Men's Liberation

Have any of y'all read any of the books on this list and if so would you recommend them?

It seems like a good way to both ensure that there is a portion of our user base that is educated on academic gender theory and to get some targeted discussion going on about works that have more depth than your average think piece or news article.

EDIT: Edited to make more general

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6895873

While many believe young people are becoming more liberal, data shows that 12th grade boys are nearly twice as likely to identify as conservative compared to liberal. Around 25% of high school seniors identify as conservative while only 13% identify as liberal. In contrast, the share of 12th grade girls identifying as liberal has risen to 30%. Many factors may contribute to this trend, including the rhetoric of Donald Trump which appealed to disaffected young men, and the focus of progressive movements on issues of gender and racial equality which some young men perceive as a "matriarchy." However, most high school seniors claim no political identity, and many boys in high school do not actively discuss

93.2% of incarcerated individuals are men.
Source: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gender.jsp

Excerpt:

As for my masculinity, it has never recovered from the defeat it was handed one night by my wife, the very person for whom I had been, I thought, patiently preparing it. We had had a conversation about chivalry. I thought I could save the idea by retaining the bits of it that seemed to offer the least advantage to men and jettisoning the rest. In everyday circumstances, I insisted, men and women must be understood as interchangeable equals—no more pay gaps, no more devaluing of women’s work as such—but in the world of lurid, bad-movie scenarios, it had to be my job, as the man, to die for her. If we were on a sinking ship, she’d get the last seat on the lifeboat. (She hates sailing.) If we were attacked by terrorists, I would get myself killed stalling them, so she could run away. (Terrorist attacks are not frequent in Ann Arbor.) She laughed this off, but later grew thoughtful. She asked me, very earnestly, why should she want to live with the grief and shame of having failed to save my life? Why should she be automatically drafted for those forms of suffering? If her love for me meant the same thing to her that my love for her did to me, then even my watered-down, break-glass-in-emergencies chivalry was still an insult to that love. It was still, as she put it, “hierarchical bullshit.” I cannot quite accept the emotional consequences of this, but I know she is right.

What do y'all think of podcasts being posted here? Should they be tagged with something like [podcast]?

The original title for this article is Against Masculinity, which I was certain would get a lot of first impression downvotes. That said, I am not sure this is the best alternative title as the article very much does not feel the need to provide alternatives to masculinity even as it advocates for its jettison. I think this article is best interpreted as an emotional expression of the frustration many men feel with regards to the idea that masculinity can and must be salvaged. I suspect this article will primarily resonate with men who already feel fairly distant and maybe even distrustful of masculinity, even the traits that are widely held as positive in spite of their potentially patriarchal origins.

I can see the difference in engagement between the subreddit and this community. I'm wondering out loud what we could do to motivate a migration from there to here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1409271

With women's fashion, it's an easy one with pockets and for some probably less sheer/thin or tight-fitting clothing depending on their preferences, but for men...?

What would you like to see done differently in men's fashion?

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