I'm constantly in awe as to where fronts in the culture battle pop up, and this latest one came from out of nowhere. Sure enough, the latest battle between neo-feminism and everyone else popped up on X in the most unlikely place.
It was a simple clip... from an anime.
Easy there, Matt Walsh. This is worth the read.
The clip posted on X came from an anime called Josee, the Tiger, and the Fish. There are no legendary heroes, magic powers, or martial arts. This is a simple love story about a student studying marine biology and a woman in a wheelchair. I haven't seen the anime myself, but according to those who have, it's a very touching, grounded story about love, independence, and unlikely connection. The story is a slow burn, but touching in all the right ways.
The plot is simple, and worth knowing, because it really shows you how ridiculous these neo-feminists are.
Tsuneo, the marine biology student, has a chance meeting with Josee, a woman in a wheelchair, whom he saves as her chair careens down an alley uncontrollably. Josee is something of a recluse with a prickly attitude, though she's very imaginative. She lives in isolation but, thanks to Tsuneo, starts to come out of her shell. Josee also begins to transform Tsuneo, with the two becoming more than they once were from their experiences with each other.
It's an interesting twist on your standard love story that focuses on mutual growth, learning independence while valuing love with another, and having the bravery to be vulnerable.
But none of that matters, because neo-feminists were too busy hating men to see the beauty of what they were seeing in the clip that was posted. Here's the clip. It doesn't feature any dialogue or story beats, it's just the warm and emotional moments between Tsuneo and Josee.
“All men just have perverted fantasies…”
— Mashu (@sis_xvz) May 9, 2025
The average male fantasy: pic.twitter.com/IRhYcHYAAF
If you're on X, you can see in the comments that this was immediately attacked by feminists who were disgusted by what they saw as a man taking advantage of a special-needs woman.
"Male fantasy = a woman that can’t run away from him. A woman that’s dependent on him. Interesting," said one commenter.
"Always vulnerable. Always happy. Always needs you. Pretty perverted," said another.
"So close! This is fetish content," posted another account.
This triggered a flame war that got a lot of attention, going so far as to make famous YouTuber "ShoeOnHead" weigh in with an entire video about it in her usual snarky way. Her video, "Is This the Average Male Fantasy?" blew up immediately, carrying on the fight even more.
I want to dip my toe into this conversation too, because I think people misunderstand men, and not even just the radical feminists. Even from normie women, you'll hear accusations of "men only care about one thing" or wonder if men truly feel things on as deep an emotional level as women do.
The answer to both questions is "no," but nuance is required here.
Men don't only want sex. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a huge goal of ours, but the natural pursuit of sex that men come stock with isn't anything to demonize. It's necessary for the survival of our species and a large part of the reason that relationships work as they should. The only reason the vast majority of people exist is because of that drive. However, to say that sex is the only component of a man's drive would be false.
With that drive also comes the need to protect and provide. We want to shoulder burdens, lend strength, and generally be of use. The more strength we give, the more useful we feel. This can come in many forms, from providing a home for a woman and his children to live in, to opening that jar that she can't.
That is part of the male fantasy, and it's one that many men live out in their day to day... but there's a second component.
The real male fantasy comes with his wife or girlfriend's response to his strength and usefulness... adoration and appreciation.
As I've said in previous articles, men thrive on respect like women thrive on love. Respect comes in different flavors based on whom the man is interacting with, but from that special woman in his life, it looks like affection, tenderness, warmth, and understanding. He goes out into the storm every day, and his fantasy is for her to be his shelter from it. She serves him as he serves her, and the home they have together is so cherished that no matter the size of his bank account, he feels like the richest man in the world.
The critical theorist view of neo-feminism is to take these fantasies and make them about ownership, burdening women, and selfish behavior. They seem to believe that men have no redeeming qualities, and even a man caring and showing affection for a woman in a wheelchair is interpreted as disgusting fetishist behavior.
I talk a lot about leftist insanity, be it leftist authoritarianism, Utopia fantasies, transgenderism, and more, but I truly think there is an insidiousness to neo-feminism that completely unwinds the fabric of our society by dividing two halves of the population that should be united as a team. Men and women are not inherently monsters, but we look at each other as if we are, with neo-feminism being one of the largest catalysts for this viewpoint.
These people are literally insane.
Many men resonated with that little anime clip, whether they watch anime or not, because what they saw was a man who was caring for a woman and uplifting her through his strength, protectiveness, and affection, and her joyously indulging in it with him, showing her appreciation through tears and tenderness. She feels for him as he carries her.
The actual male fantasy.
A lot of leftist nonsense is ending lately, and while that's great, what I really want to see die is this Marxist feminism that has so many women tilting at man-shaped windmills, keeping both themselves and the men around them in perpetual unhappiness.
