How do we solve Toxic Masculinity?
It’s Movember - a fundraising month dedicated to raising awareness around men’s mental health issues. Here at HQ we’ve been thinking about the unspoken learned conditioning we have that changes the way we live and work with each other. For the last few weeks, social media has been overrun with reports from womxn who have experienced spiking via injection while on a night out — a shocking and concerning development from drink spiking.
Slinking via injection cannot be avoided by “covering your drink” and all the other prevention methods that are typically given to the womxn who are targeted. It highlights what many of us have always known: the onus should lie on men, not women, to stop this violence and the systems that make it ok for (mainly) men to feel entitled to other people’s bodies. This is just one of the many effects of toxic masculinity, which also doesn’t hold space for men’s own emotions, experiences and self expression – as one creator breaks down so effortlessly here.
A step towards freeing society from toxic masculinity is beneficial for all genders. It’s worth the work and the effort to dismantle these systems. This month we’re shouting out Beyond Equality who are working with men to develop equitable futures.
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Five things I've Learned from the Confession - by Abadesi Osunsade
In response to 'The Confession' and featured on Story Things, Abadesi was asked to respond to Krys Lee’s story, about how the workplace might change with the increasing use of technology.
Can we ever see objectively? Or does the bias we aim to escape from start embedding itself so early in our consciousness that it is inescapable?
Here are five things that have been learnt:
Robots will steal some jobs...but we should be more worried about women leaving the workforce now 🤖
Men in tech are so vain they make robots in their image 🖥
Double standards for men and women seem to be inescapable 👫🏾
Loneliness is a problem we may never solve and technology is making it worse 📱
Hope is an antidote to all our ailments ☺️
Read the full article here.