@Mate1212 I’d go exactly where I enjoy doing things. Public toilets, dark alleys and abortion clinics.

@Goingthedistance If I could advise you of anything, it’s to get right back on the horse and go again like nothing happened.

Of course something did happen and you should process that as you will, time being the largest factor for that, but confidence is built through experience.

@Stigma man, the Paddington movie is about the most male-friendly movie that was done in the past 20 years.

Movies nowadays are rabid against men. There not a modicum of pro-male sentiment in any of the latest movies I've watched.

This is literally nazi-level propaganda.

@Typo-MAGAshiv It's not bad, it's just myopic and anaemic. It's middle shelf pre-packaged values. "Be nice!" Cheers, Paddington.

@Stigma was it that bad? I read the books when I was a small child, and from what little I remember, they seemed harmless.

Then again, that was the books...

@adam-l Yes but at least his children will have watched Paddington… sigh

@First-light

He makes nothing new

Come on now! I understand archetypes and narrative structures are universal and he employs them for his ideas, but nothing new?

These things are easy to love and easy to reach for. Young men need only be encouraged to dream.

Absolutely, but there in lies the evil of attention grabbing, nutrient free, modern slop! Why wrestle with your place amongst these ideas and ideals when YouTube Shorts go bbrrrrrr

You’re not wrong, but it’s only easy because we’re aware of what it is that is easy in the first place. That Reddit thread shows they don’t even know what they don’t know!

@Stigma

LoL, this guy is "truly afraid of the world right now for young men and the charlatans trying to lure them into misogynistic bullshit."

He's about 100% to get his sons gutted from misandrism, caught completely unaware.

@Stigma Tolkien loved our anglo saxon roots, he loved the lore of the Germanic peoples. He makes nothing new, he just breathes fantasy into the old. The archetypes have been there since the dawn of our people, are there in fact in all the sons of the Yamnaya. These things are easy to love and easy to reach for. Young men need only be encouraged to dream.

@Stigma

LOTR films because that’s where it all peaked twenty years ago.

Critical Drinker had a video about how it all peaked with LOTR. he was right.