The official twitter account for Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity, and Change by sociologists C.J. Pascoe and Tristan Bridges.
Need to give a shout-out to this incredible edited volume @ExploringMascs from @c_j_pascoe & @tristanbphd. Such an inspiring collection of minds that have really helped expand my thinking on the topic. Highly recommend!
“When I talk to teenage boys and young men, what I hear them say about masculinity is that to be a man, you have to be dominant, competent, unemotional, and heterosexual,” @c_j_pascoe, University of Oregon. https://t.co/Jad9bZk4j0
“In this time of unprecedented isolation, [Niobe] Way said, many men may be forced to change the way they think about their friendships and to connect in new, deeper ways.” https://t.co/YRQVVRZ7hL
"the strength we seek to feel will come from falling apart and allowing ourselves to feel the loss and the chaos—physically and emotionally. By persevering through that, still standing in so much unknown, we can experience real strength." https://t.co/vF1k1ewmlf h/t @socwomen
“When political leaders suggest basic precautions appear unmanly, men are less likely to follow health and safety advice.” https://t.co/FZkGLwCazv @socwomen @ASASexandGender
“When political leaders suggest basic precautions appear unmanly, men are less likely to follow health and safety advice.” https://t.co/FZkGLwCazv @socwomen @ASASexandGender
“This is a definition of masculinity as radical selfishness, and... it’s taken a huge toll by insisting that we don’t have to respond to the pandemic because the ‘we’ that is not responding imagines itself as invulnerable...” https://t.co/hcpSfbisDp
“Among men of all races, ages 25 to 29, police killings are the sixth-leading cause of death... For a black man, the risk of being killed by a police officer is about 2.5 times higher than that of a white man.” https://t.co/LaeikjjAfz
“And for a certain subset of mostly white, conservative men, not wearing a mask seems to have become a hallmark of manliness.” https://t.co/yR85SUIMI9 @socwomen @SocofGender@ASAnews@ASASexandGender
"So black men go through what we call in sociology a signaling process, where they try to signal that they belong. They try to signal that they're not threatening." Listen to the interview with @SociologistRay https://t.co/d0QSffG3Cd