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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Everybody is welcome, but this is primarily a space for men and masc people
Non-masculine perspectives are incredibly important in making sure that the lived experiences of others are present in discussions on masculinity, but please remember that this is a space to discuss issues pertaining to men and masc individuals. Be kind, open-minded, and take care that you aren't talking over men expressing their own lived experiences.
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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
Related Communities
!feminism@beehaw.org
!askmen@lemmy.world
!mensmentalhealth@lemmy.world
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Well, this is completely unsurprising and what many people have been saying for decades.
Just a side note, the whole "men's brains don't mature until they're 25" thing is a myth.
The whole "human brains aren't fully developed until you're 25" is such an annoying quote that gets thrown around by people just because they've heard it online.
I swear half the time it's used to infantise young adults. I'm glad people weren't pedalling this pseudoscience "fact" when I was that age, it'd probably get on my nerves.
It's based on essentially nothing.
There isn't an age where your brain is done developing. It constantly changes all throughout your life, affected by a whole load of factors we don't really understand yet.
It certainly goes through periods of rapid change, but this happens predominantly years before you're 25, or after life-changing events that alter how you think - things like moving out and having to manage your own life more, moving country to a very different culture/language, entering a LTR, having children, using drugs, getting a job, losing family members, even learning to drive can have a profound effect on your brain, evidenced by MRI scans.
Much of that stuff happens in your early-mid twenties, so I see why people would erroneously think that it's the turning 25 part that does it.
So...they never mature?
From what I've read, both men's and women's brains reach maturity sometime in their 30s.
I think we've maybe made a mistake in conflating a cease in development with maturity in a more colloquial sense.