Yes, role models in the community.
That's on men to step up and be good role models. Dad's need to effectively parent their children. There are plenty of male community leaders more so than women. There are loads of decent footballers, look at Rashford for example.
I would like to see more emphasis on positive role models young men can interact with and learn from. You might think it’s not important but my experience as a teacher tells me it is.
That's for men to sort out. There are a lot of men who mentor boys in youth work. This has been discussed for years but fundamentally boys need decent dads.
Well, I disagree. If acknowledging the material reality of hormonal fluctuations is reductive, then the same must be said about our perspective on women. Not all women experience PMS/menopuse severely but we rightly recognise that some do. I feel we as a society do the reverse for men: we only accept those who don’t experience the extremes and abandon those who do.
No, reducing someone to their hormones is reductive. Women don't get a free pass in society because of fluctuating hormones. If by extremes, you mean aggression, I already said that it should be channeled effectively.
I think in the West it’s boys who grow up believing they are less. I don’t think it was wrong to elevate girls but I feel we’ve done it at the expense of boys, we’ve gone past the equality station.
I disagree. When I look around I see a society run by and for men. Where men's needs are normalised and women's are marginalised. All positions of power in society are male and that's the same for every Western country. They are all patriarchal and they all have high levels of violence against women and girls.
We now have the added strain of gender ideology infringing on women's spaces including sports.
Considering they are brought up to feel lesser, men are doing very well for themselves.
I think you’re missing the point of positive role models for young men. It’s nothing to do with stereotypes and everything to do with learning how to navigate these teenage challenging years and not do anything stupid to jeopardise one’s future.
Surely a role model can be of any sex, I've certainly been inspired by some men. Secondly I agree that boys and girls need decent role models to aspire to. Dads are especially important for young boys.
There’s a reason why we say ‘boy racers’ and not ‘girl racers’. It really isn’t all or nothing- we shouldn’t limit people’s choices in life to what’s traditionally expected of their sex but we also must not deny that biological differences play a role in shaping behaviour.
I don't disagree that men have more testosterone than women and more testosterone can make some men act more aggressively.
Where we're never to agree is on gender essentialism. I don't believe that we're all predestined to behave in a certain way because of biology.
I believe socialisation largely effects how we behave, the way we're brought up and a whole host of differing factors. However, I don't deny that hormones can also be a factor.
Look at male v female career choices in Scandinavia, the most equal society.
I'm detecting Jordan Peterson here. It's true that in some Nordic countries such as Denmark, men tend to choose stereotypically male roles and women female roles. They have a sex segregation in the workplace. They also have a higher than average amount of domestic violence. It's evidently not the most equal society.
We don't have a completely gender neutral equal society in the world. Denmark is a patriarchal society where women and men continue to carry out traditional gender roles. They don't have much of a feminist movement there either.
Same. If a woman behaves like this, is it also toxic masculinity?
She would certainly be displaying toxic traits.