This article and every other article they link to in this series is written by a woman. A series discussing manhood and masculinity. I said it the last time an article like this was posted and I’ll say it again. Women writing articles about masculinity should be viewed in much the same way as men writing articles about women. They have no perspective in what it means to be a man or what masculinity is or is not.
Edit: Adjusted wording per another reply.
I agree with some of what you say but "abhorrent trend " is a bit much. If anything I think it’s more of and eye roll.
“Manhood” and masculinity are stupid ideologies.
Manhood or masculinity is perfectly fine so long as it’s a personal decision and you don’t judge others to whatever you’ve decided is the “standard”
If you want to wear plaid with an 18 inch beard and chop wood, awesome. Just don’t tell me thats the only standard for “a man”
Great article. Insightful and over a longer time horizon than I expected
Elites… teach us??? Hmm, no.
Unless they’re teaching us where not to stick the pitchforks.
Initially, the article brought up a lot of cool things about masculinity, which I didn’t know: notably about how society, sees a crisis of masculinity, at every social change.
However, the article did not wrap this up at all. It resorted to talking about essentially a religious convention, and Trump rally. Then referenced so-called “philosophers” and “scholars” akin to Joe Rogan. This isn’t a fair comparison, it’s literally asking a podcast host to solve a huge social issue.
Additionally for some reason referencing how white men don’t even belong in America because it’s native land; when that is a whole separate issue that we can talk about and needs to be addressed but distracts from the article title.
I would love to talk about this more, but this article really drags men’s mental health + belonging in the dirt and undermines anyone trying to legitimately help men belong in this world in a non-toxic and fulfilling way.
