What Does the Manosphere Reveal About Modern Masculinity and Its Contradictions?

Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project

Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/06/23

Because nothing is manlier than:

• ranting on hypergamy at 2 a.m.
• being obsessed about meat and men without shirts.
• rating everyone’s sexual market value, like day-traders.
• proclaiming yourself an alpha male, on Reddit.
• spending Friday night memorizing pickup lines.
• announcing you’re going your own way — then publishing a manifesto.
• calling women shallow.
• punching homosexuals.
• launching a red-pill podcast, for no one.
• warning women about “the Wall” while ignoring a receding hairline.
• tweeting all Andrew Tate’s tenets before breakfast.
• boasting about your NoFap “superpowers” during a blackout.
• calling strangers “soy boys” while sipping a soy-milk latte.
• dropping your bench-press PR into every thread.
• ranking unwatched manosphere podcasts.
• “negging” dates because a pickup blog said so.
• paying $2,997 to learn “hi.”
• chewing a jaw exerciser to looks-maxx.
• tweeting your monk-mode focus journey.
• launching a crypto hustle “for the bros.”
• starting each dawn with an “alpha” cold shower and ending it flame-posting on Reddit.
• live-tweeting your No-Nut-November “streak,”

truly, helping the many young men who lack sufficient healthy guidance.

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#alphaPosturing #fragileEgo #manosphereCringe #pickupArtistry #toxicMasculinity

#Politics #trump #Polls #FirstAmmendment #FreeSpeech #ABC #NBC #Censorship #FragileEgo #HurtFeelings #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 8/25/25
TRUMP’S FEELINGS HURT BY POLLS THREATENS ABC &NBC WITH PULLING LICENSES THEREBY VIOLATING FREE SPEECH

Rage Against the Machine:
Agent Orange is upset that many AI apps appear to be ‘woke’, and therefore, are mean to him. Plans to do something about that.

Given AI relies on the material it is able to collect from multiple worldwide sources and historical information, it’s hardly the app’s fault that he and his policies are seen as problematic when AI responds.
#trump #ai #llm #uspol #fragileego

The other day at work we had a show in who brought along their own very capable sound technician. As I was getting him all set up to run their show in our venue, I showed him how to do some esoteric routing in our #digico console that solved a problem for him.

A little later, I noticed he was running #ReaperDAW for recording the show. He started about tediously adding a track, then clicking through a series of menus to assign the routing, rinse & repeat 40some times.

I said "oh, you're a Reaper fella too, eh?"

"Yeah, it's great and all... but I don't suppose you have any tricks to make this go faster?"

Boy did I.

I showed him how to add all his tracks at once.
How to arm them all at once.
How to use the Routing Matrix to VERY quickly assign channel routing.
How to quickly name all the tracks.

At the end of 2 minutes, he had his reaper file ready to rock and told me "they should double your salary".

While he's not wrong, it got me thinking about other industry pros who protect all their knowledge like gold charms hanging from their belt. I've encountered them, too.

I DID NOT spend decades suffering, bleeding, failing, learning, succeeding, writing my own rules, etc just to have ALL THAT CRAZY COOL SHIT die with me.

Information is for *everyone* and I personally will trip over myself with excitement for any opportunity to pass it along.

#theatre #liveSound #jobSecurity #fragileEgo #shareYourExpertise

#Trump launches savage #attack on #bishop who asked for ‘mercy’ for #minorities
https://www.politico.eu/article/donld-trump-launches-savage-attack-on-bishop-mariann-budde-who-asked-for-mercy-for-minorities-lgbtq-immigrants/

#mercy #fragileego #fragileegos #immigrants

https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/112071918278343313

At 15-18, I was recruited as a pitcher for a boys' baseball team, subbed for male teams in baseball leagues, bat comps, subbed as sstop, backcatcher & 2nd base. Why? I pitched at 85+mph.

I saw this behaviour a lot, & nonsense we've been seeing in 2024, I'm not surprised. I had male coaches bitching, saying I shouldn't be there. 3yrs I heard it, and I say fuck them.

Let them play. It's their problem if they can't take it.

#Fragileego #fuckem #seriouslywhatthefuck