I genuinely do not understand how a critique of liberalism is evil

I just don't know what is happening here

The "trans athlete debate" is not really about sports or fairness, but about getting a legal precedent deeming trans women to be men under the law that can be extended to other areas of our lives.

🫂

waow (based based based based)

The guy in the photo says he dislikes feminism because its individualism is incompatible with a sense of history, which is undoubtedly, for him, an imagined past in which he was an Enlightenment individual, a rugged homo economicus, but bitches knew their place

In fact, the same men who reject feminism as individualistic will deride women for being herd-minded and launch into Ayn Rand-ish tirades about the "collectivism" of feminism or other liberation movements. The cult of the individual remains intact, they're just policing the borders

This is why, say, the post-liberalism conservatism of J.D. Vance (ostensibly anti-individualist) is seamless with the cowboy conservatism of the Reaganites: there is zero substantive critique of competitive individualism as a structuring principle of society. Just a lot of "women must breed" talk

Objecting to femicide really brings out male solidarity

I'm choosing to imagine Bret East Ellis