Counselling with men.

Most men, even male therapists, have a lot to learn before they can mix with women on a non-oppressive basis in psychotherapy and the wider world. Counsellors tend to be nice people, who hope to be counselling human beings, and who hope to be human beings themselves. Unfortunately there is no such thing as a human beings. Instead of taking men for granted, as representing the whole human race, people have to think of them as a minority group with particular characteristics. These characteristics are partly genetic, partly social and partly created within the psyche of each individual man. Here, the reaction to the feminist insight is to say that certain roles and attitudes are natural, hard-wired. According to moral conservatives, masculinity is created by society in order to override man's natural antisocial tendencies, and turn them into fathers, protectors and providers.