Thanks for giving the article a shot. It’s very hard to be heard or read talking about this real, objectively observable problem without being written off or called a “misogynist.”
Who’s asking you for anything? You’re useless. You think you’re some kind of hero because your mom asked you to fix something in her house and you said NO?
Some women are not like that. I’m not and maybe you too. But many many are and I’m sick of them. Only 24% of women actually called themselves feminist, though I have to say. But still they act wrong and they really believe they are getting paid less. Ridiculous they work a lot less 18% less than men.
Yeah, the funny thing is the ones who don't call themselves feminists still take advantage of everything we fought for and made possible. So, they can call themselves hypocrites.
Men are trash. And they prove it every day. They're the ones crying about how women, who are supposedly so inferior to them, won't fuck them and take all the abuse like they used to, back in the good ol' days of chivalry.
They lost. And there's nothing they can do about it.
Boys laughing and joke about rape, and male trash like Josh thinking it's excusable, simply proves my point.
Why would anybody want to have anything to do with this male trash? Why should anybody care that so few go to university? Why should anyone care their suicide rates are so high?
They are their own worst enemy, and they deserve it. And who's paying Josh for advice?
Some fucked up homosexual who hates women and think his own mother deserved to get beaten?
You're a disgusting misogynist, and women should hate you.
Thanks for proving my point. Go fap to Andrew Rape TikToks.
Look, one of the cool girls begging for males to give her cool girl points!
Hope you get picked, sis!
Don't be one of those uncool girls who thinks young boys shouldn't joke and laugh about rape in front of women!
The funny thing is that you'd probably be dumb enough to pay Josh Slocum for advice, which apparently happens because there's enough dumb moids out there who are unfuckable enough to do that as well.
Masculinity has been hijacked for the past couple of decades, reaching its crescendo recently with the "toxic" adjective pejoratively added to precede it.
Men are beginning to write and speak about this but far too few, and their following appears to be content with just that: following. I don't see many new faces emerging to lead. I imagine the reasons for this are as we'd all suspect; fear, lack of free time, lack of belief in self to do so (because they've been emasculated), and so on.
I hope to add my voice to this in some way so that my own boys grow up to be strong alphas, respectful of everyone, and centering their women without genuflecting to them.
There are some men's advocacy organizations, such as National Coalition for Men (NCFM.org). It is an uphill fight. They sued the Selective Service System and won for their obvious discrimination against men, but it was a toothless victory, as the SSS defied the judge's ruling. They will have another go at them soon. They have also defended men falsely accused of sexual assault.
The language of the ruling was weak, and the Selective Service System defied it. They said they would only require women to register if Congress passed a law, or if there was a Supreme Court order.
I don’t have a link. I encourage you to join NCFM.org for $50 a year, and then you can see their entire history on their site. I can say they are gearing up for another go at the Selective Service System.
💯 correct. The neutering process began very slowly back in the 1970’s… I remember it vividly.. should’ve been more resistance & pushback. A simple “NO” would have been sufficient.
The government and media were behind it. I was constantly fighting against it, but whenever I would make remarks and send my comments through the mail, they never published them. They only had one side, that mothers had to work and that was it. You could be anything you wanted to be except a mother.
F them!!! I stayed home with my kids. Yes it was a small sacrifice but well well well worth it.
The mixed messages I heard growing up were enough to make any woman question their sanity. Try to look pretty but not slutty. Don’t be a prude but also don’t be a whore. You need to go on the pill so you are available for sex and don’t get too attached because guys don’t like clingy women. You should go to college and have a career but also marry a good man who can take care of you, but still be able to take care of yourself, and have kids but you need to put them in daycare because you can’t possibly know how to raise them properly and you have to show your daughters that women can be more than housewives, and if you choose to stay at home with them, you must find a way to monetize it; start a blog or sell makeup or a craft business and you should be volunteering at every single school event as well. I can’t blame men for this anymore, except the ones who insist that their wives go back to work after kids so they can afford the: big house, new Tesla, fancy vacations that give them status at work, and so on. What the hell have we done to ourselves?
"We're going to give mixed messages that make you doubt yourself at every turn, and make you think you can't rely on anyone. Our proposed answer will be to marry yourselves to corporations who dump you without a second thought. It will be good for our bottom line.
We've decided to call this "feminism," and I have a $10,000 bet with Withers at the Patriarchy Club that this will actually work."
I’m new here. Excellent article. Excellent commentary. Men - wake up. I lived through all of this bs. It’ll be wonderful to have you back again - in your absolute fullness. I promise!!
Actually, a lot of us feel like the 19th amendment should be repealed.
Look at society. This horrible shit started when women were allowed to vote because women believe anything and that’s a fact. Look it up. Women are a lot more gullible than men. It’s a fact that you can look up.
Anything after the 11th amendment should be repealed.
True, but both sexes have been like the frog placed it water set to boil. The situation has become worse over time, so many did not see it coming to this.
Always looking outside yourself for the problem, is the problem. This is a societal issue and for better or worse we have to work together. Blaming and emasculating men is not taking steps towards a solution.
I did. I saw it coming for a long time and it’s been horrible. No one would listen to me. No one would believe me. I have a person in my family who still doesn’t believe that the men in commercials are the one who are always a doofus. She sees it right in front of her eyes!! But yet she doesn’t want to see.
Men didn't keep women from getting bank accounts back then. Society did. If a man's wife spent more than what they had or incurred debt (say from gambling) the husband was responsible. HE was put in debtors prison for his wife's actions. It was also men who fought along side women to get their rights. If they hadn't it would not have happened. Where is the reciprocal support?
Wow Kat,I doubt if all this hate is bringing anything good into your life. Always being hateful toward half the people in your life is not going to help you, them or society. When you are angry the first person that you burn, with the most intensity, is yourself. Be the solution. Do a silent retreat (dhamma.org) and manage your anger.
The goal in your concluding paragraph is a really one. I know that my husband and our sons (early 30s) do that for me. I’m the mom and wife, central and protected but not above being called out when I mess up. And they’re kind about letting me know when I mess up. I hope you’re successful with your sons. 🌻
"Masculinity has been hijacked for the past couple of decades, reaching its crescendo recently with the "toxic" adjective pejoratively added to precede it."
100% correct!
And yes, I have two boys and I teach them (when we're out somewhere) "See that crazy chick over there, calling her boyfriend/husband an idiot, and yelling at him, you don't want to end up with someone like that -- ever!"
Why the hell is the woman with a man that she thinks is an idiot? The simple answer would be because he'll put up with her crazy shit.
The Truth is that there's something seriously wrong with both of them. Something's wrong with the man for putting up with the mental anguish of an abusive woman, and there's something wrong with the woman for wanting to emasculate men.
My boys will be able to sense real crazy (in women) like bloodhounds. Nobody needs to put themselves in that kind of situation.
Many years back now, a friend of mine was dating this woman he met at a work function. They dated for a while, and he seemed to like her, she was nice in person, but when people weren't around she was crazy.
When they were dating for about 2-weeks, he bought her a little figurine of a man painting a picture, and you insert a photo in the slot on the easel. Of course, it was a picture of the two of them.
When he gave it to her, she freaked out on him! She said, "I already have a family that doesn't understand me -- I don't need a boyfriend that doesn't understand me either!" Then she sat the present down, got in her car and left.
I was talking with him about it later and he was asking me, "What did I do wrong?" to which I replied, "Nothing! There's something seriously wrong with that chick. Ask yourself, what kind of response could she have been expecting -- from you?" He didn't have an answer. I told him, "She expected you to chase after her, and apologize for something you didn't do. That's crazy manipulative bullshit right there! You need to keep that figurine and give it to some chick that will think it's cute and appreciate it. Don't waste it on some basket-case that needs counselling."
Needless to say he wasn't with her for long after that.
My two leftist/feminist sisters exhibited this form of insanity since the time they were teens, in the early 1970s. They would always bring up leftist/feminist bullshit at family dinners. They didn't care that I didn't want to hear their bullshit, especially when I was trying to digest food. That was my first Red Pill moment.
I’m sorry, men, but try to please push back more! 85% said they would vote for a woman? Why would a man want a woman to be the ruler over him? It sounds horrendous to me. It’s been horrendous for a long time.
We do have to get men to pick their responsibility back up. The problem is men are now afraid of women, and they're not wrong to be. The number of men who get fired or screwed in divorce because a woman accuses him of being a Bad Man is high.
But we're going to have to do it. There's no other way out.
Responsibility with not persist without either rewards OR visible retribution of various sorts upon those who are impeding it.
The people you describe are greasing of the skids for option B.
Question for you, Josh: I'm thinking that Cluster B's penchant for projection accidentally reveals the thing they most fear, and which would reliably control their own behavior if used. Cancel Culture from over-socialized NPCs being a prime example.
You've had front row seats for a long time. To what extent do you think that might be true?
Thank you, Sharon. What galls me is the fact that women, by virtue of being female, are exempted from military draft registration and conscription in wartime, but as president, would be commander in chief. The exception are women like Tulsi Gabbard, who (I think) put on the uniform just after 9/11, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. But a feminist like Hillary who says the future is female? No way in hell.
I know women are like this but I don't understand it. My dad stayed home to raise us, my closest childhood friend was my male cousin who never let me run over him, and I had uncles who teased me mercilessly.
I can't even fathom being able to push men around, let alive expect it. My humor is less ribald than a teen boy's, but I just give them a side glance, not a lecture. After all, it loses the thrill of the forbidden if everyone accepts it, so I'm just keeping the spice in it for them. (Them being my teen stepson and his teenaged friends.)
Ok Josh, this is a good piece. And I'll take it a step further. I'll personally confirm that your working hypothesis can be promoted a few more steps along the "scientific method", as real-world "experiments" are confirming of it.
Me - anecdotal, my own family experience with two daughters. One is a step daughter, one is my biological. They respond in different ways, one being much more extroverted and pro-active, the other being much more of an introvert, withdrawn.
Both have gone "no contact" with me.
There's a lot to this. And my behavior and actions - far, far, from perfect. I lost my cool as well. and there've been more inputs to the algorithm than simply the political/cultural. We had a major family trauma (loss) this year that sort of catalyzed things leading to the current schism.
however - yes, I have permitted without truly realizing the extent it had gone to, went along with the whole "go along with it to get along" behavior. that's all over , and that has all ended.
I've become disagreeable to things that are blatantly false. I can't go along any more. It's my nature to be disagreeable to falsity. Men in general need to take back their balls.
The woke moralizations, lectures, cluster B behavior, narcissistic entitlement, I'd let it ride for years until I no longer could put up with it, and dealt with it in ungraceful ways on my part. (we all have a role and a part and things to own).
There was the family impact event, but it also became "he's a Trump supporter", and I have extended the olive branch a few ways with no response - also, btw, I've never vocalized politics I mostly keep them to myself. And also, I was never much of a "Trump supporter". didn't like him for the longest time.
It's most certainly real. Feel free to reach out to me directly, I'm even happy to talk about the dynamic if it helps you to gain deeper insights.
I believe in this topic and happy to offer more insights, details, what have you. (obviously not to go out public myself, but can give you insights to discuss as concepts/scenarios).
I am struggling to sort through the entire mess myself. Time and distance for now, and no action needed, is what is currently called for. I do believe time will heal this, and self-reflection, but I'm not under illusion that it happens all too quickly.
I hear ya, bro. I have never been very diplomatic. And I blow my stack at incessant and belligerent bothersome "nice" people once they've been told to quit pestering me and they fail to respect that. Go ahead and call the cops about "abuse." They believe they can get someone arrested for reading them the riot act. No, F you. I absolutely will cut your ass down verbally. I'm tired of this shit. You pester me, I cuss your ass out. People like that had zero discipline and thus latch onto this crap about anyone raising their voice at them for all the nerve-wracking pestering they do. I won't stand for it. Call the damned cops, I tell them.
True, tho I have told my folks they are effing crazy. You can't go to their house or out to dinner without my mother complaining about every damned thing, so much so that she ruins every get-together. I hate visiting them and avoid doing so, sometimes for years. They never change. And they're not bad people, nor are they lawbreakers. Just bat-shit. I don't tolerate bat-shit. I'm not a social worker or a saint. Wrong tree to be barking up. :) :)
But just don’t ever forget family is the most fucking important thing we have in this world. All of us are served well to remember this.
Some families have always had breaks. But they were the minority.
This is different. This mass splitting of families hurts our society and we all pay the price for this whether we like our own personal families or not.
It’s the building block of any functional prosperous society. As the general ethos.
Hopefully it will serve as a lesson in the future to re value our building blocks. We are dependent on them after all. Even the old school “hate my family” crowd needed the majority of families to function.
Yeah, Sadly, the family concept has been eroded in this society.
My "parents" were my grandparents who raised me. I have been estranged by my natural parents since I was very young. My grandparents were non-English speaking Hungarians who left communist Hungary in 1962 to help my mother, a single mom on welfare. My dad likely couldn't tolerate her incessant movie-star personality. She was a refugee from Hungary in 1956. In America, she was placed with a sponsor family, but did not want to contribute in any way, including helping to cook or clean. I'm sorry, but if you escape a country and go somewhere that people will take you in so you can be safe, you need to show some gratitude. But she was spoiled, and like many today who want everything for free, VERY ENTITLED AND DEMANDING.
So I do have very strong family ties. But my "family" is long gone. I have been on my own for so long, and I have yet to find anyone with sincere love and respect for someone who truly wants to share a life with trust and honesty. All I have ever found was cunning, lying, secretiveness and cheating types. This seems to be a normal thing in America with people. And that has progressed to the point that we all realize we don't know our neighbors and cannot trust anyone with our house keys. Often times, that includes family members.
OMG, you'd love my neighbor across from me. One of these days, I will tell you all about... :O !!! Peter Pan meets the witch of Hansel and Gretel. And on some days, she's one of the 7 dwarfs. The whole hood hears her when she's outside and someone walks by. A real Whirling Dervish.
They are a lovely group. I think “love” is the operative word word. There’s so much “love” to experience from the tolerance/kindness industry (err I mean cultural political movement) crowd.
Aww sweety, that’s demonstrably not true. Liberal women have the highest rates of mental illness. What you are doing is called “projection”. Crazy people do it to keep the attention away from their own madness.
Men do seek help. I suggest they go to an older (and male) PsyD or PhD if they're using a therapist due to many women in the field and most of them graduating from puppy-mill DEI havens. No need to medicate. That stuff is dangerous.
To the other readers: Don't give this person any personal info about yourselves regarding what professionals you go to. She's digging for info to keep her hateful blog going.
These people have actually been programmed their switches are frozen in position. I unfortunately know some too. They are rigid & push & bully when there is no resistance. I actually don’t think they’re redeemable at this point. It’s pathetic really.
I wonder if this could be a contributing factor to so many adolescent boys taking a notion to "transition"... they might legitimately feel they'd be safer in life as females. Although others of course use it as revenge, ie male athletes invading women's competitions and prison dorms.
I graduated college in the last five years and had a fuckton of trans-identifying classmates. As far as I can tell, the girls are mostly motivated by either sexual trauma in the past or anticipation of sexual trauma in the future (i.e. they think that being a woman means doing what men want sexually, and the dating pool is nearly all guys who have been jerking off to porn three times a day since they got a phone at age 11 or 12 and are into incredibly sick shit due to the "it takes more and more crazy shit" factor of porn addiction, as Chris Rock discusses in his special "Tambourine"). And the boys are mostly motivated by the desire to be victims instead of oppressors, and thus have social cachet and power. Obviously these observations are filtered through my biased perspective, etc.
Mental, for sure. Most of it has nothing to do with either gender truly feeling like the opposite sex or even having attraction to same sex enough to even warrant idealizing about a sex change.
There was a long hurdle to go thru years ago for a sex change. I won't go into it here now. But these days, you just "identify" (IOW, just say you are) and you're trans. Tomorrow, you can trans back. Or to some other "gender."
Oh sure, nothing mental about that... just like changing underwear, to them.
Indeed, much of our society is permeated with mental and/or emotional illness in some way. Stability is racist, or something. ;)
My daughter-in-law insists that they have to go through a lot, but those were the old days now if you want to change, they will immediately change you. She won’t understand that because she won’t listen So I just shut up now. I don’t have much family left as it is
The process was never really difficult. It was sensible, tho. And like with all things that are worth waiting for, took a long time. Patience is what people no longer have for anything.
To live as the opposite gender that you want to be is in no way difficult if that's who you already are. Know what I mean? To go to a psychiatrist to be evaluated and to be counseled is also not difficult. You already understand what your gender ought to be, in your opinion, so how hard is it to talk about how you feel as a man or woman, whichever way you might be changing to?
To dress like the opposite sex of your birth sex when you feel that way already is not a chore whatsoever. And to be comfortable with that is also not a problem.
Of course, if you are 6'5" and a hairy big lug of a dude wearing a 2 piece bikini, well you are just asking for people to stare at you. Some common sense is needed. And a therapist should be able to say, "Maybe you ought not do the bikini thing just yet."
Things like that, ie common sense, is what the child transing is all about. The med-pharma industry figured if they start them young enough, they won't need to go thru the hassle of electrolysis, or to deal with having a period for a couple decades, and all that other humiliating stuff if the person is obviously not the gender they desire to be.
But that's a shitty excuse to fuck with kids.
And if someone is obviously not gonna pass as an adult making the change, they need to get real and accept that they will have hurdles among society b/c you absolutely cannot force people to not be disgusted at a hideous sight. The transing person MUST be the one to accept their issue, not the other way around.
This is not to say it's okay to discriminate against anyone who is qualified to be in some career or job position, or to be denied housing. But people have to right to not include those they do not want to associate with. That includes me. My folks didn't want to talk to me for 6 months. Fine. I leave people alone. If you don't parade in their faces and make demands, they will usually come back around and accept you. No one likes a belligerent pain in the ass.
And as far as surgeries are concerned... the less, the better. Genital surgery is utter bullshit. And dangerous.
No offense to anyone here, but, after many years of interacting with college students, I find it hard to believe that a heterosexual boy with no significant trauma simply decides to "transition," so that he can get higher grades due to belonging to an oppressed group. This is not like the white adults who have claimed to be non-white to reap benefits in academia. I absolutely agree that there is trauma, including sexual, for both boys and girls. I do think, though, that the majority consists of gay and lesbian kids who are ashamed or afraid to be gay and caught up in the tidal wave of "transing away the gay." One example that comes to mind is my student who was a butch lesbian in 2017 and became a "trans man" after starting to work at a trans-related organization 3-4 years later. N=1 doesn't prove anything, but I think it's an angle to be considered.
I didn't mention grades. That's absurd. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe 13 years of public education indoctrinating white males to think of themselves as oppressors has no effect at all and the uptick in trans relates to something else entirely. I doubt it, but I've been much more wrong than the possibility of my being wrong here. *shrug*
I think young men transitioning has a lot more to do with the porn addiction you cited. It isn’t talked about as much and instead framed more sympathetically or opportunistic, but I think pornography is breaking the mind of young men at adolescence.
Yep. Dr. Debra Soh has talked about this. She’s interviewed doctors who tell her in hushed, stunned voices about prescribing viagra to 20 year old men who are unable to get erections with real women. Chris Rock talks about this in his Netflix special, Tambourine, which should be mandatory viewing.
I think it is prolific enough to say that if you meet a young man who is trying to transition, it is safe to say that they have a severe porn addiction.
There is the "gay effeminate man" transitioner. But that usually that comes a little later as the effeminate gay man starts to mature and trying to stave off "twink death" by taking hormones and trying transitioning to keep that physical condition lol. Yet again, with how grooming can happen (I've witnessed it), it can come at a younger age as well.
Man in his 40's transitioning is 100% porn addiction.
Young women that do it seem to come from the field of intense reactions to puberty where they are very uncomfortable with their changing body and the changing social dynamic where men see them in a sexual dimension. Plenty of times both of these can come from trauma/abuse at a younger age. I think there is an element of social contagion, but I think that just elevates those feelings more than creates them.
A functioning society would be able to confront and work with those girls in the same way they would just ban porn for boys.
The conflation of pornographic imagery with gaming and the emergence of trans-identified male influencers in this sphere also deserves more scrutiny. There's something about spending most of your day living in fantasy worlds that seems to rewire the brain. Gamers will go from lusting after Lara Croft-style characters to choosing them as avatars and eventually identifying with them. It's a slippery slope.
I've been following the trajectory of a particular streamer here in the UK who goes by F1nn5ter and it's incredibly alarming. He started off as a sort of goofy geek before developing a female alter ego. He now embodies this alter ego full time and essentially peddles soft porn. He claims to be "gender fluid" but does a lot of trans advocacy. A journalist from The Times who looked into it discovered that he's got a mysterious patron/sugar daddy who played a role in pushing him into transvestic cosplay -- a groomer, basically.
Anyway, I'm digressing but the point is, many of the male online subcultures out there are super toxic and porn-industry-adjacent.
Yes. The intense both soft and hard pornography of online cultures have really fucked a lot of young men and women. I know people think of the young men with the intense visuals and how bombastic they are pushing into other communities. But I know that young women are doing the same thing in their own communities, it just goes through different mediums and manifests different forms, but the end result is a broken identity.
I know who you are talking about and the KiwiFarms documentation of his back ground.
I also think there’s an environmental factor. Meaning, the amount of poisons, chemicals & pesticides in our foods is overwhelming for both sexes’ bodies. Listen to Dr. Casey Means & Calley Means pod on Tucker Carlson or even JRE — plastics are everywhere, in our food, water & air, they contain xeno-estrogens (extra estrogens) AND pesticides (like roundup, 6bil lbs sprayed worldwide) are estrogen receptors. Together it is ramping-up the estrogen levels in all bodies causing the feminization of men (their taints are actually shrinking - read Dr. Shanna Swan) as well as causing cancers & infertility in women, the worse is young girls are going into puberty on average 6yrs earlier than even a decade ago.
It’s scary stuff when you put the media-control & the purposeful poisons for profit into account. Our bodies & minds are being attacked every day, making those susceptible to coercion or ideological thinking worse.
While I think the online socialization is a bigger factor here, I do see the merit in things like people hitting puberty and becoming sexually active at earlier ages being a result of things like our diet or the drugs we take.
1) the TV thing - which extends to all media - has turned McLuhan on its head. It’s the messenger who is the message nowadays, no longer the medium. If the person delivering the message is on the “other” side - say, Tucker or Maher, the listener will reject the message regardless of veracity. Just BECAUSE of who’s delivering it.
2) the woman thing is an outgrowth of enfranchisement + chivalry. Having become accustomed to their needs & desires put first culturally by opening doors, carrying packages, first in the lifeboat, they’ve developed the idea that their needs must be primary in politics, too. Holding the key to sex only magnifies their ability to demand - and how nuts they go when their demands aren’t met.
IMO time will fix item 1. Only disenfranchisement can fix item 2. It’s suffrage OR civilization.
One of my close female friends is being sent into panic regularly by her husband starting a renovation project on their attic so he can hide Muslims once Trump starts building camps. (I wish I were kidding; he's that deep in the cult.) I have no real relationship with him but I do with her, and she's way better now. I started with asking why the Democrats are PROUD of arranging to peacefully give Hitler the nuclear codes? What sense does that make? Once she admitted it makes no sense, that logically leads to they know he's not Hitler, which leads to they talked about him in "Hitler" terms specifically to panic voters, which leads to justified anger at being manipulated like that. Awhile after that, I was able to lead her into questioning if she feels pressured to be miserable -- if there's an unspoken social pressure to 'perform' distress, which of course there is. Once she saw both of those, she was 80% better. Now I've sent her a book, "Hate Crime Hoax" by Wilfred Reilly. All I told her about it was, "A black college professor investigated most of the hate crimes that made the news in the last few years. These are his findings." I did that specifically because black college professors are unquestionable authorities in the leftist worldview, LOL. She's reading it and now angry at the media.
A good question. So far he's responded to her efforts at calming him down by playing the man card (ie "if society breaks down, you'll be expecting me to protect you") which is true and leaves her with no real response.
The best response would be "Being that you are not Muslim, you seem to be very concerned about protecting Muslims. So what have you been doing to protect us? Don't you think you have have an obligation to me and our family first?"
I think that this is the case more often than we realize. There is still a significant majority of cases where the wife is the hysterical one. But just like we often fail to recognize anger as an emotion when a man is angry, I think men with this attitude are looked at as just being concerned with how they'll protect their families. It's not recognized as an emotional reaction, whereas almost everything that women do is recognized as an emotional reaction. Again, I'm not implying that it's anywhere near 50-50. It isn't. I just think it's probably not as lopsided as most of us think.
Seems like your friend's husband has "Gies Family envy" (compare to the much more common "Selma envy", or the more right-coded "Iwo Jima envy" that characterized my youth).
What I mean by that is that he has the noble desire to do his part in a great fight against evil, but lacks the discernment to see the present through any other lens.
This man who's building rooms in his attic to hide Muslims from Trump must be one of those people who thought that SARS-COV-2 was 50% deadly, that 10% of Americans had died of it by 2021, and that exposing your nostrils and lips was comparable to opening fire with a machine gun into a crowd.
First, you are doing the Lord's work, and bless you for it.
Second... has she considered chiming in with all of the things these Muslims will need to have a proper sleeping area and study? Books and [anything else she really wants for her future "me time" area] are quite important to them, you know...
Jesus this is real. I have too many experiences to share as I worked for 20 years in non profit after school, which is embedded within public schools.
DEI destroyed my field and lost me my job, my whole family is aware. They were there to hear the crap I endured. What I have come to and they have not is that one party pushed all of this nonsense.
Here is whar happened for me, post election, that may be more inspiring and less sad.
A few days post election I was speaking to my mother. She was upset and going on about how awful Trump and his supporters are. I had not yet told her I voted for Trump and I am the only one in my family and circle that did. I simply asked her, "what would you tell a Trump voter?" I was not trying to be mean, but was hurt that my ma would so readily write off half of the nation (and I was part of that half!). She didn't have a response, so I simply asked that she not vent and rage.
The following day I wrote an email to my mom, dad, and brother stating that I left the Democrat Party, registered Independent, and this time around, voted Trump. I stated that i am not a fascist, nazi, idiot, nor did I vote against my best interests. I actually voted for my best interests.
We decided not to discuss politics over the holidays, and we had one of the best Thanksgivings in a long time.
Dei was and still is mostly undefined. So, I asked for definitions, pushed back when told that 'You're white and he's black so cultural humility'. I asked basic questions that literally no one could or wanted to answer. If they had answered then it would have stopped.
For example, 'when did we prove we are anti black and racist?' (For which I was called ignorant). 'Do it have a "lived experience?"' (Silence).
I stated people in the non profit sphere were using 'white men' as a curse word ('but, I don't see that', was the response).
Dei demands of you what it's adherents can never provide: humility.
Well, for one, this is the huge reason I divorced my own gender.
So, please understand that while I might not have a penis, nobody knows that except me, and unfortunately the people I need to tell so that they don't shit on every category out there b/c I am not part of that bullshit. I do not do the LGBT crap. And I don't expect anyone to make up for any lack of manliness b/c I don't whine about a damned thing I need to do around my property or in my social life.
I'm retired now, but I've been a trucker and warehouseman (10 years), a very well paid traveling IT consultant (6 figures) and senior financial analyst at Dow Jones and other corporations (10 years), a banker (12 years), and a video producer (9 years). No one gave me a fucking penny, EVER. Not my folks, who have lost everything including their home due to coddling my sister and her out-of-wedlock 30 year old brat.
I have sucked it up all my damned life. I have more than proved myself to be a man.
And my mom, sister, and niece (as well as my feminist stepfather) are all Democrat TDS sufferers. They are constantly about their needs and how this society has left them behind. And they despise that I have gone it all alone and own my house, despite all the difficulties, and the high level of pain after being hit by a car over 20 years ago. And yet, I had to return to work after retirement b/c I cannot afford a $300/mo loan for the 10 year old truck I needed to replace my 20 year old Ranger which I lovingly took care of. And the high taxes.
I am still paying for brats going to public school even though I have never had any kids. I am paying for all the mommas coming into Wallyworld with their Snap and WIC. And the looney tunes who are too lazy or retarded to get or stay at a friggen job.
I won't even mention the 100% of lesbian "partners" who are totally clueless about how to be in a relationship. They are worse than the straight ones I've been with since. But they're all insane. I cannot stand the females at the job, save for one or two. They are smug and expect guys to bow down and kiss their butts. And yet, they all consider themselves not merely "equal," but superior.
One said to me, I don't want kids b/c they'll destroy my body!" I wanted to tell her, she ain't got far to go for that. And her mom works there, too. Both of them enjoy watching me knock myself out working while they avoid customers getting into their line.
But yeah, a lot of men are just as lazy, these days. Especially the ones working indoors. They have adopted this excessively prissy attitude of "getting back at the man." What the hell is that? If you apply for a job and then accept it, you made the decision to work for whomever the company is owned by. And Wallyworld is -- like it or not -- owned by the shareholders, which means anyone invested in W/M stock. Get a clue, FFS.
Hating capitalism is like saying you rather be some indigenous barbarian without electricity. Prior to the industrial age, all these morons would be total nothings, having nothing, and knowing nothing. School didn't even exist. Yet that's their biggest obsession as socialist feminists: overpriced and useless schools. Pretty funny, right?
Anyway, sorry to belabor you fellow readers.
Thanks for your post, Josh. I wish it weren't the case about women these days, but that's human nature. This is why some things have to be controlled... ie, emotions. We used to tell employees not to bring their problems to work. Now, we tell them to bring their "whole self."
And this is why most young men aren’t dating, because we know most young women will grow up to be our aunts etc and sadly most aren’t interested in that fight to help and heal.
Young men aren't dating because nobody wants to fuck them. They hate women, and it's as plain as day. Why should any woman want to touch someone who hates her? And why do men pursue women if they're so inferior to men? Oh wait, because they're not.
Tinder is 78% male. That's all you need to know.
Oh, and women don't owe men anything. We're not your personal assistants/punching bags/emotional support animals meant to clean up the messes you make while you fuck everything up as you claim how superior you are.
You aren't. Women aren't going to "heal" you. You are the problem, clean your own mess, and laugh at your own rape jokes as you destroy yourselves.
Might be interesting to geographically map (i.e., contour) the US frequency of this problem. I wonder if there is a coastal gradient, with frequency increasing to the west and the east. Or, it might be focused on urban areas. If so, it would suggest it's a locally cultural phenomenon. (The idea occurred to me in retrospect of my Californian sister's long time salient behavior in this regard.)
Excellent commentary and are right on the money. In our family things are fine, and I actively play the role you describe. But I do see the problem all around. I see it in my kids teachers. I actually put up a sign on our dining room wall that says Nullius In Verba, which in Latin means 'Don't Take Their Word For it'. Its the motto of the Royal Society, the very essence of science - don't just accept assertions, demand empirical evidence and ask questions. I encourage my two girls (9 and 10) to NOT just buy what their teachers are selling but to be skeptical and ask questions (especially on political matters like gender ideology, climate change and indigenous propaganda). All three family women mock me for the sign and roll their eyes occasionally when I point to it, but I can see its paying off and the message is sinking in.
Good I’m a retired teacher and you should always tell them half the shit teacher say is bull with her. It’s some leftist, ideal or fake history or fake science. If I had a kid today, I would homeschool. I know it’s hard, but it was possible for me to stay home and my husband only made about average money. People want Amazon gifts every day for themselves. Bigger houses. Now they have to have a two car garage. They have to have a separate bath and shower. Is this good enough reason to put a precious little baby with strangers after being with them only a few weeks?
Thanks for giving the article a shot. It’s very hard to be heard or read talking about this real, objectively observable problem without being written off or called a “misogynist.”
Men aren't saying shit, and nobody is listening to them anyway.
Josh and the retards who think he's should be taken seriously are delusional.
Where are men saying NO? They're busy playing video games. Nobody cares.
Who’s asking you for anything? You’re useless. You think you’re some kind of hero because your mom asked you to fix something in her house and you said NO?
Big fucking deal. Men are delusional.
I understand. But I am NOT LIKE THAT
QUITE A FEW OF US AREN'T
I DETEST WOMEN LIKE THIS.
HUSBAND'S MOTHER WAS A DEMON
DRANK HERSELF TO DEATH RATHER THAN HANDLING HER OWN MOTHER'S DEMENTIA
Some women are not like that. I’m not and maybe you too. But many many are and I’m sick of them. Only 24% of women actually called themselves feminist, though I have to say. But still they act wrong and they really believe they are getting paid less. Ridiculous they work a lot less 18% less than men.
Look, another cool girl, unlike the other ones!
Yeah, the funny thing is the ones who don't call themselves feminists still take advantage of everything we fought for and made possible. So, they can call themselves hypocrites.
Men are trash. And they prove it every day. They're the ones crying about how women, who are supposedly so inferior to them, won't fuck them and take all the abuse like they used to, back in the good ol' days of chivalry.
They lost. And there's nothing they can do about it.
Boys laughing and joke about rape, and male trash like Josh thinking it's excusable, simply proves my point.
Why would anybody want to have anything to do with this male trash? Why should anybody care that so few go to university? Why should anyone care their suicide rates are so high?
They are their own worst enemy, and they deserve it. And who's paying Josh for advice?
Some fucked up homosexual who hates women and think his own mother deserved to get beaten?
You're a disgusting misogynist, and women should hate you.
Thanks for proving my point. Go fap to Andrew Rape TikToks.
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With you and your sisters with similar attitudes the human species will go far.
Look, one of the cool girls begging for males to give her cool girl points!
Hope you get picked, sis!
Don't be one of those uncool girls who thinks young boys shouldn't joke and laugh about rape in front of women!
The funny thing is that you'd probably be dumb enough to pay Josh Slocum for advice, which apparently happens because there's enough dumb moids out there who are unfuckable enough to do that as well.
Get a life. All of you.
Hilarious 🤣
Masculinity has been hijacked for the past couple of decades, reaching its crescendo recently with the "toxic" adjective pejoratively added to precede it.
Men are beginning to write and speak about this but far too few, and their following appears to be content with just that: following. I don't see many new faces emerging to lead. I imagine the reasons for this are as we'd all suspect; fear, lack of free time, lack of belief in self to do so (because they've been emasculated), and so on.
I hope to add my voice to this in some way so that my own boys grow up to be strong alphas, respectful of everyone, and centering their women without genuflecting to them.
There are some men's advocacy organizations, such as National Coalition for Men (NCFM.org). It is an uphill fight. They sued the Selective Service System and won for their obvious discrimination against men, but it was a toothless victory, as the SSS defied the judge's ruling. They will have another go at them soon. They have also defended men falsely accused of sexual assault.
Huh? How did they defy the judge's ruling? Link?
The language of the ruling was weak, and the Selective Service System defied it. They said they would only require women to register if Congress passed a law, or if there was a Supreme Court order.
Do you have a link? What did the ruling say?
I don’t have a link. I encourage you to join NCFM.org for $50 a year, and then you can see their entire history on their site. I can say they are gearing up for another go at the Selective Service System.
💯 correct. The neutering process began very slowly back in the 1970’s… I remember it vividly.. should’ve been more resistance & pushback. A simple “NO” would have been sufficient.
The government and media were behind it. I was constantly fighting against it, but whenever I would make remarks and send my comments through the mail, they never published them. They only had one side, that mothers had to work and that was it. You could be anything you wanted to be except a mother.
F them!!! I stayed home with my kids. Yes it was a small sacrifice but well well well worth it.
Bravo !!
The mixed messages I heard growing up were enough to make any woman question their sanity. Try to look pretty but not slutty. Don’t be a prude but also don’t be a whore. You need to go on the pill so you are available for sex and don’t get too attached because guys don’t like clingy women. You should go to college and have a career but also marry a good man who can take care of you, but still be able to take care of yourself, and have kids but you need to put them in daycare because you can’t possibly know how to raise them properly and you have to show your daughters that women can be more than housewives, and if you choose to stay at home with them, you must find a way to monetize it; start a blog or sell makeup or a craft business and you should be volunteering at every single school event as well. I can’t blame men for this anymore, except the ones who insist that their wives go back to work after kids so they can afford the: big house, new Tesla, fancy vacations that give them status at work, and so on. What the hell have we done to ourselves?
Exactly! So much for women’s “liberation”
a.k.a.
"We're going to give mixed messages that make you doubt yourself at every turn, and make you think you can't rely on anyone. Our proposed answer will be to marry yourselves to corporations who dump you without a second thought. It will be good for our bottom line.
We've decided to call this "feminism," and I have a $10,000 bet with Withers at the Patriarchy Club that this will actually work."
Sorry, what? How are these mixed messages from feminism?
Sorry, what? How are these mixed messages from feminism?
I’m new here. Excellent article. Excellent commentary. Men - wake up. I lived through all of this bs. It’ll be wonderful to have you back again - in your absolute fullness. I promise!!
HELL YEAH!
Maybe they'll make wife-beating and marrying 11 year old girls legal again, just like when chivalry was alive and well!
Maybe they'll ban women from universities and hospitals, just like the Taliban!
If only men could be rational and protective like they used to be!
They're fucking crazy. Men shouldn't even be allowed to vote.
Actually, a lot of us feel like the 19th amendment should be repealed.
Look at society. This horrible shit started when women were allowed to vote because women believe anything and that’s a fact. Look it up. Women are a lot more gullible than men. It’s a fact that you can look up.
Anything after the 11th amendment should be repealed.
You are pathetic .
You need clinical help.
True, but both sexes have been like the frog placed it water set to boil. The situation has become worse over time, so many did not see it coming to this.
Men are the problem.
Never! 👎🏾
Always looking outside yourself for the problem, is the problem. This is a societal issue and for better or worse we have to work together. Blaming and emasculating men is not taking steps towards a solution.
I did. I saw it coming for a long time and it’s been horrible. No one would listen to me. No one would believe me. I have a person in my family who still doesn’t believe that the men in commercials are the one who are always a doofus. She sees it right in front of her eyes!! But yet she doesn’t want to see.
What, back in the good ol' days when women couldn't even get bank accounts in their own name?
On account of men being so rational and protective?
FOH with that shite.
Men hate you. Do the right thing and hate them back. They've earned it.
Men sure don’t hate me. I know that. If I hadn’t gotten married, I wouldn’t have all that I have. God bless him.
Men didn't keep women from getting bank accounts back then. Society did. If a man's wife spent more than what they had or incurred debt (say from gambling) the husband was responsible. HE was put in debtors prison for his wife's actions. It was also men who fought along side women to get their rights. If they hadn't it would not have happened. Where is the reciprocal support?
Wow Kat,I doubt if all this hate is bringing anything good into your life. Always being hateful toward half the people in your life is not going to help you, them or society. When you are angry the first person that you burn, with the most intensity, is yourself. Be the solution. Do a silent retreat (dhamma.org) and manage your anger.
What is the neutering process?
The goal in your concluding paragraph is a really one. I know that my husband and our sons (early 30s) do that for me. I’m the mom and wife, central and protected but not above being called out when I mess up. And they’re kind about letting me know when I mess up. I hope you’re successful with your sons. 🌻
Does your husband beat you when you mess up?
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"Masculinity has been hijacked for the past couple of decades, reaching its crescendo recently with the "toxic" adjective pejoratively added to precede it."
100% correct!
And yes, I have two boys and I teach them (when we're out somewhere) "See that crazy chick over there, calling her boyfriend/husband an idiot, and yelling at him, you don't want to end up with someone like that -- ever!"
Why the hell is the woman with a man that she thinks is an idiot? The simple answer would be because he'll put up with her crazy shit.
The Truth is that there's something seriously wrong with both of them. Something's wrong with the man for putting up with the mental anguish of an abusive woman, and there's something wrong with the woman for wanting to emasculate men.
My boys will be able to sense real crazy (in women) like bloodhounds. Nobody needs to put themselves in that kind of situation.
Many years back now, a friend of mine was dating this woman he met at a work function. They dated for a while, and he seemed to like her, she was nice in person, but when people weren't around she was crazy.
When they were dating for about 2-weeks, he bought her a little figurine of a man painting a picture, and you insert a photo in the slot on the easel. Of course, it was a picture of the two of them.
When he gave it to her, she freaked out on him! She said, "I already have a family that doesn't understand me -- I don't need a boyfriend that doesn't understand me either!" Then she sat the present down, got in her car and left.
I was talking with him about it later and he was asking me, "What did I do wrong?" to which I replied, "Nothing! There's something seriously wrong with that chick. Ask yourself, what kind of response could she have been expecting -- from you?" He didn't have an answer. I told him, "She expected you to chase after her, and apologize for something you didn't do. That's crazy manipulative bullshit right there! You need to keep that figurine and give it to some chick that will think it's cute and appreciate it. Don't waste it on some basket-case that needs counselling."
Needless to say he wasn't with her for long after that.
you're a good friend
Huh? Toxic masculinity is masculinity gone wrong, like when women shame men for crying because they have ideas about how men should be.
Protecting others is healthy masculinity. Bullying others is toxic masculinity
Masculinity hasn't been hijacked.
Men are fucking crazy, they always have been, and they aren't used to anyone calling them out on their bullshit.
Go take to the Taliban about your amazing ideas, you stupid moid.
I would love to have some of the Taliban ideas to take care of women like you. Would love it.
I second that.
Huh? Toxic masculinity is masculinity gone wrong, like when women shame men for crying because they have ideas about how men should be.
Protecting others is healthy masculinity. Bullying others is toxic masculinity
My two leftist/feminist sisters exhibited this form of insanity since the time they were teens, in the early 1970s. They would always bring up leftist/feminist bullshit at family dinners. They didn't care that I didn't want to hear their bullshit, especially when I was trying to digest food. That was my first Red Pill moment.
They normalised out of the Overton Window positions, and with no pushback and no response, it gets harder to resist the unhinged left every year.
So we’ve offloaded that duty to DJT…
I’m sorry, men, but try to please push back more! 85% said they would vote for a woman? Why would a man want a woman to be the ruler over him? It sounds horrendous to me. It’s been horrendous for a long time.
The best man for the job, Sharon. If the choice was Sarah Palin vs Obama or Biden, I’m not going to spend much time pondering.
Also, I grew up in Britain, so normalised to actually strong women like both Queen Elizabeths and Thatcher.
(And it’s also the norm in most homes…)
Give me a Margaret Thatcher any day and I'll vote for her over and over.
Bingo Josh. Arguably the only Tory PM since Churchill with, ahem, balls.
Or a woman like Tulsi Gabbard...
Velvet voice, too, like Megyn Kelly.
We do have to get men to pick their responsibility back up. The problem is men are now afraid of women, and they're not wrong to be. The number of men who get fired or screwed in divorce because a woman accuses him of being a Bad Man is high.
But we're going to have to do it. There's no other way out.
Absolutely right, Josh.
Responsibility with not persist without either rewards OR visible retribution of various sorts upon those who are impeding it.
The people you describe are greasing of the skids for option B.
Question for you, Josh: I'm thinking that Cluster B's penchant for projection accidentally reveals the thing they most fear, and which would reliably control their own behavior if used. Cancel Culture from over-socialized NPCs being a prime example.
You've had front row seats for a long time. To what extent do you think that might be true?
The _right_ woman would be fine. I’m not voting for a woman just because “It’s time for a woman.”
Thank you, Sharon. What galls me is the fact that women, by virtue of being female, are exempted from military draft registration and conscription in wartime, but as president, would be commander in chief. The exception are women like Tulsi Gabbard, who (I think) put on the uniform just after 9/11, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. But a feminist like Hillary who says the future is female? No way in hell.
I know women are like this but I don't understand it. My dad stayed home to raise us, my closest childhood friend was my male cousin who never let me run over him, and I had uncles who teased me mercilessly.
I can't even fathom being able to push men around, let alive expect it. My humor is less ribald than a teen boy's, but I just give them a side glance, not a lecture. After all, it loses the thrill of the forbidden if everyone accepts it, so I'm just keeping the spice in it for them. (Them being my teen stepson and his teenaged friends.)
*alone
Y ou sound like a good person
Ok Josh, this is a good piece. And I'll take it a step further. I'll personally confirm that your working hypothesis can be promoted a few more steps along the "scientific method", as real-world "experiments" are confirming of it.
Me - anecdotal, my own family experience with two daughters. One is a step daughter, one is my biological. They respond in different ways, one being much more extroverted and pro-active, the other being much more of an introvert, withdrawn.
Both have gone "no contact" with me.
There's a lot to this. And my behavior and actions - far, far, from perfect. I lost my cool as well. and there've been more inputs to the algorithm than simply the political/cultural. We had a major family trauma (loss) this year that sort of catalyzed things leading to the current schism.
however - yes, I have permitted without truly realizing the extent it had gone to, went along with the whole "go along with it to get along" behavior. that's all over , and that has all ended.
I've become disagreeable to things that are blatantly false. I can't go along any more. It's my nature to be disagreeable to falsity. Men in general need to take back their balls.
The woke moralizations, lectures, cluster B behavior, narcissistic entitlement, I'd let it ride for years until I no longer could put up with it, and dealt with it in ungraceful ways on my part. (we all have a role and a part and things to own).
There was the family impact event, but it also became "he's a Trump supporter", and I have extended the olive branch a few ways with no response - also, btw, I've never vocalized politics I mostly keep them to myself. And also, I was never much of a "Trump supporter". didn't like him for the longest time.
It's most certainly real. Feel free to reach out to me directly, I'm even happy to talk about the dynamic if it helps you to gain deeper insights.
I believe in this topic and happy to offer more insights, details, what have you. (obviously not to go out public myself, but can give you insights to discuss as concepts/scenarios).
I am struggling to sort through the entire mess myself. Time and distance for now, and no action needed, is what is currently called for. I do believe time will heal this, and self-reflection, but I'm not under illusion that it happens all too quickly.
I hear ya, bro. I have never been very diplomatic. And I blow my stack at incessant and belligerent bothersome "nice" people once they've been told to quit pestering me and they fail to respect that. Go ahead and call the cops about "abuse." They believe they can get someone arrested for reading them the riot act. No, F you. I absolutely will cut your ass down verbally. I'm tired of this shit. You pester me, I cuss your ass out. People like that had zero discipline and thus latch onto this crap about anyone raising their voice at them for all the nerve-wracking pestering they do. I won't stand for it. Call the damned cops, I tell them.
it's harder with female family members. as far as gen pop, yeah, I'll speak up whatever no worries. family is tough.
True, tho I have told my folks they are effing crazy. You can't go to their house or out to dinner without my mother complaining about every damned thing, so much so that she ruins every get-together. I hate visiting them and avoid doing so, sometimes for years. They never change. And they're not bad people, nor are they lawbreakers. Just bat-shit. I don't tolerate bat-shit. I'm not a social worker or a saint. Wrong tree to be barking up. :) :)
I know. you hit your limit. you just hit the limit and it is what it is. I can't live in perpetual lies.
truth is freedom. expression is good. difference of opinion is what defines us.
But just don’t ever forget family is the most fucking important thing we have in this world. All of us are served well to remember this.
Some families have always had breaks. But they were the minority.
This is different. This mass splitting of families hurts our society and we all pay the price for this whether we like our own personal families or not.
It’s the building block of any functional prosperous society. As the general ethos.
Hopefully it will serve as a lesson in the future to re value our building blocks. We are dependent on them after all. Even the old school “hate my family” crowd needed the majority of families to function.
Yeah, Sadly, the family concept has been eroded in this society.
My "parents" were my grandparents who raised me. I have been estranged by my natural parents since I was very young. My grandparents were non-English speaking Hungarians who left communist Hungary in 1962 to help my mother, a single mom on welfare. My dad likely couldn't tolerate her incessant movie-star personality. She was a refugee from Hungary in 1956. In America, she was placed with a sponsor family, but did not want to contribute in any way, including helping to cook or clean. I'm sorry, but if you escape a country and go somewhere that people will take you in so you can be safe, you need to show some gratitude. But she was spoiled, and like many today who want everything for free, VERY ENTITLED AND DEMANDING.
So I do have very strong family ties. But my "family" is long gone. I have been on my own for so long, and I have yet to find anyone with sincere love and respect for someone who truly wants to share a life with trust and honesty. All I have ever found was cunning, lying, secretiveness and cheating types. This seems to be a normal thing in America with people. And that has progressed to the point that we all realize we don't know our neighbors and cannot trust anyone with our house keys. Often times, that includes family members.
All the "nice" people can STFU you know?
OMG, you'd love my neighbor across from me. One of these days, I will tell you all about... :O !!! Peter Pan meets the witch of Hansel and Gretel. And on some days, she's one of the 7 dwarfs. The whole hood hears her when she's outside and someone walks by. A real Whirling Dervish.
They are a lovely group. I think “love” is the operative word word. There’s so much “love” to experience from the tolerance/kindness industry (err I mean cultural political movement) crowd.
Men shouldn't be allowed to vote because you're all crazy.
Aww sweety, that’s demonstrably not true. Liberal women have the highest rates of mental illness. What you are doing is called “projection”. Crazy people do it to keep the attention away from their own madness.
Well, I’m not liberal, but they’re the ones most likely to go to the doctor.
Males are the vast majority of suicides. They’re just not seeking any help until they snap—because that’s the logical thing to do.
Not being a liberal doesn't mean anything.
Men do seek help. I suggest they go to an older (and male) PsyD or PhD if they're using a therapist due to many women in the field and most of them graduating from puppy-mill DEI havens. No need to medicate. That stuff is dangerous.
To the other readers: Don't give this person any personal info about yourselves regarding what professionals you go to. She's digging for info to keep her hateful blog going.
Total delusion
These people have actually been programmed their switches are frozen in position. I unfortunately know some too. They are rigid & push & bully when there is no resistance. I actually don’t think they’re redeemable at this point. It’s pathetic really.
these are my daughters.
In my family too 😅. Just stand your ground.
2 of mine as well.
I’m so sorry! you don’t deserve it!!
it's what it is. it's as its supposed to be..
But yes you are correct. I do not deserve it. They don’t either but they know not what they do.
Family is Uber alles. Always. Always. Always. It’s that simple. It is just that simple.
Willy, if both of your daughters now do not speak to you, that is a you problem.
Engage in some self-awareness.
Stop reading what Josh writes. He's a misogynist who makes excuses for male stupidity. That is the last thing you need in life.
Good luck.
Incredible unsolicited advice. Stunning actually.
Anything else I can improve on?
Anything you yourself might share that you are working on? Doesn’t all have to be about me.
It doesn't matter if it was unsolicited. It's still true.
Awesome!!! 🤩
I'd like to heas more. What actually happened? They stopped talking to you claiming you liked Trump and they couldn't deal? Was that the only reason?
I wonder if this could be a contributing factor to so many adolescent boys taking a notion to "transition"... they might legitimately feel they'd be safer in life as females. Although others of course use it as revenge, ie male athletes invading women's competitions and prison dorms.
Underrated comment, and an interesting hypothesis.
I graduated college in the last five years and had a fuckton of trans-identifying classmates. As far as I can tell, the girls are mostly motivated by either sexual trauma in the past or anticipation of sexual trauma in the future (i.e. they think that being a woman means doing what men want sexually, and the dating pool is nearly all guys who have been jerking off to porn three times a day since they got a phone at age 11 or 12 and are into incredibly sick shit due to the "it takes more and more crazy shit" factor of porn addiction, as Chris Rock discusses in his special "Tambourine"). And the boys are mostly motivated by the desire to be victims instead of oppressors, and thus have social cachet and power. Obviously these observations are filtered through my biased perspective, etc.
Mental, for sure. Most of it has nothing to do with either gender truly feeling like the opposite sex or even having attraction to same sex enough to even warrant idealizing about a sex change.
There was a long hurdle to go thru years ago for a sex change. I won't go into it here now. But these days, you just "identify" (IOW, just say you are) and you're trans. Tomorrow, you can trans back. Or to some other "gender."
Oh sure, nothing mental about that... just like changing underwear, to them.
Indeed, much of our society is permeated with mental and/or emotional illness in some way. Stability is racist, or something. ;)
My daughter-in-law insists that they have to go through a lot, but those were the old days now if you want to change, they will immediately change you. She won’t understand that because she won’t listen So I just shut up now. I don’t have much family left as it is
The process was never really difficult. It was sensible, tho. And like with all things that are worth waiting for, took a long time. Patience is what people no longer have for anything.
To live as the opposite gender that you want to be is in no way difficult if that's who you already are. Know what I mean? To go to a psychiatrist to be evaluated and to be counseled is also not difficult. You already understand what your gender ought to be, in your opinion, so how hard is it to talk about how you feel as a man or woman, whichever way you might be changing to?
To dress like the opposite sex of your birth sex when you feel that way already is not a chore whatsoever. And to be comfortable with that is also not a problem.
Of course, if you are 6'5" and a hairy big lug of a dude wearing a 2 piece bikini, well you are just asking for people to stare at you. Some common sense is needed. And a therapist should be able to say, "Maybe you ought not do the bikini thing just yet."
Things like that, ie common sense, is what the child transing is all about. The med-pharma industry figured if they start them young enough, they won't need to go thru the hassle of electrolysis, or to deal with having a period for a couple decades, and all that other humiliating stuff if the person is obviously not the gender they desire to be.
But that's a shitty excuse to fuck with kids.
And if someone is obviously not gonna pass as an adult making the change, they need to get real and accept that they will have hurdles among society b/c you absolutely cannot force people to not be disgusted at a hideous sight. The transing person MUST be the one to accept their issue, not the other way around.
This is not to say it's okay to discriminate against anyone who is qualified to be in some career or job position, or to be denied housing. But people have to right to not include those they do not want to associate with. That includes me. My folks didn't want to talk to me for 6 months. Fine. I leave people alone. If you don't parade in their faces and make demands, they will usually come back around and accept you. No one likes a belligerent pain in the ass.
And as far as surgeries are concerned... the less, the better. Genital surgery is utter bullshit. And dangerous.
Those are very excellent points.
No offense to anyone here, but, after many years of interacting with college students, I find it hard to believe that a heterosexual boy with no significant trauma simply decides to "transition," so that he can get higher grades due to belonging to an oppressed group. This is not like the white adults who have claimed to be non-white to reap benefits in academia. I absolutely agree that there is trauma, including sexual, for both boys and girls. I do think, though, that the majority consists of gay and lesbian kids who are ashamed or afraid to be gay and caught up in the tidal wave of "transing away the gay." One example that comes to mind is my student who was a butch lesbian in 2017 and became a "trans man" after starting to work at a trans-related organization 3-4 years later. N=1 doesn't prove anything, but I think it's an angle to be considered.
I didn't mention grades. That's absurd. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe 13 years of public education indoctrinating white males to think of themselves as oppressors has no effect at all and the uptick in trans relates to something else entirely. I doubt it, but I've been much more wrong than the possibility of my being wrong here. *shrug*
"Grades" were just a tiny example of "privilege." Sorry I provoked your anger, Holly, and upset you. I should've known better.
I'm not angry. Just well accustomed to people reading words I didn't say. NP.
I think young men transitioning has a lot more to do with the porn addiction you cited. It isn’t talked about as much and instead framed more sympathetically or opportunistic, but I think pornography is breaking the mind of young men at adolescence.
Yep. Dr. Debra Soh has talked about this. She’s interviewed doctors who tell her in hushed, stunned voices about prescribing viagra to 20 year old men who are unable to get erections with real women. Chris Rock talks about this in his Netflix special, Tambourine, which should be mandatory viewing.
Not exactly the same Thing. But women can get to the point where they need a vibrator to orgasm. Substitutes can create problems.
I think it is prolific enough to say that if you meet a young man who is trying to transition, it is safe to say that they have a severe porn addiction.
There is the "gay effeminate man" transitioner. But that usually that comes a little later as the effeminate gay man starts to mature and trying to stave off "twink death" by taking hormones and trying transitioning to keep that physical condition lol. Yet again, with how grooming can happen (I've witnessed it), it can come at a younger age as well.
Man in his 40's transitioning is 100% porn addiction.
Young women that do it seem to come from the field of intense reactions to puberty where they are very uncomfortable with their changing body and the changing social dynamic where men see them in a sexual dimension. Plenty of times both of these can come from trauma/abuse at a younger age. I think there is an element of social contagion, but I think that just elevates those feelings more than creates them.
A functioning society would be able to confront and work with those girls in the same way they would just ban porn for boys.
The conflation of pornographic imagery with gaming and the emergence of trans-identified male influencers in this sphere also deserves more scrutiny. There's something about spending most of your day living in fantasy worlds that seems to rewire the brain. Gamers will go from lusting after Lara Croft-style characters to choosing them as avatars and eventually identifying with them. It's a slippery slope.
I've been following the trajectory of a particular streamer here in the UK who goes by F1nn5ter and it's incredibly alarming. He started off as a sort of goofy geek before developing a female alter ego. He now embodies this alter ego full time and essentially peddles soft porn. He claims to be "gender fluid" but does a lot of trans advocacy. A journalist from The Times who looked into it discovered that he's got a mysterious patron/sugar daddy who played a role in pushing him into transvestic cosplay -- a groomer, basically.
Anyway, I'm digressing but the point is, many of the male online subcultures out there are super toxic and porn-industry-adjacent.
Yes. The intense both soft and hard pornography of online cultures have really fucked a lot of young men and women. I know people think of the young men with the intense visuals and how bombastic they are pushing into other communities. But I know that young women are doing the same thing in their own communities, it just goes through different mediums and manifests different forms, but the end result is a broken identity.
I know who you are talking about and the KiwiFarms documentation of his back ground.
I also think there’s an environmental factor. Meaning, the amount of poisons, chemicals & pesticides in our foods is overwhelming for both sexes’ bodies. Listen to Dr. Casey Means & Calley Means pod on Tucker Carlson or even JRE — plastics are everywhere, in our food, water & air, they contain xeno-estrogens (extra estrogens) AND pesticides (like roundup, 6bil lbs sprayed worldwide) are estrogen receptors. Together it is ramping-up the estrogen levels in all bodies causing the feminization of men (their taints are actually shrinking - read Dr. Shanna Swan) as well as causing cancers & infertility in women, the worse is young girls are going into puberty on average 6yrs earlier than even a decade ago.
It’s scary stuff when you put the media-control & the purposeful poisons for profit into account. Our bodies & minds are being attacked every day, making those susceptible to coercion or ideological thinking worse.
While I think the online socialization is a bigger factor here, I do see the merit in things like people hitting puberty and becoming sexually active at earlier ages being a result of things like our diet or the drugs we take.
Males have weak minds, hate women (Josh here is proof), and they just watch porn as you admit.
Males don't want to be victims. They're just disgusting.
No.
Men hate women (Josh is proof) and they watch too much porn.
There is nothing complicated going on in the male mind here.
Two comments:
1) the TV thing - which extends to all media - has turned McLuhan on its head. It’s the messenger who is the message nowadays, no longer the medium. If the person delivering the message is on the “other” side - say, Tucker or Maher, the listener will reject the message regardless of veracity. Just BECAUSE of who’s delivering it.
2) the woman thing is an outgrowth of enfranchisement + chivalry. Having become accustomed to their needs & desires put first culturally by opening doors, carrying packages, first in the lifeboat, they’ve developed the idea that their needs must be primary in politics, too. Holding the key to sex only magnifies their ability to demand - and how nuts they go when their demands aren’t met.
IMO time will fix item 1. Only disenfranchisement can fix item 2. It’s suffrage OR civilization.
We definitely have to repeal the 19th amendment. Anything after 11 is terrible
One of my close female friends is being sent into panic regularly by her husband starting a renovation project on their attic so he can hide Muslims once Trump starts building camps. (I wish I were kidding; he's that deep in the cult.) I have no real relationship with him but I do with her, and she's way better now. I started with asking why the Democrats are PROUD of arranging to peacefully give Hitler the nuclear codes? What sense does that make? Once she admitted it makes no sense, that logically leads to they know he's not Hitler, which leads to they talked about him in "Hitler" terms specifically to panic voters, which leads to justified anger at being manipulated like that. Awhile after that, I was able to lead her into questioning if she feels pressured to be miserable -- if there's an unspoken social pressure to 'perform' distress, which of course there is. Once she saw both of those, she was 80% better. Now I've sent her a book, "Hate Crime Hoax" by Wilfred Reilly. All I told her about it was, "A black college professor investigated most of the hate crimes that made the news in the last few years. These are his findings." I did that specifically because black college professors are unquestionable authorities in the leftist worldview, LOL. She's reading it and now angry at the media.
Slow, steady red-pilling in progress.....
I wonder if this is going to lead to a major ideological conflict in her marriage.
A good question. So far he's responded to her efforts at calming him down by playing the man card (ie "if society breaks down, you'll be expecting me to protect you") which is true and leaves her with no real response.
The best response would be "Being that you are not Muslim, you seem to be very concerned about protecting Muslims. So what have you been doing to protect us? Don't you think you have have an obligation to me and our family first?"
And.. just a pre-thought - what happens if the muslims ask the wife to where a head covering?
No, Muslims are very tolerant and understanding of other peoples beliefs - until they assume power or become the majority.
Except he’s such a neurotic, he won’t be much of a protector for anyone
Holly, at least the husband being the hysterical leftist while the wife is closer to sane is an interesting change of pace.
Maybe they should find a couple with the opposite polarity and just trade.
I think that this is the case more often than we realize. There is still a significant majority of cases where the wife is the hysterical one. But just like we often fail to recognize anger as an emotion when a man is angry, I think men with this attitude are looked at as just being concerned with how they'll protect their families. It's not recognized as an emotional reaction, whereas almost everything that women do is recognized as an emotional reaction. Again, I'm not implying that it's anywhere near 50-50. It isn't. I just think it's probably not as lopsided as most of us think.
Seems like your friend's husband has "Gies Family envy" (compare to the much more common "Selma envy", or the more right-coded "Iwo Jima envy" that characterized my youth).
What I mean by that is that he has the noble desire to do his part in a great fight against evil, but lacks the discernment to see the present through any other lens.
This man who's building rooms in his attic to hide Muslims from Trump must be one of those people who thought that SARS-COV-2 was 50% deadly, that 10% of Americans had died of it by 2021, and that exposing your nostrils and lips was comparable to opening fire with a machine gun into a crowd.
First, you are doing the Lord's work, and bless you for it.
Second... has she considered chiming in with all of the things these Muslims will need to have a proper sleeping area and study? Books and [anything else she really wants for her future "me time" area] are quite important to them, you know...
Okay, but that Stephen Hawking joke was actually hilarious.
I know I laughed.
Jesus this is real. I have too many experiences to share as I worked for 20 years in non profit after school, which is embedded within public schools.
DEI destroyed my field and lost me my job, my whole family is aware. They were there to hear the crap I endured. What I have come to and they have not is that one party pushed all of this nonsense.
Here is whar happened for me, post election, that may be more inspiring and less sad.
A few days post election I was speaking to my mother. She was upset and going on about how awful Trump and his supporters are. I had not yet told her I voted for Trump and I am the only one in my family and circle that did. I simply asked her, "what would you tell a Trump voter?" I was not trying to be mean, but was hurt that my ma would so readily write off half of the nation (and I was part of that half!). She didn't have a response, so I simply asked that she not vent and rage.
The following day I wrote an email to my mom, dad, and brother stating that I left the Democrat Party, registered Independent, and this time around, voted Trump. I stated that i am not a fascist, nazi, idiot, nor did I vote against my best interests. I actually voted for my best interests.
We decided not to discuss politics over the holidays, and we had one of the best Thanksgivings in a long time.
We chose love and family over politics.
How did DEI cost you your job?
Dei was and still is mostly undefined. So, I asked for definitions, pushed back when told that 'You're white and he's black so cultural humility'. I asked basic questions that literally no one could or wanted to answer. If they had answered then it would have stopped.
For example, 'when did we prove we are anti black and racist?' (For which I was called ignorant). 'Do it have a "lived experience?"' (Silence).
I stated people in the non profit sphere were using 'white men' as a curse word ('but, I don't see that', was the response).
Dei demands of you what it's adherents can never provide: humility.
So what happened with your job?
I lost it. Can't say more. Yes, I'd love to use the legal system to my benefit. It hasn't worked out yet.
And have you considered suing?
Well, for one, this is the huge reason I divorced my own gender.
So, please understand that while I might not have a penis, nobody knows that except me, and unfortunately the people I need to tell so that they don't shit on every category out there b/c I am not part of that bullshit. I do not do the LGBT crap. And I don't expect anyone to make up for any lack of manliness b/c I don't whine about a damned thing I need to do around my property or in my social life.
I'm retired now, but I've been a trucker and warehouseman (10 years), a very well paid traveling IT consultant (6 figures) and senior financial analyst at Dow Jones and other corporations (10 years), a banker (12 years), and a video producer (9 years). No one gave me a fucking penny, EVER. Not my folks, who have lost everything including their home due to coddling my sister and her out-of-wedlock 30 year old brat.
I have sucked it up all my damned life. I have more than proved myself to be a man.
And my mom, sister, and niece (as well as my feminist stepfather) are all Democrat TDS sufferers. They are constantly about their needs and how this society has left them behind. And they despise that I have gone it all alone and own my house, despite all the difficulties, and the high level of pain after being hit by a car over 20 years ago. And yet, I had to return to work after retirement b/c I cannot afford a $300/mo loan for the 10 year old truck I needed to replace my 20 year old Ranger which I lovingly took care of. And the high taxes.
I am still paying for brats going to public school even though I have never had any kids. I am paying for all the mommas coming into Wallyworld with their Snap and WIC. And the looney tunes who are too lazy or retarded to get or stay at a friggen job.
I won't even mention the 100% of lesbian "partners" who are totally clueless about how to be in a relationship. They are worse than the straight ones I've been with since. But they're all insane. I cannot stand the females at the job, save for one or two. They are smug and expect guys to bow down and kiss their butts. And yet, they all consider themselves not merely "equal," but superior.
One said to me, I don't want kids b/c they'll destroy my body!" I wanted to tell her, she ain't got far to go for that. And her mom works there, too. Both of them enjoy watching me knock myself out working while they avoid customers getting into their line.
But yeah, a lot of men are just as lazy, these days. Especially the ones working indoors. They have adopted this excessively prissy attitude of "getting back at the man." What the hell is that? If you apply for a job and then accept it, you made the decision to work for whomever the company is owned by. And Wallyworld is -- like it or not -- owned by the shareholders, which means anyone invested in W/M stock. Get a clue, FFS.
Hating capitalism is like saying you rather be some indigenous barbarian without electricity. Prior to the industrial age, all these morons would be total nothings, having nothing, and knowing nothing. School didn't even exist. Yet that's their biggest obsession as socialist feminists: overpriced and useless schools. Pretty funny, right?
Anyway, sorry to belabor you fellow readers.
Thanks for your post, Josh. I wish it weren't the case about women these days, but that's human nature. This is why some things have to be controlled... ie, emotions. We used to tell employees not to bring their problems to work. Now, we tell them to bring their "whole self."
Big mistake, in my opinion.
You sound literally insane.
Huh? Why?
Well said, Josh.
And this is why most young men aren’t dating, because we know most young women will grow up to be our aunts etc and sadly most aren’t interested in that fight to help and heal.
Young men aren't dating because nobody wants to fuck them. They hate women, and it's as plain as day. Why should any woman want to touch someone who hates her? And why do men pursue women if they're so inferior to men? Oh wait, because they're not.
Tinder is 78% male. That's all you need to know.
Oh, and women don't owe men anything. We're not your personal assistants/punching bags/emotional support animals meant to clean up the messes you make while you fuck everything up as you claim how superior you are.
You aren't. Women aren't going to "heal" you. You are the problem, clean your own mess, and laugh at your own rape jokes as you destroy yourselves.
Might be interesting to geographically map (i.e., contour) the US frequency of this problem. I wonder if there is a coastal gradient, with frequency increasing to the west and the east. Or, it might be focused on urban areas. If so, it would suggest it's a locally cultural phenomenon. (The idea occurred to me in retrospect of my Californian sister's long time salient behavior in this regard.)
Excellent commentary and are right on the money. In our family things are fine, and I actively play the role you describe. But I do see the problem all around. I see it in my kids teachers. I actually put up a sign on our dining room wall that says Nullius In Verba, which in Latin means 'Don't Take Their Word For it'. Its the motto of the Royal Society, the very essence of science - don't just accept assertions, demand empirical evidence and ask questions. I encourage my two girls (9 and 10) to NOT just buy what their teachers are selling but to be skeptical and ask questions (especially on political matters like gender ideology, climate change and indigenous propaganda). All three family women mock me for the sign and roll their eyes occasionally when I point to it, but I can see its paying off and the message is sinking in.
Good I’m a retired teacher and you should always tell them half the shit teacher say is bull with her. It’s some leftist, ideal or fake history or fake science. If I had a kid today, I would homeschool. I know it’s hard, but it was possible for me to stay home and my husband only made about average money. People want Amazon gifts every day for themselves. Bigger houses. Now they have to have a two car garage. They have to have a separate bath and shower. Is this good enough reason to put a precious little baby with strangers after being with them only a few weeks?