CLAVICULAR Talks Female Psychology, Drug Habit, Infamy (youtube.com)
‘I’m talking about men's issues and kind of identifying with that, and no one's been a spokesperson for the struggle in any meaningful way. ... There's a lot of disinformation. Or there's always been a key element that's been missing, and that's that looks are an extremely important thing, and they shouldn't be ignored. I think young men feel kinda understood by my message. ... Because I understand it. ... I was right there in the struggle.'
Maybe because the physical modifications are fairly new.
He says he wouldn't want to fight if someone insulte his sister, because he's high class and doesn't do that kind of thing.
Friedland raises the generational question, that when he was Clavicular's age, cool people never obsessed with anything, that's what losers might do. Cool people could just be themselves. He didn't say, but if a kid tried that now he'd be charged though.
We might add that in other eras bravery was what 20 years focussed on, and in others partying or making something useful, but in the current era those things are all prohibited for men, or so complicated and danger-ridded young men wisely avoid them, and the prizes for them have also been taken away. Looks is something women can't take away from men because they use it. We might expect that as long as the culture and society is feminine dominated, men will continue to occupy more feminine space. The opportunity and the advantage was there in the last generation, too, but they didn't take it, perhaps because they were raised with the stigma, but the current generation was raised by people who suffered for upholding something that only bit them, and served as an example of why they shouldn't uphold the same thing, and that generation that raised them probably spoke their doubts to their sons.
A part of that was that in a masculine society, male looks are antagonized against, since they're not useful to the group. They're individual and harmful to others in the group, more likely. I don't think that's changed much, but since men don't really hang in groups much anymore, and since all male activity which used to be better in groups is generally punished, the more individual style can allow for looksmaxing.
Another thing is while guys never thought having a low level job was great, those kids around Clavicular refer to it as chumping or slaving basically, like no value in it, sort of the same philosophy women had in previous generations, like why work when you can get someone to give you stuff.
Another thing, the influencer generation talks a lot like Show Business, they talk meta about everything involved in presentation, business, and all aspects of making content etc. Might be the transition to a more sophisiticated, but less idealistic culture, like Asia.