Men pay a steep price when it comes to masculinity
Men are seen as competitive, brutal, fierce and they
are told they need to be all this if they want to be successful in life, at
work and at home. They are taught from a young age that men are the
breadwinners of the house, but what happens when the roles are reversed, and
they are the homemakers? When they are the ones dressing their kids and taking
them to school? When men do the chores that a woman would usually do they are
seen like something out of the ordinary and it makes sense because they are breaking
barriers but it is something that should be done by both parents not just one.
Alia E. Dastagir in an interview with Warren Farrell,
known as the intellectual father of the focus on "men's issues,"
wrote the book The Myth of Male Power, the bible of the men's rights movement” reported
that “Every society that survived, survived based on its ability to train its sons
to be disposable, " Farrell said. "Disposable in war, disposable in
work — on railroads or oil rigs — and therefore indirectly disposable as dads.
And in order to get men to be disposable — you couldn't get a man to be willing
to sacrifice himself if he got in touch with his feelings — we had to
disconnect men from their feelings and therefore who they are.” Have the tables
turned and now the men are the ones being discriminated? You decide.
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