“Men are trash” has been a popular phrase and a hashtag since 2016 and since then, millennial and Gen Z men have challenged what they see as its reductionism. Meant originally by girls as a deliberately provocative throw-away statement is taken for, as one Urban Dictionary entry puts it, “a generalising and hateful phrase coined by a movement claiming to fight hate and bigotry”.

Ted, a 24-year-old from Kent, told me he might have felt sympathetic towards feminism before, “but when you get put in the same bracket with the whole ‘men are trash’ etcetera, then you think what’s the point?”

Reddit men’s rights forums are littered with similar origin stories from young men: “I used to identify as a feminist but left the movement when I asked if there are any disadvantages men face. Instead of answering the question, people started taking shots at me,” one wrote. Another noted: “I could not understand the group hating.”

Why are men falling victim to alt-right propaganda? What an absolute mystery.

“It’s just meant as a throwaway statement! We’re just venting!” That’s so pathetic, at least be honest like the old guard feminists used to be. Are zoomer girls really the only people that need to vent in the world? Like letting women get away with sexism is why TERFs exist lets be honest, and theyre the new boogeymen right? Of course when you tell men or women the other sex has something biologically wrong with then youll make them more right wing

I legit dont care when women call men trash, cause theyre supposed to be whiny and hate us. Duh. Theyre women. Youre not supposed to take them seriously. For the same reason, I dont see the point in listening to anything they have to say. Its for their benefit too.

Inshallah

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿nothing makes you stop listening to women faster than starting to listening to them.

Look man, saying I want to exterminate all jews doesnt mean I want to exterminate all Jews! Its just a throw-away phra- wait whats the police doing here?

You laugh but there was literally some drama in another sub the other day over a guy “explaining” how when Arabs talk about wanting to kill Jews they actually mean Zionists and their words should be deliberately mistranslated to reflect this

Oh believe me im not joking. I've been to palestine, working with them even. And it unironically made me more of a Israel supporter. Because even for liberal Palestinians, below the very thin veil of "demanding equality" even they want nothing more than to drown every last Jewish in the Mediterranean. It shimmered through every time the topic of a "solution" or future came up.

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Earlier in the article the author the gamer incel well polluting anecdote even mentions him being "half ironic" (in a way to imply he was hiding true beliefs by a joke) but when someone uses "men are trash" oh NOW it's just venting and OBVIOUSLY a joke you toxic male fragility cant handle🙄💅💅🤣🤣

Its like the Smug redditors saying that poor whites don't vote in their best interests. While hating on them and ignoring all the democrat's policies that crush their social mobility

The dems don’t allow mayo farmers to collect covid benefits, they are not their best interest lmao.

Literally a lie.

true!

Literally fake news lmao.

The law never even changed, it's worded exactly as it's been worded for over 20 years now.

They're unironically illiterate people that fell for right-wing propaganda.

White farmers have gotten an absolutely absurd amount of covid relief:

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/03/white-farmers-got-97-percent-of-last-years-ag-bailout-now-some-are-mad-black-farmers-are-getting-debt-relief/

The fucking law set aside some specifically for disadvantaged farmers and these welfare leeches started throwing a tantrum.

Hint: the loan relief is still available to white farmers, there's no racial requirement on it.

There's just another special fund for socially disadvantaged farmers.

White farmers have sucked up basically all relief money for decades now.

I’m not reading that. Instead I will be having sex and I suggest you do the same!

Damn Pizza you could've been a Supreme Court Justice.

Is he Him?

I just looked it up and 95% of US farmers are white so 97% isn't really that crazy. I tried to find their raw data in that article and I clicked through it and I ended up on a Google Docs Excel file lmao. It's just a giant gish gallop.

It goes even further than this.

Black farmers were also systemically denied loans for much of modern history.

Dear Sub-Human Filth,

I'm appealing to all of you stupid idiots to vote Democrat in 2020. That is if you have the basic education enough to read a ballot, anyway. I understand the majority of you racist rednecks can't even read this post, though. But those who can, please pass my message on to the rest of your inbred family.

We Democrats are morally, culturally and intellectually superior to you in every way. I will qualify myself by noting that I have a Liberal Arts degree from a college, which you obviously have never been to, if you even know what one is. I also have a black friend. I have been told by several professors that everything you hold dear is terrible. Therefore you, personally, are also terrible. I don't know you, but I know that you're racist. I also know that you hate gay people and still get scared during lightning storms.

The religion which you hold closely, greatly believe in, and which brings you comfort--you are wrong because I'm smarter than you and I'm telling you so. It is one of the many reasons why you are stupid and I'm better than you.

You see, us Democrats want a system which helps everyone in the world. Our system is designed around love and kindness to everyone. If you don't agree, I hate you.

It's not too late to change. If you knew your history, which of course you don't, you'll remember a time in America when Indians were dragged away from their homes and forced to assimilate into white society. Well, we want to change that kind of behaviour (sorry for my spelling, as I'm not from your country) by making sure you go to college and have a small apartment in a big, busy coastal city, where you belong. That will help you rid yourselves of your backward, incorrect culture and way of thinking. We'll do everything we can to make sure you agree with us and say all the right things and not be brainwashed against thinking the same way we do. All of you stupid, backward, redneck, racist, homophobic, uneducated yokels need to realize we're trying to build a classless society where we all get to live in harmony with each other, where we're all equal. If you only understood that you wouldn't be so much worse of a person than I am.

So please vote Democrat. Help me help you, you worthless motherfuckers.

Dear subhuman filth...

My favorite part of that is they try to conflate disliking feminism with hating women.

You see, they were only saying it ironically.

Half of young men in the UK now believe that feminism has “gone too far". How did it get this bad?

Reminds me of the out of touch Principal Skinner meme, lol. The idea that feminists did anything wrong is just off the table.

Brb buying plane horse carriage tickets to Kazakhstan right now.

Im literally sneeding a bit. The self-righteousness and arrogance bleeding out of this 🐶🧠 like doggy-cum out of her fronthole is too much for a Friday morning.

God I fucking hate wom*en (its a deliberately provocative phrase to bla bla bla) so goddamn much its unreal holy shit.

Lonely young men without girlfriends are prime targets. “They think ‘I’d like a girlfriend’ and the far right says ‘Well, you can’t get a girlfriend because all the girls have become feminists and left wing.’”

This sounds like the plot of a Teletubbies episode.

Islam is right about women.

And what's Spicer going to say, "Oh yeah, it's all legit!" First of all, he's not even one of the 10, and you can tell Trump wouldn't let him in on it. And second of all, if he did say that, it would just make tons of people bombard him with more questions about it, which he really knows nothing about. This is top level Military Intel at the highest level of Classified Clearance.

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I can't believe someone has to write - with seemingly sincere, complete bewilderment - a multi thousand word essay trying to figure out something so painfully obvious