Quote: (08-12-2013 08:30 PM)Vitriol Wrote:
We may be entering a time where some of the original guys involved with the important manosphere sites start to walk away because there's honestly nothing left to cover. If there is any kind of mainstream attention given to these ideas, it may be in a different form than we're used to because many of the original players may either just stop caring or get off the front lines, while others take up some of these causes and make them more socially acceptable. We're already seeing that with some of the females who have been given media exposure for writing about issues that they weren't the first ones to notice.
It's amazing how with internet collaboration people can start with a group of concepts and totally exhaust all the possibilities within a few years.
Whether this thing (the "manosphere" or whatever it's called) becomes more influential has very little to do with whether its ideas have been fully formed. In fact, the idea-formation stage is always a stage of infancy. The last original feminist book was The Feminine Mistique, but feminism is more powerful now than when it was written. There's no reason to think that the founders of this new set of ideas will "walk away" from what they believe. Indeed, the demand for more books from Roosh will probably increase. Is he going to walk away from greater opportunities? For what?
Idea formation is just the beginning, not the end.