#male entitled

[bella-amanita]

Didn't expect to root for a sorority.

[fresherfriut]

[haveuevermetme]

i still don’t understand how there is “male loneliness epidemic” and no “female loneliness epidemic”. if young men are affected by loneliness, where are young women and what are they doing? aren’t they also affected by loneliness since there is pretty much the same number of men and women?

if they mean “loneliness” by any kind of connection not just romantic, then why don’t men connect with other men? why are women supposed to do anything with it? if women are not lonely, and men are, it means women have connections with other women and they don’t make it men’s problem, while men don’t care about each other, don’t care about women, but want to make women care for them. how is this called? entitlement?

[heterorealism]

[fresherfriut]

[profeminist]

Cartoon by https://www.instagram.com/vulgadrawings

AGGRIEVED ENTITLEMENT

looks like this:

[The single panel comic has a pink background. A white man with short brown hair wearing a white collared shirt and black pants is sitting on one end of a wide wooden bench. His arms are crossed and he is staring straight ahead, his legs splayed out to either side wider than his hips. To his right stands a woman with dark hair and brown skin wearing a green vest over a lilac long-sleeved shirt and black shirt. She is gesturing with one hand at the bench, smiling as she looks sideways at it.]

Woman: I THINK I DESERVE TO SIT ON THIS BENCH TOO!

[Below the first drawing, the woman is now sitting on the opposite end of the bench, her hands on her closed knees. She is looking sideways apprehensively at the man who has fallen onto the ground. His arms are flung out and he looks horrified.]

White man: OH MY GOD I'VE BEEN PUSHED OFF! THERE'S NO ROOM FOR ME ON [Underlined text.] MY [End underlined text.] BENCH ANYMORE!

See also: human conversation.

"Men perceived the discussion as being equal when women talked only 15% of the time, and the discussion as being dominated by women if they talked only 30% of the time."

[eve-was-framed]

crazy how we grew up hearing our male peers say the absolute most disgusting degrading shit about us 24/7 and it was dismissed as “boys will be boys” and “locker room talk” but when we talk honestly about our lives and experiences with male violence and entitlement in a way that isn’t “nice” enough suddenly it’s the end of the fucking world and we’re evil bitches who want to kill all men

there are twitter accounts with thousands upon thousands of followers dedicated to mocking femicide/rape/domestic abuse/female suicide victims and incel forums everywhere that cheer on actual acts of violence against women & girls.. and you wanna complain about feminists on tumblr that won’t even bother you unless you insert yourself into women’s business? give me a fucking break lmfao

[haggishlyhagging]

Because I feel that I am a woman, therefore you must treat me as if I actually am, otherwise you are transphobic. As I insist on participating as a woman in your groups, gatherings, or spaces you also must forgo discussing anything about your female socialization, female anatomy, or female functions because it hurts my feelings. It hurts my feelings because I was neither socialized as a girl nor am I capable of experiencing what the female body experiences from cradle to grave. But if you speak about this I am then reminded that I am not female, and therefore not really a woman. My experience of feeling like a woman must not be invalidated by your experiences of being a woman, therefore I will shame you for being female, teach you in university to estrange your body from your mind, make your distinct physicality and oppression that is specific to your sex irrelevant in the laws of the land or anything that names our differences until there is only the mind. Now only how I think about your body is real. Mind over body. Mind over matter. Spirit over matter/mater/mother. A woman is anyone who says they are a woman. My word is now more real than your mitochondrial DNA. Accept that by my word, you really don't exist.

-Ruth Barrett, “Gyn-ocide Revisited” in Female Erasure

[researchgate]

This is almost funny. Men have not allowed women out of the home, sold them, raped them, forbidden women to acquire any form of education, murdered women, and when feminsts acknowledge it, they're "ungrateful". Maybe if they had let women also work, study, and given them financial freedom, and didn't shackle them, they wouldn't have been in this situation.

[fresherfriut]

[stylerenders]

[brainrotcharacters]

Odysseus really pulled "would you still love me if I was a worm" on his wife of +20 years

[profeminist]

______________________

girl are you the Barbie Movie because wow a lot of men are angry that you weren’t specifically created to appeal to them

@VeryBadLlama

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Liz Plank at Airplane Mode:

I’ve been watching the tech bro rebrand, Zuckerberg bulking up, Musk ranting about testosterone, billionaires cosplaying as cavemen, and I have to say the quiet part out loud: They look like clowns. The men running the internet aren’t just controlling the narrative, they’re starring in their own all-male drag show, desperately performing masculinity for each other. Musk, Zuckerberg, and their billionaire boy band are so obsessed with proving who’s the most alpha that they’ve lost the plot. They’re not exuding strength; they’re just insecure men rigging platforms and rewriting algorithms like a group of closeted frat boys terrified of being the least manly guy in the room. At this point, their version of masculinity isn’t just fragile, it’s camp. Take Zuckerberg. He went on Joe Rogan’s podcast to whine about how the world needs more “masculine energy.” And what does his version of masculinity look like? A social media empire that encourages posts calling women "property" while banning information about their life-saving healthcare. In a desperate, bootlicking move, Meta has blurred, blocked, and removed posts from abortion pill providers, even suspending their accounts and hiding them from search results, all while letting misogynists run wild. But this double standard isn’t about men being powerful and women living in fear; it’s about male insecurity being codified into policy. Zuckerberg isn’t masculine, he’s a boy cosplaying as a man. Real men protect women; they don’t make them more vulnerable to predators. Even by his own definition of masculinity, he doesn’t measure up.

These men claim to want to go back to when men were men, so let’s talk about their own masculine standards. Evolutionarily speaking, men have always played a role in ensuring the safety and survival of the group. The essence of masculinity, at its best, has always been about using strength and strategy for the benefit of the collective. In hunter-gatherer societies, men would work together to hunt large game, not just for their own benefit, but to provide food for the entire group, including women, children, and the elderly. Protection of the most vulnerable, particularly pregnant women, was paramount in early human societies. But let’s be honest, Zuckerberg wouldn’t last five minutes among the ultra-masculine cavemen he probably idolizes. They’d be embarrassed by his selfishness and shortsightedness, sabotaging his own species just to protect his fragile ego and win approval from other men. And then there’s Elon Musk, a self-proclaimed alpha who literally rewired Twitter’s algorithm to artificially boost his own tweets, because nothing says strength like rigging the game so you don’t have to compete. Imagine being so fragile you have to buy and rig an entire platform to manufacture respect.

Musk didn’t stop there. He made sure Trump got the same algorithmic coddling, boosting Trump’s content because nothing screams “masculine energy” like two insecure men holding hands while silencing women and critics. Not only did Musk reinstate Trump on the platform, but he also bent the rules to ensure his content got maximum exposure, proving that their version of strength relies entirely on manipulation, not merit. For a guy who declared “masculinity is back” he sure isn’t radiating much of it, unless your definition of masculinity is begging other men for approval.

[...] And for men who claim to hate DEI and champion “meritocracy,” they’ve created their own version: Loser DEI —A system for guys who can’t win without boosting their own voices, inflating their allies, and erasing their critics. They sneer at the idea of uplifting people who don’t deserve it, yet their entire playbook is built around rigging the system in their favor. And their loser DEI worked. Congratulations to them on the promotions they could never have earned on their own! Musk’s tweets promoting election lies racked up over 1.2 billion views, tipping the scales for his favorite lapdog, Donald Trump, and handing him a position he’d never be qualified for on merit. Musk’s interference ensured his election-related posts garnered twice the views of all political ads on the platform combined during the election period. For guys who love to brag about being self-made men, it’s almost poetic how much Trump and Elon’s so-called success depends on cheating. If they’re such powerful alphas, why does everything they touch hinge on manipulation? Imagine having a masculinity so fragile that you have to rig algorithms just to keep it up. [...] But misogyny has a fatal flaw: It thrives in silence, and silence isn’t something women are known for. Women have always found ways to fight back. Abortion providers are already building underground networks. Communities are organizing. For every account banned, women find new ways to keep their voices alive. You can try to erase us, but you can’t stop us. Every attempt to control us only proves how much power we hold. Trump, Zuckerberg, and Musk want to believe they’re kings of a new digital era, but their actions reveal the truth: They’re scared little boys, rewriting the rules so they don’t have to face a world where they’ve already lost.

Liz Plank wrote a good piece on how two men with fragile egos-- Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk-- are controlling the internet to enable the spread of far-right content in their quest for masculinity (aka the masculinity that reeks of male entitlement).