I agree with BDub, very interesting. I'd honestly never even heard of Musculinsim, or whatever. I found it pretty damn informative. Like the others that have posted I'll add my two-cents.

It seems to me that the problem behind a masculinism 'movement' is that, primarily, it is men opressing men. If, like you stated, a Male takes up ballet it is generally the male gender that sees it as strange and pokes fun at it. I'm not saying that it is solely men doing so but I'd say it's the larger of two chunks. I'd also like to say that from experiance with the people I tutor females more readily defend themselves against ridicule. I dont mean that girls fight back or anything it's just something I've observed. I'll give you an example:

I had a female student that wanted to learn a song she'd heard. It's quite an unusual song, to say the least. I taught it her and she used it as part of her research into modern pianists. Fair enough. The part that is relevant is that when her friends came they walked in and listened to her play. Again, fair enough. Then I heard the girl, in the corridors, talking to her friends about the song. They were saying how it was depressing. She replied with 'I don't care, it was the most relevant thing to play'. I liked this response. The girls then went on to discuss how, even though it was depressing, the music was really well played.

I'll give you my second example to show comparison.

I had a male student when I first started that picked a classical piece to play as his grade 5. Note that he picked it. This boy slaved away for weeks perfecting it at his home and then came to present it to me. His friends sat in on this and I could see he was nervous. He played beautifully for the first minute or so. His friends started to laugh and it went downhill. He played on their laughter and threw his head around with a smirk. He missed keys and it went appauling. He failed the exam and went away. When the boy came back he wished to play the same piece to try to pass again. This time without his friends. He stated that he was embarassed to play it in front of his friends because they thought classical music was for old or gay people. Confusing to me but I accepted it.

Maybe I'm wrong, though. Obviously I'm not saying all people are like this but I do find it interesting. I do know girls that joke about eachother and poke fun, too. I just find, from work, that males seem to hide parts of themselves sometimes. Like they have a need to act in a certain way so they avoid embarassment or ridicule. They also seem more ready to state that something another male does is 'gay' or whatever simply because it shows emotion. It seems like a vicious circle.

Anyways. I agree with what you said. I'm all for the rights of both sex'. Especially in regards to outright bullying and harassment. It can be hurtful to anybody and people should do their best to defend both genders.

Hyz.