What men and women want
It’s always good to find new people speaking up about something they know about or care about, but not so much when the thought behind the ideas is a bit disparaging, contradictory and/or insulting.
With Ani O’Brien’s interview with philosopher Nina Power (“In defence of men”, May 28) the latter seemed an appropriate reaction. Power appears to have a following, but her book, What Do Men Want? Masculinity and its discontents, seems more an active push to be provocative at the expense of reasonable debate. She belittles feminism, a word women use as a force for change, one that proclaims the idea women should have the same rights as men. They want to walk safely in open areas, socialise with mixed groupings safely, receive wages that recognise their worth, and to live safely in their homes along with their children.
Why wouldn’t women want these things? And why wouldn’t men want them, too, for their daughters and wives and sisters?
It doesn’t make sense to hold that there are feminists who see men as the source of all evil when so
