Can someone explain "masculinity is in crisis" without using the words masculinity & crisis?
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What do people mean when they say it?
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I think it refers to a handful of issues that can be discussed on several levels. There's a discourse about the role of men in society, about rapid changes to relationship dynamics and family economics. There's a discourse about actual injustices specific to men. There's a...
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...discourse about the spiritual affliction of our age, and the sense of anomie, normlessness, and purposelessness that many are feeling but that young men in particular seem highly animated to try and solve. There's a discourse about antisocial and harmful behavior...
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...and the way that unchecked male aggression and sexual abuse has impacted people. There's a discourse about how resentment and anxiety about status loss from men is impacting politics on a mass scale. There's a discourse about homelessness, mental illness, and suicide...
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...and so on, and so on. there are many facets to this issue that all share a "smell", something subtle that people have an intuition about such that they get grouped together.
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