Exiting the Center: The Unmarked Default and What To Do About It (Healthy Masculinity, Part 4)

In short, maleness has been positioned as the default, but part of the problem with this is that every default is an empty set. It quickly leaks out all particulars and so people who identify that way are robbed of a particular identity. This is exacerbated when society moves (rightly, I add!) towards a more equitable distribution of prestige and power. All of a sudden, being the default, being located at the center, doesn’t mean anything.

Healthy Masculinity, Written by: CameronCameron SummersNovember 13, 2019Healthy Masculinity, Toxic Masculinity, analysis, tabletop gaming, Bruce Lee, The whole thing smacks of genderComment