Fresh Approach, But Still Blaming Men

I welcome Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward's fresh look at some of the issues that plague society (The Age, 13/10/05). When women engage in personally destructive behaviour such as starving themselves, choosing bad partners, wasting time and money on appearances or putting career ahead of family, we understand this to be the fault of society (read: men).

But when men engage in personally destructive behaviours such as risk-taking, health neglect or emotional withdrawal, it's not down to society: apparently it's men's innate "masculinity" at fault. So regardless of the social ill, it's men and masculinity to blame!