Category: Equality
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Fighting Conservative Backlash: What You Need To Know
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For decades, the liberals have been very successful in moving the world towards greater liberty, pluralism, and justice. Before the current conservative backlash we saw unprecedented gains for women, ethnic minorities, and LGBT+ people, enacting decolonial and environmental policies, demilitarisation, free trade, etc. But the tides are shifting and it looks like the conservatives around…
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Does Europe Care About Men And Boys?
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The most progressive countries in the world are beginning to talk about including men and boys in gender equality efforts. Happy International Men’s Day! Yesterday, I attended a seminar titled ‘Inclusion of men and boys in gender equality efforts’ organised by the five Permanent Representations of the Nordic countries to the Council of Europe. The event…
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The Democrats Forgot That Men Are People, Too
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In 1986, Marie Shear famously wrote: “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” In 2024, the US Democratic Party should perhaps start entertaining the notion that men are people, too. Except this time ‘being people’ is not about having the same rights. It’s about having the same psychology. It’s about struggling, having flaws,…
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Men’s True Stories — How One Feminist Helps Men Help Men
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I am now more active in the professional side of the gender discourse, getting into dialogue with people who work for NGOs and organisations which promote healthy masculinities and men’s stories. Honestly, it’s a world which makes me want to sing with joy. I’ll give you one example. Last week, I went to a webinar…
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#NotAllWomen, Or Have You Heard Of Selection Bias?
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What’s the heaviest weapon to roll out against self-styled ‘experts’ in dating? Statistics. I keep coming across texts by various guys who style themselves experts on dating and relationships and honestly, I can’t stop laughing. And it’s not even because they’re so often wrong. It’s because of how confidently they decree what The Nature Of…
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The Two Ways We Approach Men’s Problems Are Both Wrong
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But there is a third and we should really start following it now. There is one thing that the most hardcore progressives and most conservative manosphere gurus agree on: their response to a man who comes out to talk about the problems he struggles with. About his loneliness, about feeling useless, feeling like everyone and everything…
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Getting People on Board with Gender Equality
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All is not well in the world of gender equality. Around the globe, reactionary movements are gaining ground, misogynist influencers are topping online searches, and identity politics, feminism and gender studies are increasingly seen as tiresome, annoying, and out of touch. Whatever the proponents of equality are doing, it doesn’t work. Perhaps it did work…
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Men’s Problems Are Real Problems
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There is a worrying trend of denying that the problems men struggle with exist or are important. Loneliness, sexual frustration, confusion over what is appropriate, pressures to conform, difficulties in dealing with emotions, are all routinely trivialised and dismissed. Doing so is not helpful and only creates more distrust, hurt feelings, and unwillingness to improve. We need to admit…
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Defuse Pointless Gender Arguments with the Power of Psychology
You know how when somebody else is late, they’re a horrible person, but when you’re late, there’s always a good reason for it? The psychological mechanism behind that attitude is at the roots of many disagreements about gender. Fortunately, there are ways you can avoid it. Late, but useful I always find it endearing when psychologists…