Male Psychology: The Magazine
UK government’s Men’s Health Strategy – submission by the Centre for Male Psychology
Men might benefit greatly from a government strategy aimed at improving their health. Here are suggestions from the Centre for Male Psychology on how that might be done. This article ends with some comments on potential pitfalls in the process of putting this strategy in place.
School workshops aimed at boys need to listen to boys
people are more aware of the fact men can be victims of this type of violence, but this often isn’t translated into policy, practice or indeed provision of resources
Compliments as crimes: why are schoolgirls being taught to fear boys?
people are more aware of the fact men can be victims of this type of violence, but this often isn’t translated into policy, practice or indeed provision of resources
PIROPOS COMO DELITOS: ¿por qué se enseña a las niñas a tener miedo a los niños en el colegio?
people are more aware of the fact men can be victims of this type of violence, but this often isn’t translated into policy, practice or indeed provision of resources
Young men need authentic values, not influencers
We all know that young people enter a rebellious phase, and we should limit the damage they can do to their lives during this phase.
Why Men don’t write about Sex and Dating
…are men being discouraged from showing sensitivity and awareness about their experiences because it implies insensitivity and a lack of awareness towards women?
Are men less willing to engage in traditional talking therapy because therapy has been feminised?
Gamma bias […] plays down positive aspects of masculinity, whilst rejecting the notion of men as victims.
An invisible hero for invisible victims: interview with domestic violence pioneer, Erin Pizzey
90% of men in prisons have come from generational family violence… So when they're violent - which is what they've learned - we then perpetuate the violence by putting them in prison.
Most people know masculinity is ok, and the Harry’s masculinity reports support this view
International Men’s Day 2017 saw the launch in Westminster of the first Harry’s masculinity report. The report found evidence justifying why the general public think men are basically ok, despite the fact that so many academics seem to use men as a blank screen onto which to project their negative feelings about masculinity.
Tonic masculinity: part 2
This is the second part of a two-part article. Part 1 can be found here.
“This brings me to a final value of tonic masculinity as I see it emerging. And that is the work to be done of restoring harmony between the sexes, to return relations in the nuclear family and local community to a degree of genuinely democratic responsibility and caring for the other.”