The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom has launched a photography exhibition titled “Men and Love in Times of Conflict and Polarisation”. This exhibition has been produced by the Mobilising Men for Feminist Peace Initiative of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
We hope that it challenges still persistent but widely circulated stereotypes of men as inevitably aggressive and angry, stoic and cold, ripped and fit, hypersexual and heterosexual, sexist and homophobic, and enthusiastic supporters of war, weapons, nationalists and populists. Too many men still try to achieve these impossible ideals and cause harm to themselves and others. But a steadily growing number of men recognize these stereotypes of manhood as dangerous and oppressive and are busy redefining themselves and their relationships with others.
