Men In America

Used to want to be rock stars.

But that was back before the cell phone camera. All the perks of being a rock star are gone. You can no longer rape and pillage across America, and you aren't even that rich, so where is the opportunity?

Rape and pillage. You can't use the former word if you're a male. It's taboo. The language police will get you. As a matter of fact, if you're male in America today you're constrained, you're issued a list of taboo behaviors at birth and if you cross them...

Now of course this doesn't apply to all men. But somewhere along the line all men were considered macho boors. You're lumped into that category by your penis, period. You're aggressive and macho and not in touch with your feelings and if we don't constrain you, there will be trouble.

Not if you're a college graduate, not if you're a winner, but not everybody can be a winner.

And if you don't go to college, where does that leave you?

With the short end of the stick, not much money and not much power. All you can do is sit around and let your anger stew, get drunk, listen to bro podcasts.

The left brought this upon itself. Hell, the most reasonable of men can't live up to Democratic standards. They too are lumped into the macho bag, any rough edges are decried, if you don't acknowledge the equality and power of women you're a pariah. Truly.

Hang with me here. I'm trying to explain the vibe, where we were, how we got here, if you're nitpicking you're missing the point.

I'm inundated with right wing blowback. Which is marked by misspellings and bad grammar. Just today I got an e-mail from someone talking about Jimmy Kimmal and Jay Lenno...

What has that person's life been like? Probably not good. Because if you make mistakes like this chances are you are not educated and cannot get a good job and therefore you are resentful. And this resentment trumps everything else in your life, this is why you vote for Trump.

You're driving Uber. You're barely making ends meet. And all you hear about is social welfare for people of color and the disadvantaged. It's not that you're really against these people getting help, but you're pissed that no one is looking out for you, no one is taking action regarding your problems. Where are the better jobs? And if I hang with my bros and get high after work I'm still going to be denigrated.

We all need something to live for. For most it's job or family or both.

But what if you have a lousy job and can't get laid.

To you it looks like the world has been feminized. Look at the Spotify Top 50, dominated by KPop Demon Hunters. Sure, there are male fans of KPop, but if you'd rather wrestle and talk about hunting, is this going to be your music?

And we do have a problem with guns in America, but there are people who like to hunt. But if you kill anything in America today you're the problem, not the solution, even though in many areas conservation is handled via hunting, otherwise deer and other animals would overwhelm the area.

You're constantly being told that your behavior and values are wrong.

Don't confuse these men with religious zealots, or rich profiteers, they're the rank and file. They listen to Rogan and Theo Von not because they think they're right so much as these guys don't talk down to them, they make them feel COMFORTABLE!

Come on... You see a guy with a blue collar job driving an old pickup and you don't judge them? Maybe you don't, but a lot of educated/desirable women do. And if these guys dare to approach women...they've got to run a gauntlet to get access. No means no...

There are many bad actors who need to be taught limits. Then there are normal guys, maybe insecure and shy, who'd have trouble with women in any event but are lumped in with bad actors...

It's kind of like mass shooters. The main thing they have in common is mental derangement. But if a shooter is trans or has any other characteristic, if you share it, you're tarred too.

Are macho males going to be fans of Justin Bieber?

Look once again at the Spotify Top 50. We've got Alex Warren and Benson Boone and the sexed-up Disney star Sabrina Carpenter? She's enticing all the men who know they've got absolutely no chance, despite decrying her pop music. But all the media is raving about her and Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo and...where are the concomitant male stars, marinating in their maleness?

Well, there are some in the heavy metal/active rock world... Then again, a lot of them are cartoons, not truly dangerous, that's just an image. If you want something that resonates, you go to the Gathering of the Juggalos.

Or are a fan of a dangerous rapper. One who brandishes a weapon and risks going to jail. That guy is STICKING IT TO THE MAN! Somebody's got to do it. Many males see men who test limits as part of a great rebellion, a great reaction, against a system that keeps them down.

One of the reasons the left can't get organized against the right is because those on the left have it pretty good, are complacent. They're not worried about the working man, which is why these people are now Republicans, they can only provide lip service.

So you've got Scott Galloway and others talking about how we have to lift up young men. I'd say we have to change the attitudes of those who are already here.

Men are different from women, don't try to turn them into metrosexuals and don't pooh-pooh all their behavior. Everybody wants to keep men in a box.

As for the male leaders on the left...

Who can identify with Chuck Schumer? And Gavin Newsom is slick. As for Cory Booker...I've never met anybody like him. Where can I see people like myself, that's what men want to know.

Well, those guys aren't given positions of power because they have edges that are too rough. Which is why men cotton to Elon Musk, because at least he's unconstrained, he's got power.

You might look at the downsides of Musk, but what are you providing in the alternative?

Talk about orthodoxy... A male might vote for Kamala Harris for intellectual reasons, but emotional ones? She's as phony and wishy-washy as they come. But if a male says this he's accused of breaking the Democratic code, and if you do this they don't want you around... Big tent, my ass.

You went to high school, didn't you? What did it feel like to be left out, to have no power. You weren't cool, you weren't part of the student government, you didn't play on a sports team, it's almost like you didn't exist. But supposedly graduation was liberation. NOT ANYMORE! Regular life is like the purgatory of high school.

And the funny thing is if you don't play along, it drives the women and their minions NUTS! If you say something politically incorrect, they just can't handle it. You'd think that you shot someone.

And where are the men on the left saying NO MAS! Standing up to the pronoun and trans people in sports and men having babies rhetoric. Everyone on the left is so afraid of offending a single person that they bend over backwards to defend every person, to the point of ridiculousness. But they aren't bending over backward to support the average male, who is considered to have been born on third base.

We don't live in a post-racial society, but to look at everything through the lens of the past is plain wrong. Women may still be disadvantaged, but they've come a long way, baby. And the problem with DEI isn't that those gaining advantage are unworthy, but more WHO'S LOOKING OUT FOR ME!

Let's be clear. I'm focusing on a subset of the population. Not every man and not every Republican man. But there are those those who believe they got a raw deal and no one is listening to them. And believe me, no one on the left is. It's like showing up at a black tie event in a Canadian tuxedo. You stand out and are laughed at.

You just don't do it right. People are constantly watching you for bad behavior.

We don't need a major adjustment here, only a subtle one.

Men can't be guilty until proven innocent. Not every male is a wannabe rapist.

As for behavior... Why is it only girls' actions are approved. So, the male world tends to be more physical...do we have to leave all of our maleness aside to be accepted?

Women need men too.

And women get to choose. Never underestimate that.

As for the media... It's so afraid of being excoriated by the left wing police that it's complicit.

From little kids to adults, we have to change our behavior towards men. If a little boy is running ragged on the playground, raising his voice, he is not defective. Ditto men. But they're told they never grew up.

Wow.

Is it worse being poor and broke and a person of color? ABSOLUTELY! But that does not mean the plight of the average male should be forsaken.

We've got a problem here, and those on the left aren't even aware of it.

They created this problem. They created the men on the right who hate the libs.

And they give these men no reason to love them.

Think about it.


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