Männer - das benachteiligte Geschlecht?

Abstract

Men - the Disadvantaged Gender? Refusal of Femininity and Antifeminism in the Discourse About the Crisis of Masculinity The widespread lamentations about the "crisis of men", "disadvantaged boys" and "disposed fathers" fail to recognize that masculinity in male-dominated cultures and societies generally is a fragile and crisis-laden construct. The discourses that are motivated by this accusatory talk about a crisis are a backward-looking reaction to the market-radical aggravation of the social area of crisis, which again and again is combined with misogynic accusations. This can particularly be proved by considering the positions of radical masculinists and father´s rights activists emotionally charged with antifeminist views. A critical examination of the overlapping of social and gender inequalities dwindles here to a manichean image of a male dominating and defaming "Feminat" - splitting the world of gender relations into "good" and "bad". To projectively blame women and their supposed destructive influence on the process of becoming a man for being responsible for the misery of man and the suffering of boys, thereby reinforces the already widespread refusal of femininity. Against this background, this essay will attempt to construe the self-appointed "men's movement" as a backlash, as an antifeminine and antifeminist counter movement in the context of the general remasculinization of society. It is especially the essentialism of the "man's movement," fixated on the search for the "nature of man", which is gaining interest even in the scientific community (neuroscience, theory of socialization, pedagogy, psychoanalysis).

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