The Man Issue (V.10)

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ith stoicism. He describes this form
s apathy, as though not caring is a
ered around a utopia of equality but
, the comparison of self to mascus
with asexuality was very difficult.
nd himself with like minded individfriend
group. In our conversation, he
in which he has rebelled against the
pathy. This affection goes far beyond
votes forms of love and tenderness
His unique background and experixuality
has provided opportunities to
ould be considered counter culture.
important to respond to the physiomales.
Rather than trying to achieve
thus sedating the unique aspects that
tance of offering equal opportunities.
IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO RESPOND TO THE
PHYSIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES IN MALES
AND FEMALES. RATHER THAN TRYING TO
ACHIEVE EQUALITY THROUGH SAMENESS.
I then spoke with a 25 year old filmmaker/artist in a polygamous
relationship who reflected deeply on how his mindset and ideas
towards masculinity has evolved from early adolescents, to his adult
life. He grew up primarily around women whose partners abandoned
them. He soon identified men, and masculinity as “brutes, sexual liars,
and abusers”. His remorse for sexism and the suffrage was great and he
felt as though a hatred towards men was useful to the fight for equality.
As he grew older and established a lifestyle that included spirituality
his hatred towards men cultivated into a love for humans and identifying
the human in people over their gender. After some thought he was
able identify the differences gender plays in his life on a day to day,
human level. He presses that in order to produce effective economic,
societal, and cultural changes towards equality we need new language.
He speaks heavily on the subject of language because it is the same
source that he feels he can point to and note division, stereotypes of
gender. He exemplifies how his male friends talk about sex in comparison
to his female friends, and how the use of language is inherently
different based on the physiological, and biological experience of sex.