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.
Rules
Everybody is welcome, but this is primarily a space for men and masc people
Non-masculine perspectives are incredibly important in making sure that the lived experiences of others are present in discussions on masculinity, but please remember that this is a space to discuss issues pertaining to men and masc individuals. Be kind, open-minded, and take care that you aren't talking over men expressing their own lived experiences.
Be productive
Be proactive in forming a productive discussion. Constructive criticism of our community is fine, but if you mainly criticize feminism or other people's efforts to solve gender issues, your post/comment will be removed.
Keep the following guidelines in mind when posting:
- Build upon the OP
- Discuss concepts rather than semantics
- No low effort comments
- No personal attacks
Assume good faith
Do not call other submitters' personal experiences into question.
No bigotry
Slurs, hate speech, and negative stereotyping towards marginalized groups will not be tolerated.
No brigading
Do not participate if you have been linked to this discussion from elsewhere. Similarly, links to elsewhere on the threadiverse must promote constructive discussion of men’s issues.
Recommended Reading
- The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, And Love by bell hooks
- Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements by Michael Messner
Related Communities
!feminism@beehaw.org
!askmen@lemmy.world
!mensmentalhealth@lemmy.world
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Woah, necropost 🖐️ Pretty easy to avoid places like that. Or at least stick to lurking. Lurking is great, nobody yells at you for not being perfect
Unless you want to talk about gender issues then that is not an option.
Also, I did not realize how old that post was.
No worries, it means you're already doing literally what I suggested 😅 yeah some people aren't going to be open to talking with someone who they perceive has hurt them recently, even if you're literally just some guy who had a question.
Feminism as an idea has come around because most of us are wounded. Everyone's still in their own journey end probably gonna be shitty sometimes, especially in an online place where they're accustomed to venting. But hey, this is a place for male centric gendered issues. The sub on reddit was a pretty chill place too, when I was there. I'm a messy problematic fucker and I've never had anyone here scold me.
I'll be honest. I never felt more like giving up then when I was using that sub. Most of it falls onto the same issues of the broader gender discussion.
There's something to be said about how narrow specific gender issues are interlinked with broader ones. But that's kind of a deep cut that's prone to scaring people away. Just curious, do you think this comm feels different then the reddit sub did?
Not enough posts to really say.
Well, would you want to try starting a thread? If it's about the male experience than people here will be able to relate right?
I'm personally too afraid of the internet to be a certain level of genuine on a self-post, so if you do want to talk about something feel free to message me. I might not be able to relate but I don't scold, I just correlate everything with industrial history because I'm batshit crazy.
I got the same issue. I don't care what conservatives have to say to me. But it's different when it comes from liberals
Facts, yeah. There kind of isn't room sometimes to be ignorant or on the wrong side of a power dynamic whether or not you actually used that power.
Stick around, though. There's conversations happening here that years ago I would not have dared bringing up in front of people even if they were trying to change or escape the same burdens of masculinity I am.