2023-05-25 11:03:15
Hooray! Sacred for a long time as the unbreakable link in the social chain, man discovers himself dispensable today, accessory – even cumbersome. A fall from the pedestal with delightful repercussions… Champagne?
Photo caption: PLASTIC-MAN_ Is your guy fake? According to the clueless Ken played by Ryan Gosling in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, it seems that the man has lost credibility. It was time.
It’s a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world… A realm where – in Greta Gerwig’s feminist empowerment film interpretation, at least – women are in control, while men are relegated to the status of auxiliaries. Result: Ryan Gosling, who made a name for himself by defending the widow and the orphan with his mute “virilo-alpha” role in Drive, finds himself, some twelve years later, putting on the pastel tracksuit of a picked-up Ken, determined to accompany “Robbie Doll” (who has never asked for help, let’s note) on his journey towards the “real world “. Quite a symbol. Because according to Sarah, an enthusiastic viewer of the film’s trailers, there is no doubt: behind the innocent mountains of kitsch, this Barbie grinds girl power ” will paint the faithful portrait of a society emancipated from the outdated idea according to which man is necessary “. Downright ? ” Yeah, definitely “. Welcome to 2023, guys.
FALL OF PRIVILEGES
It will have been a long journey for Sarahs to be able to announce with fanfare the expiry of a sex that is no longer described as “strong” except in derision. ” We are at a turning point “, attests Christine Castelain-Meunier, sociologist author of Men also come from Venus. « For centuries, the man was seen as the essential cogwheel for the proper functioning of a society, because where the woman was busy in a domestic space perceived as negligible, he was struggling with the “essential” represented by the public sphere “. To the point of being erected in ” irreplaceable defender of order and the common good, as well as of territorial integrity “. A rhetoric of indispensability that legitimizes the authority of landowner since Roman times…
This domiciliary tyranny is going well until, whammy, the French Revolution points the end of its bayonet. “ After the overthrow of the crown, the man loses certain legal prerogatives over the management of the inheritance. Then, the following century, compulsory public school took over from the father in the role of transmitting knowledge. “. This domino fall of privileges continued until 1907, when women won the right to dispose of their wages. A breakthrough that definitively closes the chapter of the “golden age” of husbands. ” And nothing to cry regarding! exclaims Amel, in whose eyes the argument that everyone, and especially everyone, should ” to submit to the man because one would need his muscles to protect the fatherland or put bread on the table ” East ” quasi-prehistoric “. Would this economic-war reflection on the added value 0 of the male also apply in terms of intimacy? ” Here too, we wonder what the guys are still for, without kidding ». Outch.
BIG ROCKER
Ten years ago Marriage for All was voted, accompanied by the opening to adoption for homoparental families. At the time of the debates, several hordes of politicians, psychologists and “specialists in early childhood” had stepped up to the plate, recalling that outside the Father, there is no salvation. Roughly speaking: tear away from the children the paternal figure on which their psychic balance depends, and fear the advent of a monstrous society. For little, we sounded the trumpets of the Apocalypse. All recent studies show, however, that the sexual orientation of the parents has no impact on the well-being of the little ones. ” You have to believe that the announced catastrophe will not take place “, wears Alizé, whose adopted daughter with her spouse is wearing” great, thank you very much “. And to add, mockingly: In terms of a happy family and sexual fulfilment, we were fed up with the idea that a man was a sine qua non – well, no, damn it! ».
The proof by the statistics, side antics. According to a Kinsey Institute survey revealed in 2015, lesbians reached orgasm in nearly 75% of their intercourse, compared to 62% for heterosexuals. ” No wonder », Comments Gwen Ecalle, sexologist and president of the association Les Sexosophes. ” Centuries of heteronormative conditioning have led to the neglect of female pleasure in favor of a phalloccentric sexuality on male ejaculation. Fortunately, #MeToo, feminist waves and the sex-positive movement have reshuffled the cards by highlighting, in particular, LGBT+ sexualities and the orgasm gap ».
Poor partner in the stake, dispensable for the economy of the home as for the education of children, is man over? ” Let’s say rather that old fashion masculinity is relegated to the closet “, delays our sociologist specialized in masculinities, Christine Castelain-Meunier. And to rejoice: Since the figure of the virile archetype becomes obsolete, other masculinities emerge “. In this ” big seesaw “, our expert sees a” humanization of the masculine » structured around the « democratization of intimacy, the sharing of pleasures and the equitable distribution of mental burdens “. Who would dream of complaining? Archaic man is dead, long live man!
Par Antonin Gratien
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