The problem is just that we don't want to do that,. We also just aren't well suited to do that.
I don't know how to appeal to those men, and they are pretty primed not to like me. I'm also not sure how much you can astro turf something like that vs have it grow organically.
I am also curious how much of the problem we are in is due to the illiterate vs the evil nerds.
I don't think most sports, comedy, entertainment podcasters are committed ideologues. I think they'll talk up whoever's paying them, within certain bounds. Lefties should be paying them.
If I understand what you mean by the evil nerds, I think they're at least in some kind of direct conversation with lefties. I don't think the illiterate hear much of anything directly from lefties beyond what leaks into other kinds of news and entertainment.
I feel like entertainment preferences are polarizing by gender and education. Like the pop culture and hobby internet I go on has predominantly female viewership.
I like can talk your ear off about Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter and do on my Threads and TikTok and I get a kind of wash in like light feminism and queer acceptance messages in that space ambiently. Same thing with like cooking and like home care.
The one area where it’s really a conflict zone is video games and gamergate and death threats(for my wife specifically ) really made me just a lot less likely to even participate in public discussions of this stuff. If a channel isn’t known to be safe then it’s assumed unsafe
If I update this post I might include or at least link to this from MattY's latest mailbag:
"Brian T: What are your thoughts on how the shift away from text and toward video as a way of disseminating information — especially on how it might affect politics and culture?
"I think the big difference here isn’t text versus video per se, but the declining role of writers.
"With something like traditional movies, television, or news broadcasts you still need writers to make the content. And writers, on the whole, have a more cosmopolitan and more liberal sensibility than the average person. This is generally good and has helped move society forward a lot over the past 200 years. But in a world of TikTok and Reels, the informal Writers’ Cartel control over the distribution of information has been broken, and popular entertainers can just let their selfish parochial freak flags fly in a way that is bad."
"This shift in support for Mr. Trump among men is neither organic nor unexpected. It’s what happens when a well-coordinated political operation invests tens of millions of dollars to amplify Mr. Trump’s narrative and weaken confidence in the party in power. Compared with when Mr. Trump ran in 2020, young male voters are now less likely to support government-backed climate change solutions (down 15 points, according to our poll) and affirmative action for qualified candidates (down eight points). They are more likely to question immigration policy (up 12 points), free trade (up 10 points) and whether government stimulus leads to economic growth (up seven points). They are also more likely to believe that religious values should play a more important role in government (up six points)."
Well you are half way there on the education scale, but 'good' isn't a preposition, however 'good' shouldn't be used to describe verbs... unless the writer is intending to be ironic. Keep it up, looking to use grammer to ignore the bigger picture is trite... take it from a dyslexic, proud bottom half male, with a Joe average IQ.
The problem is just that we don't want to do that,. We also just aren't well suited to do that.
I don't know how to appeal to those men, and they are pretty primed not to like me. I'm also not sure how much you can astro turf something like that vs have it grow organically.
I am also curious how much of the problem we are in is due to the illiterate vs the evil nerds.
I don't think most sports, comedy, entertainment podcasters are committed ideologues. I think they'll talk up whoever's paying them, within certain bounds. Lefties should be paying them.
If I understand what you mean by the evil nerds, I think they're at least in some kind of direct conversation with lefties. I don't think the illiterate hear much of anything directly from lefties beyond what leaks into other kinds of news and entertainment.
I liked this piece a lot. Strong core argument with layers of insight throughout
Ty!
I feel like entertainment preferences are polarizing by gender and education. Like the pop culture and hobby internet I go on has predominantly female viewership.
I like can talk your ear off about Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter and do on my Threads and TikTok and I get a kind of wash in like light feminism and queer acceptance messages in that space ambiently. Same thing with like cooking and like home care.
The one area where it’s really a conflict zone is video games and gamergate and death threats(for my wife specifically ) really made me just a lot less likely to even participate in public discussions of this stuff. If a channel isn’t known to be safe then it’s assumed unsafe
Dr. Alice Evans recently wrote about the gender split in online spaces. But I love the way you phrased it. “Ambiently” is a great word.
If I update this post I might include or at least link to this from MattY's latest mailbag:
"Brian T: What are your thoughts on how the shift away from text and toward video as a way of disseminating information — especially on how it might affect politics and culture?
"I think the big difference here isn’t text versus video per se, but the declining role of writers.
"With something like traditional movies, television, or news broadcasts you still need writers to make the content. And writers, on the whole, have a more cosmopolitan and more liberal sensibility than the average person. This is generally good and has helped move society forward a lot over the past 200 years. But in a world of TikTok and Reels, the informal Writers’ Cartel control over the distribution of information has been broken, and popular entertainers can just let their selfish parochial freak flags fly in a way that is bad."
https://www.slowboring.com/p/mailbag-the-payment-system-endgame
Additionally, this op-ed by Mr. Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, writing in the NYT in Oct 2024, is really good. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/opinion/trump-gen-z-men-harris.html
"This shift in support for Mr. Trump among men is neither organic nor unexpected. It’s what happens when a well-coordinated political operation invests tens of millions of dollars to amplify Mr. Trump’s narrative and weaken confidence in the party in power. Compared with when Mr. Trump ran in 2020, young male voters are now less likely to support government-backed climate change solutions (down 15 points, according to our poll) and affirmative action for qualified candidates (down eight points). They are more likely to question immigration policy (up 12 points), free trade (up 10 points) and whether government stimulus leads to economic growth (up seven points). They are also more likely to believe that religious values should play a more important role in government (up six points)."
“Read well “*
Ending a sentence in such an obvious preposition is ironically proof of the fact that you don’t do much reading yourself.
- Sincerely, a “bottom-half” man who is 100% more educated than you.
This is the real reason I can't pander to illiterate men. My ego can't take it when you don't appreciate my jokes.
Well you are half way there on the education scale, but 'good' isn't a preposition, however 'good' shouldn't be used to describe verbs... unless the writer is intending to be ironic. Keep it up, looking to use grammer to ignore the bigger picture is trite... take it from a dyslexic, proud bottom half male, with a Joe average IQ.
😂 I assumed it was ironic! Perhaps you comment is too!?!?
Let us pray haha