[Content Note: Patriarchy.]
This piece by Lisa Wade of Sociological Images about the dearth of friendships among US adult, white, heterosexual men, as a result of masculinity policing, is so important and powerful.
Routinely, there can be found articles penned by conservatives about "the war on men" or the "war on boys" in the US, raging about the supposedly deleterious effects of "feminizing" male people. The thing is, there is a war on male people in this country, but it's not being waged by feminists. It's being waged by the enforcers of the patriarchy.
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