Comment on Men's Liberation - A Place to Discuss Men's Issues With A Focus On Intersectionality

sloonark@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also positive masculinity tends to still be rooted in fairly patriarchal ideas of what it means to be a man in ways that liberation from gender roles specifically does not.

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• v81@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your right about the assumption… … But the assumptions are also part of the problem.

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• Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, you’re right, that was my initial assumption upon immediately seeing the name. It also aroused enough of my curiosity to check further though.

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like the idea behind the community but it is a terrible name.

  The men’s liberation movement is a concept going back 50+ years. It would be difficult to change that at this point.

  Also r/MensLib is a large, well-known sub with a well-defined remit. If you are going to start something similar on here it would be confusing not to go with a similar name. However, because of its scope, from what I saw, it tended to be a bit alienating to those who didn’t toe the party line.

  So there is room for a community focused on a broader, looser discussion of the topic (although it’d need strict moderating), like:

  I’m sure there are much better names, such as Positive Masculinity for example.

  Healthy Masculinity? It seems to be the more accepted term, although they can be used interchangeably.

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• spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Make it happen! Not a man but would love to see it out there

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