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The ‘Manosphere’ Isn’t a Movement. It’s a Multibillion-Dollar Grievance Industry (www.wired.com)
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For many years now, a dark question has haunted parents, teachers, the internet, and media institutions: What’s wrong with young men?

Why, people ask, are boys so politically extreme, spouting misogynist rhetoric, and increasingly drawn into risky crypto schemes and online gambling? How did they become so lonely, with their depression symptoms often overlooked? The male youth vote broke for Trump in the 2024 election following a GOP campaign built on naked appeals to meathead machismo. Yet there are signs that his second term in office has done little to stem the anger of Gen Z men, whose support for the president is now plummeting.

The most common explanation of these interrelated phenomena is that younger men have banded together online under the umbrella of something known as the “manosphere,” usually conceived as an organic right-wing rebellion driving the culture wars. A new study, however, suggests that this is entirely backward: The digital ecosystem that produces red-pilled men is less of a movement than it is a pyramid scheme.

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[–] -4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

iMO gaming and cars.

Young teens stay inside gaming and they form their friendships with other guys there and then keep them as they age. That compounds with the stupidity of car culture and a lack of PT and cycling infra and zero cost places to "hangout" with friends.

How does a 12yr old boy get across three suburbs to see a friends for real, deal with the friends sister and family etc

Hikikomori in Japan, they stay at home, game and goon so who knows ?

solutions ? i (M 58) don't have any but this will get worse, It's also naive of girls/ women to do nothing and worse still to laugh or pearl clutch about it, sure incels, groypers etc arent their problem but it's like hungry people aren't their problem... until they are starving and come take your food and eat it all and all of a sudden...

what a fuckin' mess. I bought a home in a small rural village in the middle of no where on a hill for a reason ;) the entire way we have structured our societies, political and economic systems is wrong and won't change before it collapses and has to change.

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    It’s also naive of girls/ women to do nothing and worse still to laugh or pearl clutch about it, sure incels, groypers etc arent their problem but it’s like hungry people aren’t their problem… until they are starving and come take your food and eat it all and all of a sudden…

    Yeah it's on women to teach men not to rape us. You're right, women are so silly, why didn't we think of that earlier? /s

    It's pretty fucking telling that you compared the desire to rape to being hungry.

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