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A Researcher Studied the Most Common Last Words of Suicidal Men
The crisis of masculinity is a crisis of awareness, feeling, and leadership.
John Wineland • From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World
The right wing’s war on men consists of inducing insatiable demands in them–for love, respect, money, muscles–and then robbing them of any ability to even partially fill those demands, either by depriving them of the financial means or by convincing them that the only way to meet these absurd standards is by absurd means. Like Jamie, even the riche
... See moreAs one man put it, “Especially now when the worst forms of masculinity feel ascendant, there are a lot of types of man I don't want to be, but very few visions of positive masculinity that I see and want to emulate.
Ann Friedman • A More Expansive Masculinity
Roy Baumeister, a professor at Florida State University, found that people who committed suicide often weren’t in the worst circumstances, but they had fallen short of the expectations they had of themselves.
Eric Barker • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
“Something missing within” was a self-description I heard from many men as I went around our nation talking about love. Again and again a man would tell me about early childhood feelings of emotional exuberance, of unrepressed joy, of feeling connected to life and to other people, and then a rupture happened, a disconnect, and that feeling of being
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