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Why Has My Boy Become A Fascist?

People, men mostly, OK, exclusively men, asked in the pages of the Toronto Star and on the internetz over the past few weeks. A couple of the articles that I managed to get through seemed well meaning enough while another, well, fuck the guy who beats his chest about the “noble and necessary… masculine virtues… that can offer stability, security and moral leadership to family and community alike.” I mean, what’s specifically masculine about offering up ‘stability, security and moral leadership’? Maybe it makes more sense in the original German.

But it was the more reasonable takes from Ian Dunt’s How to be a man and Craig A. Johnson’s The left needs to learn how to talk to young men that caused me some actual consternation. An awful lot of words get spilt, it seems to me, to arrive at the most obvious of conclusions. Basically, Dunt hits it in about the 45^th paragraph of his piece. You wanna be the kind of man that the ladies love? Be nice. Yeah. Don’t be a dick. Be generous. Be empathetic. Don’t be an asshole. Listen don’t lecture. Be respectful. Be open-minded and comfortable with humility. Don’t think you’re entitled to anything just because you’re a guy. Just be fucking nice.

That’s pretty much it. Lesson over.

The rest of it, the specifics. Be funny. Be ripped. Be competent(???). Be hairless. Be rich. That’s just simply acknowledging something else that really shouldn’t have to be said. Women, like men, aren’t monolithic in their romantic and sexual preferences interests. Again, I cannot believe that I’m writing these words in 2025 (but probably shouldn’t be). I am sure that there are some women who do go for the high-status, alpha males. I wouldn’t know personally, tending as I do more toward beta myself. I’ve even heard that there are some women out there who don’t go for the dudes at all.

Obviously, they just haven’t met the right guy yet.

Amirite, bro? High-five! Fist bump!

This idea of defining yourself through your attractiveness or appeal to another person is a little disconcerting to be honest. I know, I know. We are social animals that function in social environments, always mindful to the workings of hierarchy and status. None of us want to be a Marvin. We thrive best in tight networks of friends and family. So how we perceive others and are perceived by them is what greases society’s dynamics. Get along with a minimum of friction keeps the engine running.

But that just comes down to being a reasonable person, doesn’t it? Pursuing your needs while trying your utmost to help others pursue theirs. Play nice. Don’t be a dick.

This kind of thinking shouldn’t be gender specific. It probably ought to transcend biology, race, ideology. So why is it that the left, progressives, are being scolded for not speaking the language young men, young cis straight white men, more to the point, need to hear, need to hear to be persuaded to ‘our’ side, to be persuaded not to become a fascist, and why should that language any different from how we speak to others outside that most put-upon, marginalized group?

First rule of Left Club: Don’t be a dick.

Second rule of Left Club: See first rule.

“But if we want young men to be part of a more progressive future, then it’s our job to win them over,” Johnson writes in his piece in the Star, “to educate them and keep them on our side. Because the alternative is too dangerous to contemplate.”

That sounds like a threat.

Include me. Convince me to join your side or I’ll be forced to throw on my brownshirt and start marching with Tiki torches.

The push for inclusion, for fairness, for equality of opportunity, all that DEI/Woke shit we’re so blithely tossing aside in the face of the fury of under-qualified, over-represented, entitled, incompetent straight white men and their acolytes shouldn’t have to be carefully packaged for a new generation of young straight white men who, seeing the unfairness, injustice and inequality around them, some even experiencing it themselves, decide that, Nah. You know what? We’re good. We’re going with the guys promising us unquestioned influence, affluence and high status with none of the work to earn any of it.

If that’s your response to being asked to be more inclusive, to make some possible sacrifices in order to free up space for others? Well, that’s on you. You and everyone that endeavours to accommodate and understand your lack of compassion and humanity.