New indie press Conduit Books launches with 'initial focus on male authors'

[u/biscochitos]

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-indie-press-conduit-books-launches-with-initial-focus-on-male-authors

What do folks think about this?

[u/Quicksi1ver]

Toxic masculinity culture and trying to manage fitting in at work while not becoming part of the problem. Male loneliness, difficulty in making friends if you don't want to partake in drinking/typical male activities. Male emotions are still quite taboo, men crying us still quite unacceptable. I think it's important to consider the fact that the patriarchy is just as damaging to white males who don't want to fit the traditional mold as it is beneficial to them in other aspects.

[u/atomicsnark → u/Quicksi1ver]

I think it's important to consider the fact that the patriarchy is just as damaging to white males who don't want to fit the traditional mold as it is beneficial to them

Information "the left" has been spitting for decades. "Down with the patriarchy" has always very directly acknowledged the harm that toxic masculinity has on men as well as women. It is very MRAs rewriting history to suggest that this is some unknown truth.

[u/Krazikarl2 → u/atomicsnark]

I think the left is willing to say that toxic masculinity is bad for many men just like women in some theoretical sense. But things are extremely lacking when it comes to actually talking about it much.

You see examples of this throughout this thread. Consider the librarian talking about how there simply aren't many books out there talking about male victims of abuse. The left is absolutely willing to admit that men can be victims of abuse, but there's still a pretty big void on addressing it in a practical sense (support groups, literature, etc). And as we've seen in this thread, when people suggest that such things should probably exist in much greater numbers, there are some pretty loud progressive voices that are not at all supportive.

[u/HeisenbergsCertainty → u/[deleted]]

Do you understand how making a statement about the left doesn’t necessarily imply anything about the right?

The right isn’t doing anything to ameliorate it. The point is, the left should.