• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    13 hours ago

    This is top tier gaslighting. I dont know why people bend over backwards to blame anyone but women for the 6ft meme. Manosphere reacted to a real thing and grifted off it growing it into political campaigning but is was real sentiment experienced by men. I’m not short and I see it happen all the time. Women are open about it.

    Before the 6ft meme the redpill meme for guys was to laugh at tall guys and call them skeles until height became a desirable trait and it reversed with short dudes getting laughed at for being manlets.

    It used to be niche and restricted to internet cesspits but YouTube and tiktok really brought the most toxic parts of the redpill, pua and lookism into the mainstream. It started ironic as a joke mocking lookism but kids got sucked in hard and lines blurred.

    I’m still pissed these people have managed to infect so much of the male fitness community.

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      12 hours ago

      I dont know why people bend over backwards to blame anyone but women for the 6ft meme.

      Your really going to blame all women for that? I know tons of women who haven’t even really given it a passing thought.

      Even if it were a common sentiment, <15% of men are 6ft anyway so most will have to settle.

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        11 hours ago

        Why shouldn’t he ??? women came out in droves during men’s mental health awareness day & to demonize it & no serious pushback was given.

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          I don’t know where you hang out, but I didn’t see that at all, that’s really unfortunate you experienced that. Where did you see people demonizing it? I’d like to avoid those places.

          Men’s mental health is just as important as anyone else’s. Maybe even more so right now, as a group, many seem to be in crisis.

          Corpos have targeted women’s insecurities for over a century to sell their ideas/products. They’ve gotten very good in recent decades capitlizing on this for men. It’s culture war bullshit so they can sell you fascism.

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              7 hours ago

              Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, mainstream news.

              So from social media, which amplifies fringe and minority opinions as if it is a reflection of real life.

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              8 hours ago

              I mean come on this is like saying “there’s toxicity in my league of legends chat!”. that’s the whole point, especially with musk at the top.

              if it’s affecting you this much where you are developing these incel thought patterns you should get off the app.

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                7 hours ago

                First stop being a sex-obsessed creep. Imagine saying you don’t get to have opinions because you didn’t have sex.

                You’re part of the problem. Invalidation is also a common demonization tactic.

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                  3 hours ago

                  You’ve literally made that up. The comment you responded to didn’t say that.

                  It’s your lie, tell it how you want I guess… Why are you punishing yourself by believing in such terrible ‘opinions’ from others? Especially online, you literally can’t verify who’s human anymore. You could be getting upset with someone purposely creating rage bait. Opinions are like assholes mate. Bullies only bully to pull a reaction. They’re getting it with you, why let them do this to you?

                  I’ve never met a woman who only focused on men’s looks. Never. Looks for many women come after personality. Confidence sans arrogance wins that race mostly.

                  You appear not to have peace inside, just making shit up…you don’t have to live life with such dark outlook. In fact, you may be creating a self fulfilling prophecy in doing shit like this.

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                  7 hours ago

                  where did I say that? I’m not trying to invalidate anything I’m just saying that those apps are well known echo chamber for those thought patterns. little weird to just bring up having sex like that, it’s kinda exactly what I’m talking about.

                  seriously though. if you have these thought patterns you should take one hell of a look in the mirror. I almost went down that path as a teen and it is ugly and harmful. there’s still time to change.

                  women aren’t out to get you. these things talked about online like height and looks mean nothing in the real world. that’s not an exaggeration, it really is more about your personality, so I suggest you try to understand why yours seems unlikable.

                  this isn’t a personal dig, as I said I almost went down that same path in highschool and I’m very glad I got out of it while I could.