Have you noticed a pushback by good men against the manosphere? Marianne Thamm @Thammenator wants to know your experiences.
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From very few sadly. Some from other countries on social media, but sadly have not noticed many in South Africa, even in my social circle of apparently âgoodâ men. I get the sense, from ânot all menâ & adjacent comments that some would like to support/join/speak up for/feel understood by the manosphere but feel they cannot express this due to social pressure.
A few in my family pushback, thankfully.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro SĂĄnchez standing up against Trumpâs blustering and bullying?
Proteas bowler Keshav Maharaj going over to the Proteas womenâs team to show them some spinning tricks?
Pope Leoâs ministry thus far?
In my immediate circle, my son-in-law accompanying my daughter this coming Sunday to check out three-wheel baby strollers for the young one arriving in June?
Achingly little. My experience in the last 7 days has been of good men joining in with others at body-shaming a woman in our social group, objectification of my 68 year old body, mocking me at a tough sports event where only 2 women were participating in a group of 80 men and boys. One tiny glimpse of hope - my 89 year old father apologised to me for not considering my 4 sisters and I equal to our one brother.
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I find myself feeling very angry about it all
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Hi @Thammenator - I would love to connect with you on the Manosphere topic. My client Craig Wilkinson is a menâs development expert and author. In this podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik3PM-telaw&feature=youtu.be Craig Wilkinson discusses Louis Therouxâs disturbing Netflix documentary âInside the Manosphereâ, which highlights the rise of extreme online influencers shaping young menâs views on masculinity. His recent book âForce for Good: The Power of Healthy Masculinityâ, unpacks this topic and redefines what it means to be a man in todayâs world. Please pop me a mail gail@scoopcommunications.co.za
You donât solve a problem like the manosphere without fixing the environment that creates it. Itâs gang culture on a societal scale. Driven by inequality and the product of gross, unchecked capitalism. Capitalism breeds a competition for control of resources, which manifests as the manosphere.
Apologies for the mansplaination, but until we have that conversation and rearchitect the business structure that governs our societies, we will never be rid of the deep rooted cancer living in our humanity. Exploitation is just another form of laziness.
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What a fabulous question! I had a really interesting experience around this. I only recently clicked onto this whole sub-section of society and was aghast, really. I mean, I know I shouldnât have been, but I was. So I mentioned this to a man in my life (who also hadnât heard of it but subsequently looked it up). He was completely lacking in any form of comprehension as to why I would find this discoveryâand indeed the substance thereofâso utterly depressing and more than that, angering. I was angry for days! And then, irony of all ironies, a male friend (different one) said in a social setting the very next week (I summarize) âthe problem with the world today is educated women, and that they are also having fewer babiesâ. I was gobsmacked. This, said to my husband, who is married to a PhD and we are child free. Did he not think? Or did he think my husband was a safe space in which this statement was not going to be challenged?? He was right. It wasnât challengedâin the interests of maintaining a male friendship. Suffice to say this (the above debacle) became the substance of more than one therapy sessionâŚ.
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