On The Manosphere

A lot of the content created for this Substack is merely a result of me entering the world of the new online right (through my content creation, following the debate on platforms like X, Substack, and YouTube, as well as befriending many people who enjoyed my content and having many fruitful and interesting debates with them) and being confronted with certain beliefs that are widespread throughout these ideological circles. I have often found that while I might broadly agree with some of the tenets of these views, my agreement has strong limits. Sometimes it is a matter of nuance; other times, I have come to the conclusion that these views are, to a large extent, illusory and full of coping mechanisms designed to avoid the real sources of the problems.

My first large endeavor in this direction was my YouTube video called “Why the Remigration Won’t Happen,” which most of you have probably seen.

In this video, I challenged the relatively widespread idea/fantasy that there will be a large-scale remigration (meaning, variously, forceful mass deportations of people leading to the re-homogenization of Western societies). I argued that the scale of ethnic change that has occurred in Western societies is of such magnitude that its reversal would require a level of brutality and geopolitical reach that current Western societies are utterly incapable of—and that any mass deportations will be relatively modest in their scope (even though they might reach significant numbers).

Another endeavor of mine of a similar nature was my recent Substack on “The Early Life Wikipedia Section Noticers.”

where I tried to argue against the very prevalent conviction that “The Jews” are behind the decline of the West. Since this post is fairly recent, I do not think it is necessary to repeat the arguments here. There is, however, another topic of similar nature that I have been grappling with, and that is probably the most complex of them all. And that is the view that can be described as the female-class politics and the decline of the West.

Basically, this view proposes that an increasing number of our societal problems stem, in one way or another, from the female societal ascension and the degradation of certain male (whether in the direct form of male leadership or in the indirect form of mental traits perceived as predominantly male being “in charge”) dominance within society.

Now, as always, there are certainly elements of this view that are on point in their observations. First of all, modern feminism certainly has an issue with acknowledging its own success and thus admitting that in almost all of the previously marked-out goals, it has succeeded at this point. It is rather hard to justify an ideological position built on the idea of some form of systemic oppression of women. The continuous “revolutionary” struggle seems hardly meaningful at a point where women are now more educationally successful than men in most developed countries—and this is not true only for the collective West, but far beyond its borders.

According to the World Bank and UNESCO, women constitute the majority of higher education students in 114 countries, with female enrollment rates exceeding male rates by more than 5 percentage points in over 100 countries. Since there are around 195 countries on the planet, this constitutes a majority in both cases and an almost universal rule in countries at a certain level of development. Moreover, this is the case in countries as culturally and ideologically diverse as Algeria, Russia, Qatar, Kuwait, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Malaysia, and others.

Now, this overview alone is a testament to the fact that this is more about general conditions of socio-economic modernity than about some form of specific Western ideological development. Few would argue that Russia, Cuba, or Malaysia have undergone comparable ideological development to Western countries since the middle of the 20th century. Moreover, there is the example of East Asian countries such as China or South Korea, which have undergone very distinct cultural evolutions in the past century and have a highly different cultural heritage from the West. Yet, the sex relations there are terrible, and the issues regarding the position of women within society are turbocharged, even though few would claim that the CCP is dominated by feminists. On a broad level, we are not dealing here with some form of large-scale societal “conspiracy” led by self-conscious or subconscious female interests. The issue is that we are, as modern societies, dealing with the fallout of the general transition towards modernity.