What is Masculism ?
Masculsim is fighting for equity between the sexes - with the equity as close to equality as nature will allow.
Masculism does recognise that there are sex based difference between men and women -
however it believes that many of the differences that are claimed today [and in the past] are in
fact based on false gender steroetypes.
Masculism believes that both men and women have been victims of their assigned [traditional] gender roles
Masculism does not blame one sex for the predicament we find ourselves in - as both sexes have
contributed the definition of traditional gender roles.
Masculism believes that a patriachy/matriachy existed in the past, with men and women being given
[roughly eqaul] power in the spheres of life that impacted their sex the most e.g. women had inordinate
power in the areas of sexuality/reproduction/child rearing/family/ and home while men has inordinate
powers in areas related to paid work/government/overall decision making concerned with community
survival.
Masculism wants to end the patriachy/matriachy by expanding the definition of what it means to be a man
or a woman so that both sexes are given equal opportunities and responsibilities in areas that
they have been traditionally excluded.
and
Masculism wants to end all forms of sex-based descrimination against men and women.
Ian Wilson July 2001