In admiration for the whimsical man who takes on the male troll

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. Nisha Susan 4 min Read 29 Aug 2025, 08:00 AM IT We are here for the men who laugh at Andrew Tate (Getty Images) Summary The only reasons to go online nowadays are baby an elephant videos, Lebanese comedians, dance -tutorials -and male comments on male sexist behavior that does not take himself too seriously. The man in this pleasant video talked about men on social media in Hindi and responded to his white-cheating sports-loving woman friend. We first see his absolutely fearless friend who crosses what looks like a gorge on a tight rope. I could only look it through a gap in the fingers that cover my eyes. Next, we see men in the commentary that makes a bad comment about her body. The man who made the video goes through some of the comments and sounds absolutely annoyed and explains how, despite himself, he was surprised by the depths of the cruel. There are no defensive men, he concludes. Now, I don’t know if this person makes a lot of content like this, but he has joined a short list of reasons why I still go on Instagram -Baby elephant videos, Lebanese comedians and dance tutorials. This man would be in my latest, short category. Men’s comments about men’s sexist behavior. Depending on the accounts you already follow, the languages ​​in which your favorite accounts are, your other interests, and you can find one of these fellas. Maybe you already felt, I don’t know what to call them. In real life, we called them progressive men. Some of these men are definitely this, which builds on well -known progressive credentials such as being English teachers at university. To quote the author (and teacher) Vijeta Kumar: “It comes to me now that I have never had to meet an English teacher outside the classroom to make them human.” The comments of this kind of progressive man are carefully structured, often mention peer-reviewed research and have a definite turn for irony as they take some male troll who think women are weak or not weak enough (it’s always one or the other). What is more interesting to me is the newer kind of progressive male Creator. (I don’t know what to call these men. Please do me. I am also open to suggestions.) I feel that the latter men deliberately turn away from the aesthetic of the ocean of the manosphere content. Some signs of Andrew Tate-inspired woman-hate manosphere content are: sunglasses indoors, false deep voices, a wide variety of microphones as if you are playing press conference conference, great watches and false seriousness. Or in the Indian context, the belief that semen preservation, including discipline, does not masturbate, makes you worthy to worship. This is why “he sounds like a man with a podcast” is a wonderful contemporary insult. They are Grifter, scam sailors who bump their ships against rocks through the Siren song of their own voices. It is this wannabe ceremony of highly inexplicable generations that my favorite creators take pot shots. There is the Australian sitting on the side of his bed in his shorts rolling his eyes as he plays a cut from a guy who says women should not go out alone, or that male men will really order food that is not on the menu or crossed with their legs. He constantly makes horrible faces. Or the tall dancer who does bar dances after making an ‘experts’ talking about women’s body counts (if you are a normal person, I must explain that ‘bodycount’ is a rough way to refer to sexual history and not murders). They are in Flamingo T-shirts and Captain’s hats. Sometimes it’s giants in green ganjis. Everyone works to dethrone the ‘serious’ and is less clearly invested in the inevitable power games of the old progressive man. Yes, yes, they are still in the creation economy and everyone is still subject to the instructions of the mighty and creepy algorithm. And of course, every week I have to remind myself that I don’t trust anyone. Thank you for reminding me. I used to run a feminist platform earlier and have lived in an ecosystem of writers, artists, musicians and creators for years investigating their feminist ideas, arts and research online. What a time to live. Yet it is not nostalgia that attracts my enjoyment of these creators. When I look at Indian women creators and the tremendous work they post online – the poet Aleena or musician Neha Singh Rathore or, for example, academic Madri Kakoti, I must work to prevent my admiration from being overcome by anger and terror. I try not to be a coward, but I am always aware of the high interests. I am always aware of the risks of the white cheating of their choice truth. The feminist saying is that “men are afraid that women will laugh at them and that women are afraid that men will kill them.” And it is true, what can be more relaxing than watching well -made roles by men who don’t take themselves seriously, and laugh at men who just take themselves seriously? Not even baby elephants. Nisha Susan is the author of the women who forgot to find out Facebook and other stories. She places @chasingiamb. Catch all the business news, market news, news reports and latest news updates on Live Mint. Download the Mint News app to get daily market updates. More Topics #Social Media #Features Read the following story