GeniesLoki

Various thoughts: 1. I can't quite tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with my pessimism. Agreeing, perhaps, since you propose a new group.

2. It's nice that many are willing to shift their views, but cold comfort if a) hurtful people continue to run amok in the SJ movement and b) males still don't have a trustworthy support movement...

...The mere existence of people with positive views towards males doesn't help those in need. If 95% of feminists are quietly, passively pro-male and 5% are rampant abusers, the favorable ratio doesn't indicate a movement healthy for men.

3. I'm certainly curious and open to hearing more about a proposed parallel movement, it's not something I've really thought of.

It's something I've thought of but honestly founding a movement sounds exhausting so I mostly just try to move the needle with Twitter threads and other writing and kinda hope that having enough good memes out there will help.

I don't mean to demean your attitude or efforts - I am genuinely grateful. But this is an example of why I am pessimistic and why I think that pessimism is important. The range of reaction is largely between "I drink male tears" and "I'm pro-male, but not doing much about it."

Boys and men don't have the biggest ID group problem set in the world, but I think it's important, at a practical level, for us to know how alone we are in dealing with those problems.

I don't think men are alone in dealing with those problems though - I think they often get a lot of one on one help. It's true that there's not as much broad political support for them but, well, that's why I talk about this stuff.