Male Psychology: The Magazine
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.
Why do the World Health Organizations’ gender equity gatekeepers struggle to acknowledge that masculinity can be good for health?
…the very presence of an expert on ‘gender equity’ can, intentionally or otherwise, perform the function of a gatekeeper in relation to what should or shouldn’t be said.
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.”
A tonic for the toxic narrative on masculinity
I want to argue in favor of what I term tonic masculinity and what a dose of it might provide society to dispel some of the mystifications and often ironic ambiguities about sex and gender.
Do we really need Gillette to encourage the majority of men to be what they already are?
The underlying assumptions made in the advert are that men are inherently bad – men are violent, sexual predators who have had their way for long enough. Only through the power of encouragement and social grooming can we protect society from the menace that is toxic masculinity.
Review of ‘The Mask You Live In’
As interesting as this movie might be, one important caveat should not be forgotten: it uses a very narrow definition of masculinity. The evidence for the existence of this type of masculinity is based mainly upon narrow populations – prison inmates and frat house partygoers.