Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Uncle]

Men can build social spaces for men but how do you prevent it from being widespread with misogyny, homophobia, and toxic masculinity in general? It's much easier to blame women and society at large than to have conversations about what healthy masculinity is. I'm not sure how to do this well when many grievances come down to "women are too picky and it's their fault I'm alone." There are a lot of voices telling them this. I feel like things will get worse before they get better. Society has to change.

Yeah, well, that's just too easy.

maybe I'm dumb or unimaginative but I've never seen people offering "healthy masculinity" that isn't just femininity

and I don't mean just "the opposite of what men are doing now" must be femininity, I mean actually just not how most men approach the world, but is observably the way that women tend to behave instead

it's always this



"healthy masculinity: talk about your feelings with each other! don't insult each other as a joke, those insults slowly get internalized over time.    instead, build up your male friends, compliment them often on all their positive traits!"