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This isn’t the first time that Trump has cowered rather than admit a dictatorship is trying to harm the United States. 

When I started hearing clips from podcasts featuring manosphere influencers, I felt like I was back in a church pew again. Sure, there is more profanity, more cigars, and more supercars, but the core doctrines remain the same. Hearing talk about high value women (code for attractive virgins or low body count “females”), avoiding 403s (slang for hoes), and men needing to lead because they are evolutionarily superior is just more of the same.

With this messaging being so popular in both camps, two things feel unsurprising to me. First, that young men are experiencing a “loneliness epidemic” in secular culture. I can’t imagine many girls grow up hoping to live a life that feels like a cross-over between The Stepford Wives and The Handmaid’s Tale. For many, they’d rather avoid the headache—can you blame them? Second, I am unsurprised that young men are being drawn to religion at a much higher rate than young women. As a former fundie, I can’t help but notice that Gen Z men seem to be drawn to Christianity more for the alpha, aggressive, patriarchal aesthetic of its religious offshoots than they are the teachings of Jesus — a humble and compassionate Savior — himself.

Read now: https://www.playboy.com/read/politics/red-pilled-guys-are-falling-into-a-christian-fundamentalist-trap