The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet

71 points by theatlantic 23 hours ago on reddit | 5 comments

rectovaginalfistula | 22 hours ago

Fantastic piece! The internet allowed grown men to groom boys to hate women and envy them instead. This will inevitably turn off women, driving more men to the suckling teet of masculinism. It's an easy transition from Joe Rogan's tit to deepthroating a fascist's boot.

Optimal-Sample6649 | 18 hours ago

and so much of it was manufactured by Epstein and friends. I had no idea gamergate would have the fallout it did.

These attitudes did exist, I am not doubting that. But a massive amount of young men and women have been hoodwinked by algos. We will surely find the psychological damage from these over the next few years

It’s actually quite wild how much of mk ultra was applied to teen boys en masse

[OP] theatlantic | 23 hours ago

“Masculinism” is uniting an unlikely constellation of pastors, posters, senators, preachers, influencers, podcasters, and fanboys who are pushing back against the advances of feminism, Helen Lewis reports in our June cover story.

“In the past decade, one of the New Right’s major challenges has been to retrofit a consistent ideology onto the electoral power of Donald Trump,” Lewis writes. “Masculinism has been a great gift, because factions with different views on, say, protectionism or Israel or Big Tech can all agree on the overreach of feminism and the need for a return to traditional gender roles. Far from being a fringe belief system, masculinism has become the single most important force uniting the American right.”

“This is a movement with real policy goals,” Lewis writes. “The rollback of no-fault divorce. Tax breaks to reward male breadwinners and female homemakers. An end to anything with a whiff of DEI, even leadership programs for women in the military,” like one cut by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. “A return to the workplace culture of the 1970s, where sexual harassment was normalized. An open preference for male employees in hiring, promotion, and pay awards—in other words, affirmative action for men.”

“A growing number of powerful allies are sincere in these beliefs, and would want to enact them if given the chance,” Lewis continues. “Masculinism is both serious and silly, sometimes camp and sometimes chilling, an attention-grabbing performance and a genuine proposition.”

Read The Atlantic’s June cover story here: https://theatln.tc/OUE0XPdb

— Katie Anthony, associate editor, audience and engagement, The Atlantic

fnord_happy | 6 hours ago

Thanks for sharing. That term make me go ugh

Ring_of_Jupiter | 3 hours ago

Men crying that they fall behind when the playing field is even slightly more equalized