“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.”
“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.”
72 Comments
LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe · 64 pts · 286d
If you’re looking for cowards, you should look at conservatives. That’s their defining characteristic.
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 63 pts · 286d
This is the funniest article I’ve seen in a while.
“I’m doing everything I can to make the nation a less tolerant, more hateful place. Why can’t I find love?”
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 286d
Reminds me of an article from a few years back, alt-right women complaining that men in the alt-right scene are too sexist
TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone · 42 pts · 286d
Any man who considers trump an alpha has no idea what an alpha male is.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 45 pts · 286d
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 286d
Yeah, and it’s stupid and problematic. That being said, you know what the person you’re replying to was trying to say, right?
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 286d
Alphas are so weak that they can easily be stopped by something as thin as a piece of paper. I'm a gamma, I only can be stopped by several inches of concrete or some lead.
sundray@lemmus.org · 11 pts · 286d
Gamma? Ew, so short! /s
Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 285d
I like traumatizing them by assuming they're deep into Omegaverse/ABO Fics. They get big mad.
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 286d
Too buggy, better to wait for the official release
LordMayor@piefed.social · 12 pts · 286d
Conservatives have a thing for “early access,” though.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 5 pts · 286d
The concept of dominance hierarchy is much more complex than its proponents realize.
The idea of a "The Winner Takes it All" type alpha male in any society is mostly junk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy
No, these people are sociopaths and we live in a system that rewards such behavior.
Tronn4@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 286d
They should fuck themselves
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 286d
This isn't a bad idea. Rent a venue and charge like $15 per person and call it a MAGA Singles Social. Spread it on Facebook and rake in the cash.
Then let all the incels and divorced dads gather. Should be like 90% plus men
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 286d
Literally impossible. That would require some form of self reflection.
Tedesche@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 286d
I have no sympathy and don’t even agree this is a problem. Bible-thumping conservative, Evangelical Christians have been here since the founding of this country and they have always found a way to restock their ranks of indoctrinated children throughout the generations. In my opinion, they’re a cancer in society, and I see no end to their presence in the near future. Even if this particular woman never finds a husband she can accept, enough like her will, and they will produce another generation of bigoted youngsters, intent on anchoring this country in their naïve, idealized, theocratic vision of the past.
I wish I could say they’re being left behind by more modern, sensible people, but the truth of the matter is that they’re succeeding at holding the rest of us back with their antiquated, bigoted ways.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 11 pts · 286d
Mostly agree, however:
This does not seem to be the case in Washington:
Republicans seem to have manoevered themselves into a no-win situation wrt dating and procreation.
LordMayor@piefed.social · 7 pts · 286d
They only have problems in Washington DC and, probably, other left-leaning cities. This isn’t a problem for conservatives everywhere.
Hell, I bet someone starts a service to match the DC conservatives with people from Texas or Florida. Mail order dates within the USA.
db2@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 286d
They're mostly closeted gay men hung like gerbils.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 286d
Thats an insult to gerbils.
since you obviously aren't deep into the lore:
Citation
discosnails@lemmy.wtf · 24 pts · 286d
Absolutely legendary comment+username
protist@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 286d
Whose job was it to measure the whale balls
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 286d
and where do I apply?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 286d
Someone with a PhD
False@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 286d
Let's not use penis size as an insult, there are plenty of other accurate insults like being dumb racist pieces of shit.
db2@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 286d
It wasn't an insult. Is a weird correlation future historians will be uncomfortable unpacking.
Cypher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 286d
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 11 pts · 286d
The ones in Washington State, definitely. Nationwide, well, you can also find some straight, very manly racist men. Only problem is that they're taken. By their cousins.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 9 pts · 286d
And incels
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 4 pts · 286d
Nownow, don't go slinging baseless acusations. Post some proof .. ...
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 286d
Why do you feel the need to out-infantile your political opponents? Do you think onlookers think highly of you when you put things like this into the world?
db2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 286d
You're the one who's reading it that way, don't try to offload your issues on to me.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 286d
Oh please, do you think anyone believes you describing people as "hung like gerbils" is meant to be anything other than an insult?
Who do you think you're kidding?
db2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 285d
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 285d
Not beating the 'infantile' allegations by following up your previous comment with this one, that's for sure.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 286d
Yes, this is why abortion bans don't have exceptions for rape or incest.
Republicans know they can't pass on their genes any other way.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 286d
Generally Maga toads are dressing up their profiles to look politically ambiguous because they know being authentic gets them ignored by almost all of the dating pool. Just look for dudes who take pictures in sunglasses in their car and pose with fish.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 286d
No.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 286d
Insecurity is the driving force for maga - insecurity of being left behind, insecurity of their role in the world, insecurity of being irrelevant. You can’t be masculine and constantly projecting yourself onto others.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 20 pts · 286d
A guy who is actually confident doesn't need to make a big thing about it.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 286d
A person whose thoughts are concerned with being masculine is inherently insecure.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 18 pts · 286d
Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/10/28/maga-dating-scene-washington/
Archived: https://archive.ph/VY8Tu
A perfect moment of discovering the discrepancy between MAGA ideology on "paper" and in reality.
The article is a fun read.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 286d
Even MAGAs have student loans, and they are a major reason that people are avoiding marriage. Nobody wants to get married and double their student loan debt.
Worse, what if you didn't have student loan debt, and you were considering marrying someone with tens of thousands of student loan debt. Would you still marry them, and make that debt yours? Or maybe just live together, and not officially take on that debt?
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 286d
It's also not even in the same galaxy as 'Leopards Ate My Face'.
There are countless places to post generic 'let's mock MAGA being on the receiving end of anything negative', themed communities don't need to get polluted with it too.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 1 pts · 285d
I was initially going to write something about that. It's not your bog standard cliché LAMF, that's for sure. It's more complex. And that's a plus in my book.
Whichever way you cut it though, it's definitely in the same galaxy (or neighborhood, to take it down a few notches).
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 284d
It's not. At all. This is the sequence of events of a LAMF:
For example, if Y voted to cut funding for public services, then got upset that a public service they use on got its funding cut, that's a textbook LAMF.
"MAGA singles are having trouble finding romantic partners" meets literally none of the above criteria. There isn't even an X (re #1)!
5in1k@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 286d
I think I’m fairly masculine, big dude who enjoys being strong, I like outdoor activities like hunting, fishing, hiking. I really like working with my hands.
I’m left as fuck.
Most dudes I run into I would consider weak and the ones who are “masculine” pretty much just watch a ton of sports but are otherwise effete.
4grams@awful.systems · 27 pts · 286d
The problem is, masculinity has been turned into a performative art these days. To the culture obsessed with masculinity, you have to fall in line, wear the clothes, support the right people…. What they don’t get is that this is the least masculine behavior possible.
Seriously, look at the “masculine” types, they all are groomed, their trucks are all spotless, they go to work and sit in the same chairs as the rest of us; but think their fascist adjacent clothing makes them look tough. I see nothing but insecure manchildren.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 286d
At their core, Conservatives are cowards. They are afraid of EVERYTHING: Liberals, minorities, women, women's genitals, other religions, poor people, other countries, technology, education, intelligence, Critical Thinking Skills, the Constitution, history, etc. They are even afraid of each other. They are terrified that anything will change, and they're lives won't be as comfortable as they are now. They are so scared about that, that they will literally murder entire demographic sectors, just to assure their personal comfort.
So right off the bat, if you are dating a Conservative, you are dating a profound coward. If trouble occurs, he's going to grab you, and use you as a human shield.
comeonitsnotlike@feddit.nu · 9 pts · 286d
They're also the laziest creatures walking on this earth; learn something? No thanks, they say, that takes effort, let's just hate everything instead. Never fuck conservatives and never leave your children alone with one.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 286d
PedoCons. There's a sociological concept that the rise and success of the Conservative movement has been significantly (and deliberately) driven by being the party that covers for pedophilia. ALL pedophiles choose the Conservative party because they know they'll cover for them, and the conservatives want them because they are easy to manipulate.
All MAGAs are pedophiles, or support and defend pedophiles, which is the same thing.
comeonitsnotlike@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 286d
Yup. They're pedophiles.
ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 285d
That's the quickest route to becoming "woke" so we can't have that and still be in the club.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 286d
You've confused conservative men with conservative male politicians. There are masculine conservation men, though if they crow about their alpha-ness then they're not.
Conservative male politicians are a mixed bag of redophiles, rapists, homophobic self-haters, high school losers who suddenly came into power by deceit, corruption and theft.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 286d
Conservation men seem the type to be very masculine. Park rangers, foresters, zookeepers, etc. Rugged and outdoorsy jobs conservation puts you in. Unfortunately for conservatives they've been politically opposed to it for decades
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 285d
I've been reading this exact same article, practically word-for-word, since the Reagan Era. Yet there never seems to be a shortage of married Republicans. Hell, some of them are on their third or fourth round of marriage. Similarly, I've been reading the "Liberals are a turn-off. I need a real man's man! The only boy who gets with this Hot Trad is a Based Chad!" article for my entire adult life. Nobody can explain where all the married liberals are coming from, either. It's almost as though these articles are just slamming Sex and Politics into a single headline and hoping people click the link.
But I also see something more insidious. I'm reading wave after wave of "dating is a scam / the opposite sexes simply aren't compatible" rhetoric, often subtly paired with "Exciting New Digital Fuckdoll!" native ads and associated articles. Very reminescent of the '10s-era "Give up meeting people on your own, get the App!", '00s-era "Give up on meeting people on your own, buy Speed Dating", and '90s-era "You'll never find an American partner who will treat you with the subservience of a mail-order bride!"
Wake up, Sheeple! Quit being seduced by this Marketing Slop! You're just being commodified. Again.
Alloi@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 285d
not me, i met my wife the old fashioned way, and now i get to give her a liberal amount of my penis every day!
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 14 pts · 286d
Natural selection in action. Turns out, when you're proposing to chlorinate the gene pool, you'd best make sure other people don't go: "Okay! Let's start at your end - it's fucking filthy."
MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 286d
Never fuck a MAGAt.
Manjushri@piefed.social · 13 pts · 286d
This. This right here is where history will tell us that we started to breed the Morlocks.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 286d
Morlocks were described as being pallid white skinned, flaxen haired, chinless, knuckle-dragging weaklings that preyed on those smaller and more vulnerable than themselves. Damn man, throw a red hat on them, and you're absolutely right.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 286d
Why is it literally fucking impossible for news publications to make the distinction between Washington and Washington DC in the headline? This one is about Washington DC
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 286d
Oh, how surprising! It is actually hard to find a decent partner when your focus group consists of professional assholes...
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 286d
Got bad news for you sweetie, they're all on Grindr.
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one · 9 pts · 286d
It should be impossible, ideally.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 285d
Donald trump is their leader, not surprised they're morons but c'mon. Every man these conservatives look up to wears makeup for a living.
No value judgement on makeup but for people that allege to value "traditional" notions of masclinity its so funny they can't see what's in front of their face.
Also "ammosexuals" is not getting enough traction in those replies.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 286d
They are probably holding two partially contradictory concepts of masculinity in mind and trying to find the tiny population of men that exist in that intersection.
They are seeking a warm and considerate racist or a strong weak man. Good luck with that.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 286d
Unfuckable.
Thanks, autocorrect:
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 286d
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 286d
And yet literotica.com has a political board that allows the absolute worst of the worst Republican racists to say the absolute most evil shit you can imagine with no recorse.
gigachad@piefed.social · 4 pts · 286d
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 286d
You linked to another fediverse comment section instead of the article...
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 286d
Gross men!
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 286d
This is not even close to LAMF, why did you post it here?