Caitlin Moran’s feminist exploration of men in crisis shows empathy and insight, but when interviewing men, she rarely strays beyond her immediate circle of friends
The problem with this is, I also know men. I’m sure you do too. And I’d bet that the men I know are different from the men Caitlin Moran knows and that they’re different again from the men you know. So not everything Moran confidently proclaims about the male gender rings true to me. The male friends she speaks to go to the pub for hours with their mates and discuss football or record-buying but rarely their lives or feelings. But this feels like just one kind of man.
Something else is missing from this book. In her excellent polemic What White People Can Do Next, Emma Dabiri talks about how race and identity issues need to be in a conversation with a broader, left-wing critique of power or the whole endeavour gets reduced to shibboleths about personal responsibility and lifestyle choice. Dabiri situates her own analysis of white supremacy in a Marxist critique of western capitalism and a wider continuum of social justice. Moran lacks such a metanarrative.
Gay people and trans people don’t get much of a look-in in this book even though they are active pioneers when it comes to changing gender norms. Race, class and geography are barely mentioned. Men from marginalised communities, who often suffer at the hardest edge of masculinity, are barely mentioned. Women without children are barely mentioned.
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