Anon #sexist #crackpot lolcow.farm
The modern vs past male dichotomy is rooted in romanticized, idealistic, pastoral Disney-trad fantasy that has nothing to do with reality. The percentage of "genius pioneer" males has always been vanishingly small, the amount of degenerates absurdly high, and the "role" males fulfill in society is largely artificial, carved by them to maintain proximity and relevance. Males know that women can do something they can't while the reverse isn't true, so they had to make it "fair" by nurturing the pussy-envy myth of uniquely male ingenuity, the idea that they too can create something the other sex can't, which thus makes them just as irreplaceable and essential.
The modern male is becoming discouraged and catatonic because this artificial niche is dissolving - in the past (after all the role reversal fantasies about women's original sin and inherent sexual degeneracy have fallen flat) he could proudly say "yes, we are responsible for the vast majority of all atrocities and human misery, but at least we invent stuff sometimes, that's the price you have to pay for it because no one else can do it!". Today he has to watch women do everything only he is supposed to be capable of, yet somehow without the "toll" of war and crime. The artificial niche is crumbling, and so the obsolescence panic increases. The male retreats into self destructive hedonism and an ever widening pit of omnipotent desirability fantasies. You have correctly observed that these fantasies grow more pathetic and extreme as males lose their real world "importance", and that is because porn is a cope - sexualized of course, like everything males feel.