We all know that young people enter a rebellious phase, and we should limit the damage they can do to their lives during this phase.

…are men being discouraged from showing sensitivity and awareness about their experiences because it implies insensitivity and a lack of awareness towards women?

Gamma bias […] plays down positive aspects of masculinity, whilst rejecting the notion of men as victims.

90% of men in prisons have come from generational family violence… So when they're violent - which is what they've learned - we then perpetuate the violence by putting them in prison.

International Men’s Day 2017 saw the launch in Westminster of the first Harry’s masculinity report. The report found evidence justifying why the general public think men are basically ok, despite the fact that so many academics seem to use men as a blank screen onto which to project their negative feelings about masculinity.

This is the second part of a two-part article. Part 1 can be found here.

“This brings me to a final value of tonic masculinity as I see it emerging. And that is the work to be done of restoring harmony between the sexes, to return relations in the nuclear family and local community to a degree of genuinely democratic responsibility and caring for the other.”

I want to argue in favor of what I term tonic masculinity and what a dose of it might provide society to dispel some of the mystifications and often ironic ambiguities about sex and gender.

The underlying assumptions made in the advert are that men are inherently bad – men are violent, sexual predators who have had their way for long enough. Only through the power of encouragement and social grooming can we protect society from the menace that is toxic masculinity.

As interesting as this movie might be, one important caveat should not be forgotten: it uses a very narrow definition of masculinity. The evidence for the existence of this type of masculinity is based mainly upon narrow populations – prison inmates and frat house partygoers.