Why Fragile Masculinity Thrives Under Authoritarianism
Masculinity is in crisis not because men are weak, but because accountability has been systematically outsourced. We live in a culture that indoctrinates men into handing any meaningful responsibility off to authority, to hierarchy, to tradition, to ideology, to rage.
When harm follows, masculinity is shielded by endless layers of excuses. I was just following orders. Thats how I was raised. This is just how men are. Our society has allowed consequences to become negotiable or nonexistent, responsibility to become abstract, and for violence, whether emotional or physical, to be reframed into strength. This is not a failure of masculinity it is a failure of accountability.
Intelligent Masculinity is the refusal to outsource accountability onto others and the discipline to live with the consequences of your values and actions.
This definition is not an aspirational dream it is a guiding principle which names the precise moment where masculinity collapses into domination the moment a man decides that responsibility belongs somewhere else.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/why-fragile-masculinity-thrives-under
biophile
(1,384 posts)Drum
(10,640 posts)Not worth too much, in that scenario.
chouchou
(3,109 posts)Pretty much sure of himself. Could change a transmission, talk about Quantum Mechanics...
..and Prance around if he felt like it.