Groyper

I’ve gotten a lot of messages from rightwingers about my exchanges with @NickJFuentes and it seems like almost everyone is on the same page: We don’t hate Nick. I don’t even dislike him. I want to see the movement he has fostered grow and be a positive political force. All of us are just baffled at the retarded stances he has taken over the last year and we feel like the drama he stirs up is detrimental to our side. A lot of people feel like the wifejak thing is the straw that broke the camel’s back, but the break was a long time coming. A lot of the frustration goes unspoken because the Groyper Horde will swarm you for the slightest reason. A lot of people have a hard time not responding in-kind to the personal attacks. For the record, I don’t think Nick is gay, or a fed, or being directed by anyone but himself. Still, the Rightwing is achieving massive victories and we are all champing at the bit to keep the momentum going and really make meaningful change. Instead of being at the forefront of that, AF often seems like a weight bearing us down, or a distraction causing division when we should be most united. The Groypers seem especially good at deliberately misinterpreting everything to try to put you on the defensive and frustrate your attempts to actually make a point. Whether that is a strategy or a sort of naturally occurring dishonesty, it makes discussion pointless. “Bad faith” is a pretty good phrase to encapsulate it. The current discourse on women isn’t masculine, it’s childish and pathetic. We can’t win a war with a splinter faction of anti-social children. One reason I talk about my wife in the way I do is because I feel a responsibility to counteract the constant hatred of women from some on the right. The fact is that statistically, women are in a very bad state right now. But that doesn’t mean that good women don’t exist. They do, and their rarity is all the more reason to celebrate them. You can’t expect a culture to produce honorable women if you don’t honor women. When I lay in bed with my wife and child, I am beyond concern for what anyone else thinks or says. Having a loving family imbues one with confidence that is unassailable. It’s a confidence that I want all young men to experience. But it’s not easy and it’s not something that will be handed to you. In the world today it’s easy to be a failure. Our whole system is designed to make the easiest course of action the one in which you are alone, playing video games, posting edgy bullshit, risking nothing and achieving nothing. Men don’t need encouragement to follow that path. They need encouragement to follow the difficult path, at the end of which lies a reward that you can’t even imagine if you haven’t experienced it. The reward of real fulfillment and peace of heart. Groypers seem to have a cartoonishly simple view of leadership, either politically or in family, in that they think leadership is being an unquestioned authoritarian with callous disregard to anyone below them in the pecking order. It’s how you can tell they’ve never actually lead anyone or anything. Being the Head of a household requires genuine maturity, not impotent bravado. The Rightwing is going to continue to dominate, and the Groypers can come along if they want, or they can be cut loose like the sandbags they have become.