> masculine and competent

A decade+ of manosphere writing/incel discourse didn't come from nowhere.

This asking men to be sexy & work hard; turn women on & study in school—be fuckable & save up.
Exhibit r, but also K.

Men have responded to ultimatums:

https://dalrock.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/40-years-of-ultimatums/ https://twitter.com/kaschuta/status/1323496862922452999
Consider, @kaschuta , Dalrock wrote that article in 2011, when the median age at first marriage for women was 26!!

Like @HMDatMI , Dalrock observes that Recently In The Past, in the lives of those now living, women *by default* came to marriage as young virgins.

Unimaginable!
Essentially, "Bang [Countryname]" era @rooshv (he is pro-marriage now) and @RationalMale and people with blogs that no one can find now like Roissy/Chateau Heartiste and all the rest of it were reactionary. They were just one manifestion of men responding to signal women put out.
That signal—still put out, is that, women:

1) refuse in youth to be chaste/expecting this is wrongheaded

2) insist on education and a career/at least their income in tandem with a litany of sexual partners

3) will not cede any legal protections from the older marital paradigm
In short, men from ~15 should expect or realize:

1) a decade+ of no guaranteed sexual access/his future wife pool to be deflowered then enjoyed by any number of men

2) economic superfluousness

3) potential custody battles/child-support minefields if he DOES marry or get laid
This is the case.

Forget any personal sligjts, or diagnoses of an interlocutors' sexual prowess or marital situation, just focus on what the Sexual Revolution delivered unto the VAST majority of young men.

From a tender age, lasting over decade, this is their lived reality!
In light of this @kaschuta , we need to be realistic about what the lack of men who BOTHER trying to be masculine or competent (google 'Alpha Fucks, Beta Bucks' for early to mid 2000s era internet discourse, and think back to your awareness of these issues then) really means!
The men doing this stuff don't need to "dress well", get in shape, brush their teeth, try a new haircut—nor are they all simply psychologically fixated on problems they don't have.

Some men really are 5'5". Some men really do have weak chins. Some men really do go bald young!
Here, you say nature is brutal: https://twitter.com/kaschuta/status/1323515741790965760

I agree (and think it salutary for the species that women innately desire sexual reproduction with and material investment from the BEST possible man).

But we live in a wholly unnatural time of BC/abortion/condoms/culture!
What we have is a completely unnatural situation where women's pursuit of high quality genes, manifest in physical/sexual prowess, and material stability manifest in economic heft, are BIFURCATED.

This is what the manosphere has written about for over a decade with 'AF v BB'.
We are NOT getting children from all of the Pareto distributed sex with men in a small part of a genetic bell curve that most women have from ~15 to ~30 when they legally marry a man who may not have even been there, for his inhabiting part of a different economic curve!
We are NOT getting children by fathers who are to some degree genetically Taller, Better Looking, Stronger, and More Charming, for all the premarital sex had by women, post Sexual Revolution, from ~15 to around ~30.

This is simply a tragically IMMENSE genetic waste, @kaschuta
But not only does humanity lose those children @kaschuta , we inform men, who to some degree are genetically Smarter, More Cautious, Risk Aware, Agreeable (and are not greater than average on those former traits, merely being in the vast median), to shut up and 'wait their turn.'
So they, seeing that prior list of realities 1)...etc. repond to the Weakened Signal Dalrock notes They don't bother, more often, to do anything besides secure housing, fast food, and electronic distractions.

Traditional Conservatives like @WilcoxNMP wilfully misinterpret this.
They reverse cause and effect, and also presume that all men are equally rewarded with sexual access by women, and we get things like this; https://nypost.com/2017/07/08/were-losing-a-whole-generation-of-young-men-to-video-games/amp/

Or this hilarious stock photo style:
Quo Vadis?

I don't think it is, respectfully, @kaschuta , possible or reasonable to ask anything of men as a gender whatsoever at this point.

Society is 'half men half women', but obviously structurally, power and social/sexual diktat is not set by half of all men & women.
I believe women, as a gender, who ARE RESPONSIBLE—by dint of having been given responsibility, having enjoyed responsibility, and having decided to exercise responsibility—for much of society in the last century of Western, now global civ., have to take action as a gender.
This is unprecedented, @kaschuta , yes.

Not Lindy.

But chemical birth control, widespread legalized abortifacients and surgical abortions, and a permissive culture of promiscuity, and late/low fertility marriage as universals are UNKNOWN to humanity until ~1970.

So, Yesterday.
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