Am I a Real Man or Just Dead Inside?
Many men who have retired from jobs, particularly men over sixty in our culture, often feel that aging allows them to break free of the patriarchy. With time on their hands, they are often compelled by extreme loneliness, alienation, a crisis of meaning, or other circumstances, to develop emotional selves. They are the elders who can speak to young
... See morebell hooks • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
In 2020, the philosopher and writer Andrew Taggart observed in an essay published in the religious journal First Things that a new flavor of masculinity seemed to be emerging: strong, obsessed with personal optimization, and proudly alone. Men and women alike have been delaying family formation; the median age at first marriage for men recently su... See more
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
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Tara Westover • Educated: A Memoir
I could, however, identify with Knausgaard’s feeling of being rendered soft and harmless, of having to forget that there were such things as potency or masculine dignity. The fact that we were helping our wives take care of our children on the weekend was not the problem: this was a responsibility we had all signed up for, approved of and—at least ... See more
On the Crisis of Men | The Point Magazine
Margaret, the Males aren’t Gazing: The Man in my Head Keeps Torturing Me
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