SOLVED! #8 - PART 2: Drowning Men Will Clutch at Straws: Masculinity in a MAGA world
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 5-5-25
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin continue our discussion on masculinity and dive into:
- The dangers of the online obsession with Patrick Bateman from American Psycho
- John Adams’ famous quote that could give some insight into today’s incels
- The Matt Walsh/Megan Kelly skirmish that exposes Walsh’s siloed world-view
- A small but interesting group of former Trumpers who seem to have woken up to the bullshit of traditional gender roles
- The studies that show women have better sex under socialism
- SOLVED! SONG! “Love’s Not a Game” (Directly inspired by this episode!)
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REFERENCES:
Sigma grindset: TikTok's toxic worshipping of Patrick Bateman is another sign young men are lost - GQ Magazine
John Adams Writes to Abigail: ‘I must study politicks and war’
Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “Men are generally not attracted to ambitious career-driven women” - Media Matters
The Vibe Shifts Against the Right - The New York Times
Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism - The New York Times (August 2017)
SOLVED! SONG! “Love’s Not a Game” - Concepts: Human Intelligence. Song: Artificial Intelligence. Based on SOLVED! Ep. #8: Part 2
EXTRAS
“The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love” by bell hooks (If you buy via this link, you can support indie bookstores and SOLVED! at the same time!)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, although today we're sharing a sample of this week's episode of our other show, solved. |
| 0:12.0 | Best of Left members get solved early, ad-free, and complete with a members-only backstage segment all via podcast. |
| 0:19.7 | But we're also putting the show out on the |
| 0:21.9 | Best of Left YouTube channel where we're attempting to find a new audience. Consider supporting |
| 0:26.4 | us directly by signing up for a membership or help us grow on YouTube by subscribing to |
| 0:31.2 | the Best of Left YouTube channel and catching every episode of Solved there. And now here's a few |
| 0:36.9 | minutes for free to wet your appetite. |
| 0:38.7 | But just like Best of the Left, the Real Benefits kick in when you hear the whole show, |
| 0:43.4 | which is greater than the sum of its parts. |
| 0:46.6 | As a kid, none of this was good. |
| 0:50.6 | Being superficial, being self-centered, being narcissistic, hating women. |
| 0:57.0 | None of this is good. |
| 0:59.8 | And I cannot put myself in the place trying to be as empathetic as possible where you can watch |
| 1:07.3 | that and come away with, this is a good avatar for my life. |
| 1:11.4 | Working out, take care of yourself. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah, but Patrick Bateman as the model. |
| 1:17.8 | I think I know what it is. |
| 1:19.6 | And I think Amanda's story about the burn book is the explanation. |
| 1:24.8 | Because they think, And we will. |
| 1:28.3 | But the idea is I can do all the good things and I just won't have the bad consequences be part of it. |
| 1:35.3 | So Amanda, tell us about your burn book. |
| 1:37.3 | Oh, God. |
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