On autism forums, however, it’s quite evident. Oh, poor me, I’ll never get laid and if I so much as look at a woman she calls the cops/gets HR to fire me/tells everyone to avoid me. I just want what every other man gets to have, but women don’t want autistic men.
Obviously not everyone, but it’s a pretty regular feature of such forums.
There are three basic responses to an autism diagnosis, that I’ve seen. (And combinations and permutations, of course.)
I’m autistic, huh. So, you know, that’s a thing. (this is information which may be relevant at some point, but most of the time I’m just trying to get by.)
I’m autistic, which means I have to work harder for the same result. (I recognise that I have difficulties with some things, but that means I need to put more effort in if I want them. No-one’s going to do it for me, nor should they have to. It’s not fair, but it’s how it is.)
I’m autistic, which means I can’t do it and everything should just be given to me or done for me. (I have a doctor’s note that says I don’t have to do stuff which is hard.)
That last one isn’t a symptom, it’s a choice.
Oh, and it manifests in various ways. At its most benign, it’s learned helplessness. At its most toxic, it’s a sense of universal entitlement. Combine that with toxic masculinity and it’s own sense of righteous universal entitlement, and you’ve got a powerful, poisonous combination.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert reports on the Manosphere:
That “nobody else is (or every will be) better than me” attitude makes me wonder - are they training their kids to have a twisted sense of nostalgia about them? It makes me wish they’d watch this video from Belle on a loop until the message sinks in:
My husband was just venting a bit about something like this, basically that these attitudes are basically glorifying and enforcing some degree of dysfunctional narcissism. I think I agree.
Honestly, it would be better for everyone if these guys were all deeply closeted homosexuals or asexuals. But instead, they’re heterosexuals who don’t actually like women, who see women as (at best) a necessary evil for having sex and having a family. They’ve been raised and conditioned to hate, fear and despise femininity, and as a result they are cripplingly insecure, unhappy with actual real living women, and even more unhappy without them.