Beyond ‘male privilege’. An interview with Rick Bradford (aka Will Collins), author of The Empathy Gap.

Article here. Excerpt:

'It would be easy to make the mistake of thinking men’s issues have become a more acceptable area of discourse over the last nine years, but this might be because we operate within a very small bubble. Where it matters – in Government, education, academia, the arts, and the entertainment and corporate worlds – things are on a one-way ratchet. Lip service may be paid now and then, but in policy and legislation there continues to be a monopoly on sympathy and concern for just one sex. Most men, including myself, would be quite content to tolerate even very high levels of disadvantage if that were compensated by commensurate respect. But it is the withdrawal of all respect for men and its replacement with bottomless vilification that renders the situation of men now entirely unacceptable.
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It continues to surprise me that most people seem not to be aware of how uncomfortable men feel when subject to female disapproval. The origin of this is, I suspect, the ceding of moral authority from man to woman in the pair bond. Being disapproved of by a moral authority is bound to be discomforting. But – unless this is simply my ignorance – the ceding of moral authority as an aspect of the human pair bond seems also to lack widespread appreciation.'