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🏒🥅🇨🇦If you’re a hockey fan and you’re wondering about why the NHL responded as it did to the acquittal of the 5 in the recent hockey trial …

“Some people can be terrible and get away with it for a whole career. But in today’s world, that’s getting harder to do. All it takes is one video with sound to burn the brightest talent to the ground.
“More people get that than don’t. Eighteen players on the Canadian junior team got Michael McLeod’s “Who wants to be in a 3-way quick” group text. The majority didn’t show up.
“That doesn’t mean they’re nice, but they were smart enough to follow the “be nice” rule. Because anyone with a scintilla of common sense could see how that text at that time of night is an “or else” situation.”

ps. To all the hockey writers who don’t get it, @KurtLeavins , David Staples, et al, maybe this helps.

flip.it/oaDAjh

#hockey #hnom #hockeytrial #character #masculinity @hnom @hockey

The Globe and Mail · NHL delivers a lesson after the Hockey Canada verdict: Be nice, or elseBy Cathal Kelly

I hate when men call themselves "kings". When I chose my name, part of it was because my sister was always "Princess", and her name is Sarah. Means princess. And my dead name was the name for the family dumpster. So I'm Knut, means "knot", but also after King Knut the Great. But I don't call myself a king. I didn't unify half of Europe, or create peace for several centuries before the Crusades. I didn't end corruption. He did. So I'm not a king. A neither are they. #masculinity

Amongst all the horrendous stories of "men being men" I'm reading today, I'm also slowly digesting a plan for a generation ship to a nearby star, and I'm reading the bit about the society they want onboard (and in Space in general really) and the Manosphere and it's spawn need not apply....

These men are throwbacks, relics of more brutal times, they do not belong among the Stars.

canva.com/design/DAGmr3ubC8E/L

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"The manosphere is not a self-help network for guys who have trouble dating; it is not intended as a self-help network for guys who have trouble dating, and the men who participate in it are in fact aware that it is not meant to help them date. They are there to learn from each other how to be men by degrading women and other (queer, disabled, neurodivergent, fat, etc.) men."

#manosphere #masculinity #patriarchy #domination #MaleEntitlement
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"The manosphere is well named, and its relentless focus on status is not some sort of mistake or accident. Guys who fall into the manosphere or who find it validating and exciting are not in fact interested in having sex with women or in dating women—except as it relates to impressing other men or demonstrating status to other men."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#manosphere #masculinity #patriarchy #domination #MaleEntitlement
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everythingishorrible.net/p/mer

Everything Is Horrible · Meritocracy (In Dating) Is a MythBy Noah Berlatsky
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"Everyone is out for themselves in the jungle. It has no social conscience. It is as self-concerned as it is self-involved.

Obviously, this is appalling. But more importantly, it is false. It is a lie. And because it is a lie, it will not actually get men what they want. It will not make them more desirable, in fact quite the opposite. It'll turn them into resentful, pathological crybaby freaks."

#manosphere #masculinity #patriarchy #domination #MaleEntitlement
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"Every day, we're reminded that there's something unsettling going on with men and boys. ...

Humans are resources [in the manosphere]. High status humans are a scarce resource. You must become the strongest richest male, the dominant chimpanzee, to consume the best female resources. It is also a zero-sum world. It insists that to get what you want you must out-compete and exploit others."

~ Ian Dunt

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iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-

Striking 13 · How to be a manBy Ian Dunt

Pure Capitalism, everything has a price, wealth is the only goal.
Dozy lads in a parasocial relationship with a porn star, somehow I don't see the Online Safety Act really doing anything about this....

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Moral outrage over Bonnie Blue’s porn empire misses the point: this is hardcore economicsBy Gaby Hinsliff

"Heterosexual men who have gained a bit of power and respect"

Watch out for them, rapey as fuck.....now that they've 'won' they feel entitled to that p*ssy that Trump talked about.

But it's us Queers who are the deviants apparently, hmmmmm.....

But that's 'Masculinity' for you, absolutely depraved and capable of blaming others for their own depravity.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a

The Guardian · TV presenter Jay Blades charged with two counts of rapeBy Geneva Abdul

a very nice news story about how a teen got pulled out of manosphere influence. in short, his older brother sat him down and had a real talk with him. i think that's awesome and totally the way to go.

i wonder how many young men's trajectory could be altered by the positive actions of an older man in their life (it doesn't have to be much older - an older brother is just fine!)

youtube.com/watch?v=xv3Rubw7jpQ