A big part of it is that a healthy masculine relationship needs to include things which are typically gatekept by patriarchal men to only occur in romantic relationships with women. Men in platonic relationships ought to be able meet needs for physical touch, emotional intimacy, etc. It’s easier said than done sometimes, but anti-patriarchal men’s groups have the potential to genuinely subversive to capital for the alienation reasons you stated
A big part of it is that a healthy masculine relationship needs to include things which are typically gatekept by patriarchal men to only occur in romantic relationships with women. Men in platonic relationships ought to be able meet needs for physical touch, emotional intimacy, etc. It’s easier said than done sometimes, but anti-patriarchal men’s groups have the potential to genuinely subversive to capital for the alienation reasons you stated
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