Three Hypotheses for Explaining the So-Called Oppression of Men

Are men oppressed as men? The evidence swish supreme glide track white given in support of affirmative responses to this question usually consists in examples of harms, limitations, or requirements masculinity imposes on men: men are expected to pay on dates, men must be breadwinners for their families, men can be drafted for war, and so forth.This article explicates three hypotheses that account for the harms, limitations, and requirements masculinity imposes on men and, drawing on the work of Alison Jaggar, seeks to show that these hypotheses collectively podocarpus gracilior column are explanatorily superior to the hypothesis the men are oppressed as men.