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My poll has concluded, and it has confirmed my suspicions - a lot of men (myself included) have not really been socialized to talk openly about their emotions.

This might be a generational thing - I grew up in 1980s Germany, and I think younger generations are getting better at this. It might also be a matter of education - while I have PhD, I am from a working class family.

But it definitely was, and is, a problem. The default assumption always was that men had to stand on their own, that men had to cope with anything life threw at them, that any man who could _not_ cope with things was weak and deserving of contempt - and the only "negative emotion" that was acceptable to show was anger and rage.

Which is messed up - if we are not free to talk about our emotions, then how …

“There is a movement afoot in America that says in order to protect and ‘save’ young boys and men, they must become disciples of the movement of White Jesus. Unlike Jesus Christ, White Jesus is on a violent quest for naked power and influence and wealth.”

~ Angela Denker, Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood (Minneapolis: Broadleaf, 2025), p. xii


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https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889830757/Disciples-of-White-Jesus

“'Told again and again [by traditionalist evangelical leaders] that they are the dominant sex, created to rule over and have dominion over not just women but the earth, the land, its animals, and all things on earth — it’s often a rude awakening for young, White Christian men when they enter the world and find that most created things are not interested in being ruled over by them,' [Angela] Denker writes."


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https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/review-and-giveaway-disciples-of

" is the .

It's not that has made men feel insecure, or uncertain how to be a man. It's , which demands that men become the violent daddy-oppressors of themselves. It's not feminism which makes men feel weak and irrelevant. Again, that's patriarchy, which splits men into successful patriarchs and whiney failures—partially as an external matter of haves and have-nots, but also as an internal fracture, which demands men judge themselves by the unremitting standards of perfect mastery and empowerment."

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/there-isnt-a-crisis-of-masculinity

"A Public Religion Research Institute study from the Fall revealed the strong connection between the role of patriarchy, attitudes on child-rearing, and religiosity that directly predict one’s support for both Trump and violent authoritarianism. We are all now hijacked by powerful men like Donald Trump, whose parental figures were mostly vindictive, cruel, or absent."

~ Wajahat Ali


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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/whos-your-daddy-maga-wants-trump

reviewed Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity by Peggy Orenstein

Peggy Orenstein: Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity (2020, Harper)

Peggy Orenstein reveals what she learn interviewing high school and college young men on their …

A look inside the mind of young men on these tricky subjects.

This book has frank discussions of sex and masculinity. It fully acknowledges that teenagers have sex, but does not glorify nor damn it.

This was a really interesting book. As a guy, who was/is struggling with this subject. And as a guy who avoided all of this in his teens and 20s. Mostly because I was scared about how any of it could go bad. But reading this, I find out even the guys doing them regularly are not sure what they're doing. And are worried about it still. Some interesting insights with good journalistic work. #Books #Bookstodon #Gender #Masculinity