Men's Liberation
This community is first and foremost a feminist community for men and masc people, but it is also a place to talk about men’s issues with a particular focus on intersectionality.
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Recommended Reading
- The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, And Love by bell hooks
- Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements by Michael Messner
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What a weird article. Makes sweeping conclusions like "women are fine with trans" issues, casually ignoring the ~50% that responded unsure or negatively.
The numbers are generally evenly split positive-to-negative and whilst, yes men are between 5-10% or so more likely to respond negatively, phrasing it in a way where you treat men and women as monoliths isn't very helpful to addressing the goal of trans positivity.
For men they are (43% vs 44%). For women a majority (54% vs 31%) believed transphobia was a problem in British society.
This is an article discussing demographic based polling data.
I'll be honest I'm not the biggest fan of most headlines period. In this case, what they're trying to convey here is that it is not women (as terf rhetoric would imply) who are driving transphobia in the country.
One cannot draw that conclusion from this data. There are still >30% of negative female respondents.
I'm not saying terf rhetoric is correct, just that this data is unrelated.
A 23 point gap with a majority is a completely different ball game than a 1 point gap. The data is absolutely strong enough to draw those conclusions.