You Found a Fool Lyin' in a Daze
INCELS, PUAs and MRAs
It is painfully clear now that the Manosphere won the last election. The toxic combination of INCELS, PUAs (pick up artists), MRAs (men’s rights activists) and MGTOWs (men going their own way) crackpots banded together loosely to vote for someone they saw as a ‘rights’ activist.
This world of noxious misogyny and hatred against women seduced enough young men, across all voter profiles, and voted in a vulgar, clownish POS of a human being because he resonated with their creepy and venomous worldview.
“Due to its core function to justify and confirm the misogynist sentiments of users, evidence-based misogyny serves as connector between the manosphere and both mainstream conservative as well as other Far-Right and conspiratorial discourses.” –Sage Journals: The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’
The seduction of the Manosphere reaches across a diverse set of ideologies with all of them landing on the “Far-Right.” Originally born of the INCEL movement, which is basically a sub-community of men who blamed women for their inability to get laid, the movement has morphed with the Evangelical Patriarchy that sees men as “Godly” and in direct communication with God, therefore the men are the only ones who can dictate policy…from their families to the government.
“While all of these groups follow slightly different ideologies, they are united by a misogynist and male supremacist worldview, in which men have to defend themselves and their freedoms against the ‘feminization’ of their societies, which is associated with a loss of power and rights for men.” –Sage Journals
These are just misguided and disgruntled males. The level of toxicity and violent rhetoric shared among these ‘groups’ is dangerous to women. The Christian Nationalists are feeding into the Manosphere with their treacherous and backwards view of women. They are Male Supremacists and White Supremacists.
Take the case of “Pastor” Joel Webbon, one of the TheoBros of which J.D. Vance is associated. Webbon advocates that women who report rape be put to death.
“After Right Wing Watch shared that clip, Webbon responded by basically saying, Yeah, that’s exactly what I meant: “The biblical penalty for rape is death. Therefore, if a woman lies about being raped, the biblical penalty for her is also death.”” -- Pastor: If we "publicly execute a few women," false rape allegations would end
These people are about to take complete control of the U.S. Government. These are the members of the vast network of Christofascists of the Council For National Policy, the “CNP” and Project 2025, The Council For National Policy encompasses the wealthiest families in the United States. The men behind the CNP are part of the Dominionist Movement and The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR).
“In the vanguard of an ascendant Christian nationalist movement, they are seeking an explicitly Christian command of public schools, social policy, and all levels of the government, including the courts.” -- Christian Nationalists Dream of Taking Over America. This Movement Is Actually Doing It.
Evil Woman
What the Christian Nationalists, the TheoBros and, what can now be called the mainstream, Manosphere (such as the talking heads of The Daily Wire) have in common is their misogynistic and pernicious views of the wimmin.
While these amalgamated groups provide “safe spaces” for broken men, they present a very real danger to women…and an even greater danger to the young men that follow them. These “Red-Pilled” men are not simply misogynist, they promote violence against women…particularly in the INCEL communities.
“One such perpetrator of violence: incels, or “involuntary celibates.” The grievances of this group over their perceived sexual exclusion often takes the form of violence, especially violence against women. Society must come together to address the root causes of incel violence—or continue to face the deadly consequences.” -- The Danger of Incels—and How We Shift the Thinking of Men Attracted to These Groups
The reality is, there is something these young men need that the culture is no longer providing. The despondency cannot simply be a backlash to “feminism.” There is a gap in male mentorship, initiation and elder energy that has left these young men hungry for something that they have not defined within their own spirits and souls.
This lack of emotional literacy has led a number of these males to adopt the “Black Pill” philosophy.
“The Black Pill philosophy typically offers only two options for what to do with their new accepted reality: accept their fate as an incel or try to change society to their benefit—usually advocated as potentially achievable by means of mass violence and terror, not politics or other methods of change.” –New America: Red Pill to Black Pill
Rites of Passage
“Not only do we no longer have any semblance of male initiation, but also we promote and enable the opposite. We anti-initiate, even in the Church! Thus you can be ordained to priesthood or episcopacy, not with motivations of descent, but for purposes of ascent.” –Richard Rohr
Initiation for young males does not require violence, scarifying or brutality. As Joseph Campbell taught, the journey is an inward journey. Older males, who have themselves initiated to their eldership, assisting the younger generations is a resurgent practice, not just for young men but for young women as well.
“The labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. And where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.” –Joseph Cambell
Dr. Arne Rubinstein, who runs global rites of passage groups, identifies four key components to his workshops that develop healthy rites of passage.
Stories
Challenges
Creation of Vision
Recognizing the unique gifts, talents and genius of themselves and their fellow participants.
The goal is to mainstream these ancient practices and make them available to all the youth coming up today. The truth about rites of passage is that it is one cultural gift that cannot be commoditized. There won’t be “Drive-Thru” rites of passage in the future. They require the men and women who have themselves taken the “Hero’s Journey” to pass on that wisdom to the younger generations.
“When you remove elders from the system the whole system struggles to function in an effective way.” – Arne Rubinstein
Healthy masculinity starts with that inward Hero’s Journey. It involves emotional intelligence and emotional literacy. For boys, this requires spending time with men who have taken their own inward journey. For older men, it means spending time with their elders and sharing their wisdom and stories.
All we are is stories. All history was once inherited from generation to generation by the spoken word.
The stories that the Manosphere are spreading are false stories. They are leaving today’s young men in a cultural void. Inherently, in their souls, these young men know they are being fed mendacious information. This leads to younger men initiating themselves, finding destructive ways to enter manhood and carrying this destructive thinking into the community.
The Manosphere are villains selling young men on the false idea of what the Hero looks like. Immature, uninitiated men, leading uninitiated young men. It is a recipe for disaster.
Although the quote is often misappropriated to Frederick Douglass, it rings true in today’s fast-paced world of ten second sound bites:
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
We don’t want a world where women are afraid to be who they are because men fell short on their responsibility to initiate and nurture the young men in the tribe. It is our obligation as men who have taken the journey, to pass on our gifts to the youth of today and help build a community of mature masculinity. To: “Recognize the unique gifts, talents and genius of themselves and their fellows.”
“When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake,
We place our feet where they have never been.
We walk upon the unwalked. But we are uneasy.
Who is down there but our old teachers?
Water that once could take no human weight-
We were students then-holds up our feet,
And goes on ahead of us for a mile.
Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness”
--Robert Bly