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  1. Joshua Laycock Joshua Laycock Canada says:

    There are many studies which link conventional masculine values and risky behaviour but there also many barriers to men getting help. Traditional depression self-assessment tools do not address depressive behaviours in men. Tools like the MDRS-22 should be more widely considered as many men seek help but do not get diagnosed with depression. Further, the article suggests an abandonment of of masculine norms without considering the positive impacts of masculinity in society. Perhaps rather than suggesting men abandon who they are, we work with men embrace their masculinity in a healthy and productive way. The two can coexist.

    • Richard Schippers Richard Schippers Netherlands says:

      It has become quite normal to dismiss out of hand any possible positive connotations with masculinity. Slowly but surely, masculinity has become the problem in and of itself. You cannot Google the term without encountering the word 'toxic'. There's a kind of general consensus that masculinity is inherently harmful. The field of psychology is heavily dominated by women who don't even notice when they're being sexist, and who publicly say things without butting an eyelid that would create an uproar if they were said by men about women. We in the west live in a gynocentric world, in which we have to say it's still a man's world in order to be seen and heard at all.

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