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masculinity pressure is largely unconscious.

Here are a few of the studies of the unconscious masculinity compass included in For the Love of Men:

• When men were told they scored low on a handgrip strength test, they were more likely to then lie about their height.


• Men with baby faces are more likely to display hostile behavior and commit crimes.


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Patriarchal masculinity on the other hand must constantly be proven and earned. Even if you are the swollest MCC fighter on the yacht, even if you married your 4th model, have 13 kids, or are literally the richest men in the world, your patriarchal masculine status can be ripped from you with one feminine fashion choice, girly drink or effeminate... See more

Maleness = being a male.

Masculinity = attributes, behaviors and roles regarded as characteristic of men or boys. Our current cultural iteration of masculinity includes strength, leadership, assertiveness, independence, courage.

Patriarchal Masculinity = the social pressure for men and boys to only perform behaviors, attitudes and roles considered... See more

Grit - the ability to persevere even in tough times, to push through despite difficulty. This is the thing that bridges the gap between raw talent, or limited talent, and actually achieving success, and grit means a tolerance for failure. This is a superpower.

congrats on the failure babe, most people don’t even try

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It is a system designed to keep women trapped in an eternal hamster wheel of low self-worth and misery; to starve them spiritually while keeping them fat and fed on a diet of beauty gunk, Shein junk, PopSlop, and TikTok. It is a system designed to prevent us from rising above the sea of shit we are born into. From becoming thought leaders. From... See more

Polymath and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reminds us to live and work with a calm persistence:

"Without haste, yet without rest."

Note: Goethe's original example was a star orbiting the sun: steady and unhurried, but always in motion.

I’ve spoken with one of my favorite professors about this. He cautions heavily against placing the pressure of publication on your first novel. He says that in any other career, we wouldn’t expect our first attempt to be worthy of anything—recognition, publication, etc. Think of most musician’s first songs, most painter’s first paintings, or most... See more

Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

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Jason Marc Harris