Men are becoming increasingly politically right-wing and socially isolated, they struggle to deal with their emotions, and men are still responsible for the majority of violent acts: these sentences reflect the entire crisis of contemporary masculinity. The world seems full of brutally fragile guys.
It’s time to take a closer look: in his live lecture “Brutal Fragile Typen”, Ole Liebl explores men and their emotions. What does the inability to feel have to do with antifeminist radicalization online? What do we miss when we assume men have fewer emotions than women? How can you spot toxic-progressive men? Why are “macho types” often melancholic? How are women and queer people emotionally exploited? And what does Spider-Man have to do with all of this?