Stop falling for it. You will never be the man in the chair. You will all be converted into overstressed, overworked, wage slaves. If you need proof I’ll post my eye bags in the comments.
A lot of this fast media is using far right talking heads to target young men
I learned a lot about that from Maria Ressa. They tested the “fast media” pushing people to the right in the Philippines, it worked, now they did it in the US. She was on the Weekly Show podcast with John Stewart, it was pretty interesting
I can’t comprehend how this can in any way be construed as confusing… or unexpected, surprising, or unanticipated. The discourse vacuum is being filled by right wing misogynists.
Literally just be a vocal presence and the left will increase their ability to be recognised by 1,000%. If 10% of that results in a leftward political shift in the demographic - that will change lives.
One aspect that doesn’t get discussed enough is how effective their grassroots in predominantly young, male hobby spaces has become.
20 years ago, if you weren’t that interested in politics, you wouldn’t get much of it. Currently though, it has thoroughly infiltrated spaces like athletics and gaming. This was not an accident. They have a strong ground game, it just operates in spaces we’re unaccustomed to thinking about in reference to politics.
I don’t think it can be described as surprising. It’s a consequence of the dominant narrative placing men as exclusively aggressors, rather than also victims of the patriarchy.
