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The Globe and Mail has a stinky carcass of an article entitled “Are men being robbed of their masculinity?”  Zosia Bielski the author in this homage to misogyny tackles the tough issue of Men and the Emasculating Culture they face.

“The movie [Mr.Munday] is just the latest in a string of emasculating offerings in popular culture.”

The War on Maleness is a rising crescendo of hateful messages that Men have to deal with.  How can the dominant segment of culture ever survive?

“With the “mancession” hitting men hard during the economic downturn and traditional gender roles mutating, there is rabid concern that men are being robbed of their essential masculinity. The debate heated up after the Pew Research Center reported in January that women have outpaced men in education and earnings growth: 22 per cent of husbands have wives whose income now exceeds theirs, compared to 4 per cent in 1970. The rise in women’s earnings corresponds with an upsurge in their education. (The women were quickly dubbed “alpha wives.”)”

Oh my FSM!  We are being robbed of our ‘essential masculinity’?  What the hell is essential masculinity?  The term is never defined in the article but boy, it seems like this is turning into an apologists piece for patriarchy and the male privilege it grants to men in our culture.   Like the the religiously deluded christians who cry ‘persecution’ while in majority status this piece reeks of persecution of the minority with regards to the privileged status men hold in our society.

What is the best way to prove Masculinity is in decline?  Mention an Asian outlier subculture:

“An extreme illustration of the slide away from masculinity may be the asexual “herbivores” of Japan, young heterosexual men who are wholly uninterested in pursuing women, material goods or careers. Multiplying after the recession, herbivores live reclusive, uncompetitive lives dominated by the Internet.”

Yes menfolk run! Beware!  The World of Warcraft is coming to steal your testicles and carve an indelible mangina into your psyche.  The horror!

We do need to give the author some credit as he does mention some facts that are at least loosely connected with reality.

“Boys who resist macho behaviours such as aggression and “emotional stoicism” have better mental health and social relationships, according to Carlos Santos, an Arizona State University researcher who studied 426 middle school boys and presented his findings at the American Psychological Association’s convention in August.”

You mean not acting like completely privileged douche is good for your mental health and ability to work well with others.  Go Figure.

“Men have more to gain than lose from the “down with macho” movement, says Jennifer Berdahl, an associate professor of organizational behaviour at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.”

Another kernel of wisdom in this otherwise putrid article.  It is amazing after so many years that people still deny the existence of the Patriarchy and Male Privilege.  If people could actually be bothered to read a little about feminism we could avoid some the atrocious pap that regularly appears in the “life” section of newspaper.