Feminists call it 'precarious manhood' because they won't name what it is

"We stop poisoning the relationship between men and women, and see if it grows back a bit."

Brian and Alison read a Medium piece on "precarious manhood" — the conjecture that masculinity is a status men must continually re-earn, so men should renounce their masculinity instead — and trace the conjecture back to the Psychology of Men and Masculinities field, the field that informs the American Psychological Association's guidelines on how to treat men and boys.

Also: the article's freak-show tour of male influencers and the female specimens it declines to compare them to, the optimization treadmill with no finish line, and what happens to the dating pool when heterosexuality itself is defined as oppression.

"People so convinced men are evil that they have a freaking scale of how evil are you. And when men say, actually, I don't like any of these things on your scale, they don't conclude the scale isn't describing men. They just do a whole bunch of chicanery to pretend it is."

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