ABSTRACT
Men encounter varying crises regarding their masculinities throughout their life courses, such as the crossroads at when they cannot find a decent job and cannot maintain the 'breadwinner ' position at home (McDowell 2003 ) , or the watershed when they start college and endeavour to get in on fraternities and circles of friends (Kimmel 2009) . Men would normally be expected to adapt their masculine identities to these changing conditions and when they fail to do so they are tagged as 'in crisis' . Men also face a crisis as they get older : andropause ('male climacteric' or 'the male menopause' or 'low testosterone') frames the current discourse of this moment of crisis that men at a certain age may experience.
