This is not my personal opinion, I know Gen Z men who voted for Harris. But the voter demographics really speak for themselves, and maybe now people will look at the radicalization of young men as a serious (but solvable) issue.

  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Issues affecting young men:

    1. Rape reports are ignored and not taken seriously
    2. Not trained in the tools to deal with mental health and emotions
    3. High expectation to make money but low job prospects
    4. Jerks trivializing the fact that men have real concerns because OtHeRs HaVe It WoRsE.

    It should be empathy for all. Asshat.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Your list is the issues that men are actually facing, but what OP posted is what the clout chasing “alpha influencers” tout as “men’s actual problems”.

      For everyone’s sake, we need to start reclaiming men’s spaces from these Andrew Taint-wannabe’s, and towards people like you. They don’t care about anything but their bank accounts.

      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Influencers are the tail that thinks they’re wagging the dog. When they aren’t shilling garbage products and cryptoscams they’re spending all their time trying to find the next trend to chase. Besides the shilling, at their worst they’re merely a sounding board for ideas and issues that are already out there (and have been for a long time).

        The biggest mistake the Democrat campaign made was to ignore the plight of working class, non-college educated people. To a group that’s been reeling from inflation and the major setback of COVID lockdowns, the Democrats promised more of the same. That’s not good enough! What good is student loan forgiveness to people who never went to college?

        That’s been the problem for the Democrats for decades now. A party that used to call labour unions its base now focuses pretty much exclusively on college-educated middle class and up.

        I just had a look at the exit polls. Of the people who said the economy was the most important use, 79% voted for Trump. Of those who think the US’s economy is doing not so good/poor (67% of voters), 69% voted for Trump.

        I know lots of people here will sneer at that and Trump seems pretty unlikely to right the ship but he actually promised change whereas the Democrats did not. Promising to keep things the same when 2/3 of voters believe the economy is poor is not going to get the job done.

        • M0oP0o@mander.xyzEnglish
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          15 days ago

          Yeah, and people seem to forget a key question these days: “what middle class?”