“Men, especially young men, [are] getting weird,” writes Christine Emba, in a nearly 7,500-word feature at the Washington Post that was published this weekend. “It felt like a widespread identity crisis — as if they didn’t know how to be.”
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I already have a few bones to pick here. For one
I don’t think abuse and misogyny are “weird;” I think they’ve been the male norm for most of recorded history. For another
men who engage in those behaviors aren’t doing it because they “don’t know” any alternative; they’re making a conscious decision to hurt people. Nonetheless
Emba argues — at length
in an article that must have taken a lot of work to report
so I don’t want to be too snide — that the rise of fascist groups like the Proud Boys and misogynist influencers like Andrew Tate are evidence of a crisis in male gender roles
and says that we need to provide men with a framework of “good masculinity” so that they don’t drift off to the right.