Troy

Grew up Mennonite. This reminds me of a bad joke, usually said tongue in cheek.

“Why did the Mennonite woman cross the road?”

“I dunno. Why did she leave the kitchen?”

Sometimes sarcasm belies a kernel of actual belief. Many Mennonites wouldn’t consider the joke ironic.

This Onion article is funny, but it’s also not funny because so many people are accurately represented by it, and this is sad.

The current manosphere is basically a pipeline to the alt-right and additional radicalization. The distance between incel to proud boys is quite small.

The problem is that any attempt to make a pro-men group with any of the positive agendas you list will attract the same people as an audience that are already in the manosphere. And then you have the Nazi bar problem.

Not the onion. Check any of the forums on reddit, like r/mensrights, and they’re furious indeed.

I had to explain to someone what the manosphere is, as a result of watching this show together. She had no idea that men were getting radicalized like this.

Once, on a bus in London, I asked “is this seat taken” to a lady who was sitting at the aisle and the window seat was open. She turned to me, hearing my accent, and said “It’s not for Americans”. I was taken aback and said, “but I’m Canadian!” and then she said, “oh” and just moved over like it was nothing then.