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I came here from another post.

The comments made me think, what is the purpose of this space?

I personally think the best thing we could do is start to invent a new masculinity that actually works for us and the world.

What is everyone else here for?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think one of the most important things is discussion on existing gender theory. I feel like because men feel generally disenfranchised from academic gender spaces they have a tendency to reinvent the wheel. I think it is very important to compile resources to prevent this and long term may be useful to put together a wiki. Another thing that I would love to see here is acknowledgement that Men's Liberation as a movement is actually a lot older than modern MRA type movements. That's not to say that the sentiments encompassed by either are necessarily new but I don't think Men's Liberation needs to do so much bending over backwards to say that they are like MRA but not toxic.

Some resources if anyone is interested:
On Male Liberation
Vice Deep Dive on some History
Collected Resources

[–] bleph 1 points 1 year ago

Great response! I'm excited to read the resources that you provided, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm honestly here to lurk, but I know that communities like this live and die by user content and not just articles. I really hope it picks up because this is a great space

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Posting builds subscriber base! Particularly crossposting using the dedicated lemmy feature. Don't knock it. Subscribers have almost tripled since I started posting.

[–] bleph 1 points 1 year ago

On this platform I can see why a cross post bot would be effective - lots of people including myself look at the all feed as the main way to find new communities because search is...eh and there's a lot of people squatting on names and not posting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wouldn't have found this community if you hadn't advertised, and that's awesome! I've already read through some of your posts and they're absolutely enlightening. I'm just hoping others (myself included) start posting more questions, personal observations, and discussion posts as well.

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