brazenautomaton:

nostalgebraist:

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nostalgebraist:

I wonder if somewhere on the internet there’s a right-wing equivalent of Your Fave Is Problematic that calls out “beta males” and encourages people to shun them

I don’t think there’s the same need for a specific format/structure. Like, it happens here because we feel the need to rationalize aggression/mockery to make it acceptable. There’s got to be an ostensible ethics/politics/whatever-related reason to talk shit about someone, even though a lot of the time that’s obviously not really what’s behind a call-out. We dress our aggression up and take it out to dinner.

But, like, some guy on Reddit mentions spending less time playing Dwarf Fortress to spend time with his GF? It’s just expected that there are going to be responses suggesting DF-compliant ways of murdering her (magma, etc) and joking about the gelding mechanic. No structure, no explanation, it’s just there.

I feel like the thing that makes toxic masculinity actually toxic is the requirement that guys accept and participate in all these spontaneous pile-ons over failure-to-conform-to-the-impossible-standard. It’s built into that standard that you’ve got to be ready to attack and be attacked at any time.

This is all true, but I have this sense that if you delve into PUA / red pill / alt-right / 8chan / etc. etc. circles, there are a lot of fault lines that are relatively stable and recognized, where one subset of that big tent thinks another subset really consists of beta males (or w/e), even though everyone in the tent fancies himself an alpha.  And there’s an ethical imperative associated with this – we can’t let these betas corrupt our movement!

Although I haven’t really done the “research” necessary to actually know about these spheres (I am obsessed with a number of bad things, but not this one, yet), so I could just be mistaken.

The thread I had been reading involved someone from one of these spheres saying that the sphere should dissociate from a blogger, who some people in the sphere liked, because (?) he was a “gamma male.”  That definitely gives me a YFIP vibe.

gamma males have started to grow legs out of their sides and manifest clusters of eyes, as part of the metamorphosis enabled by the atmosphere of their native planet SR388

gamma males have an attack that looks like they are licking the air, but it’s really supposed to be an electrical discharge thing

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  4. matchazed reblogged this from nostalgebraist and added:
    It’s been replaced by “cuck” mostly as far as I can tell, though I don’t think there is as organized of a “these people...
  5. fipindustries reblogged this from nostalgebraist and added:
    as far as ive seen on 4chan there certainly is that phenomena but it doesnt really have a specific word or denomination...
  6. vaniver reblogged this from nostalgebraist and added:
    I think that even if you were familiar with those spheres, you might not be able to tell because of differing internal...
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    gamma males have started to grow legs out of their sides and manifest clusters of eyes, as part of the metamorphosis...
  8. nostalgebraist reblogged this from snarpreplies and added:
    This is all true, but I have this sense that if you delve into PUA / red pill / alt-right / 8chan / etc. etc. circles,...