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Justice for Men & Boys 
Just some random thoughts inspired by Stephen Baskerville’s piece.
I’m not convinced that a New Puritanism is the answer. You could argue that the degeneracy Stephen Baskerville complains of is just puritanism turned on its head. This is what puritanism looks like in decline.
You could also argue that feminism itself is a form of puritanism, or at least closely related to it.
Defining masculinity is not on point either, to be honest. Men in better times didn’t spend much time defining masculinity, they just got on with life.
What would definitely help would be to promote ideas of what kind of woman a man feels most happy with, feels at ease with, and wants to make part of his life. If this infuriates feminists, so much the better! This is the way to push back.
The ranting, relentless negativity that has become so much part of Western culture – directed at men – needs to be flagged up at every opportunity. The psychological roots of it should be enquired into. There’s something very dark and troubling going on there.
One final thought. I became curious about Tamil poetry (in translation) for a while. The Tamils live in southern India and northern Sri Lanka. Their language has been called “the last great classical language”.
Their classic poetry is generally organised under two broad heads: “Akam”, which means “Inner”, and “Puram”, “Outer”.
Akam poetry mostly concerns private relationships – love poems, and the like. Devotional poems, interestingly, are classified as Akam, not Puram.
Puram poems are accounts of heroes, war, satirical accounts of public figures, that kind of thing.
There’s an interesting philosophy of life here.
Feminism over-emphasises Puram – the “outer life” of politics, career, one’s public status, and so on, to such an extent that Akam – the inner life – degenerates. Hence Stephen Baskerville’s (wholly justified) complaints.
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