What is the role of men’s issue? Ethical dilemmas and new communicative opportunities

This research aims to understand how practices around the production of knowledge in gender issues have stratified over time, particularly male issues, investigating the “taxonomy - gender equality - moral” interpositivity (Foucault 1969). Through the content analysis as a survey, this proposal focuses on exploring both ethical and methodological issues. In fact, some men’s rights movement discourses are explicitly problematic, particularly when it comes to unmasking (Hacking 2001) feminism’s hierarchy of priority on policies and communication. Nonetheless, this state of the gender debate is partly tied to the well-known reticence in giving male issues enough space as well as a proper framework (Stoet and Geary 2019; Reeves 2022). This approach may lead a representation void, sometimes filled by interesting communities dealing with male issues with a non-feminist but moderate perspective, such as the Instagram page The Tin Men, where positive messages and in-depth content on male issues are frequent. However, the debate on male issues is still frequently addressed by reactionary and misogynistic communities. Therefore, it’s crucial to highlight the ethical responsibility of every study on men’s issues, regardless of the will to follow or challenge feminist epistemology. Doing so will prevent the development of a methodological approach that relies on a reductionist viewpoint (Worsdale and Wright 2021) or trivial conclusions.