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Jordan Peterson, a Canadian clinical psychologist and author, dubbed the new guidelines ‘reprehensible, infuriating and disheartening’, claiming that the APA was dominated by ‘political types’ and ‘hard-left leaning political activists’.27 AVFM described it as a ‘war on masculinity’, calling the APA ‘armed combatants in the war of ideas’. Their objection? That the guidelines acknowledged men as beneficiaries of privilege within a patriarchal society and suggested that certain forms of masculinity were harmful. But what they seemed to miss entirely was that that harm is damaging men and boys, not just women and girls. The male suicide rate is one of the genuine areas of serious concern most commonly cited by MRAs.

Discussing the dangers inherent in this misguided, ideological approach to raising boys, Melissa Langsam Braunstein, a mother of three daughters and one son, asks, “How do you parent a boy when political grenades are constantly being lobbed at their entire sex, due to no fault of their own?” Describing the new APA guidelines as “hair-raising,” she strongly objects to the APA telling boys they are inherently damaged and that they should shoulder blame for centuries of perceived wrongs by the so-called patriarchy. “I certainly don’t want them being asked to leave a public playground,” she says, “because another mother wants to host a girls-only playtime to compensate for decades- or centuries-old injustices.”33 She wonders why people can’t support girls and women without shaming boys and men. Not everything has to be a zero-sum game.

Within the APA guidelines, the issue of traditional masculine ideology (others have more negatively framed this as toxic masculinity) referred to a pattern of devaluation of emotion in men, discouragement of emotional expression, and stoicism.

Having people telling you who you are, how you feel and what you need to do is hurtful and can make you feel less than. Padahal seharusnya kita adalah satu-satunya orang yang mengenal diri kita paling dalam. Harusnya hanya kita yang mengerti apa yang sebenernya kita rasakan. Harusnya kita enggak didikte oleh orang-orang asing apa yang harus kita lakukan terhadap diri kita sendiri.

Worst among the new lexicon of anti-male slogans is that of ‘toxic masculinity’. Like each of these other memes, ‘toxic masculinity’ started out on the furthest fringes of academia and social media. But by 2019 it had made it into the heart of serious organizations and public bodies. In January the American Psychological Association released its first ever guidelines for how its members should specifically deal with men and boys. The APA claimed that 40 years of research showed that ‘traditional masculinity – marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression, is undermining men’s well-being’.