Like, why does a gym attract so many dickheads. I’m just there minding my own damn business when I overhear dudes talking about how they are ‘going to get so much pussy for lifting’ and whatever dumb shit. It’s a constant stream of male garbage coming from all around you. My fault for not wearing headphones I guess.

Is that why you lift? Really? Are most gym bros just terminally insecure man children? Fucking hell man. Who unironically talks like that? I know I’m probably in a bubble as a sober, vegan communist but still.

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    Threads like this make it really obvious as to why the right wing has so much success pulling men in, when the left criticizes all of them for wanting to just be fit. It’s pretty well known this mentality is due to right wing propaganda yet here is another thread of “all men that go to gyms are just dumb assholes.” Again we devolve into attacking the people instead of the system that causes this. Let’s not do anything to build up a healthy masculinity on the left. Let’s just berate them and drive them further to the right. It’s hilarious how easy we make the rights job for them.

    Leftists: “Why gym bros driven to the right?”

    Also leftists: “Hey let’s have another entire thread calling men stupid, vanity driven, sexist assholes for stepping foot near a gym.”

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      Nobody is criticizing men for wanting to be fit. I actively encourage them to do so. However, an urge to be fit does not necessary means you have to become an misogynistic asshole. You build positive masculinity by revealing the fascist nature many gym bros currently have and offer an alternative.

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      when the left criticizes all of them for wanting to just be fit.

      Who here is criticizing men specifically for wanting to be fit? Point to the comments in question, let’s see it.