{"id":3102,"date":"2018-11-30T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2018-12-01T07:58:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T02:28:01","slug":"masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"A few insights on Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came across an interesting compilation on <a href=\"http:\/\/masculinity.faithpopcorn.com\/zine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The future of Masculinity<\/a>\u00a0 (behind a registration gate) by Faith Popcorn which had a couple of good articles. It had a nice talk between her and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonybrook.edu\/commcms\/sociology\/people\/faculty\/kimmel.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Kimmel<\/a> and an article by CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/promundoglobal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Promundo<\/a> which I thought had interesting insights on what they are seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kimmel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alcohol abuse, drug abuse, opioid abuse &#8211; all of these are the symptoms of dealing with unbearable pain of depression. They are expressing anger, which is just a way of dealing with pain.<\/li>\n<li>Young people know much better than older people on how to deal with gender fluidity and they are being asked to mentor older coworkers on it.<\/li>\n<li>Men are still not ready for women who are strong, equal or superior.<\/li>\n<li>Men are actually living far more egalitarian lives and they&#8217;re enjoying more involvement with the kids, more caregiving.<\/li>\n<li>The world is moving away from the ideology of masculinity that held for so many years: stoic, never show your feelings, powerful. Men getting rich, getting laid.<\/li>\n<li>While men are still strong, stoic, powerful, competitive, showing a kinder, gentler, nicer, more nurturing side is the trend.<\/li>\n<li>There are new icons of masculinity in the culture &#8211; strong leaders who have tremendous empathy, who aren&#8217;t afraid to cry. Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Promundo:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Young men are hanging on to a tough guy version of manhood, a belief they have to control women, that a real man doesn&#8217;t back down from a fight, and the like&#8230; particularly among young men who are worried about their work prospects. They find some self-worth by taking on the tough guy routine.<\/li>\n<li>Experiencing and witnessing physical violence at home is the largest single driver of men&#8217;s use of violence against women and their own use of violence against children.<\/li>\n<li>While men are a bit less likely to be depressed than women, they are far less likely to seek help or even tell anyone.<\/li>\n<li>Key drivers for believing in gender equality are having men in the household who did hands-on care work and having mothers who worked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across an interesting compilation on The future of Masculinity\u00a0 (behind a registration gate) by Faith Popcorn which had a couple of good articles. It had a nice talk between her and Michael Kimmel and an article by CEO of Promundo which I thought had interesting insights on what they are seeing. Michael Kimmel: Alcohol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"","book_review_title":"","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"","book_review_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing","category-rambling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1547139559-c89c59d117611.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}