While profeminist men and profeminist writing generally constitute the dominant perspective within men s studies in the academy the shelves in the men s section of most bookstores are filled with books that come from two other perspectives namely men s rights and mythopoetic which share the basic assumption that what is wrong with men s lives derives from the traditional masculine gender role of protector provider and head of the family Kenneth Clatterbaugh S tarting with Herb Goldberg s The Hazards of Being Male Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege 1976 there has been a steady stream of books that argue that men are not privileged relative to women The authors of these books claim either that men are just as afflicted by their gender role or that they are more afflicted by it than are women by theirs In either case men s rights defenders find a great lie at the center of feminism namely the notion that men are privileged relative to women Probably no writer has said it better than Goldberg who cites problems of traditional masculinity such as emotional repression isolation from other men fear of failure and a high suicide rate Kenneth Clatterbaugh The theme that was foundational to men s rights namely the oppressive nature of traditional masculinity has been undermined by fathers rights activists who want to pursue a set of custody rights and traditional masculinity Kenneth Clatterbaugh