The Men Who Are Working Toward Changing Our Culture
For the benefit of everyone
This morning I read an encouraging essay by Mark Greene called We’re So Done with the Joyless Masculinity of JD Vance and Donald Trump. It reminded me that despite the constant drumbeat of angry men who want the 1950s back, millions of guys are indeed sick of a type of masculinity based in the endless performance of patriarchal domination and are moving toward something warmer, more joyful, and more deeply connected.
What are we sick of? The same thing everyone else is sick of. Donald Trump, JD Vance and all the MAGA Republicans, their Project 2025 policies, the arrogant way they speak, their contempt for women (and everyone else), their constant pumped up aggression. MAGA bullying energy deeply familiar to all men. It’s the same school yard bully energy men have faced all our lives. Energy designed to make us keep our mouth shuts and go along.
As Greene points out, those who have bought into patriarchal Man Box norms that indicate “real men” must be dominating, aggressive, demonstrate power over women, and never show any vulnerable emotions other than anger are uncomfortable that the world is moving away from that view of masculinity.
They are doubling down on male-led, dominance hierarchy-based culture to try to keep status in their…
