Male Psychology: The Magazine
It’s time for the PTMF to stop categorising men as negative stereotypes
“Although psychiatry is criticised for reducing people to diagnostic categories, the PTMF reduces men even further to a narrow and unforgiving stereotype of masculinity”
The Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) takes a dim view of the male gender
In a framework that is all about “power” and “threat”, the implication here then is clear that men are presumed to be more “powerful and threatening” than women. Nowhere, however, in a supposedly serious scientific document, is the concept of power adequately defined or measured.