The Problem with Ineffectual, Effeminate Hipster Beta Males (also see “Soy Boy”)

*The following is an excerpt from James Lewis’ book, “Earn Your Man Card”

 

Worse than feminists, worse than single-parent households, worse than anything are these little guys.

Hipster beta males dress like colorblind toddlers, for one, but that’s not why I see them as our most significant challenge to growing up as a man.

These guys have sold out.  They’ve sold out to hip culture, dress in skinny jeans and mismatched shirts and sweaters, but it’s not their manner of dress that makes them a danger.  Somewhere along the way, they’ve lost their manhood.

I’m older than most of the people who will be reading this, but back in the day when I was in junior high or high school, you didn’t have to be a football jock or FFA leader to know how to check the oil on your car, change a flat tire, help a lady with something, help your grandma with fixing something in the house, or anything else an ordinary boy was expected to do.  Every guy I knew in school could do all of the above.  These guys can’t process simple tasks like these because they’ve chosen not to accept a masculine role, so nothing gets done.

Therein lies the problem.  Quick scenario:  Young couple gets together and moves in with each other.  They have a car.  The girl doesn’t check the oil in the car.  The guy doesn’t know how because he figured he never needed to learn that stuff.  Their car is using oil.  The guy isn’t astute enough to know when the oil should be changed and why it should be changed, so the guy or girl at Spiffy Lube doesn’t see the car and check the oil, either.  The engine craters and now they’re in a huge financial bind.  They have to replace the engine at $4,000, buy another car, or take the bus until they save up enough to buy another car…all because the man wasn’t manly enough to read an owner’s manual and figure out that the oil needs to be checked, how much oil needs to be in the engine, and where the oil dipstick is in the engine bay.  The shame is that it’s actually very easy, especially in recent years since the oil dipstick is color-coded.

Hipsters have been around forever.  In the 1800s, they were called “dandies”, as they dressed up and regarded normal, manly tasks as “brutish.”  They generally attracted ignorant women, or very strong women who liked to dominate their men.

Skinny Jeans

If you can wear skinny jeans, it means that you have no significant leg muscles.  Bike riding, jogging, and other activities are a no-go for you.  That means your health suffers.  You can’t take care of your responsibilities if you’re in poor health.

Being Offended and Microaggressions

Call me archaic, but a real man doesn’t get “offended” by something.  A real man responds to something in three ways: (a) anger, which results in action, (b) sadness, which converts to cognitive thought, which converts to action, or (c) determination (see also motivation).  Being offended is such a crazy waste of time and effort.  Announcing that you’re offended is a great way to lose respect from everyone around you and shout out to the world that you’re too weak to do anything about your emotions, so you’ll just play the victim.

Aligned in the same manner are microaggressions.  My definition of microaggression is a blerp of something that bothers you, and because you can’t be strong enough to respond in one of the three ways described above, you run and hide.  Running and hiding until the big, bad mean person who said whatever they said goes away doesn’t do a danged thing for you or anyone you’re in charge of protecting.  And by the way, you’re in charge of protecting people, whether you accept it or not.

The Social Justice Warrior

A common offshoot of the hipster beta is the male version of the social justice warrior.  The social justice warrior is someone who gets offended and yells about something on behalf of another group or person. They’re the ones usually telling people they need to be offended when they’re not.  They don’t have anything to be offended about on their own, so they invent and adopt things that may or may not bother others and carry them as their own causes, playing the victim card for something that doesn’t apply to them.  Like rich white kids going to an $80k a year college, protesting about equality and racial injustice.

The truth is that the spirit of the great American man is dying.  In the age of entitlement mindsets, single-parent homes, and a perpetually defeatist attitude, if we don’t, as men, proactively pass the concept of independent self-reliance to our children, it could be lost forever.

Those more dependent on the government don’t believe in the concept of self-reliance, which is why they look to the government for stability.  Extravagant welfare programs, the promise of not being fired while on the public dole, and an increasingly complicated tax system are all products of the same deeply rooted concept that a man cannot provide for himself.

These whiny, Kumbaya-singing, intolerant dupes “protest” and help social justice warriors maintain their victim status.

Soy Boy

Very similar to the ineffectual effeminate hipster beta male, is the Soy Boy.  Soy Boy is a slang term used to describe males who completely and utterly lack all necessary masculine qualities. This pathetic state is usually achieved by an over-indulgence of emasculating products and/or ideologies.

The origin of the term derives from the negative effects soy consumption has been proven to have on the male physique and libido. Think Starbucks coffee, substituting soy protein for milk or other products.

The average soy boy is a feminist, nonathletic, has never been in a fight, will probably marry the first girl that has sex with him, and likely reduces all his arguments to labeling the opposition as “Nazis”.

See also: cuck, beta/omega male, orbiter, kissless virgin, male feminist.