Young Men Navigating Contemporary Masculinities by Karla Elliott

Author:Karla Elliott
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030363956
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Sven suggested, in this emotional exchange, that for him, mobility away from his hometown was not just a matter of advancing professionally. It was also a case of escaping from an unhappy, ‘prison-like’ life in which he could not move forward or flourish. As I explain later in this chapter, Sven found that men in Berlin, including his male friends, could be more intimate and emotional with one another, marking a contrast to the friends from his hometown.

Like Sven, Manni, who identified as queer, spoke of his desire to flee his hometown, which he found small and lacking in diversity. He said:I do think that there was quite often, for a long time, a kind of urge to (pauses) flee. In a sense that, I don’t know why exactly, but I was kind of fantasising about wanting to go to boarding school. Because I do think I kind of idealised it, you know? A lot of friends, a really nice place, self-development blah blah blah. So maybe that is like, something like a way to like, go away.

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