spaduf@slrpnk.netM to Men's Liberation@lemmy.ca · 9 months agoAgainst Masculinity - Young men do not need a vision of “positive masculinity.” They need what everyone else needs: to be a good person who has a satisfying, meaningful life.www.currentaffairs.orgexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10cross-posted to: socialism@beehaw.org
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkAgainst Masculinity - Young men do not need a vision of “positive masculinity.” They need what everyone else needs: to be a good person who has a satisfying, meaningful life.www.currentaffairs.orgspaduf@slrpnk.netM to Men's Liberation@lemmy.ca · 9 months agomessage-square29fedilinkcross-posted to: socialism@beehaw.org
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoSounds like the author thinks we need to change our culture’s definition of “masculine.” I agree.
minus-squaresubversive_dev@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoI think the author is saying more like: “A positive, specific masculinity may not exist at all”
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoHe may be. I think he’s wrong, but he’s entitled to his opinion.
minus-squarespaduf@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoOr at least that the effort required to construct one is maybe a misguided use of our resources.
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoIt already exists, we don’t need to “construct” it?
Sounds like the author thinks we need to change our culture’s definition of “masculine.” I agree.
I think the author is saying more like: “A positive, specific masculinity may not exist at all”
He may be. I think he’s wrong, but he’s entitled to his opinion.
Or at least that the effort required to construct one is maybe a misguided use of our resources.
It already exists, we don’t need to “construct” it?