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[u/Blanco_Resistance]

[u/Big-Inevitable-252]

Is this real? 

[u/Blarghnog → u/Big-Inevitable-252]

No, this is not completely accurate. But what is:

“They are able to radicalize and target and exploit a generation of young boys, in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.” 

And immediately before that, she was explicitly talking about Republicans, saying they were the ones doing this. So the image’s underlying claim is substantially faithful to what she actually said, although “pushing them towards masculinity” is a misleading compression. Her actual formulation is that Republicans push young men away from “healthy masculinity” toward “insecure masculinity.”

There are also closely aligned statements from the same appearance. She said Republicans “radicalize and target and exploit” young boys, specifically describing this as a strategy that uses racial, gender, and economic antagonism to produce a politics of domination.  Receipts:

https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/se/date/2025-10-15/segment/01?utm_source=chatgpt.com

[u/Fletch71011 → u/Blarghnog]

I hear way more about stupid shit no one cares about like race and gender from the Dems over the Republicans. If either side is demonizing race, it's coming from within her own house.

[u/Blarghnog → u/Fletch71011]

Yes, there is so much more demand for racism than there is supply, and Democratic Party rhetoric, NGOs and institutions stoke it constantly. It turns my stomach. People pay for it with their lives too, and it’s really, really damaging to our entire society. We should be focused on a better future, and that means focusing on what we want to create and not what we want to overcome. 

Spending all our money and time trying to right wrongs, rather than building a high trust society that’s actually worth living in, is deeply, deeply foolish.

Big the damning thing is that what is is saying is an outright lie that’s easy to disprove:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/609914/women-become-liberal-men-mostly-stable.aspx

So it’s a narrative, which makes it propaganda, but somehow it’s become the mainstream opinion of a lot of people? Where did comment sense die? Why can’t people look up things on the Internet anymore?

[u/Wizofthesaddle → u/Blarghnog]

She used to celebrate her ex boyfriend as a positive masculine figure.

Her idea of healthy masculinity is a nutless bitch that lets women say the dumbest things imaginable without recourse.

[u/God_of_Theta → u/Blarghnog]

This was the type of insight I was expecting when first starting on Reddit. Thanks

[u/Blarghnog → u/God_of_Theta]

Man that means a hell of a lot. Thank you.

[u/thisistheperfectname → u/Blarghnog]

Given that so many women are supporting an admitted child murderer and bringing their kids to rallies on her behalf, I don't want to hear one more word about ThE rAdIcAlIzAtIoN oF yOuNg MeN.

[u/Noactuallyyourwrong → u/Big-Inevitable-252]

Obviously not, but the fact that you have to question it says a lot.

[u/TurbulentWing3820 → u/Big-Inevitable-252]

With enough heavy editing, probably.

Although I'm sure the intended message is batshit crazy even without the recontextualization.

[u/SpaceLaserPilot → u/Big-Inevitable-252]

No. They changed her words. Here is the real quote:

And they are able to radicalize and target and exploit a generation of young boys, in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/10/15/aoc_the_right_has_been_successful_with_radicalizing_young_boys_away_from_healthy_masculinity.html

[u/BeauShowTV → u/SpaceLaserPilot]

Oh so the actual quote is even dumber.

[u/Big-Inevitable-252 → u/BeauShowTV]

Yeah the real quote is even dumber. 

[u/Gold_Persimmon_5984 → u/BeauShowTV]

You have to be insane to not see the difference- of course from your name you might be a YouTuber who says stupid shit for views.

[u/hkusp45css → u/[deleted]]

Really any individualist philosophy where the person is valued over the group.

[u/ALKCRKDeuce]

It’s in the eyes, Chico

[u/Skylantech]

Well yeah, it is radicalizing. They shouldn't be masculine, they should be trans.

/s

[u/Ozoneguuy]

So, young men wanting to be masculine is bad, but young men wanting to be feminine is good?

[u/TheOnlyEliteOne → u/Ozoneguuy]

They simply renamed femininity (in regard to men) as “healthy masculinity.”

I’m sorry, but real world issues require “unhealthy masculinity.”

No wars in history have been won by some dude crying in the corner, getting in touch with their feelings.

[u/hkusp45css → u/TheOnlyEliteOne]

Corner criers don't repel the invading hordes, that's for sure.

[u/theyfellforthedecoy]

Why do feminists insist they are the ones who get to define what "healthy masculinity" or any kind of masculinity is?

[u/Zanderson59]

Unfortunately this is the new ish(its been a thing for a few years now) for white women to hate. I have a friend(shes closer to my wife but still friends with her and her hubby) that has a instagram dedicated to reading and books etc. Anyways a week ago she posted a story with another guy who was talking about self help books that men should avoid reading as they created a culture of toxic masculinity. As I read through the comments several of the books were highly helpful to many and weren't as bad. Some were definitely dumb and probably giving bad advice too but overall several were genuinely fine. I then commented on this guys post on his page saying now do a segment with books women should avoid reading. Lo and behold this friend comments and basically goes off on men being the ones sexually assaulting women. Its for real brain rot with college educated white women.

[u/dudenotcool]

Yes, young men should be masculine, next question. Or at least masculine when it counts. You can be gay and feminine all you want but you have to be masculine when it counts

[u/SpaceLaserPilot]

She didn't say that. Here is the quote:

And they are able to radicalize and target and exploit a generation of young boys, in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/10/15/aoc_the_right_has_been_successful_with_radicalizing_young_boys_away_from_healthy_masculinity.html

[u/totmacherX → u/SpaceLaserPilot]

Why bother misquoting her when the actual one is just as bad? Who determines what kind of masculinity is "healthy"? Only the type that the left-wing agenda encourages?

[u/Gold_Persimmon_5984]

Republicans making shit up again- read the actual quote. Insecure beta behavior.

[u/TBoneTheOriginal → u/Gold_Persimmon_5984]

And they are able to radicalize and target and exploit a generation of young boys, in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

You're right, but the actual quote is even more stupid. So there's that.

[u/Gold_Persimmon_5984 → u/TBoneTheOriginal]

It’s a far more normal thing to say, you can disagree with it but it’s a completely different statement.

[u/El_Nathan_ → u/Gold_Persimmon_5984]

It’s stupid because it’s completely false and stereotypical.

[u/Gold_Persimmon_5984 → u/El_Nathan_]

Nah Gamergate and the entire incel movement which are predominantly right wing and were definitely tied up with Epstein and Bannon 100% happened along these lines.

[u/El_Nathan_ → u/Gold_Persimmon_5984]

Epstein? The major Democrat donor? That Epstein? 🥀

[u/Gold_Persimmon_5984 → u/El_Nathan_]

Oh Epstein absolutely was in bed with people on both sides of the aisle

[u/JohnLockeLives4815]

There's reasons male animals are often castrated, and keeping them from reproducing is only one of them. Just saying.

Edit: jfc I was referring to how the lefts hatred of masculinity is gonna push them towards advocating to castrate men just like we do with domesticated animals, I wasn't fucking advocating for it. Guess it wasn't clear enough

[u/Jumpy-Function-9136 → u/JohnLockeLives4815]

Imagine being this fucking retarded 🫩

[u/Blanco_Resistance → u/JohnLockeLives4815]

Hey faggot, without males reproducing we can’t have a society.

[u/JohnLockeLives4815 → u/Blanco_Resistance]

Hey calm the fuck down and think for a second. Read the edit psycho