"Why Are Liberal Men Unhappy?"

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2014-01-06 03:11

Article here. Excerpt:

'Last weekend AEI’s Arthur Brooks published an interesting piece on happiness in the New York Times’ Sunday Review. ...
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"For many years, researchers found that women were happier than men, although recent studies contend that the gap has narrowed or may even have been reversed. Political junkies might be interested to learn that conservative women are particularly blissful: about 40 percent say they are very happy. That makes them slightly happier than conservative men and significantly happier than liberal women. The unhappiest of all are liberal men; only about a fifth consider themselves very happy."
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A core component of modern leftism is its comprehensive attack (and accompanying redefinition) of masculinity. This attack poisons how men experience their own nature, relationships, and purpose.
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Next, the liberal male often spends his relational life walking on eggshells, dating women and living in cultures that are constantly calling out any kind of behavior subjectively perceived as “male” or oppressive. So if a man gets angry at a woman, he’s just “mansplaining.” A man who asks for fidelity is “slut-shaming.” Assertions of will are subject to “privilege checks.” To enter the world of academia, for example, is to enter a world of social rules and customs that are impossibly complex because propriety is always dictated by the subjective feelings of the most traditionally powerless person in the room. The language of equality is a mere mask for a new hierarchy that explicitly seeks to place the male (especially the white male) at the bottom.'

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The liberal left tends to view men and masculinity through a Cultural Marxist lens, in which traditional men represent the bourgeois oppressors and women the oppressed proletariat. In other words, it's the application of Marxist principles to relations between men and women. (The same applies to whites, heterosexuals and the wealthy). Under such a system, men are constantly reminded of how "bad" and "oppressive" their gender is, which can only be demoralizing to them to say the least.

The conservative right tends to view relations between men and women from a traditional perspective in which men are esteemed in a conditional sense i.e. if they are good protectors and providers for their women and children. So men who are successful under this system would presumably be respected by conservatives, but at the price of putting the needs of women and children before their health, safety and general well-being. Whether this is better than liberalism is debatable.

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Submitted by mens_issues on Mon, 2014-01-06 14:47

Men are burdened by any perceived obligation to be living up to a label, be that liberal, democratic, macho, whatever. It's time that men simply accepted themselves as they are, and rejected all external attempts to define them, stifle them, redirect them, or motivate them. Feminism has shown that it has captured the powers that be at the Federal (USA) level, and that the federal government cannot be trusted to support men, or for that matter, anything masculine. Likewise, the church has captured and manipulated many men with the label of Christian Conservative. So national political labels, such as liberal or conservative, are inherently anti-male, and should be avoided. Any male reader who has not yet acquainted himself with the MGTOW movement should do so promptly. He will then reject such labels as "liberal" as inherently manipulative, oppressive, and not in his best interests.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Mon, 2014-01-06 21:02