Men are often told they are “trash,” which can be psychologically harmful to boys. A post-#MeToo environment requires a nuanced approach to masculinity that connects patriarchy with capitalism and white supremacy. Young men face harmful role models and divisive, toxic narratives, including public figures accused of serious sexual violence. Popular media and entertainment can reinforce aggressive or dehumanizing ideas about masculinity. Boys are also caught between competing harmful messages: caricatured toughness and demeaning anti-men rhetoric. A constructive path involves feminism that challenges harmful power structures while still supporting boys with guidance that builds character and responsibility.
"I have three boys and I hear this all the time. Like men are trash, men suck. Is just like, just in the water. And I think it's incredibly psychologically harmful for this generation of boys to just go around hearing that over and over and over again. If this is feminism Call men stupid in every possible way that you can. Listen to me try to say the word trash' with my retainer in. Men. Men are trash. Then where does that leave men?"
"I wanted to have a conversation about masculinity in a post-#MeToo world. So today, I'm talking to Ruth Whippman, author of Boymom, a book about raising young men, and Frederick Joseph, author of Patriarchy Blues. Frederick, Ruth, thank you so much for being here with me today to talk about masculinity. O.K just a little table setting for where are we now. How would you describe the state of young men in this country right now."
"I think that we are in an abysmal state. I think the realities are we've always had patriarchy at the intersection of capitalism and white supremacy, and how those things feast on one another and lift one another. But I think right now, more times than not, the role models that these young boys and young men have are not only divisive and toxic, but insidious and heinous. Disgusting, truly. I mean, the president of the United States is an alleged rapist. What does that mean? What does that mean?"
"Yeah I mean, I would agree, I feel like young men are kind of caught between these two competing, but both harmful narratives. Like one of them is this kind of almost what you're describing this real caricatured masculinity, these things that have always been in existence. Like, tough"
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