…ess was not just disadvantaging men professionally, it was supposedly devastating them emotionally; psychologists have noted the rise in addiction, depression, and early death among men, most often working-class white men, who feel “their masculinity ideology is under attack.” Though I do not doubt that losing status is painful for these men, there’s sig…ess was not just disadvantaging men professionally, it was supposedly devastating them emotionally; psychologists have noted the rise in addiction, depression, and early death among men, most often working-class white men, who feel “their masculinity ideology is under attack.” Though I do not doubt that losing status is painful for these men, there’s significantly less coverage of how psychologically harmful living under white male domination was for everyone else.