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Mark Greene

@RemakingManhood

5 Dec 21

The question is how many men oppose violence against women but still see men as rightfully having power over women and girls? /1

The disconnect this represents is huge: to consider men as rightfully having power over women and girls and failing to see that as violence. /2

It is this presumption of male control over women which is at the root of the full spectrum of injustice against women globally. "I care for women. I treat women well. I have power over women because I'm a man. But I'm a good man." /3

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Mark Greene

@RemakingManhood

14 Sep 21

THREAD: Too Many Women Are Going to College - There's a male supremacist narrative out there that more women are going to college than men because of educational bias, unfair advantages, and so on. It's based on a male victimhood narrative cuz that's how male supremacy works. /1

Every male supremacist narrative is based on a grain of truth. Yes, boys are struggling in many educational contexts. Yes, a lot of programs have been implemented to encourage women in STEM and other areas. Fine. We get that. /2

Globally, women and non-gender binary people are pursuing education because it is empowering and because there is great joy for all humans in exploring the issues and ideas we are interested in. /3

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Mark Greene

@RemakingManhood

12 Sep 21

THREAD: There is no single traditional masculinity. This excerpt is from Chap. 3 of Remaking Manhood in the Age of Trump - Collected writings in the battle against dominance-based masculinity 2017-2021 All books -- amzn.to/3iTG69H /1

The full spectrum of masculinities is an exercise in nearly infinite variation and diversity. Just as there is a wide spectrum of masculinities within the subset of gay masculinity, so there is a wide spectrum of masculinities in the subset of traditional masculinity. /2

The United States has hundreds of years of Latino American masculine traditions. We have Native American masculine traditions that date back thousands of years. We have centuries of African American masculine traditions. /3

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Mark Greene

@RemakingManhood

9 Sep 21

Men's Rights Activists weaponize men's trauma to drive male supremacy narratives. Weirdly, both male and white supremacists lean heavily into male victimhood narratives. "We're being erased." It's a crucial piece of how they convince their populations to do violence. /1

Men are dealing with very real and ongoing trauma inflicted by our dominance-based culture of masculinity. Boys are stripped of emotional expression/connection and then slotted into a bullying dog eat dog hierarchical masculine culture which is deeply isolating. /2

They very kinds of men who accrue power by driving bullying and violence to enforce dominance-based masculinity then weaponize the resulting trauma against women. Its a nasty slight of hand that far too many young men fall prey to. /3

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Mark Greene

@RemakingManhood

17 Aug 21

THREAD: Chap. 23 from Remaking Manhood in the Age of Trump, Collected writings in the battle against dominance-based masculinity 2017-2021--
"We’re All Incels on This Bus"
Because we’re raised in Man Box culture, we all contain fragments of extremists’ world views /1

Incel stands for involuntary celibate. Incels declare openly that men who don’t get selected by women for sex are justified in responding with anger and violence. /2

Incels wrongly argue that women’s choices in sex partners are completely determined by hypergamy – choosing partners based exclusively on bettering their financial or social position, which includes only dating men who are attractive to look at. /3

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Mark Greene

@RemakingManhood

4 Jun 21

THREAD: When Women Say “No, Thank You” to Our Offer of a Date
Recently, a woman friend told me about being asked out on a date. It is a story from more than twenty years ago... medium.com/remaking-manho… /1

She was sharing it as part of a larger conversation we were having about relationships. It’s not a dramatic story. It isn’t a story that was difficult to tell. Which makes it all the more instructive because it is so innocuous. /2

Twenty years ago, a man she didn’t know well asked my friend out. “Would you like to go out to dinner?” he asked. They were closing up at the end of the day at a conference where they and others had been working together. My friend said, “Thank you, but no.” /3

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