Men's Liberation
This community is first and foremost a feminist community for men and masc people, but it is also a place to talk about men’s issues with a particular focus on intersectionality.
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Recommended Reading
- The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, And Love by bell hooks
- Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements by Michael Messner
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The article fails to mention the lack of third places in North America. Mediterranean cultures are extremely traditionally masculine, but have a culture of men gathering in, eg, coffee houses to chit chat, play cards, backgammon etc. So traditional masculinity alone cannot be an explanation.
Suburban life, car dependency and hustle culture is what's killing us.
"Men's groups" are not going to work because they require intentionality. A third place is just always there, you just go whenever.
It's also warm in mediterranean countries, you don't need a third place there - it's the street. In Germany there is same problem with third places, there is a rather unique club culture there but for obvious reasons male only clubs are not really a thing.