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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world -2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's predictable because that's what any sane person would say. Your whole comment is basically saying that you have terrible self esteem and aren't charismatic. You don't think that's the problem?

You are latching on to this fantasy that the game is already lost because you aren't "aggressive" enough for a reason. It means the situation is out of your hands and you don't have to commit to anything or change your own problem behavior.

Grow up bro. It's not everyone else's duty to deal with your incel bullshit either. It's one thing to have a bad thought pattern, it's another to blame women so you don't have to deal with yourself.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 18 hours ago

Being well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society is no measure of sanity.

You're right, I have terrible self-esteem and I'm not charismatic. Are you going to keep doubling down that that's somehow my fault? As if I'm just choosing arbitrarily to be that way? As if I have any choice at all? Literally any other demographic expresses those kinds of issues and you'll say it's society's fault, but when it's a man then you treat him like a punching bag because he's an easy target. "Hey everyone, gang up on the loser! Hey loser, this is your fault for being a loser! Stop being such a loser and then maybe people will respect you!"

You are latching on to this fantasy that the game is already lost because you aren't "aggressive" enough for a reason

There's multiple reasons why I've "lost" the "game" of life (your words, not mine). And one part of it, the subject of this thread, is that society rewards aggressive domineering behavior in men and punishes men for showing passiveness or empathy. There are literal studies done on this, just look up the prevalence of dark triad traits in high-level corporate positions.

Stop gaslighting me that society is perfect and everything is my fault, because I guarantee you that as soon as anyone other than a cishetero white man starts complaining about their life you'll be all "oh that's so unfair, you know society is really sick and broken." But no apparently society is perfect whenever I have a problem. Look yourself in a fucking mirror.

Grow up bro. It's not everyone else's duty to deal with your incel bullshit either.

You're seriously telling me to grow up while you're tossing around a childish insult about being unable to get laid, specifically to denigrate me after I mentioned society's tendency to reward toxic masculinity and punish effeminate men for non-conformity, and the personal impact this has had on my life?

You don't realize how counter-productive that is? You're only reinforcing toxic masculinity and stigmatizing anyone who calls out the patterns and pushes back on it.

It's one thing to have a bad thought pattern, it's another to blame women so you don't have to deal with yourself.

Point to where I ever blamed "women" for my thought patterns. I made a societal critique. The bulk of that critique is how society rewards toxic traits and punishes emotional intelligence or perceived feminity.

Are people not allowed to critique society? Cause if not then I guess you say the same thing to feminists, right?