Feminism, masculinity and finding solutions

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'Thankfully, most women and men know this lack of mutuality is neither sustainable nor healthy. It’s part of what led people to coin the term “toxic masculinity,” a term so overused that some men are giving up on what’s healthy and embracing the message of guys like Andrew Tate —an influencer presently incarcerated in Romania on charges of sex trafficking.

“But the idea that we are looking at men as a problem is actually not that far off sometimes,” said Michelle Cottle on Matters of Opinion, “I mean, especially in certain more progressive corners we are so eager to make sure that women aren’t left behind, that women aren’t being mistreated, almost as though it is a binary like one has to kind of go along. If one is getting ahead, you have to kind of disadvantage the other.”

When men give up, or when the well-being of one gender as a whole is in competition with the other, we need to seek a third way, maybe even a fourth, fifth or sixth.

To be clear, it’s true that men have dominated the offices of power, the C-suites, the halls of academia, the workplace, the sports arena and the financial markets for millennia. Only in the past century has the pendulum begun to swing in the direction of women. Yet, parity is about finding equilibrium and that takes work. Men and women will thrive when they find flourishing counterparts — intellectually, creatively, spiritually, physically — in their workplaces, relationships and communities.'