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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 20, 2026

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’m far more interested in discussing the larger pattern that Clav is symptomatic of. Young men don’t see any viable paths to success, or have good role models for how they should live their lives. They look around and see the traditional paths (like college) are uncertain at best. They notice young women’s expectations have increased and they often don’t meet them. If they see a successful person (like a retired boomer) they don’t think that path is still available to them. If everything is uncertain the best thing to do is look around for successful people and imitate them. So, they find an influencer like Clav and realize they can play the social media influencer lottery by trying to become viral like him. If society tells them to figure out everything on their own and won’t provide a clear path that is likely to succeed then becoming viral on social media, giving up, or gambling suddenly seem like much more attractive options.

A start would be to bring back men's clubs and groups. Make Boy Scouts for boys and their dads again. Bring back men's only sports and dining clubs. Give men some capacity to network among themselves, and even give candid advice about out of earshot of the breasted commissar's that dominate every other public space.

Men need their own culture again. Not in the way gonzo youtuber stars are "culture", but in the way a small towns local chapter of a men and boys club is culture. Sure, the advice and guidance young men might get from both of those might be directionally aligned. But the gonzo youtube version takes it to a place that's unhealthy, but unfortunately, it's all that is allowed to exist.

There are still men's clubs aren't there? Stuff like the Eagles and Elks are still around but I don't think these kind of civic clubs are very appealing to young people.

It's not that men's clubs are outright illegal, they are just socially out of favor. A harder battle to fight.

The Supreme Court ruled in 1984 that state governments can make men's clubs illegal.

I stand corrected.

Boy scouts is for boys and their dads. There's a separate set of boy scouts troops for girls. But the BSA's current lack of appeal to boys has more to do with demand for a checkbox on the cursus honorum from parents(mostly of boys) than with separate but equal girls' boy scouts troops.

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