mastodon.online is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

Server stats:

12K
active users

Bloomberg offers a valuable, well-documented discussion of the key role that a number of YouTube "influencers" played in pushing young males towards Donald Trump in the last election:

Men, and particularly white men, have long made up Trump’s core support base. But in November’s election, young men swung especially hard to the right.

#Trump #males #men #YoungMen #masculinity #YouTube
/1

bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-yo

Bloomberg · How 9 Popular YouTubers Helped Trump Win a Second TermBy Davey Alba

"More than half of men under 30 supported Trump, according to the AP VoteCast survey of more than 120,000 voters, though outgoing President Joe Biden won the group in 2020. Exit polls have shown that Trump received more support from young men than any Republican candidate in more than two decades."

#Trump #males #men #YoungMen #masculinity #YouTube
/2

@wdlindsy I Think about how dumb the average male under 30 is. Then I remember that 50% of them are dumber than that.

@paco It concerns me that a shocking portion of younger men today are turning their backs on education, while women in the same age cohort are not doing so.

@wdlindsy @paco

The statistics are shocking.

"The gender distribution has flipped over the course of a 55-year period. While men had a 58 percent share of total enrollment in 1970, by 2025 they are estimated to have a 43 percent share with the women’s share reaching 57 percent... Of a total fall undergraduate enrollment of over 19 million in 2025, women will constitute 10.9 million undergraduates compared to 8.3 million men."

educationalpolicy.org/hello-wo

@mastodonmigration @wdlindsy @paco

I highly recommend this. Basically, sexism is why this is happening. Once women dominate an arena, men flee.
mementomori.social/@undefined_

@lucybeahere @wdlindsy @paco

Absolutely. Excellent article!

And there is an entire ecosystem of grifters pulling them in and channeling their anger against women. Checknout the links elsewhere in this thread.

And if you have the time this 4 part podcast is excellent on the subject:

iheart.com/podcast/1119-sixtee

iHeartwe’re talking about the manosphere the wrong way - Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) | iHeart<p>The manosphere isn't just one of the election's biggest trending topics, it's also one of the biggest outputters of internet main characters -- so why have most of the conversations around it been so unproductive? In our first part of our series on the manosphere, Jamie interrogates the flawed ways in which media is talking about this space, and traces its origins from the 1970s all the way to Gamergate and the Isla Vista shootings. Then, she speaks with researcher Becca Lewis about where we go from here.</p> <p>Follow Becca Lewis's work here: <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/beccalew.bsky.social'>https://bsky.app/profile/beccalew.bsky.social </a></p> <p>Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates: <a href='https://bookshop.org/p/books/men-who-hate-women-from-incels-to-pickup-artists-the-truth-about-extreme-misogyny-and-how-it-affects-us-all-laura-bates/19662669'>https://bookshop.org/p/books/men-who-hate-women-from-incels-to-pickup-artists-the-truth-about-extreme-misogyny-and-how-it-affects-us-all-laura-bates/19662669 </a></p> <p>Backlash by Susan Faludi: <a href='https://bookshop.org/p/books/backlash-the-undeclared-war-against-american-women-susan-faludi/8728966?ean=9780307345424'>https://bookshop.org/p/books/backlash-the-undeclared-war-against-american-women-susan-faludi/8728966?ean=9780307345424</a></p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

@mastodonmigration
Have his prescriptions been tried? If so did they fail or succeed? If they’ve not been tried it’s early to say they’re flawed.

@lucybeahere @wdlindsy @paco

@EllenJS @lucybeahere @wdlindsy @paco

No real opinion. Just passing along some of the critique. The question of how to address this problem is a very interesting discussion and spans the gamet. A lot of the debate is about how much to coddle these young men vs. treat them as miscreants.

Feel like the thing that resonates about this criticism of Reeves is that much of his language is similar to the MRM, which despite the innocuous sounding title is a gateway to a pretty toxic set of ideas.

@mastodonmigration

It’s been months since I listened to the conversation with Reeves I linked to. I also, by chance, heard another, elsewhere, later. In neither case did I get a hint that it might make sense to think of him as this sentence from the ADL article suggests: “Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) are a part of the manosphere, a broad set of male supremacist, anti-feminist, misogynist and sometimes violent movements that exist largely online.”

@lucybeahere @wdlindsy @paco

Mastodon Migration

@EllenJS @lucybeahere @wdlindsy @paco

Have no opinion. Just passing along different perspectives. Did not say he was an Men's Rights Activist. Said that the criticism of him is that he adopts a lot of their language and framing. There is a wide array of opinion on how to address this crisis and his prescription is not universally acknowledged. Others think a much harder line that doesn't acknowledge the persecuted male framing is a better way to go.