GeniesLoki

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.

And all of these are things where women are very much part of the system of enforcement (at least for heterosexual men), and mentioning this to some feminists (especially if you don't pretend it's only non-feminist women doing it) tends to be a great way of getting them furious.

I think that maybe one area that this might apply to is women protecting "their" things as well. To take the example of clothing, a bugbear of mine: women have very succesfully broken down barriers there.

They can choose between traditionally male and female clothing without anyone suggesting this means they're a lesbian or a trans-man. But...

Any man who violates the boundaries of male clothing cannot expect support from most women. If I chose to wear a skirt, I would be assumed to be a trans-woman or at the very least non-straight, and this judgement would come from the same women who celebrate not having...