GeniesLoki

It's the politics not the ideas, really, that are the barrier. Would be possible to, for example, set up such a department within a university or a civil society org - but it's hard doings in these times for various reasons.

Yeah. I'm assuming that any effective version of such a movement necessarily starts as grass roots on the internet and acquires academic respectability later.

Hahaha, love that it starts on the internet :P But yes, it needs to be won at many grassroots, and the internet is grassroots too now.

I'm struggling a bit with what specific topics would be discussed, as someone who's not an expert in feminist literature. I always assumed the "all men are evil" crowd were a small, extreme group within feminism...

Well https://twitter.com/GeniesLoki/status/1298197746046971910 … is an example of a good masculinist topic. In general difficulty men have processing and discussing their own emotions. Most men (in Western anglophone cultures anyway) are touch starved and this is A Big Deal.

I remember the discussing emotions thread, although I still feel it's more complex than women showing emotions and men not. The touch thing is interesting. One thing that springs to mind is that a lot of men don't feel comfortable with touch from other men.

Yes, it is of course more complicated than that. It's a big skew in the gendering of emotional labour rather than the totality of it.

And yes, a lot of men don't feel comfortable touching other men, but that's not some intrinsic feature of being a man that's part of a created culture that hurts men.