S6E1 - The ”Unwanted” Men

To kick off our sixth season, we tackled the concept of involuntary celibacy, and why this state of mind is perceived as a social reality by certain groups of men.

The world as we know it does not have one understanding of masculinity. While researching for this episode, we were fascinated to learn that there’s a community of men out there who have bonded over the perception that they are unable to attract women and have therefore labelled themselves victims of gendered oppression.

These are the men branded as ‘Incels’.

On this episode, we tried to make sense of such male victimhood and talked about why certain men hold hostile and violent views towards women and blame women for their low place in the social hierarchy.

We questioned whether this case of male victimhood was a ‘western’ problem or whether traits of this ideology exist within our own culture as Africans. We questioned whether African men also demonstrate male victimhood, possibly in different ways.

One conclusion we couldn’t settle on was whether the idea of male victimhood is a disease with its origins rooted in a dystopia or a symptom of something much deeper that we all have played a part in.

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