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Isn't that just what PUA types describe as alpha? More and more female attention going towards a smaller pool of males?


There are definitely groups of men that feel this is the case and that they have been wronged. Good articles on how this manifests online are https://thebaffler.com/salvos/new-man-4chan-nagle and https://www.salon.com/2015/10/08/toxic_masculinity_is_tearin...


"Good" articles, linking to extreme degenerate pedophilia propaganda site, the Salon[1].

Where were their toxic Islam and toxic homophobia articles following the Orlando shooting? They like to rant about toxic masculinity only after shootings done by white males[2]. Yet not a peep about it when it's Cho Seung Huis or Omar Mateens doing the shootings.

[1] http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/02/salon-shouldnt-have-unp...

[2] http://www.salon.com/2013/11/01/why_is_always_a_white_guy_th...


Excuse me? Did you even read the NYMag article you posted? Allow me to provide some quotes:

"Now, as Hoffner and Salon surely know, things live forever on the internet, so you can still read the original Nickerson article here. And doing so makes it clear that Salon took a silly, overly risk-averse approach here, likely caving to a chorus of voices who willfully misunderstood the article. That’s unfortunate, since this was a brave and important article to publish — one the site should be proud of rather than try, futilely, to toss down the memory-hole."

Later:

"No reasonable reader could construe this as pro-pedophilia. Nickerson is explicitly saying his condition has hampered his life immensely and that he is simply hoping to scratch out a decent existence without hurting anybody. That’s the entire point of the article — nowhere does he defend sexual contact between adults and minors. Why, then, was his article deleted? It sounds like Salon won’t ever provide an explanation."

After reading your comment, you're the only one that's coming off like a propagandist.




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