The Crisis Of Modern Masculinity - Nina Power - #429
Nina Power is a social theorist, philosopher and an author.
Between incels and toxic masculinity, manspreading, mansplaining, MeToo, MGTOW, Red Pill and Mens Rights, working out what men want from life is a question that both men and women are struggling with. Nina is trying to work out whether men have a firm place to stand in the modern world any more, and why masculinity is under attack.
Expect to learn Nina's post-mortem on men's role in society, how masculinity's crisis hurts women and their future prospects, why Nina disagrees with modern feminism as a long-standing Second Wave Feminist philosopher, how we got to the stage where fear and mistrust of men is widespread, why NoFap ended up being called a hate group, whether the sexual revolution was a good thing and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro (00:22) Why Nina’s Book Was Almost Not Published (05:10) Are Men More Powerful than Women? (11:15) Why People Fear & Distrust Men (23:03) Did #MeToo Trigger Man-hating? (31:48) Why Men Joined MGTOW (43:02) Does Our Liberal Culture Satisfy Women? (49:08) What is the Purity Spiral? (1:01:30) What Women Want vs What Society Wants (1:15:54) Masculine Traits We Need to Retain (1:24:35) Where to Find Nina
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