I do agree this is a factor, but I also believe too many men (whether consciously or subconsciously) blame women for their feeling emasculated when in actual fact the real culprits are economic turbulence and capitalism.
I think about all of the positive masculine traits I see in the good men in my life (past and present) and it’s all the things like ‘providing for your family’ and ‘teaching the next generation life skills’. We now face an economic crisis whereby too many men cannot solely provide for their families anymore and a woman’s work is no longer a choice and bonus salary but a necessity. Capitalism has restructured our priorities, and I can’t think of many young men with practical skills I could call upon to help hang a shelf or change a tyre anymore (let alone teach their own kids how) and so I’d either YouTube how to do it myself or call a “proper dad”.
I feel like women have levelled up through the generations and found strength in redefining femininity. We can earn our own money, we can hang our own shelves, we can wear trousers, we can do all of this whilst still carrying and raising babies and managing a home, and meanwhile too many men have regressed back to being emotionally stunted cavemen who refuse to redefine their masculinity and still see it as some pissing contest. With progression of women’s rights, the world could have benefited, but instead of working with women, too many men are choosing to work against them. They seem to want a trad wife, but economic turbulence and capitalism won’t allow them to be a trad husband, and so then they blame LeFtiEs aNd FeMiNiStS instead of billionaires, unrealistic lifestyle influencers and… themselves. It’s time to accept that “trad” doesn’t work anymore, pull together, and grow level the fuck up.
I want “masculine pride” to mean more dads on school runs, more men feeling like safe spaces to women and children, more men in therapy, more men believing women when they say his mate gr*aped her, more men calling out misogyny, more men doing their own cleaning. Unresolved anger and fragile ego is not the definition of masculinity.
I like how he speaks the truth in a lot of what he says. The lefties like Louis and Piers couldn’t deal with it because they’re usually talking to people that are full of shit
