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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 day ago (28 children)

This is top tier gaslighting. I dont know why people bend over backwards to blame anyone but women for the 6ft meme. Manosphere reacted to a real thing and grifted off it growing it into political campaigning but is was real sentiment experienced by men. I'm not short and I see it happen all the time. Women are open about it.

Before the 6ft meme the redpill meme for guys was to laugh at tall guys and call them skeles until height became a desirable trait and it reversed with short dudes getting laughed at for being manlets.

It used to be niche and restricted to internet cesspits but YouTube and tiktok really brought the most toxic parts of the redpill, pua and lookism into the mainstream. It started ironic as a joke mocking lookism but kids got sucked in hard and lines blurred.

I'm still pissed these people have managed to infect so much of the male fitness community.

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[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

This is essentially cult tactics, yeah. As much as I loathe incels... Some of them genuinely need help.

The ones who are in too deep to literally start calling women "foids" tho? Throw them in the woodchipper. Dick first.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago

They're in a decentralized cult. They all need help, but some of them need a lot more help before they're going to be release candidate males

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

thats why conservatives have captured them as voters, give them something to hate: women, trans people,,,etc/.

[–] anytimesoon@piefed.social 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ive never heard that term before. I'm guessing it's some sort of shortening of "femoid" (a word I believe to have made up right now, but can imagine incels using regularly)

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

a word I believe to have made up right now

if only

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[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, that's literally a shortening of that, and "femoid" was a word they DID use constantly. And then they shortened it further to disguise it more, I guess. I'm sorry you had to find it out this way :|

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

I'm sorry to tell you you're exactly right.

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Manosphere being a toxic shitshow of harmful beliefs and self-sabotag is nothing new.

But in 1 way, it is very different to an abusive boyfriend. The abusive bf doesn't necessarily start off being abusive or not as obviously so. The bf adapts to you and slowly undermines your confidence. The manosphere has it in their advertising material. The people fall for the manosphere are not slowly manipulated and abused by the manosphere. The manosphere is the new abusive boyfriend after the breakup with the last abuser. When the abuse already has been normalised and kinda wanted because at least it is "familiar".

So what is the first "abusive boyfriend"?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

So what is the first “abusive boyfriend”?

For me it was high school. Constantly being treated like shit by my peers for being weird and quiet really fucked me up. Fortunately things got better in college and I didn't fall into the manosphere crap but I very easily could have had I not found people to give me a break and help me learn to act more "normal" without being abusive towards me.

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[–] CAWright@infosec.pub 70 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Isn't this basically what religion does, as well?

[–] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 86 points 2 days ago

Some religions.

At-will employment too.

"You're nothing special - easily replaceable. I'm doing you a favour by letting you have this job."

Basically anywhere where a power imbalance is an intended feature, not a necessary evil.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some religions do, yes, and it works, which is why they do it. The important thing is to identify these behaviors and find social groups that will empower you instead of disempowering you.

[–] CAWright@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately, humanity is better at making people feel small than building them up. And the folks who succumb to this are likely already in a compromised state so it will be hard, if not impossible, for them to pull themselves out alone.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In a broader sense, it is what cults do.

"Nobody accepts you... but us" "You will die alone... unless you help us" and so forth.

or... "They just can't take a joke... but we can"

[–] CAWright@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago

Exactly this. It’s the same playbook for more than just those two groups.

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[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yup, that's why tate sold the worst dating advice in the world while being a sex trafficker, ensuring repeat business.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 39 points 2 days ago

It was an abusive exwife in my case, but yes. It's abuse all the same. It does the same thing.

It isolates, it breaks you down, it makes you forget who you were, and then when you least expect it, they are no longer dependable for anything and you have nothing left.

And they feel nothing.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 44 points 2 days ago (17 children)

5'8" (1.73m) here. Married for 13 years.

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You mean 4'20"

Aka the goated height

[–] stillwater@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

5'3" (1.6m) and closing in on 25 years. It's amazing how far a bit of kindness, compassion, and a sense of humor can go.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A touch shorter and celebrated 24 years married last month.

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