Daevyd Pepper
@altarego
Daevyd Pepper
Ego (the Latin word for “I”) is the unifying center of consciousness, the irreducible core of self-awareness—that which generates and sustains a sense of self, of personal identity. Our ego is not our thoughts, but that which thinks; not our judgments, but that which judges; not our feelings, but that which recognizes feelings; the ultimate witness
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Consciousness and Ego
"The way some men tend to bottle up their feelings has been observed by researchers. It's called emotional restrictivity, and it's something that is learned, not innate to their biology."
– Liz Plank, For the Love of Men
"Males are not allowed simply to be who they are and to glory in their unique identity. Their value is always determined by what they do."
– Bell Hooks, The Will to Change
"Men grew up disowning their emotions. It's a kind of emotional estrangement so pernicious and so embedded in the way we raise them it's almost invisible until it's too late."
– Liz Plank, For the Love of Men
Emotion and Masculinity
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Achillean refers to a man or man-aligned individual who is attracted to other men and man-aligned people.[1][2][3][note 1] It is similar to and sometimes known as men loving men (MLM).[1][2]
Achillean describes all sexual orientations in which a man or a non-binary person who identifies with manhood is attracted to men or men-aligned people, whether
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