Behind the scenes here at Citizenshift I’ve been working with others to create a new blog about masculinity.
It’s called MascMag (short for magazine) because we want to one day publish a magazine. We’ve got a lot of work to do in order to build an audience, a dedicated group of contributors, and really — a community of people who want to talk and walk the line around gender justice and self-acceptance.
We’ve really started from scratch. Choosing webpage templates, contacting those we already knew interested in the topic, making connections with like-minded groups, and editing and sharing a dialogue about masculinity.
Beyond visiting the site and seeing for yourself (strongly encouraged) the best other way is to see what our mission offers:
masc magazine is a space for young men to explore how masculinity affects their lives.
masc is curious about how ideas of manhood are shaped by one’s experiences and environment.
masc encourages expression and connection on a range of men’s issues such as gender, stereotypes, sexuality and health.
masc helps men imagine their own ideals and ways to make them real.
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Is There a Cure for Masculinity?
By Adam Jukes
• Why is it so hard to get close to a man?
• Why don’t men express emotions except big ones like anger and frustration?
• Why is most perversion male; why is most pornography produced by men for men? Why is risk taking male and drinking, drug taking, gambling and infidelity are predominantly the preserve of men?
• Why is most criminal behavior perpetrated by men? Why is the vast majority of domestic abuse and violence perpetrated by men?
• Why are men so concerned with the size of their penis and its symbolic substitutes - big, powerful cars, status, big houses, big money, and big muscles?
• Why can’t men tolerate vulnerability?
• Why do men lie, don’t listen, don’t do housework, parenting?
The answers to these questions, is the aim of this book. The author asks what it means to be a man, and what part masculinity play in men’s identity. What is it like to have to spend so much time and energy in managing that identity?
Adam Jukes has spent most of his professional life working with troubled and disturbed men, and in 1984 he opened one of the world’s first treatment centers to address men’s abusive and violent behavior towards women, from verbal and emotional abuse through to stalking and murder.
In the following decades that work developed into a clinical examination of masculinity and the author now shares his insights and conclusions with the reader. Juke’s conclusions about what constructs masculinity and how it develops may be unpalatable to some but it is also thought provoking and intriguing to anyone who has an interest in these issues whether professional or personal, male or female, wife or lover, sister or brother, husband or father.
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