r/Leftist_AntiFeminist

Do yall wear pants? Genuine question. The fact that yall are on here and saying your opinion...kinda makes you a feminist. Maybe it's just me but doesn't seem too anti feminist.(nah bro why did I phrase this in such a passive aggressive way? To my defense, English isn't my first language yall)

Why “Sensitive Men” Often Love to Provoke and Downplay Male Suffering

The Paradox
When issues like male loneliness, fathers’ rights, or men’s problems are discussed, the strongest opposition often comes not from women, but from men who strongly identify with feminist and progressive values. These “sensitive men” frequently react with more hostility than the female critics themselves. They derive their moral authority from distancing themselves from traditional masculinity. Their zeal is not rooted in genuine moral strength, but in a fragile sense of identity and an inner compulsion.

This behavior has deep roots in what psychoanalyst André Green called the Dead Mother Complex. When a mother is emotionally absent or unavailable in a boy’s early years, it creates profound narcissistic wounds. The child experiences an “emotional desert” and internalizes it as his own fault — a sense of inadequacy and guilt. The mother hinders healthy individuation, often turning the son into a parentified “little adult.” This dynamic frequently leads to Nice Guy Syndrome (as described by Dr. Robert Glover). At its core, the Nice Guy tries to earn love and approval through constant “niceness” — a strategy of emotional bribery rooted in the childhood need for maternal validation.

Progressive activism then becomes a substitute identity. The “White Knight” positions himself as an enlightened ally, engaging in performative self-criticism (“I acknowledge my toxic masculinity”). This is rarely driven by true conviction. Instead, it follows a “Giving-to-Get” logic: he hopes that being the “good guy” will bring him social status and sexual rewards.

However, this strategy usually backfires. By suppressing his own masculinity out of fear of being seen as toxic, the Nice Guy kills any sexual tension. His partner often ends up attracted to the very kind of self-assured, masculine man he publicly condemns.

This creates intense cognitive dissonance. To protect his fragile ego from collapsing, he must distort reality.

The Projection Mechanism
The suppressed anger, envy, and sexual frustration cannot be aimed at women. Instead, they are released through projective identification:

• He splits off his own “dark” feelings (anger, lust, resentment).
• He projects them onto the “toxic man” — the socially acceptable scapegoat.
• He provokes this man with moral attacks (“patriarch,” “right-wing,” “misogynist”), deliberately pushing his buttons until the other reacts with anger.
• He then feels triumphant: the “evil” has been exposed in the other person, while his own self-image as the good, sensitive man remains intact.

His hatred is so intense and irrational because it serves as a psychological defense. It protects the brittle construction of his identity. The empathy he loudly proclaims is often self-referential. Paradoxically, the more intensely he feels empathetic, the poorer his actual empathy tends to be — and the more distorted his view of reality becomes.

https://x.com/TheTinMenBlog/status/2048048508062634078

After this tweet was published, a huge number of feminist reposts appeared, claiming that wars and forceful mobilizations and conscriptions are only men's guilt and women are not blame for anything. Even though women weren't mentioned at all in this post. It was also accompanied by a huge amount of gaslighting and ridicule towards men. It's high time to evaluate whether this is true, especially in 2026.

The most common claim that women don't start wars. However, historians debunked it. Quotation from Tanya Basu's book "European Queens waged more wars than Kings" reports that "28 European queenly reigns from 1480 to 1913 and found a 27 percent increase in wars when a queen was in power, as compared to the reign of a king."

The majority of women voted for male-only conscription in referendums in Austria and Switzerland.

Female president of Lithuania actively promoted male-only conscription in 2015. Female leaders of Brazil, Switzerland, Finland, South Korea, Taiwan, Moldova, Turkey, Myanmar, etc. haven't abolished conscription and haven't made it gender neutral.

Feminists canceled MRAs they are all far right, homophobes, transphobes (while it's European feminism is rapidly becoming homophobic and transphobic). That's why people are even afraid of calling this misandrist horror out.

And finally we need to address to not only the indifference but even the mockery of the thousands of adbucted men. Do they really have no male relatives at all? And after all this, feminists demand that men support their issues? This is blatant sexism!

Who will speak about it?

Posted this on other subs and felt it was worth sharing here. Saw this unbelievably ignorant and infuriating post show up in my Twitter feed from a blocked account thanks to this very annoying glitch that's resulting in posts blocked/muted accounts appearing in my feed, and I saw this and was reminded as to why I blocked this idiot. I mean, wow. It's bad enough people will try to deny and downplay the fact there's female violence against men/boys and in much higher numbers than people realize, but to outright claim that women don't rape and kill men/boys, either? That's a whole other level of plain screwed up and evil. There's definitely been many men and boys killed by women, and these same idiots will use the usual rebuttals that "Oh but it's nowhere near the same scale," "There's no epidemic of women killing men and boys," "You're not fearing for your life like women are when you're out at night," "Why do you only bring this up when women share their stories" and of course the favorite S-word of misandrists all over, that women raping/killing men/boys isn't "systemic." Ugh.

It's an undeniable fact both genders can be terribly violent against each other and both rape/kill each other. Women do it to men/boys just like the reverse, and both are equally repugnant and evil. It shouldn't be a contest as to who does what to who more, something misandrists are so fixated on doing. I never take into account the numbers given how extremely underreported and mispresented female-to-male violence is. I know I shouldn't be this upset by a random internet idiot who has nothing better to do than spout utter nonsense like this, but holy shit, how ignorant and hateful can one be to claim this? It's bad enough when people will downplay female-to-male violence/rape/abuse/homicide, etc. but then to claim it outright doesn't happen? Sorry, you have the right to your own opinions but not your own facts. It's a fact women (as well as girls) also do rape and kill men/boys and even if the numbers aren't as high, doesn't change or negate the fact. It's just as terrible as the other way around but they'll always downplay to not seem like a big deal.

I've said before many times I'm very liberal with the vast majority of my views and I hold almost no right-wing views on anything at all. But this sort of thinking and always trying to massively downplay and outright dismiss female-on-male violence and ignoring misandry and treating it as a non-issue is a big reason in recent times more males are being swayed to the Right and don't want to associate with the Left. Really sucks how people often associate any sort of liberal or left-wing thinking with this, when as a mostly very liberal person I despise it. Unfortunately people often think being liberal is the same as being the W-word (I think you know which word it is and due to how much the Right overuses it, I myself won't use it to avoid the association).

This video is claiming that studies show that when both parents are working in academia, the mother doesn't significantly more work caring for children than the father, and I don't know how credible the study is. I don't even know what study it is or where to start looking, I just know it was in Denmark and allegedly on 13,000 parents and it feels fishy to me.