Five Issues for Feminist Men to Take On
jgh:
per courtney at feministing:
- Comprehensive sexual education that include critical conversations about rape, power, and violence with men AND teaches men what and where the clit is (just sayin’).
- Advocating for more family-friendly work policy for all and changing the culture of work machismo among men.
- Reflecting on how much $$ goes into male athletic culture, and how linked it is to violence off the field.
- Changing the culture to give men more permission to identify, manage, and talk about their emotions.
- An intersectional approach to incarceration, poverty, and race that includes a gender analysis.
This bitch-magazine-reading, helene-cixious-loving dude agrees with this post.
#3 wouldn’t be necessary, given #1.
#2 wouldn’t be necessary, given #4.
#5 is odd but probably the most noteworthy of the list. Research tying poverty to race is often sociological, and it’s tough to throw gender into that equation. Calls for research on gender and incarceration, such as the real-life prevalence of rape in male prisons, are routinely ignored. But, agreed, these would be important issues to address with gender analyses.
