No, Smosh reddit videos are not anti-men
The accusation is not wide-spread. But, it is significant enough to appear in multiple comment sections and it received lots of likes in each.
I first found it when they talk about a story in which the adult male OP breaks up with his girlfriend after he repeatedly pestered the GF’s friends about what secret she is keeping from him. The secret? She thought her previous boyfriend was better in bed than he was.
I do agree with the viewers who believe talking about your sex life with your friends crosses the boundary and shouldn’t be normalised. I definitely agree the Smosh hosts are in the wrong for defending the girlfriend.
But, it also begs the questions: why wasn’t she honest with him? Was it because she was a backstabbing bitch who didn’t believe honesty was important? Or was it because he was an insecure little man couldn’t handle truthful answers from anyone even though he demanded them? While both are a possibility, I have a hunch it is very likely the latter.
That’s why, even though I think the Smosh’s hosts’ verdict on this story is unsavoury, I also disagree with viewers who accuse Smosh reddit videos of being anti-men. I can list many cases where the hosts are actually on the men’s side.
These are the stories:
The one about the girlfriend who dismisses her boyfriend’s allergy.
The one about the girlfriend who dismisses her boyfriend’s edible leftovers as scraps and tried to feed them to her dog.
The ones about the girlfriends who made jokes about their boyfriends’ penis sizes in front of others. Yes, plural. Here’s another one.
The one about the girlfriend who smashes her boyfriend’s PS for the sake of Tiktok clout.
The one about the wife who uses her cancer survivorship as a cheating hall pass.
The one about the fiancee who explicitly says she is glad her fiance’s wife is dead.
The one about the wife who condemns her husband for talking to a bikini-clad woman at the beach
The one about the fiancee who cheated with an AI bot.
The one about the wife who humiliated her husband in front of his friend by saying she only married him for the money.
Lastly, also the one about the “trad wife”; this will come up again later.
Those examples should be enough to disprove the anti-men bias accusation.
I gave that lengthy reply to one of those commenters. But, as I couldn’t find any of their comments later on, I don’t know if they ever replied back. I just assume it was an isolated incident, occurring in just a small part of one youtube comment section.
Nope. It is not as isolated as I thought.
That “trad wife” story? Well, long story short, the wife is an emotionally manipulative bitch and the OP — the husband — ends up leaving the house. While the Smosh hosts (and other redditors in the OP’s comment section) do criticise him for not saying goodbye to his children, leaving them feeling abandoned, they still think the wife is the devil.
But, somehow, a handful of commenters don’t see it that way. They genuinely believe the Smosh hosts demonised the husband. When I asked them to elaborate, they simply said his wife’s emotional abuse was a good reason for him to leave; strangely, they didn’t acknowledge about his kids feeling abandoned.
My assumption about this? Those commenters are the so-called men’s rights activists, people who spew misogynistic venoms under the guise of advancing men’s welfare. You know, the kind of people who spread hate while virtue signalling.
They believe criticising men — no matter how reasonable, constructive and empathetic the criticisms are — is punching down. They believe the only way to empower men is to paint them as the only ones worthy of victimhood and paint women as men’s natural oppressors.
No, I don’t think Smosh is a group of saints. The hosts have certainly been criticised by fans -me included — for their lapses of judgements. I even dedicated an entire blogpost lambasting one of their Reddit videos and the response for the audience’s criticism.
I also despise some of their Agree Disagree videos, especially the time they defend drinking cultures and befriending cheaters; they even try to Damien and Spencer as the weirdos for not wanting to befriend such people.
But, the anti-men accusation is extremely unfounded. If you are actually reasonable, the examples I presented above should have been enough as counter-evidences. But, if you are delusional, anything affirms your beliefs, even when they clearly don’t.
No, this problem is not a widespread phenomenon among Smosh fans; they have other more prevalent issues (e.g. exaggerating the merit of Shayne’s psychology BA, unhealthy nostalgia of the old Smosh, painting Olivia as an emotionless robot, obsession with Shayne and Courtney’s relationship prior to their marriage announcement, etc).
But, I am also a bit worried that I found those so-called men’s rights activists in more than one comment sections….. and their comments received lots of likes.
