Masculinity Is Our Future: Being A Modern Male

YES! YES! YES! This book must be read by both men and women alike! While the title may bring a thought to mind of a man sparking a fire by saying men should be superior to women, which is hardly the case! The idea and concept of masculinity is completely distorted and has been taken out of context that we have seen a major shift in how men and fathers are viewed in general! Think about any sitcom or cartoon on television today. The man is almost always a bumbling, somewhat slow witted and insecure person who is just trying to handle the ways of the world while making himself look foolish for the benefit of laughter. It wasn’t always like this! This book does an excellent job of showing you how to embrace your masculinity in a manner that is productive, respective and probably most important, self-assuring.The world of masculine behavior is ever-changing but rather than toss it aside as something to be made fun of or ridiculed for, it should be embraced, but before than can happen, it must be understood what it truly is. I recommend this book for men or women and even more so for young teenage boys and girls. Great, quick read written in a quick moving, easy to follow along format. The message you receive isn’t one of superiority or authority, rather it is about responsibility, development, and respect for yourself and others. The approach that Tim Patten takes isn’t offensive or apologetic, it is simply stating what should be obvious but has been hidden behind misunderstanding and ridicule. BRAVO!

So let me start by saying this, “It is bad when one thing becomes two.One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai.It is the same for anything that is called a Way.If one understands things in this manner,he should be able to hear about all waysand be more and more in accord with his own.” -Yamamoto Tsunetomo: Hagakure.1716So I think this is what this book as a whole is trying to say, but it goes into much needed detail on things being one. I will forewarn anyone reading this review and this book, read it with an open mind, it may come off as a woman hating manifesto, but it is far from that. I will admit that at many times I rolled my eyes at certain passages and statements, but then in the very next vien I would find myself nodding along in agreement with the statements.It has many good if not great points, but I myself do consider it a little lopsided, but I and you are the ones picking up a book called “Masculinity is Our Future” so what do you expect.I fall into the Men Going Their Own Way(MGTOW) camp, but only by default, I personally don’t think the problem with society is a male vs female thing as a whole but rather a human vs a violent, cold, uncaring, and limited resource universe thing.So granted this is spoken to from the male perspective in this book, and I thought it had many great insights and thought provoking questions to present, answer, and to ask one’s self.

When I first came across this book I didn’t really think I would be reading it, let alone writing a review on it. The cover caught my eye first, the title made me look even closer. The author, Tim Patten, was not familiar to me in a positive or negative way. I found myself with a little time to kill and just intrigued enough to read “Masculinity Is Our Future”, and I can’t say I am upset with the read. It wasn’t an extremely long book, less than 200 pages in fact, but the worked to its advantage. The book moves relatively quickly through some intriguing subject matter. There is no “we are better than you” stand point anywhere here. The book introduces the theory that masculinity is being, for the most part, misused in todays society. So much negative attention to issues related to masculinity in the media has left the subject seemingly unapproachable at times. Patten does a fantastic job at making the reader consider things from a perspective that doesn’t allow the thoughts to be offensive. This book brings to light the many benefits of healthy masculinity to not only the individual but to society as a whole. Masculinity is even addressed in the transsexual and non-binary communities before chapter 4 starts. My point is that there is a diverse offering of information underneath the cover of this book that shouldn’t be discounted. I would read another book from this author based on this experience.

I decided to pick up Masculinity is Our Future by Tim Patten largely because it seems that being a man can sometimes be a bad thing, especially in this day and age. Not necessarily because of feminists or anything, but because there are so many men out there misusing their masculinity. They feel that because they are simply men they are owed something. Some men attempt to use their masculinity to belittle people, especially when it comes to the opposite sex or often just people in general. And that’s why I encourage this novel, it is full of essays that go over these exact issues. There’s also plenty of essays within the novel that address a multitude of different things as it affects men of this generation.In the end, I highly encourage picking up Masculinity is Our Future. None of the essays are very long, which makes the novel a very quick read. The essays are very well written and due to their brevity it helps to keep them all moving and engaging. I greatly appreciated that the book wasn’t completely full of jargon about how men are the best and all the silliness. It includes things like bullying, fatherhood, and even a chapter dedicated to men’s health.