As women assume the emotional labor in the effort to enact social change, 'Where is the version of the feminist movement, but for men?' asks feminist journalist Liz Plank (feministabulous) in her new book, For the Love of Men.
The book is a near-forensically reported examination of modern masculinity and an urgent call to action in the Trump era. More than terrorism, natural disasters, and nuclear war, “there is no greater threat to humankind,” Plank writes, “than our current definition of masculinity.” She points to statistics—such as the fact that 99 percent of school shooters are men, or that a woman serving in uniform has a higher likelihood of being assaulted by a fellow soldier than being killed by enemy fire.
I’ve thought about this throughout #MeToo: We as women did not get to this place in society alone, so why should we figure out a way forward alone? As you write in the book, where is the male equivalent of the feminist movement? You explore the fact that gender is a social construct, and the way it’s constructed for men and boys is flawed. It was heartbreaking to read about how different cultures ritualistically toughen up boys from a young age. How do some of the problems with grown men start with how little boys are raised?
As I was engrossing myself in this topic, the link between idealized masculinity and violence kept going through my head. I just thought, “Why isn’t this on the cover of every newspaper, every single day? Why isn’t this crisis the front page of thewhen it is so interconnected to so many of our biggest social problems?” When it is a brown or a black person that commits acts of violence, we will generalize a problem to that entire group.
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