We need liberals and Hollywood to embrace young men / men again.
The me 2 movement has completely gone off the rails where basically it’s painted all men as sex deviant assholes that need to be put in their place.
Every movie is some girl boss bullshit where the males are either limp simps or giant assholes.
Where are the male heroes? Where are people calling out bullshit they puts down all men?
Despite what people want to believe we NEED a coalition of men and women and putting down either side is a losing battle.
It reminds me of the time the democratic party decided to abandon the working class, because they’d be “able to make up” the votes in the suburbs…
You cannot alienate a whole swath of people and hope to win the popular vote.
If you were running for class president and the class voted for a vile racist asshole, your first instinct might be “geez all my classmates are assholes!”, but really you should ask yourself, wait a minute, I lost to HIM? How awful do people think I am??
I think history needed a big swing away from rape culture towards metoo. It can swing back a little bit but we shouldn’t demand that it goes all the way back to accepting rapists as heroes and never questioning morals of men who may be successful in their particular field. Also, men are very much represented in media. Top 10 grossing movies of this year included F1 and Superman. We are arguably witnessing the greatest athletes ever in Shohai Ohtani, Lebron James, Steph Curry… We have people like Jon Stewart. Look to Brennan Lee Mulligan as a hero. The guy is selling out stadiums as a Dungeons & Dragons DM.
And I think we have a lack of heroes because media doesn’t sell ads talking about heroes. They get more attention from villains and negative stories because it is more emotional. This is a product of consolidation of media and lack of standards in news outlets due to a pursuit of profits over trying to build around robust journalism.
I totally agree with what you’re saying about alienating people, and I agree me too was co-opted and weaponized, but I think it was important. Too bad no one listened to those women.
We need liberals and Hollywood to embrace young men / men again.
The me 2 movement has completely gone off the rails where basically it’s painted all men as sex deviant assholes that need to be put in their place.
Every movie is some girl boss bullshit where the males are either limp simps or giant assholes.
Where are the male heroes? Where are people calling out bullshit they puts down all men?
Despite what people want to believe we NEED a coalition of men and women and putting down either side is a losing battle.
It reminds me of the time the democratic party decided to abandon the working class, because they’d be “able to make up” the votes in the suburbs…
You cannot alienate a whole swath of people and hope to win the popular vote.
If you were running for class president and the class voted for a vile racist asshole, your first instinct might be “geez all my classmates are assholes!”, but really you should ask yourself, wait a minute, I lost to HIM? How awful do people think I am??
I think history needed a big swing away from rape culture towards metoo. It can swing back a little bit but we shouldn’t demand that it goes all the way back to accepting rapists as heroes and never questioning morals of men who may be successful in their particular field. Also, men are very much represented in media. Top 10 grossing movies of this year included F1 and Superman. We are arguably witnessing the greatest athletes ever in Shohai Ohtani, Lebron James, Steph Curry… We have people like Jon Stewart. Look to Brennan Lee Mulligan as a hero. The guy is selling out stadiums as a Dungeons & Dragons DM.
And I think we have a lack of heroes because media doesn’t sell ads talking about heroes. They get more attention from villains and negative stories because it is more emotional. This is a product of consolidation of media and lack of standards in news outlets due to a pursuit of profits over trying to build around robust journalism.
I totally agree with what you’re saying about alienating people, and I agree me too was co-opted and weaponized, but I think it was important. Too bad no one listened to those women.
It absolutely was important, it just went overboard and pushed good men into a grifter’s arms
Yup, agree.