Born Again Christian; Biblical Fundamentalist, Received Text-KJV, Dispensational
Friday, December 7, 2018
A Voice for Men headlines fostering In-Group thinking
Last night I was looking at A Voice For Men and came across an article stating that men should start using "we." Thar men should use it to talk about men as to foster the ability to think of themselves as in-group with other men. That women use the term all the time to foster in group solidarity as a sex/gender and thus men should start doing so as well. Using terms like ourselves as opposed to other men or words such as that. The Author whom goes by the name Andy Man also says that men should be something called Zeta Males and that males need to begin making connections with each other without regard for women. The term from what I can see is something made up entirely by himself.
One of things I noticed is that he was using Zeta Male as basically a different term for being a MGTOW essentially. What he seemed to be saying was that men should start to become MGTOW to an extreme. Not just not marrying or anything, but, instead men should not bother associating with women socially at all. While there is nothing wrong with this it seems that he forgets that women are not some collective "woman." I am not arguing against the idea of men being social with each other exclusively nor against developing a brotherly relationship with the men in your life. What I do have issues with is the idea that men should start saying, "we."
It sounds to me like the building blocks for a tribalism around sex/gender among men. Which is no better than sex/gender tribalism based around a "collective woman." There is no collective suicide or collective workplace accidents. Individual men are experiencing these; "we" are not. Anymore than a collective woman is experiencing things that women might experience as the Feminist Narrative says. When I watched the International Conference on Men's Issues I found myself appalled at the language used calling "women as a class doing this." So, there is a class called woman and a collective woman that is doing all of these bad things to men. How is this any better than Feminist Theory stating everything bad that happens is due to some "collective man?"
I am against all forms of tribalism irregardless what it is built around. I do not condone the idea of the MHRM becoming some sort of tribalism around men. I hope the MHRM does become a new collectivist movement in social war with the already collectivist Feminist movement. We does have legitimate uses when it comes to talking about you and other people in your life doing things together. However, this is not "men," as some sort of collective. This would be the individual men in your life you are currently doing something with. As it would be any women you are doing things with that too would be a "we." Also, such a "we" is really just multiple 'I's." One needs to fend off tribalism where they see it creeping up.