I’m getting really sick of leftist social media like Bluesky just being about being another echo chamber and completely unaware of it because “we’re the good politics!”
The sentiment that men are only men if they’re associated with the right has been out in full swing for a few years now and it’s just tiring.
Harris didn’t win because men will never accept a woman president. Except all the men who voted for her, they don’t count, the left gets told it has a problem with men all the time and deflects by saying that it’s men who have the problem by going to the right and supporting them.
Never, not once, are men acknowledged for supporting leftist beliefs or voting for the party, and it’s even looked down upon when they ask for acknowledgement, like it’s entitlement while men on the right live rent free in the heads of the leftist base.
Men get shit on for being asked to be recognized as men on the left but that identity is freely given to men on the right, they don’t have to ask to be acknowledged or recognized because they’re doing what is expected by being the bad guys.
Straight men in particular, you’ll be recognized as a man on the left if you’re gay because it assures everyone who isn’t a man you don’t want anything from them.
Like for fuck’s sake the right is abhorrent and shames women and LBGTQ people for their existence I don’t know how the left got to this point of also saying “you’re not really a man unless you hate women” and not realizing they’re perpetuating the same bullshit.
Like I don’t hate women for being women, but I fucking hate when people assert “all men just hate women” because it’s dumb shit gender essentialism that is just dismissing anything a guy might say in response that isn’t telling the speaker to go fuck themselves.
Yeah of course the right is doing better with men, they aren’t shaming them for existing and only acknowledging them as being pieces of shit.
It’s frustrating because there’s days where I want to say fuck it and go join the other side and I think the left actually wants that more than the right does because they validate men who do it and men who stick with the left? “Yeah whatever do you want a medal?”
How about to be recognized as the gender I identify as and a human being? Apparently too much to ask when it’s a man.
Feels like I’m being baited here…
As (I am) a full swing left cis het white guy, you’re feeling written off because people aren’t acknowledging you?
Man I’m pretty happy to apologize for the arrogance exhibited by the majority of my ilk, to be acknowledged that we aren’t all like that, and to have it never be brought up again. I don’t need a spotlight shone on me, my troubles are the same as most people’s, except I’m not fighting to keep my rights or having my character questioned because of my nature (something that I’ve noticed should probably be happening more, but I’m among the privileged that are first overlooked).
You voted for Kamala, did you also vote for Obama twice? And would’ve a third time? Paying lip service and voting are the absolute minimums you could do, and I don’t think you can say we aren’t represented by the left wing when we have newsome, sanders and 50% (number from my ass) of the rest of the left wing elected officials representing cishet white guys, and those who aren’t are still representing us, I’ve not heard 1 of them say “down with white guys”.
I come from Christopher Titus ‘love is evol’ school, “I’m whitie and I apologize” I don’t need any more help or acknowledgement than what I’m given getting to exist in this society built around people like me for me, I just want to see others share in the privilege that I’ve existed in my entire life.
You can call it bait and be dismissive, but it’s a real problem for Democrats. It’s not all exactly the same, but this is consistent with why Republicans made gains with unions, White men, and Latinos.
Yeah this is obvious bait.
I probably just added ammunition to the algorithm for how to deal with people when these asinine questions are posed, I’m a bad future citizen. My grandkids (lol) will question why I acknowledge these obvious traps and keep taking for future scams… Back in my day I trained these things, of course they’re going to get me every time.
I was about to write a long-ass response, but I saw your comment mentioning that it might be bait and I realized you were right. Our grandkids are going to have to defeat the algorith just like we slay the dragons of our own ancestors.