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Frank's avatar

Thanks for the post, Tom. Misandry is rampant in the mental health profession. Thanks for confronting the resesrcher on his misandry. I like to tell manginas that, if they get prostate cancer, they will learn that their feminist sisters made sure that breast cancer gets many times more taxpayer funds than prostate cancer.

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Allen Frantzen's avatar

More than 10 years down the road from the original publication date of Tom's splendid analysis (2012), we can see that little has changed. Connell's 1995 discussion of "hegemonic masculinity" took hold and finds favorable reception in books on masculinity and sports--e.g., Eric Anderson's 2005 "In the Game" and Andrew Billings' & Leigh Moscowitz's "Media and the Coming out of Gay Male Athletes" (2018). Many researchers do what Tom traces here, look for evidence to confirm what they believe to be true. The people vetting this research follow the methods and share the assumptions of the authors whose work they assess. It's a closed kind of inquiry; the true believers talk to each other. They nod their heads and then tell the rest of us what is what. The aim is not to learn about men. The aim is to lecture men on their faults and tell them (as Anderson does) to be like women.

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