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About This Book
From AskMen senior editor and non-binary writer Alex Manley comes The New Masculinity: A Roadmap for a 21st-Century Definition of Manhood, a guide for escaping the shackles of toxic masculinity, unlearning what it means to be a man, and pushing back against the various ways masculinity teaches people to hurt rather than help, and to harm rather than heal. Manley charts a course for a wholly new future of the self that's neither particularly manly nor particularly masculine, but responsive, invested, and caring.
Having written and edited for a men's website for seven and a half years, Manley has seen up close how angry, scared, and lonely men are, and how entrenched in a culture war they feel. This book is a guide for unlearning the habits that perpetuate that harm. There are an infinite number of ways to be a person, but to access them fully, men first need to unlearn the restrictions of modern gender roles and the ways society has taught them to shave parts of themselves off until their masculinity comes before their humanity.
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Table of contents
- 1Praise for The New Masculinity
- 5dedication
- 8what do men not do?
- 1: a real man doesn’t get friendzoned
- 2: real men don’t wash the dishes
- 3: tough guys don’t listen to pop music
- 4: if you’re a real man you never cry in front of your friends
- 5: a real man would never fake an orgasm
- 6: a real man doesn’t need to wear a bandaid
- 7: tough men don’t need to see a shrink
- 8: a real man should never walk away from a fight
- 9: a man’s man would never break the bro code
- 10: the least manly thing you can do is play with your own butthole
- 11: no man should ever wear makeup
- 12: how much of a man can you be if you let women talk down to you
- 13: you’re not a real man if you act like a woman
- what could men do?
- note from the author
- acknowledgements
- about the author
- Copyright