#1674 #MenToo: The Make America Male Again Election and the Media Driving the Message
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 12/3/2024
At a time when there are very legitimate concerns about men's place in society, the Manosphere has stepped in to fill the gap in the cultural discussion to give an answer, not a good answer but an answer, to young men about modern masculinity which included a strong push to vote Trump.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: The Role of the Press in This Moment with Matt Pearce - Why Is This Happening - Air Date 11-19-24
KP 5: Make America Male Again Fifteen years of aggrieved men - It's Been a Minute - Air Date 11-19-24
KP 6: Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation ( Feat Esosa Osa)- Gettin' Grown - Air Date 11-12-24
KP 7: How the Fediverse can make social fun again - WordPress - Air Date 8-12-24
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DEEPER DIVES
(1:02:00) SECTION A - MEDIA LANDSCAPE
(1:22:06) SECTION B - MEN ARE NOT OKAY
(1:52:03) SECTION C - WHAT WE CAN DO
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | At a time when there are very legitimate concerns about men's place in society, the |
| 0:12.4 | manosphere has stepped in to fill the gap in the cultural discussion to give an answer. |
| 0:18.0 | Not a good answer by any stretch, but an answer to young men about modern masculinity, |
| 0:24.2 | which included a strong push to vote Trump. For those looking for a quick overview, the |
| 0:29.9 | sources providing our top takes in just over 50 minutes today includes, why is this |
| 0:35.4 | happening? Straight White American Jesus. |
| 0:38.4 | Factually with Adam Conover. |
| 0:40.8 | It's Been a Minute, Getting Grown, and WordPress. |
| 0:44.9 | Then in the additional deeper dives have of the show, |
| 0:47.1 | there will be more in four sections. |
| 0:49.2 | Section A, the media landscape. |
| 0:51.4 | Section B, Men Are Not Okay, and section C, what we can do. |
| 1:00.8 | Um, I guess let's just open it up. Like, what do you think about how the information |
| 1:08.3 | environment is here in their current 2024? |
| 1:12.4 | I mean, I don't review it positively. |
| 1:16.8 | I mean, and I also have a lot of those same thoughts that you do where I'm just like, |
| 1:21.3 | am I just, is this because I'm getting into middle age that I'm like starting to get anxious |
| 1:25.8 | about, you know, media being consumed in a new way |
| 1:29.2 | that I'm not familiar or comfortable with or don't understand. And, you know, to be honest, |
| 1:34.5 | I can't eliminate the possibility that's true. But I actually do think there have been a few |
| 1:41.3 | major phenomena that have happened over that past decade. |
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