The Vichy Males
The Gentlemanosphere are male feminists cosplaying as real men.
If you’ve been paying any attention to the War on the Manosphere lately, you’ve probably seen a few of the “those Manosphere guys always say…” videos from the anti-Manosphere Manosphere grifters. Last month, The Dispatch published Rise of the Anti-Manosphere, Introducing the Gentlemanosphere, in an effort to foster some ‘healthier’ version of the Manosphere. Of course, that healthier version always serves a feminine ideal.
I’ve been in this space long enough to see these Manosphere ‘sanitization’ attempts come around several times over the course of two decades. The sanitized Manosphere is always delivered by the same kind of men. They start with vague acknowledgments (carefully avoiding naming anyone) of what the Manosphere gets right in its diagnosis, and then straw-man the points with vague solutions. Those “solutions” offend their ego investments in what a feminized social order has taught them should be the correct, female way of resolving issues. On the rare occasion they offer any counter-solution (most only ‘raise awareness’), it’s always the same played-out, feminine-primary reason that created the problems decades ago. They don’t offer anything new, but the ‘problem with men’ has become so unignorable that concern-trolling has become profitable for male feminists.
Vichy Males
There’s a subset of men that has evolved in our feminized social order over the past 60+ years. In the past, we called these guys White Knights; men who, despite all reason, were trained to come to women’s defense whenever some man dared to speak an unflattering truth about women’s nature. But White Knight or Beta is passé now. White Knight is too broad. These ‘men’ are actively advocating for the feminine imperative. They’re the plantation slaves trying to convince the escaped slaves to return to the plantation. They’re the Sneaky Fuckers (h/t Gad Saad), the male feminist collaborators who think the better men can serve women, the more attractive women will find them. They’re Vichy Males.
In my earliest essays, I referred to these men as “Vichy Males”: men so invested in the conditioning of the feminine imperative that they’re unaware of how it affects their own interests as men. Men who actively collaborate with and promote the feminine imperative’s social reengineering of masculinity. Traditional masculinity is toxic and aberrant (according to the APA), but Nümasculinity is femininity wrapped in the veneer of stoicism.
Rollo Tomassi is the author of the Best-Selling book series, The Rational Male.
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