broke: men don't need a field of study about them woke: men need a masculinism that coexists with feminism bespoke: men have a field of study already; looking thru a feminist lens, "man" is the default hermeneutic stance in the vast majority of philosophy
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Honestly I've heard variants of this take so often that it's solidly in the "broke" category. It's true that specific aspects of the male experience are very prevalent in the literature. This does not mean that the typical male experience is well understood.
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Psychoanalytic literature + historical philosophy seems to do a good job at laying out the typical male stance in synchronic (present configuration) and diachronic (historical or genealogical configuration) forms respectively. Not sure what a "men's studies" could add.
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Seems basically false, certainly needs way more justification than you've given, and there's been plenty of in thread discussion about what it would add that I don't really feel like repeating.
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Having read downthread, it seems like the proposed idea is simply turning feminist lenses onto men, which is something that already happens quite often.
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Replying to @simpolism @GeniesLoki and
But maybe with the addition that it's "feminist literature written by men", which seems ... honestly common enough these days.
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You're welcome to provide citations rather than just being unhelpfully dismissive without saying anything constructive if you like?
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Here I picked a random feminist paper I recently read (about hermeneutic injustice, so it's relevant to OP), it's written by a man and its concepts are broad enough that it can be applied well beyond "women". https://repository.wellesley.edu/object/ir226
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Replying to @simpolism @GeniesLoki and
But it sounds like what's being looked for here isn't a companion to "feminism" as a field, but some sort of cultural analysis of men's lived experience, a much narrower endeavor.
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Yes, indeed. "Here is a feminist paper written by a man" is not evidence that men's experience is adequately understood or studied. I agree there are plenty of men writing in feminist epistemology (and in some other areas too).
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Also in general the entirety of academia is a huge hermeneutical injustice to almost everyone outside it because of how inaccessible most of it is. Even if it were true that mens' issues were adequately studied in academia (it's not), most men still seem to lack these tools.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @simpolism and
Feminism isn't just a body of academic literature after all, it's a much broader and better popularised body of work and knowledge.
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