What Josh Hawley is missing about the ‘masculinity crisis’
. All start with a similar premise of a looming “masculinity crisis” and offer a prescription to solve it that inevitably involves some form of doubling down on traditional understandings of masculinity., not only have we not solved how to “be a man,” but the brewing war among men about what masculinity looks like is heating up.As someone who works with men and boys to broaden the definition of being a man, I share Mr. Hawley’s concerns for the real social and economic problems we see today. Mr.
There’s a beautiful story about anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied the origins of civilization. She was asked what the earliest sign of a civilized society was, and the answer people expected was a shoe or a tool. What she said was that it was a skeleton with a broken femur that had healed; to her, that signified that other people gave care to another person long enough for them to heal, long before any sort of modern medicine.
The world Mr. Hawley describes didn’t happen overnight. For generations, white men graduated into good jobs and earned solid paycheques with little to no competition from women or people of colour. With more equity in the workplace, those expectations need to be adjusted, and we haven’t done a good job of explaining that to the current generation.
Here’s the kicker, though – the person who loses the most in fatherlessness may not be the child , but probably the father. Mr. Real continues: “Studies indicate that while fathering may or may not be necessary for the psychological adjustment of boys, it is highly advantageous for the psychological adjustment of the father.
I had early exposure to another way of being a man. My dad gave me far more than he ever took for himself – something we need to remember as we father the next generation of men, literally or figuratively. Caregiving is the input that changes the outcome.
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