How on earth does greater equality take anything away from men? What many researchers (most of them male) have determined is that the narrow confines of what is allowed for retrograde masculinity (The Man Box) is incredibly harmful for boys and men. It drives loneliness, isolation, depression and substance abuse.
“In America, men perform masculinity within a narrow set of cultural rules often called the Man Box. One of the central tenets of the Man Box is the subjugation of women and, by extension, all things feminine. Since we Americans hold emotional connection as a female trait, we reject it in our boys, demanding that they “man up” and adopt a strict regimen of emotional independence, even isolation, as proof they are “real men.” Behind the drumbeat message that real men are stoic and detached is the brutal fist of homophobia, ready to crush any boy who might show too much of the wrong kind of emotion.”
Stop blaming women for all your problems and wake and recognize that patriarchy hurts men almost as much as it hurts everyone else.
