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Environmental Coffeehouse's avatar

Interestingly last night I was watching influencers tearing apart the whole plastic surgery phenomenon, including the hammer smashing of the face by these freaks, and the sickness of the manosphere!

The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

Indeed, that Manosphere is full of preposterous characters, anti female gurus and utterly dark fantasies and prophecies… it's like a black hole, sucking in millions of lonely young souls.

Peace2051's avatar

Thank you, Counter, for an amazing look at the sociology and psychology of a social phenomenon of which I was mostly unaware. As an aged ex-Hippie I recognized the key concept of alienation, but here it is not just of mainstream society but alienation from yet addiction to social scripts and categorizing and even of alienation from the self. One hopes this is a rite of passage that will lead breakthrough self-actualization. Even before my time there was a concept of "finding one's place in the sun."

The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

Hi Peace, many thanks for reading. Indeed that “finding one’s place in the sun” can be taken as a return to, or finding right environment to live a secure life with others (kinship).

❖ EAARTHNET's avatar

arpatB. An outstanding literary work, worthy of academic recognition, you will undoubtedly receive some spurious riposte! But keep up the good work, regards Neil. (happily married for 50 years & love friends of all variations of gender!)

The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

Hi Eaarthnet

Many thanks for reading and let us keep the kinship alive. Outside all such spheres of alienation.

e1luka's avatar

Men are alienated violent retards because [enter some Baudrillard, Laclau, Derida bla bla] but hey, “the left” adopting every “intersectional” feminazi, 60 genres project sponsored by billionaires surely has no fault in this so, it isn’t even mentioned. Men are just frustrated because they don’t see how easy it is for them to get pregnant, just like the pink-haired them/it/they “Marxist” condescendingly explained… Yeah, sure…

The counter-intuitive 🐿️'s avatar

“Men are alienated violent retards” 😬

ok… do you mean all men or a specific group? The story is about specific men and a specific phenomena. And how mass alienation plays out within such an universe.