The Gazette
By Donna Nebenzahl, For Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Beyond+macho+Defining+world/6067776/story.html (http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Beyond+macho+Defining+world/6067776/story.html)
Men, argues McGill University professor Paul Nathanson and his colleague Katherine Young, suffer from the myth that they are the gender with the power and therefore cannot be damaged by criticism and ridicule. The physical, political and economic power that a small percentage of men do wield renders women, they believe, "either unwilling or unable to see men as fully human beings, people who can indeed be hurt, both individually and collectively."
Nathanson and Young have written five books chronicling the rise of misandry, the hatred of men, which they view as a culture war being fought because of the feminist activism that led to the changed role of men.
But Lafrance and many of his colleagues are eager to avoid setting men and masculinity studies up against women's studies. "We need to figure out what it is about masculinity in our culture that is oppressive not just to women, but to men," he says.