Boy Problems – Mother Jones

Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist whose lectures pack concert halls around the world, was the first to find fame for speaking to a generation of lost boys. In 2016, he went viral for pushing back against legislation in Canada requiring teachers to adhere to a student's preferred gender pronouns. Peterson told people like Mark to stiffen up but also that it was not their fault. He said men have long been stifled by a world that is set up for women to succeed at their expense. He had lectures that might deconstruct episodes of The Simpsons or expound on the psychology of Pinocchio. Then, he would explain that feminism is part of "the murderous equity doctrine," or that white privilege was a "Marxist lie." 

 If Tate has been the brawn, then Peterson parades as the brain: A former professor who specializes in the works of Carl Jung, Peterson conceals bigotry in pseudo-intellectual digressions. "There's this whole narrative that masculinity is being attacked. And these guys are the heroes of it," said Mark, during a phone conversation we had in July... This has given some politicians an opportunity. Reclaiming a mythology of manhood has become an important project for the nascent populist right. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has been the most prominent politician to take on masculinity. 

"The loss of high paying, blue collar work for men has been a catastrophe for this nation and for men," writes Hawley in his book Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs, "robbing them of employment, family, dignity and hope." In Hawley's vision of gender, men can only find their purpose in the old breadwinner role, which is why he opposes a welfare state. "If government can supply everything a father or husband once did by working," he writes, "what is the point of manhood? The culture of dependence destroys men's agency and their sense of self-worth."…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/boy-problems-andrew-tate-masculinity-crisis-manosphere/