Future Is Feminine

<p>Carnage in the classroom misogynists in high office sociopaths in uniform masculinity is a killer. From styles of dress to the stunted capacity for expressing a diversity of emotions becoming a man involves killing off and repudiating anything that in our society is held as feminine. When a person is unable to show compassion and tenderness or when exposed for their frailties feels angry and humiliated they have problems. Problems that none of us are immune to. Masculinity Cremin provocatively declares is a generic disorder of a sick society that afflicts even the best of us. Neither a condition of being human nor even of male it is a disorder as she illustrates of a capitalist society that depends and even thrives upon its very symptoms. <p/>From the perspective of a trans woman raised to be a man the book maps the disorder and speculates on the possible means to overcome it. Instead of signifying weakness catastrophes can be prevented when the qualities men often fear and women often feel subordinated to are prioritised affirmed and nourished. Drawing amongst others on Marx and Freud Cremin eloquently demonstrates why there can be no future other than one in which we are all reconciled as a society with the feminine. In such a future the terms 'masculine' and 'feminine' will neither define us nor determine our relationship to one another.</p>