I was talking with a coworker and the topic of hobbies came up, I mentioned that I liked reading and he looked at me weird, he chuckled and said reading books is a girl thing, I was too confused to even say anything else, what causes this mindset?
>>24114987Tiktok has made everyone believe that reading books is really just reading pornWhich women do
You simply have to compensate by doubling or tripling your misogyny levels. That's what all the Greats did.
>>24114987Most people don't read. Women throw off the average by reading a tremendous amount of emotional porn.
>>24114987Because women think reading is something to show off.
>>24114987Because you are letting lots of men come inside your head.
Reading is feminine because it is passive and because books are written by coomers deifying whores, and nowadays even by the whores themselves,In other words, both he activity and the content of the activity is fundamentally female.
>>24114987She looks like she reads hmofa stories.
>>24114987That's because he's a half illiterate negroidic moid, the most common type of male around. If he was a lawyer or a doctor he would hold reading in a higher standart, but he's not. I don't think he's the type of person you should be around, can't stand talking to these types they give me a headache. Trust me anyone worth your time would value reading at least a little bit.
>>24114987Statistically, women read a hell of a lot more than men do. Also historically, women had more time for leisure activities like reading, whereas men were too busy working for such things.
>>24115013Fellas, is it gay to have reading comprehension? Even as you read this I am shooting ropes inside your head. Eyes rolled to the back of the head tongue out, sloppy style
>>24114987Wroking is for peasants. So you are a peasant and a girl.
>>24114987When I was little, my grandma told me that books don't belong in women's hands. Because women should always be busying themselves with housework. It's just cultural.
>>24114987A common misconception. The truth is that reading is manly but the people who read are faggots. See: /lit/
>>24115300Based grandma wanting to actually support her working husband instead of just be a leech who putzes around and looks pretty.
just feel secure knowing reading was always fem-coded. always being at least for 3 centuries
>>24114998Unlike us men who jerk off to TRUE ART like two-headed inflated midget futa minotaur women with 15 breasts from space who mud wrestle.
>>24114987It's "passive". Part of the left-wing right-wing debate. Most guys are right-wing, so they are already anti-intellectual and prefer physical activities that project raw strength and focus on a internal locus of control (for the most part). While not working out, they are watching sports, violent TV shows, or playing violent video games. (Often as a substitute for war and violence society doesn't have). This is combined with men's declining performance in school. Men don't have time to read, they need to work, watch TV for a few hours, and sleep to repeat the cycle. Again, right-wingers are often anti-intellectual because they hate it when science rejects either God or their internal locus of control. Reading does not project strength, it is something nerds and gays do (basically women) so you have to be a working class man and a hard-baller at the same time, and neither of those people read books.Now, you think the left wingers would be better, right, since they typically have an external locus of control and being empathic, and while it is slightly better, lefties are labeled as "basically women" and constantly attacked for their lack of masculinity. But they are at fault for this too. A lot of lefties reject self-improvement over just either wallowing in sorrow over what they can't control, or fall into lives of hedonism and laziness. After all, if you can't control anything, why try? If the world will be destroyed by climate change, warfare, economic collapse, raising cost of living, etc, why even try at all? Of course much like the right calling "reading is gay" is illogical, this is too. If the world is ending, wouldn't you want to be in the best position to try and and survive during it while things aren't that bad? Should you be preparing for it? Again, they fall into watching TV and video games. Not to mention a lot of lefties were probably bullied for reading and never picked the hobby up again. Overall I think it's that a lot of schools failed men to get them interested in reading. Now that the market shifted and heavily prioritizes women now and all books and now basically targeting women if not written by women, this mindset has only gotten worse if the common man's first thought of a book is something like "The Hunger Games" "Harry Potter" "Twilight" or "Fifty Shades of Grey".
>>24114987He was flirting with you
>>24114987>some coworker says some shit about you >instead of saying some shit about whatever wrong with him like a man you seethe about it for days and seek validation from othersHave you considered that, reading aside, you might just be a chick brained man?
>>24115575>-codedKind of cool that I have lived long enough so that I just completely cannot understand zoomer memes anymore
>>24114987Toward hobbies men are either addicted, nostalgic or take them as chores.Since only a minority of the layman's (i.e. non academic) book market can be consumed as a chore, literature is a feminine hobby.
>>24115750I am a very disciplined leftist... people who want to perform serious intellectual work will always be an extreme minority, and i don't think there's a problem with that. the problem is that men and women, who would never have read deeply, are not doing what other historical non-readers did, which is perform a physical craft to the level of art.
>>24115040>And he cried, "Now you see me for the hideous beast I am! Look at the horrible hairless ape I became in the moonlight! I repulse you with my opposable thumbs, don't I?"She touched his bulging naked arm gently with her paw. "No, you're beautiful. And I don't care if we're different species."
>>24115800Get a load of this oldpilled geezercoded boomermaxxing post
>>24115021Reading isn't passive. It requires effort, concentration and patience, particularly if it is a challenging work.Binging netflix is passive, and if that is your definition of feminine I would say men who lay on the couch and watch hours of sports, or a netflix series, are more feminine than a man who reads.Now, of course, over analyzing these "hobbies' to the point we've come to, is much more pathetic.
>>24114987Just call him a nigger (or nigger brained if he's white) and move on dumbass, disliking reading is negro shit.Im more concerned about you taking that comment so seriously and getting worried if reading is perceived as feminine...Are you closeted?
>>24115800read thishttps://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/12/piccolo-is-black/676477/
>>24114987It’s a neutral hobby that can have masculine or feminine overtones depending on what you read. If you’re reading romance novels then that’s a little feminine. If you’re reading pretty much anything else then it’s masculine. But ultimately people who care a great deal about whether their personal hobbies are masculine or feminine are usually insecure people, and this post probably never happened anyway.
>>24114987I went to the library in the new city I moved to recently and on the top floor for fiction, it was literally all girls. Some reading, some working on laptops, some doing homework. Well, one guy with his gf or friend. Fine by me, more for me.
>>24114987It's a trick question because everything nowadays that anyone does is feminine. There is no specifically male space, everywhere is accessible to everyone, which in other words means that it is feminine--like how Baudrillard says a washing machine is feminine because it has the characteristics of being always available, never in a period of remission, etc. If a man reads something, whether it be Schopenhauer or the Iliad, what is he going to do with that? Normally he would write something. But the book market is completely feminine in that it caters to women--men can't keep up with women in any domain, whether it be pleasure or sex or shopping or consumption. So men stop reading because they are totally outstripped, just as they stop having sex or getting married (unless of course the woman wants to). A woman can make a lot more money than a man even just by posting pictures of her feet. How is this supposed to make a man feel? Now, even in the domain of making money he is easily outstripped. What does he do? He does what he can, no more. He plays video games, watches Netflix, and spends his money. He has given up looking for masculinity in culture. All he has left are a few things his particular girlfriend doesn't care to do. He can maintain the illusion at least in the relationship domain that he is a guy, does guy things, and so on, even though culturally he is extinct. He knows that it is over, everything has been produced (hence no reason for anything specifically male to exist). There is no domain in which he can outperform women, because technology has taken over all forms of work. All jobs that remain are neuter, all spaces are neuter, all clothing and objects are neuter, nothing is off limits, everything is feminine. The male productivity, the male limitation and sense of boundary are outpaced and obsolesced. Reading is gay. Everything is gay. All that is left is for a totally neutralized and feminine culture to play with hollowed out signs of masculinity, and for men to pick up what scraps they can.
>>24116249>So men stop reading because they are totally outstripped, just as they stop having sex or getting marriedStopped reading right there have sex incel
>>24116249this is a totally annihilated perspective. every day i learn more and more that I am a paragon of masculinity
That happened to me a few years ago after I mentioned that I was studying Shakespeare in my spare time It's weird but in that moment I felt happier and more blissful than I've ever felt in my entire lifeI'm not some kind of mentally ill troon but idk, something is wrong with me
>>24115750American direction brain: You are either>an effeminate weak beta soiboi vegan who loves science, trannies and lgbtor>a god-fearing lumberjack who lifts, goes to church, hates the establishment and thinks themself redpilled
>>24114987it was marketed to them ever since the printing press became mainstream and all the important works were already printed (i.e. the 1700s) which coincidentally was the same time newspapers "evolved" from informing people and businesses to spreading lies and slandertoday it's also because chinese and pajeet printing presses need to make money to feed mouths whose only purpose is to produce more mouths to feedthe only independent bookseller I know only survives because he spends 99% of his time entertaining old hags who then buy smut & YA from him by the boxload
>>24116249That's your reality supports giving way as you move into this new iterations Freudian pleasure loop. You're about to see the sun go out in your mind and then you'll start hyper-dehydrating and your sweatshirt is going to become millions of years old on your back. 'Reality' just means 'quality'. This quality is sought out of what people manage to attach themselves to as their their disposition falls into place, creating differentiated lifestyles. A force is trying to oust you out of our Freudian loop. I say that in this case because 'you're' disintegrating while majority still *feels* like they have attachments, and if that wasn't the case then the magnitude of the shift would already be too great for anyone to recognize it in the terms I'm describing. It's going to appear as whatever is impersonal basically sitting on you like a big fat animal. In this case it's probably communal 'Judaizing', common human Afro-orientalism mindlessly searching out for new space. If there's nothing to attach to or support yourself with the only left to do is wait for signs from Runciter. You're going to end up with him again anyway just maybe in a different part of the forest this time
>>24115040based and true
>>24114987>I was too confused to even say anything elseIs that confusing of a concept Op that you just froze up and said nothing ?
>>24116405>>24115040>>24114987>0/10 no tailah yes the ex-viking slav connoisseurs
>>24115892Its the symbolic act of reading that is passive, since the reader is silent and taking in the words of the (active, dominant) writer. Even the old Greeks knew this, one of the oldest found graffiti from ancient greece is "The reader of this is fucked in the ass by the writer". This is also why the Spartans discouraged literacy
>>24116481if you are reading this you are raped
>>24114987There's nothing feminine about reading but caring about other men's opinions of your hobbies is extremely feminine.
>>24116481>since the reader is silent and taking in the words of the (active, dominant) writer.how do you retards live like this, constantly seeing every single thing as le submissive or dominant?
>>24116514>but caring about other men's opinions of your hobbies is extremely femininealso makes them boring towards the men they would actually desireI feel the art of female digestion got lost somewhere during the past centuries and now they have transformed into some robots only faggots have interest to exploitthey lost that playfulness that would make both 1. them happy and 2. heterosexual and virile men interested
>>24114987anything upper class is considered 'feminine'.
>>24116393It’s not that, those are natural enemies but the force is always just youth. Whatever is new
>>24116365that sounds correct to me and I'm from ye Olde Coomtinent
>>24116541>Another damned fat book, eh, Mr. Gibbon? >Scribble scribble scribble, eh, Mr. Gibbon?
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>>24115800>>24116181the idiots who spend all their time on the internet are the ones who have consistently flunked literature classesthe relatively more read well ones like to believe they came up with the idea of fictional people/events/cultures relating to or implicitly representing real things>tl;drx-coding is literally just allusion with extra delusion
>>24115800it ain't a zoomer meme but a tranny memeyet one might argue that all male zoomers are trannies so who knows
Men belong in the workplace or the army. Any other hobby is not masculine
>>24114987Reading slip is female brainedReading nonfiction is autism brainedReading literature is fagbrained but based
>>24118418I agree with you but there is an expectation of minimal standards at the workplace and the armyI'm not even talking about the guilds & courts from before the Peace of Westphalia, which took care of your body, mind, soul, and spirit without imposing anything you preferred not to do... I'm talking about 50s to 90s USA or even Soviet Russiacompared to even Soviet Russia we are in the stone ageas for the army, lol, that probably died out after WW2 when they (by "they" I mean practically every country) said "we won't be nazis... we won't promote and nurture excellence and delegate responsibility in order to win... no we will just suicide lol that's what you get for joining the army!"for the UK pre-WW2 tactics are the order of the day ffsthe USA survived as long as they did because the Navy and the Marines had their shit together but even that eroded in the past few decadesso yeah, in the times we live in, model railroads are more masculine than officially sanctioned "hobbies" like work & army
>>24114987Because there's a cultural perception of only 2 extreme stereotypes of intelligence that is culturally linked to strength and weakness, that are then linked by gender. >Jock = strength = physicality over intelligence vs>Nerd = intelligence = intelligence over physicalityBut in the cultural zeitgeist at the lower end of humanity, strength is valued over intelligence, and usually humanity tends to pool at the lower ends of the basic common denominator rather than the higher. Humping after knuckle draggers.
>>24115715>Missing the point this hard.Tranny.
>>24118418>Men belong receiving orders from others and submitting 24/7 to the whims of capital or governmentWoah dude...So masculine...
>>24118418You're just coping with your enslavement by projecting an image of necessary masculinity onto it.
>>24118470Hold up, what was the point again?
>>24118493delicious and juicy furry cunts that have been shaved using damascus steel and the finest shaving lotions imported from the most mystical lands
>>24114987I wouldn't know how to respond to that without being directly insulting, though admittedly a direct insult is warranted.
>>24118418sounds pretty gay to me
Anyone for rhe Andrew Tate video
>>24115302So reading is for tops.
