculine energy? Is it about being a macho man focused on fat and destruction?

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think what he's saying is that companies have felt insecure about their image (to investors) so they acted performatively woke (=feminine energy), and he feels insecure about his image (to Trump) so he's gonna act performatively manospheric (=masculine energy).

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[-] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 29 points 2 months ago

Fuck yeah, here's hoping she's like MacKenzie Scott ( bezos' ex) and takes half his money and donates it all away.

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[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 27 points 2 months ago

I think what most companies actually need is more QA energy 😅

[-] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago
[-] casmael@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago

Ahh yes big rat-penis energy from dead mark 💀 🐀

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