Hey what’s up how’s it goin? I’ve got a big announcement, which is that I’ve started a NEW THING, a sort of blog/newsletter thing on Ghost that I call BROTOPIANS. It’s about, well, brotopians, which is my name for a new species of techbro with utopian dreams, which tend to be pretty dystopian for the rest of us.
Basically, I’ve found a new breed of terrible men to make fun of.
The new blog/newsletter will cover said brotopians, their wild dreams of perfect lives and perfect worlds (for them anyway) and the regular squashing of these dreams by reality. I will talk about everything from seasteading and failed charter cities to the weird diets of life-extensionists.
I will talk about Effective Altruism and Effective Accelerationism and why they are not at all the same thing. We’ll do peptide raves. I will explore why pretty much all of these techie utopians tend to be men, though that may become obvious after reading a post or two.
The first post is up — it’s kind of an intro thing — so go check it out!
So I have something of a sad announcement to make today, one that I’ve been putting off posting. I’m not going to be able to continue with this blog. I need to make a living and unfortunately the level of engagement with my latest posts has not been enough to make that possible.
I intend to maintain the blog as a We Hunted the Mammoth archive, and will periodically put up posts highlighting some of the best stuff that has appeared here over the many years of Mammoth’s existence. And I plan on dropping in from time to time with brief commentaries and pointers to other pieces I write, but this will be more occasional than regular.
I want to thank everyone who has contributed to this blog over the course of its run. And not just those who have donated money (but huge thanks to all of you!) but also those who’ve contributed with artistic and technical help and by making the comments here so vibrant. In case you’re wondering, you all have posted more than 800,000 (!) comments here over the years.
I’m proud of this blog, which began chronicling and mocking the growing manosphere long before most people had any idea what it was, and which helped to shape the discourse about it as it metastasized into the monster it is today. When I began I really had no idea what I was getting into, much less that the blog would last as long or get as much attention as it did. I’ve learned a lot doing Mammoth, and a lot of that I learned from you all, especially those regular posters whose comments further illuminated the issues under discussion, and who were willing to call me out when I went wrong. I’m glad I got to know you.
I’m grateful to those who have continued to donate even while I wasn’t putting up new material, and I hope that some of you will keep on donating to help pay for the not inconsiderable costs of hosting the blog and its massive database of posts and comments.
Again, thanks to all of you; you were the ones who made this blog possible.
So, just a quick and long-overdue note to let you know what is going on with me and why I haven’t posted in such a long time. Basically, I’m neck-deep in a big project with a rather urgent deadline and I just haven’t had time to focus on the blog. I will get back to it as soon as I can, but I’m not quite sure yet when that will be. My apologies! And I’ll try to keep you all updated in a somewhat more timely fashion as this thing progresses.
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Claire Lehmann wants you to know that something is very wrong with young women today. No, not because they’re suffering from unprecedented rates of anxiety and depression, or facing assaults on their reproductive freedom, or drowning in student debt while the planet burns. No, the “woke”-obsessed antifeminist is concerned because these terrible gals are banging drums in libraries and throwing soup at (protective glass in front of) famous artworks to protest climate collapse and genocide.
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So in my last post I talked about a shocking whitewash of the manosphere from the official UK communications regulator Ofcom. The agency’s new report suggested that the dangers of the manosphere were vastly overrated, drastically downplayed the misogyny central to every manosphere subgroup, and informed its readers that many of the denizens of this poor maligned movement were actually upstanding young men with “a strong commitment to equal treatment and fairness.”
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Last week, the Guardian ran a surprisingly uncritical article on a new UK government report on the manosphere, which was itself surprisingly uncritical. The report, put forth by the UK’s official communications regulator Ofcom, claims, among other things, that its new research “challenge[s] the assumptions about the experiences and perceptions of individuals consuming manosphere content” and that many of these poor maligned fellows actually have “a strong commitment to equal treatment and fairness,” which is a sentiment I’ve never encountered in the manosphere after 15 years of immersing myself in its shit.
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Adam Schwarze, the GOP candidate for the US Senate in Minnesota, wants you to know that the birth control pill causes women to be attracted to “effeminate girly boys” instead of “alpha cavemen” like they should be. It doesn’t, but he wants you to know that anyway.
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So I’ve found a new type of guy over on Bluesky. Honestly, other people on Bluesky found him before I did, but in case you haven’t, I thought I’d give you a guided tour of Simon Sarasova, the dude behind something called Seekia, “a genetics aware mate discovery network.” And yes, he’s as creepy as that sounds, and then some.
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I don’t mean to turn this into an anti-antinatalist blog. But what the fuck. A recent post in the antinatalism subreddit raises the question: were antinatalists born in a barn? I mean, not all of them, but a lot of them? Because that would explain a few things.
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The MAGAs are a little confused by the squalid breakup of Trump and Musk. They don’t know what to do or who to root for, necessarily, though most seem to have picked a side. But there’s one thing they can all agree on: it’s all very manly. At least when it comes to the guy they’re rooting for.
