Men in Identity Crisis. An eternally tolerable topic that has been given new impetus at the latest since Ryan Gosling’s appearance as Ken in “Barbie” has shown the almost unbearable dichotomy of the male sex between chav and submissiveness. Because defining (one’s own) masculinity in today’s so feminist world has become an almost impossible task – people often don’t want to be themselves and look up to supposed role models who at least at some point, over the course of of their lives, have become aware.
Today’s man: In search of masculine orientation on the outside
If man(n) is not exactly hypocritically feminist in order to keep up with the times, to stand by women as a tolerant contemporary and to remember the patriarchal structures of the past, man(n) looks in vain for masculine orientation on the outside. But the “right” role models for the “new masculinity” are missing and thus the basis for a uniform definition of manhood, which – as our author Moritz Herrmann in the new star writes – “must be hard and soft, loud and quiet, weak and strong” at the same time, who is then supposed to specify what masculinity is – and what isn’t?
When is a man a man? That is the big question in the current stern cover story. Author Moritz Herrmann tries to find answers here. Political scientist Dag Schölper explains how we can win men over to equal rights here in the interview.
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