Studying the contemporary Manosphere, one cannot help noticing that a lot of young men's ideas about women are mature beyond all expectations. When I was young, adult men never spoke to younger men in a serious way. Older men had nothing meaningful to say, it seemed. The mainstream media filled that communication vacuum with its 'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah' fairy tales about women being perfect angels offering free sex to everybody: little wonder our formative years were so bruising and difficult, continually struggling with these deluded fantasies.
The cucked horseshit we were raised with |
Yes, we went round thinking that our young adult lives would be a dizzy reel of ecstatic trysts and love affairs with giving, nubile goddesses: in short, a living James Bond movie. There were a few 'men's rights' publications like Male View in the UK (for which I wrote a few things), though these were hopelessly calling for Tradcuck counter-revolution and the restoration of pre-Boomer gender-relations. In sum, there simply was no elaborate Red Pill toolkit to discuss gender-relations back in the 70's, 80's or 90's; no conceptual shorthand, if you will. Concepts like The Wall, SMV, the Sexual Marketplace, AWALT, Gynocentrism, the various Pills, MGTOW and the rest had simply not been framed. Even I - yes, I - believed that all women were more or less the same in different countries and cultures; that Anglo-American civilisation was not tainted by residual puritanism; and that everyone over 16 was bouncing around in bed with models and film stars. When life did not match these lofty expectations, we thought it was just 'us'; that everyone else was having a great time, an elaborate fiction sustained by the still-potent mainstream media.
Awakened younger men might laugh: but that is simply what mainstream society told us. And at the time, the mainstream media was our only source of information beyond personal experience. Other than celebrities with wildly unrepresentative lifestyles (extensions of the mainstream media, in other words), older men did not really contribute their experience to our lives. They seemed to be from a different and largely irrelevant world of organised religion and unrewarding hyper-conformity; and consequently shunned and ignored. Fathers could not talk meaningfully to their sons about any serious issue; at best, they offered lame-ass advice that meant something when gender-relations (and society in general) were completely different.
When it happened, the all-conquering Internet immediately obliterated this dysfunctional model. For the first time in centuries - in fact, the first time since prehistory or remote antiquity - older men could communicate directly with younger men, sharing their experience in a clear and unobstructed way. With some caveats, the current state of the Manosphere is a direct reflection - indeed, expression - of this 'communication revolution' across generations. In the Manosphere, the physical boundaries that divide different generations of men no longer exist. Like ancient Macedonia, where anyone could speak man to man with his chief and any chief with his king, the Internet is a true democracy. Doubtless the anonymity of the internet helps in this regard. When young men can't see a doddering old sucker, they can listen to his words without prejudice; when older men can't see some shabby NEET, they are far more likely to talk honestly with him.
And the Manosphere is the direct product of this unprecedented engagement. Out there on YouTube, there are a whole bunch of excellent commentators - VVS, Undead Chronic, The MGTOW Monk or Sandman - and all are young men. For though they face the most misandrist culture in history, no mainstream media exists to gull them into cuckdom: in particular, no coherent youth culture exists. And this curious collision of circumstances has produced men who are infinitely more enlightened than I ever was at their age; and I am now an acknowledged leader of Manosphere thought. In youth, I did not even consider concepts like the Wall, hypergamy, SMV, the Sexual marketplace, misandry, hybristophilia, looks-maxxing, gym-maxxing, sex-negative feminism or all the other issues awakened men now take for granted. Yet these young commentators are mostly 18 to 25 (or younger) and they are fully conversant with all these ideas! Yes, they build their arguments on concepts created and developed by dissident anti-feminists from older generations and modulate them to meet their own needs; but the fact is, these young fellows more or less KNOW what is going on. And they know because they grew up with an exciting, empowering online conversation about the reality of gender relations in the Anglosphere buzzing in their ears; a conversation provided by us. We, by contrast, grew up hearing rock stars, parents and academics telling us that all women are flawless, wonderful angels handing out free sex to everyone. And we only learned Red Pill truth the hard way: through long, hard, bitter experience.
Power to these young fellows; they are surely cutting a lot of crap out of their lives by seeing women for what they really are. Indeed, many older TFLers/MRAs/MGTOWs surely envy their youthful knowledge and insight. Sometimes, though, I worry that these young men have been robbed of their youthful idealism by the Manosphere; they talk and think like divorced guys in their forties and fifties, not youths in their teens and early twenties; and that is hardly natural. But then I watch a MGTOW video about evil Anglobitch feminists like the one below, and know my time building the Manosphere was time well spent: