I have a question for serious feminists. Actually two questions.

[JHan]

5. Athena raises some good points, there is a very retro feel to the site...

I've enjoyed some articles on that site. My first impression of it is that it's a rejection of some unpleasant modern archetypes of malehood like "fuckboism" - think of a male who is young, misogynistic, enjoys and boasts about manipulating women...and the site also seems to want to reach out to men who have poor social skills.

As athena also noted, it's one of the better male oriented sites in the interwebs but it is promoting an archetype nonetheless - a very traditional, retro archetype, without the side order of the more toxic ideas which infused traditional ideas of masculinity. I really have no problem with the site itself, but it does raise questions about how men define themselves in the 21st century after being accustomed to particular modes of thinking for centuries? On the flip side, there are sister versions of sites like this, blogs by women who embrace the nurturing archetype, full of babies and cooking and traditional feminine concerns..... Harmless on the face of it ,not the worst that exists out there..but nonetheless ideas that seek to define womanhood in specific ways.

Archetypes are powerful, can be problematic and restrictive, can be used to justify determinism which is harmful - Once we understand in society, there are many different ways and modes of being, so long as we don't hurt others, we'll be a lot better off.