Mission
To empower disenfranchised men against gynocentrism and misandry.
Vision
A world where men can be proud, strong, and respected.
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The Problem
Never in all of human history have men as a class faced such disregard, discrimination, and contempt as in our current postmodern society. A variety of indicators demonstrate that real, profound problems are impacting men. Men make up 80% of all suicides, 93% of workplace deaths, and the vast majority of homeless people. Aside from those extreme examples, the young and growing generation of men are also suffering, which does not bode well for our society’s future. Men are dropping out of education and work. They are also encountering growing impediments to forming relationships with women and partaking in sexual activity—a critically important element of the human experience and an inherent prerequisite to family formation and reproduction. Since 2008, the share of men younger than 30 reporting no sex in the past year has nearly tripled, to 28 percent. This is only a sampling of the multitude of problems disproportionately impacting men.
Men are facing loneliness, lovelessness, and lifelessness. They are not being mentored well be their elders, nor are they provided the institutional and social support to thrive in our contemporary world. Our leaders are not preparing and inspiring them to thrive in the workplace, nor are they able to find partners to build a family with—the bedrock social structure of all civilizations. Yet, the feminist media-puppets and academics attempt to ridicule and minimize these problems. Men are victim-blamed and dismissed, despite suffering the greatest social and physical harms. Those who are sexually unsuccessful suffer all the more from the marginalization of living a society whose institutions are designed to cater for couples and families.
The Reason
In the popular media these issues are blamed on men themselves, if they are even acknowledged at all. Liberals blame the problems on “toxic masculinity.” While the term is typically accompanied by postmodern gender analysis word-babble rationalizations, in practice it is simply used to blame men themselves. If only men completely rejected their inherent masculine tendencies and developed greater emotional sensitivity, they could thrive in our feminized, sedentary, hypersocial modern world. Conservatives simply disregard any social analysis and demand these alienated men “man up” in accordance with traditional expectations. Hustle harder, exercise more, work longer, make yourself valuable. Despite these superficially opposed explanations, they are united in victim-blaming men and reneging all social and moral responsibility to reform our institutional systems in support men’s welfare. It is men’s problem and men have to fix it.
When the topic is men, it is your problem, your responsibility, your work and effort to resolve the issue—and the issue is you. When the topic is women, personal responsibility goes out the window, all of society must support them. We must restructure our workplaces and universities to give them greater professional and educational opportunities. We must use your tax dollars to subsidize women’s reproductive care and abort the produce of their irresponsible sexual practices. We are all responsible for supporting, protecting, and empowering women. The double standard in the popular discourse is beyond glaring for those willing to remove the blinders of cultural conditioning and observe it for what it is.
We reject these shallow explanations and seek to turn the mirror back on the greater systemic power structure itself—as feminists have been doing for decades in their selfish, one-sided pursuit of greater power at the expense of men. Feminism has not only achieved their stated aim of equality, but they have gone further and subverted our institutions to degrade and oppress men to their benefit. “Toxic masculinity” is not the problem. The problem is that our culture has degraded men and devalued their welfare, honor, and pride. Feminists and their allies in academia and media have focused for so long on berating the top 1% of men, the “patriarchy”, that they have failed to consider the great masses of lonely, sexless, discouraged men whose lives are materially worse off than those women who still claim to be oppressed after all the gains they’ve made. While each individual has a certain degree of responsibility over their own lives, in the grand analysis it is not men who need to change. It is our culture and institutions that need to change. The feminist experiment has run its course. Women are no happier than they were before, and men are all the more miserable and marginalized. It is time we stop catering to women and debasing ourselves for their benefit.
The Solution
The International Brotherhood of Men seeks to awaken class consciousness among men and build solidarity against misandry and gynocentrism. For too long men have been set against each other. To some extent this lack of cohesion as a gender is biological in that our hunter-gatherer ancestors naturally competed against each other for sexual access and survival. But this intra-gender competition does not serve us well in our modern, globalized age where women have bonded together to rig socioeconomic institutions in their favor at the expense of men. Men need to build solidarity as a class to better our condition in this contemporary atmosphere of identity politics, where the loudest and most aggressive tribe wins. To do this we seek to bring awareness to misandrist policies and instill in men the importance of working together in our common interests as a class and to take pride in masculinity despite its demonization.
As more men become aware of these realities, the IBM seeks to organize our members to pressure institutions to adopt pro-male policies through aggressive but legal means. We model our organization on a militaristic hierarchy in order to instill the necessary discipline and coherence to achieve our political goals. We strive to redress the imbalances and fundamental inequities that negatively impact men in modern society by creating a culture that respects and admires men and holds women accountable. As we grow in membership and organize on larger scales, we will achieve these goals through peaceful but aggressive protests, media campaigns, lobbying, and a variety of other concrete, actionable means. For our own interests and the future of our brethren, we must stand together unapologetically as men, by men, for men.