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2017

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Crossing Golden Gate Park I said unto my Lord "Is there no advantage to masculinity?" And sayeth she back "Of course my son, there is one.."

4:11 PM · Sep 21, 2017

2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@Shivviness Do you even realize what you are suggesting?? If women enjoyed reserving their affections for victors, it would be *women* selecting for toxic masculinity based on natural and sexual selection!!! Which is impossible.

Because...uh....because.....uh...um......well because woke.

6:58 PM · Feb 3, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@Ruminorang “Normally the prognosis for this is...not very encouraging.”

Clearly he’s not in constant touch with his emotions, so I suppose that’s some serious toxic masculinity on display for us all. Whatever the hell that means.

Toxic masculinity...oh brother. What a weird time this is.

11:12 PM · Mar 6, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I have been relatively quiet for a reason. Amidst a large number of discussions misframing the IDW recently, I thought I was losing my mind. Even people close to me have become completely confused. Why??

This article gets it right to first approximation:

https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/23/stop-assuming-intellectual-dark-web-political-movement/

1:14 PM · Apr 23, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Right now cancerous ideas are ubiquitous as institutional models are collapsing simultaneously from Journalism to Universities to Political parties. These bizarre ideas are flowing like water (Open and Zero immigration are both cancerous as an example).

So, we are fighting that.

1:32 PM · Apr 23, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I am the first to admit that I cannot always keep my footing out here. If you can, your a better human than I am. Really. I know I’m not up to the task as I am being pulled apart by all those I respect who need Left/Right institutional or media anchors which seem to be going mad.

1:37 PM · Apr 23, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If there’s one thing I do that‘s most confusing it‘s this: I am consistently fighting bigoted SJW oppression theories not because I fear them the most. Quite the contrary. I fear that SJWs are trying to antagonize far right bigots to give their lazy oppression ideology relevance.

1:45 PM · Apr 23, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

The benefit of the previous progressivism was that we had the extreme right down to a few guys with Tiki torches. We got gay marriage, co-education, female choice over work, reproductive rights, etc... and then came the confused & bigoted issues like “Whiteness”. Which is insane.

1:51 PM · Apr 23, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If you wanted to antagonize out-of-work patriots in swing states who have been screwed over by coastal boomers, intersectional oppression theory is maximally efficient. You could elect a Trump by demonizing white skin, patriotism, Christian values, military service & masculinity.

1:58 PM · Apr 23, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I’m not a republican. I’m some flavor of progressive. But I do my best to love all my fellow Americans, including the SJWs and the patriots demonized by the SJWs. I love the US which has at times been horrible to my family *because* I’ve traveled the world. And even with warts...

2:03 PM · Apr 23, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

...she’s amazing. So there you have it. I’m thoroughly multicultural but because of that, I learned through that lens why Patriotism is not to be discarded when you find your nation has lied to you. Instead it’s time to pick up tools and get to work fixing her up. Hence: the IDW.

2:06 PM · Apr 23, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@safeortrue @ldnjunk @DMarshall113 @clairlemon Uri, you just aren't getting it. You're at a low layer of resolution, not engaging the actual objections.

For example "White Privilege" is now a weaponized reserved term, making it impossible to discuss any unearned privilege of whites! An "own goal". It just TOTALLY backfires.

1:49 AM · May 7, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@safeortrue @ldnjunk @DMarshall113 @clairlemon Same thing with masculinity. Some masculinity, like some femininity, is toxic. But then you get:

masculinity --> toxic masculinity
toxic masculinity --> "Toxic Masculinity"
"Toxic Masculinity" --> ToxicMasculinity(TM)

and now nobody sane wants to talk about the issues at all.

1:52 AM · May 7, 2019

2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Ya know...I used to think women would be superior parents. Now I don’t know. I want women to imagine the message you’re sending to young men who are right now being raised to put themselves at risk to defend you reflexively if they see you or your kids in trouble. #Greathashtag

4:00 PM · Jan 5, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Maybe be let us dads raising boys, try taking a lead on the parenting and child rearing around this Hashtag?

Young men:

#IfTheWorldHadNoMen

4:00 PM · Jan 5, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Young men:

Here is a piece of advice: the vast majority of the world’s women love their imperfect men, warts and all. They want fathers, suitors, mentors, protectors and babies. The online world & political worlds are not representative.

#IfTheWorldHadNoMen

4:00 PM · Jan 5, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I toured a lot of schools recently and became aware from looking at signs posted on walls that some of you are being constantly raised with a message that all your masculinity is somehow toxic. That is exactly as true, and as false, as femininity being toxic. No more & no less.

4:00 PM · Jan 5, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

What is also true is that us older men have been slow to realize that online you are being raised to hate & fear yourselves because no one wants to stand up for you to be set upon by an online army of traumatized folks who need serious love & support after being preyed upon.

4:00 PM · Jan 5, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Here is what I want to say: I want to do better as an uncle. The message I want to leave you boys with is that you deserve to be celebrated too. You are going to fuck up. It doesn’t mean you have to fear yourselves as monsters. Most, but not all, women want most, but not all men.

4:00 PM · Jan 5, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Maybe they can’t afford to wait for perfect men. Maybe have the courage to accept that your all too real competitive, violent and sexual impulses do not make you a monster. They’re merely a challenge to control. And traumatized women can’t wait for perfect men. They ain’t coming.

4:00 PM · Jan 5, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Now also watch for any moms raising boys who will respond and resonate with it. Any women who want to be courted and want to raise families. There are black belt women who lead climb and have their own successful businesses who need to be asked out and swept off their feet too.

4:00 PM · Jan 5, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Stop fearing yourselves. Channel your masculinity towards the light whenever possible. You won’t win every battle with yourselves. But we needed to stand up for you a long time ago and let this man hating idiocy get way out of hand. That’s on us and we can do better. Good luck.👍

4:00 PM · Jan 5, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

This is a very very important question. “Can masculinity be redeemed?” We all agree: Men have done bad things. Women on the other hand give life & are positive. It seems a paradox. And yet some brave women now argue that men may be redeemable! It seems a slim hope. Dare to dream.

2:51 PM · Jan 22, 2020

The New Yorker

@NewYorker

“There is certainly no evidence that boys have less capacity for empathy at birth than girls do, so that is learned behavior about what it means to be masculine.” An interview with @peggyorenstein.

2:35 PM · Jan 20, 2020

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

For those of you who ask me about parenting, learning differences and raising boys in an era trying to reinvent masculinity, we have just released a Portal episode on these issues with my son @Zev__Weinstein as guest! Hope you enjoy it & please subscribe:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/34-zev-weinstein-on-parenting-boys-generation-z/id1469999563?i=1000474506222

11:33 PM · May 13, 2020

2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

@MavsBurner In my day, they would have seized the opportunity to dance with the ladies and afterword thank the middle aged piano player stuck on a bench providing the opportunity. But today that would be toxic masculinity. Sigh….

5:31 PM · Jan 16, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Holocaust Remembrance Day.

A non-Jewish Sinti hero of mine from the time: Johann Trollmann.

10:24 PM · Jan 27, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

If you don’t know his story, take a minute to read it on line. You won’t want that minute back. It’s a tale of courage and what masculinity can be at its best.

There are always real heroes among us. A champion of 1933, and all time.

10:24 PM · Jan 27, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Thinking a bit on masculinity.

6:09 PM · Feb 8, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I never heard Pete Seeger talk about glocks, hemis, defensive tackles, hooters, armbars, nunchucks and the like. Kinda gawky actually.

He just stood his ground against the full weight of the US government. Refused to give up friends and colleagues. Faced prison.

You decide.

6:20 PM · Feb 8, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

There *are* limits to comedy.

Not everything is fake.

Not all masculinity is toxic.

Violence is sometimes the answer.

——-

I know nothing about what happened at the Oscars. But many of my followers disagree with all of the above. How? I don’t know.

We just became simplistic.

3:40 PM · Mar 28, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Because I’ll tell you something. If there aren’t men willing to take out an active shooter barricaded in a room executing little kids? An average mom with ZERO police experience would consider taking a dive through a window to at least try to take the psychopath out.

I promise.

1:11 AM · May 27, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I think with this, I’m just done with “toxic masculinity” forever.

Bring it back. We got sons to raise.

Armed Texas men hiding behind little kids is my last straw. I’m snapping out.

1:17 AM · May 27, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

I just learned, Ginger Rogers single-handedly liberated the death camps, only she did it backwards…and in heels.

Maybe, it’s enough of stupid already?

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-01-09/traditional-masculinity-is-harmful-to-boys-men-american-psychological-association-says?src=usn_tw

2:37 AM · Dec 30, 2022

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

There is a lot right with traditional femininity and masculinity. This is unconscionable to erase the sacrifices of traditionally masculine men for humanity, country, family and the most vulnerable.

Men & women need to lift each other up. That’s the way. Nothing new or flashy.

2:41 AM · Dec 30, 2022

2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

So funny to see what passes for analysis.

@rebeccawatson, try the following. Make a dumb list of ANY large heterodox accounts run by PhDs. It’s not about “men”. It’s not about “smartest”. It’s about large accounts run by STEM folks that are not seen as institutionally captured.

6:56 PM · Mar 4, 2023

Rebecca Watson

@rebeccawatson

I've obviously built my brand on condemning scammers, but I have to admit that this one is pretty hilarious: scamming the guys who sincerely believe they're the smartest men in the room? 👩‍🍳💋

3:39 PM · Mar 3, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Do I imagine that the USG might reach out to @lexfridman or Sam Harris or @AstroKatie or @seanmcarroll? Of course I do.

In fact it would be irrational to expect that they wouldn’t do so given that this is EXACTLY the Modus Operandi of reaching out to “influencers”.

6:56 PM · Mar 4, 2023

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Stop trying to get clicks. The reaching out is real. And it is not toxic masculinity. Nor is it narcissism. So, that was kind of a nasty straw-man you just built. Maybe think a bit more next time? I don’t know you Rebecca, but I hope they reach out to you too, whoever you are.🙏

6:56 PM · Mar 4, 2023

2024

Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Completely ridiculous batshit crazy election year thought experiments:

Imagine that masculinity was net *positive*, and positively perceived by many...perhaps even most...heterosexual females. Imagine that European culture was also overwhelmingly net positive, and was perceived to be so by many black, asian and latino people. Imagine that Judeo-Christian values were net positive, and were perceived as being so by a majority of atheists.

Imagine that "Weaponize Masculinity." was actually a pretty AMAZING and effective election year slogan. Edgy. Positive. High Energy. Confident. Pro-safety. And all the right people will hate it ensuring maximal exposure.

I know, I know. Stupid right? So dumb.

This all sounds crazy to many of you die-hard Biden/Harris supporters. Forgive me for wasting your time. Just crazy talk. No big deal.

See you all in November.

10:57 PM · Jul 19, 2024

RPC Video

@rcpvideo

Joy Reid: The Trump Coalition Is White Men, "White-Adjacent" Black And Brown Men, And "Trad-Wife" Women

https://realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/07/18/trump_coalition_is_white_men_white-adjacent_black_and_brown_men_and_women_who_are_into_that_trad-wife_thing.html

2:32 AM · Jul 19, 2024

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