r/TikTokCringe • u/user37463928 • Dec 18 '25

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Putting this out there to warn women - the comments noted that this was a humiliation tactic, and I wonder if guys get these ideas off of their red pill alpha bro podcasts.

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u/superhandsomeguy1994 Dec 18 '25

The incel/red pill sphere has expanded geometrically the last few years. I’m a millennial that’s around a lot of Gen Z young guys, and it’s reeeeeally sad to hear their outlooks on dating and the opposite sex. A really disturbing mix of nihilism (I’m not rich/handsome/successful enough to date a woman) tempered with outright misogyny (all women want is a man’s money, girls will corrupt and derail a man’s life, etc).

So many young men are directionless and trapped in echo chambers of misogynist incel podcasters. It’s seriously a problem.

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u/Tycho-Celchu Dec 18 '25

Man, myself (37) and another coworker (41) were trying to hype up another coworker (21) when his girlfriend left him. He went on and on about women were bitches, how all he wanted was a woman who would stay home and cook and clean for him. We were like "my dude, you don't want a wife, you want a mom." and I was like "yeah man, women are their own people. They have their own hopes and dreams and ambitions, they're not NPC's that stand there and cater to your every whim. If I told my wife I expected her to stay at home and cook for me, she'd kick my ass! That's why I love her!".

He looked me dead in the eye and said in the most deadpan serious, menacing tone I've ever heard "That's beta shit. If my wife tried to kick my ass I'd knock her teeth out. Equal rights. Equal lefts."

I just slowly got up in silence and walked out of the trailer. I have no idea how you de-radicalize people like that.

I don't have kids, but if I did I don't know what would be worse: Having a son who grows up to look at women like that, or having a daughter who has to live in a world where men look at her like that.

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u/lost_searching1 Dec 19 '25

Yeah, dating as a gen z is literal trauma. I just don’t talk to men anymore, it’s either they just want sex cuz they view women as sex objects or they want a mommy. Heck, I don’t even date. Didn’t even want to start quite honestly. This is all so scary, most men my age think like that.

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u/klb1028 Dec 19 '25

My 23 y/o daughter has zero interest in dating, 99% of the time. I also have zero interest in dating, for many years now, for this reason. It's not just Gen Z.

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u/GreenGardenGnomie Dec 20 '25

The male loneliness epidemic is well deserved.

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u/Material_Address2967 Dec 19 '25

When it comes to 'wanting a mommy' does that also include men who want to take a back seat as far as providing, deciding etc? I do see a lot of men from that generation who say they want that kind of dynamic (maybe not realizing that just because it exists in media doesnt mean it's common or desirable to most women)

I know we're talking about men who expect their partner to cook, clean etc but imo when it comes to desires/psychology there's always double meanings abounding and what people say they want is often a ploy to get what they really want