In recent weeks, Brad Pitt has become a poster man of sorts for toxic masculinity awareness, but there’s only so much one man—even one very famous man—can do to tip the scales of gender inequality. Women are marching in the streets; women are running for office, speaking truth to power, and rising up to hold abusive men accountable. So, uh, where are the men in all this? As women assume the emotional labor in the effort to enact social change, “Where is the version of the feminist movement, but for men?” asks feminist journalist Liz Plank in her new book, For the Love of Men.

The book is a near-forensically reported examination of modern masculinity and an urgent call to action in the Trump era. More than terrorism, natural disasters, and nuclear war, “there is no greater threat to humankind,” Plank writes, “than our current definition of masculinity.” She points to statistics—such as the fact that 99 percent of school shooters are men, or that a woman serving in uniform has a higher likelihood of being assaulted by a fellow soldier than being killed by enemy fire.

But For the Love of Men is no man-hating burn book—far from it. Plank also speaks with men, including queer men and men of color, about their lived experiences, their pain, the ways societies across the world encourage them to stifle their emotions, and the prevailing misperception that they are base beings with no inherent desire for intimacy and connection. “When I started talking to men about their own gender,” Plank writes, “it changed my entire outlook on feminism.”

Plank spoke with Vogue about toxic masculinity under Trump, the backlash she’s getting from some feminists, and quitting chivalry as an act of male solidarity.

As a feminist journalist, you usually dive into the female perspective. How did you decide to home in on the topic of men?

I come from an academic background. I got a Master’s in gender theory, and I was a women’s studies major in college. I’d been studying, researching, and talking about gender and women for 10 years, reporting on women’s rights in my media career. And I very often found myself in these amazing rooms with amazing women, saying amazing things about the need for radical change in our society. And I was really frustrated by how few men I was seeing in those rooms—and even how they were treating the men in those rooms. So many feminist panels, and at the end, someone would always say, “Thank you to the men who are here.” And then two guys raise their hands and we applaud them. I just thought, “What a lost opportunity to not have half of us here, when all of us benefit from gender equality.”