THE NEW MASCULINITY

Who run the world? Women are running for their empowerment and freedom from the patriarchate. The " Me too " movement is only an example of how women are creating a group - build on solidarity - to bring awareness on the rights of females.  Beyoncé, in one of her most famous songs, sings  “ who run the world? Girls ” . A toxic idea of masculinity  But what about men? “The image of masculinity has come into sharper focus, with ideas of toxic and fragile masculinity permeating today’s society”. This is the reason behind the new exposition at Barbican in London and called “ Masculinities. Liberation through Photography ” .  In the traditional society not all men have the power and the freedom to decide who they are, only the white straight men from the middle class, namely the hegemonic class. And the other? They have no spaces to express themselves and most of the time they are brought to be ashamed of themselves. As Luke Turner wrote in " Putting men...

Who is the man of the modernity? I asked this question to myself so many times ... He is no more a perfect proportioned body as he was considered in the Ancient Greece and captured by the sculptor  Prassitele,  but neither a moral father who has the power to take decision for all the family, as the stereotypical image during the Middle Age (lead in the Italian movie  Padre Padrone  of Taviani's brothers). Recently in Italy happened something regarding this: The Fashion Week took place in Milan and the Gucci's new seasons collection was debated a lot. Why? Because the  Manifesto , ideated by the art director  Alessandro Michele  called  Masculine, Plural  delineated the man of the modernity, who is free from society and from the classical rules usually attributed to a man (like not wearing a skirt, for example). An other example can be found in the last Sanremo's edition, which is the Festival of the Italian song a...