The Misandry Bubble

http://www.singularity2050.com/2010/01/the-misandry-bubble.html

This site contains is a detailed article on the decline in masculinity, how it came along and what are the factors that keep it going. I used the first few paragraphs as my research for this blog. It was written on the first of January 2010 by an anonymous writer and

the title is ‘The Misandry Bubble’ meaning that men and women are currently in a bubble of beliefs about men that makes them look bad and dangerous and that women supposedly have to keep them tame.

One of the issues presented on this site is that nowaday

s there are no well-known masculine characters, like in the 1980’s. In the 1980’s there were people known for their masculinity like Mister T from the A-team and Bill Cosby, they were men that little boys looked up to. Nowadays men are described as ‘thuggish degenerates, or as effete androgynes’ and remakes are made of Star Trek, the A-team and Indiana Jones, but they all seem to only be looking at the past, when masculinity was an image, when it was something to live for. Men nowadays are represented as husbands and businessmen who live under their wife’s rule.

In the article he seems to make the point that men are being accused of domestic violence and adultery and that hereby the image of the man is not what it used to be; protective over women. It is probably because of this

generalisation that men get an image of being bad and it makes the outcome of ‘women to disrespect men, wives to think poorly of their husbands, and girls to devalue the importance of their fathers’

The writer seems to believe that nowadays people believe that masculine behaviour is wrong and whatever women have to say against the right of men is right.

He makes it clear that he is of the opinion that feminism and media have a big influence of the decline or change in masc

ulinity over the years. Feminist statements and expressions seem to make women in general believe that men are above them and that that is bad and the media, for example sitcoms and soaps, seem to be the ‘proof’ for these statements.

Men have definitely gone down in ‘power’ over the years with the issue of equal rights in payment etc, and that could be one of the reasons for men to be less masculine than they were in the 1980’s, like for example the adventurous outdoors typical American husband.

Basically 'The Futurist' makes clear points about how Feminist actions have been a big influence on the behaviour and the image of men and he is of the opinion that media characterizes men as gangsters and men who harm women.