Men's Liberation
This community is first and foremost a feminist community for men and masc people, but it is also a place to talk about men’s issues with a particular focus on intersectionality.
Rules
Everybody is welcome, but this is primarily a space for men and masc people
Non-masculine perspectives are incredibly important in making sure that the lived experiences of others are present in discussions on masculinity, but please remember that this is a space to discuss issues pertaining to men and masc individuals. Be kind, open-minded, and take care that you aren't talking over men expressing their own lived experiences.
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Be proactive in forming a productive discussion. Constructive criticism of our community is fine, but if you mainly criticize feminism or other people's efforts to solve gender issues, your post/comment will be removed.
Keep the following guidelines in mind when posting:
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Do not call other submitters' personal experiences into question.
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Slurs, hate speech, and negative stereotyping towards marginalized groups will not be tolerated.
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Do not participate if you have been linked to this discussion from elsewhere. Similarly, links to elsewhere on the threadiverse must promote constructive discussion of men’s issues.
Recommended Reading
- The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, And Love by bell hooks
- Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements by Michael Messner
Related Communities
!feminism@beehaw.org
!askmen@lemmy.world
!mensmentalhealth@lemmy.world
Alot of assumptions made in this video and it's attempting to draw causation from simple correlations.
A few good points but alot of conjecture on this one.
Summery for those interested:
- Francis Bacon called for scientific control over nature to exploit it.
- Patriarchal masculinities pervade politics and action surrounding climate crisis and capitalist extraction.
- We need to consider what might be driving us recklessly over the edge in the environmental crisis.
- Patriarchy is a political-social system that insists on male dominance.
- The structural and cultural system of gender leads us down the path of environmental destruction.
- Anyone, not just cisgender men, can be wedded to patriarchal thinking and action.
- Under our patriarchal system, there is a prevailing vision of what manhood should be, called hegemonic masculinity.
- Traits like overconfidence, dominance, aloneness, disconnection, anger, and strength are core to what it means to "be a man" under patriarchy.
The video explores the role of patriarchal masculinities in driving the planet to the brink of extinction. The video traces the concept of patriarchy to Francis Bacon's call for scientific control of nature and highlights how patriarchal thinking has pervaded climate crisis politics and action. The video argues that a structural and cultural system of gender is leading us down the path of environmental destruction, a system that these men buy into, and a system through which they maintain their power. The video also explains the concept of hegemonic masculinity, which is a prevailing vision of what manhood should be, and how traits like overconfidence, dominance, aloneness, disconnection, anger, and strength are core to what it means to “be a man” under patriarchy. The video concludes by discussing how we might forge a world beyond the obstacles of gender.
Bullet Summary:
- Patriarchal masculinities drive the planet to the brink of extinction
- Francis Bacon's call for scientific control of nature foreshadowed patriarchal thinking
- A structural and cultural system of gender leads us down the path of environmental destruction
- Hegemonic masculinity is a prevailing vision of what manhood should be
- Traits like overconfidence, dominance, aloneness, disconnection, anger, and strength are core to what it means to “be a man” under patriarchy
- We need to forge a world beyond the obstacles of gender.
I haven't taken the time to watch the video, so YMMV with this auto-generated summery.
I'm also not going to comment on the contents of the video before having watched it to avoid any foot in mouth moments.