Men's Liberation

Oh yeah, phonecalls with my mother would start pleasant and turn into her bullshit about 'the great reset' or 'the great barrington declaration', and when I expressed doubt in the accuracy of her information, she'd go full-on smug asshole and say shit like "Well, I guess we'll know which one of us is right soon enough." or "Don't come crawling back to me when your investments all go to zero.". It was 100% 'escape to the future' fallacy, all day every day.

I eventually got tired of the bullshit and went zero-contact, filtered her eMails to the spam folder, blocked her number, etc.

I anticipate that I'll get the call one day that she's in the hospital and nobody will come pick her up, but until then, my sanity remains intact.

Yup, we had a disagreement about the electrical grid, and she insisted that green power would result in province-wide blackouts every night or whenever the wind stopped blowing. I sent her the power generation mix from the Electricity System Operator, showing that renewables accounted for a single-digit percentage point of the generating capacity of the province... Nope, "Why can't you just respect what I believe?" "Because you're full of shit?" click

Posting on Facebook don't change shit though... It's just impotent outrage.

That does not solve anything, since people are drawn to platforms with easy accessible content they enjoy. People will use those platforms. The problem is that algorithms will recommend you radicalizing content. And it's an extremely complex task to solve. I would have no idea where to beginn, except better education - but that's something that will take a generation to work out.

Not using the platforms is a personal solution for any individual who wants to escape, not a general solution. For "don't use the platforms" to work as a solution for the masses, so few people would use the platforms that the platforms would cease to exist.

Imagine if all newspapers, magazines, books, publications were unregulated and uncontrolled?

You can actually write in a book pretty much what ever you want and I would appreciate if it stayed that way.

I don't think that there is any benefit in pretending that regulating any media is not a difficult tusk. It's a delicate balance act and with social media even trickier, since it's an individual against the state situation.

Most humans wants to be privileged and fulfilled.

The question is how to get there.

The male privilege can vary drastically.Let's say you're talking about a poor white man or a wealthy one. Wealthy white man still has patriarchal families and tradicional values.

The poor and middle class man are the most affected, they don't know how to progress to get the milestones of life, so they search for answers on how to behave, how to get a job, how to create a family, how to be respected.

So they build a identity of a man to be portrayed in society, this can lead to integration of toxic masculinity traits, it will also get worse with isolation, but a stable and reasonable person can help listening and speaking about the challenges.

Canada, they were branded as sexists/misogynists before even having a meeting.

Stop talking with the voices in your head. It helps a lot.

Holy shit. Nail on the head. To the OP, I hope that's not so harsh you don't hear the message. You are rather ill-informed on what is acceptable human behavior, and what is that old toxic masculinity that us humans are trying to get rid of. You are absolutely fine hanging out with buddies and doing guy stuff. "Clubs" have been on a downward tend since the mid 20th century, and it's not feminism that did that. It's just that people are less and less interested in joining them and committing time. They all struggle with membership (yes, I belong to one).

There's also the possibility that if you don't have guys to hang out with, it might be that your idea of "shithouse" is just being shitty. I've spent plenty of time in locker rooms -and that kind of behavior gets on peoples nerves as you get older. That's not an attack on masculinity.

Stop talking with the voices in your head. It helps a lot.

Congratulations, you did exactly what others have said is the problem: men's problems are dismissed or blamed on the victims. Are you seriously denying that this happens?

Sometimes what they want and what society says they want is the same thing.

I didn't say I didn't have a community I said people find it hard. I have had plenty of communities whether it was from clubs or sports or friends or more recently travelling. You're just making incorrect assumptions here.

That's just not true. No one has ever taught me to lash out at anyone. This is the exact issue I'm talking about and if you take nothing else away from what I have said look at this. As soon as someone (me) talks about masculinity being good for some people someone (you) attacks me for it and says it isn't right. A lot of men want to be tough they don't want someone to told their hand. It's not a "oh you messed up hunny, you want to lean on my shoulder and cry. It won't happen again." it's a "you fucked up and let the team down. Smash some cunts in the next tackle like I know you can" then when that happens you get a "that's fucking more like it". Yet somehow that level of support goes to you beat your wife or something as you are going on about. It is exactly the issue I am talking about.

You're just wrong on this.

Traditional male support that a lot of people born traditionally male respond well too. But other people on the outside look down on us and discourage boys from having that support.

Even something as simple as all mens groups are heavily discouraged.

Fair enough. I left it as a low key implication of "most"