Modern Manhood: The Podcast

Episode 1 - Feminism for Men - The 1900's

Episode Summary

In 2019, Youtuber Natalie Wynn aka Contrapoints, a famous leftist video essayist did a video titled “Men” which is about masculinity and why boys are a little worried at that time. Same kind of sentiment happens today. Natalie ended her essay for a “what can we do” as this: “I think what we need is a new, positive ideal of manhood. Which I don't think is something that women cannot create for men, even if they wanted to. And honestly the best way for that to happen may actually be some kind of men's movement” But a little research would show that not only are men already organizing to talk about and deal with their own masculinity, but they have been doing so for a long time now. So now I’m here to not only document that, but also show how men organizing around masculinity has evolved throughout the decades. For the next episodes we’re going to highlight some of the historical instances where there was a movement for or against the freedom of masculinities. And we're going to start in the 1900's where we will talk about suffragette movement and the men who helped them, and the men who opposed them. We will also discuss at length Floyd Dell's essay "Feminism For Men" as the start of this journey for me and for you.

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