‘Masculinity is not Toxic’ – response to Guardian article
We recently got our first piece of mainstream media interest from the Guardian – this is our response – to add context and reaction.
“We just got our first piece of major media interest in the UK’s Liberal bastion&hairsp—&hairspThe Guardian “Men after #MeToo: ‘There’s a narrative that masculinity is fundamentally toxic’”&hairsp—&hairspoverall it’s a good piece&hairsp—&hairspand I believe the journalist, Richard Godwin, did an honest job in trying to understand and accurately reflect on the project, and what was a fairly bumpy launch of what we hoped to be a new Men’s Movement 2.0.
Given that he has framed the article as a response to the recent #metoo phenomena&hairsp—&hairsphe accurately characterises our perspective as being that the kind of behaviours that #metoo is highlighting are manifestations of immature and unintegrated masculinity&hairsp—&hairspboys pretending to be men. And that the right response to that is not to demonise masculinity or for men to retreat into shame around their gender&hairsp—&hairspbut to do the inner work to identify and to work with the masculine energy that can come out as anger, aggression or domination and to integrate it into a healthy, competent and confident personality&hairsp—&hairspthe kind of ‘Shadow Work’ that Jordan Peterson describes in his interview with us…
