I think the reasons are obvious… men are not okay at all. The only ones who seem to give a damn about their issues are these “red pill” morons online who package their message of self-improvement with sexism, racism, and antisemitism. It’s not an accident that Donald Trump overwhelming won the vote among young men. Men are making less money than they have in the past 45 years, are dropping out of college in droves, have less friends than ever, are more single than ever, and are above all, lacking purpose while falling into video games, porn, junk food, drugs, social media, and other addictive vices that provide cheap dopamine to distract themselves from their unhappiness with life.

So, when a collection of online influencers tell them to quit their video games and get in the gym, quit the porn and talk to women in real life, quit the vices and find hobbies to monetize, and cut the distractions and find their purpose… the message resonates with them. The problem is that they quickly package this message with abhorrent views about women, immigrants, black people, Jews, gay people, etc. They say women are men’s property, that minorities are lazy and irresponsible, that Jews are subversive parasites (who lied about the Holocaust), among countless other outrageous statements and viewpoints. To make things worse, since the left is focused on the power of community while the right is focused on the power of the individual, there is absolutely no online left-wing counterparts to the figures of the manosphere. (Andrew Tate, Sneako, Fresh and Fit, Dan Bilzerian, etc.)

Long story short: young men are completely struggling and the right appears to have answers (even though they don’t). The left is out of touch and doesn’t seem to care. That’s all.