This is not my personal opinion, I know Gen Z men who voted for Harris. But the voter demographics really speak for themselves, and maybe now people will look at the radicalization of young men as a serious (but solvable) issue.

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I can see why some young men might feel like the Democratic party is prioritizing women’s issues over those affecting men, especially young men. In fact, it might seem like the Democratic party is not only indifferent to struggling young men, but hostile to them. I can understand why someone might not want to vote for a party that thinks of them as deplorable, pathetic losers.

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Issues affecting young women:

  1. Rapes aren’t prosecuted
  2. Government forced births
  3. Bleeding out in a parking lot
  4. Widespread misogyny

Issues affecting young men:

  1. Girls won’t put out
  2. There aren’t enough pickup trucks
  3. Joe Rogan is being victimized by jews
  4. Germ theory and masks or something

How exactly can a political party address what is for men essentially a collection of toxic culture issues?

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Issues affecting young men:

  1. Rape reports are ignored and not taken seriously
  2. Not trained in the tools to deal with mental health and emotions
  3. High expectation to make money but low job prospects
  4. Jerks trivializing the fact that men have real concerns because OtHeRs HaVe It WoRsE.

It should be empathy for all. Asshat.

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Your list is the issues that men are actually facing, but what OP posted is what the clout chasing “alpha influencers” tout as “men’s actual problems”.

For everyone’s sake, we need to start reclaiming men’s spaces from these Andrew Taint-wannabe’s, and towards people like you. They don’t care about anything but their bank accounts.

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I don’t disagree with your issues facing women. But your issues young men face is very disingenuous

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Its disingenuous to the actual issues facing young men, but right on point for how people seem to see mens issues. It is in fact a perfect example of why men might just feel put upon by the left.

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How exactly can a political party address what is for men essentially a collection of toxic culture issues?

I don’t necessarily know, and neither does the Democratic party, which is at least part of the reason why Trump just got reelected.

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Talk about diving people, what a prime example. What would you say if I name fashion as one of the primary female problems? Or having good pictures on Instagram?

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This is the exact kind of attitude they meant

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Is there a visual representation of 3. being nailed to a cross for dramatization purposes?

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It’s not so much a crucifix but a lowercase letter T for his low-testosterone he’s so obsessed with

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Don’t forget them just being mad at the concept of child support

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Oh yeah, good point.

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I think many men, whether they realize it or not, feel specifically persecuted by trans rights. They might say that allowing trans women in women’s sports is cheating and that it would allow the trans women to be successful in the sport over less merit than they as cis males would have to. The deconstruction of the gender/sex binary also threatens cis males’ historic position as self-assigned protectors, leaders, and winners of the “weaker sex”. There is also the phobia among men of discovering that the woman whom they want to romance is trans, which really comes down to masculine fragility and conformity that leads to homophobia (in the sense of XY + XY, not gender) and transphobia. As a cis male, these men need to get over themselves.

Many men also believe that gun control is a threat to them. They need these guns in case a fascist power ever seizes the government and they need to fight back, so they are actively voting for the fascist powers to seize the government so that they can keep their guns.

There are also men who hold prejudice against any religion except Christianity so leftwing inclusivity efforts and anti-prejudice efforts come across as welcoming these perceived threats. These men aren’t simply just the redneck Bible thumpers or even devout or practicing Christians, but they just see the most common belief system around them as the default.

It’s not that these issues are a threat to men, but that they perceive them as threats.

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