“To answer Alyric’s question,…
“To answer Alyric’s question, masculinity must be changed because the pursuit of traditional masculine ideals makes most men very unhappy.”
Maybe traditional masculine ideals do make most men very unhappy. I’m not sure this is true, but if it were, is men’s unhappiness the reason that we ought to change masculinity? What about what the social and political prerogatives of masculinity do to, well, y’know, women?
“I do think rigid gender roles harm men.”
In some respects I’m sure they do. I’ve been on the business end of normative masculinity too many times in my life to think otherwise. But don’t we have to ask why those rigid roles exist, why those pains are inflicted, who inflicts them, and what they accomplish?
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