HeyJaredLimits of Persuasion
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The Things We Keep (opens the original)
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I grew up cowboy. My father was a cowboy, and I spent my youth and all my summers as a teen working on his cattle ranch. My grandfather, C. Buck Evans, was a championship rodeo cowboy who competed in bull riding, bulldogging and the Wild Horse Race, including at Madison Square Garden. Family legend has it that he won a world championship there in the Wild Horse Race, an event so dangerous that it was eventually dropped by many rodeos.My own version of cowboy was less about the boots-and-hats, al
Not Louder. More Visible (opens the original)
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Young men need examples of what good masculinity actually looks like.A comment I made about men at a festival quietly keeping an eye out for mashers has now passed 5,200 likes, which is more attention than anything I’ve written here on purpose. I think I’m beginning to understand why.We have become extraordinarily good at telling young men what kind of men they shouldn’t become. Don’t be controlling. Don’t be entitled. Don’t objectify women. Don’t mistake persistence for romance or aggression fo
The Quiet Men (opens the original)
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One comment about quiet men earned more engagement than anything I’ve written on purpose. I want to know why.Last week I came across a post from a mother thanking a stranger. Her nineteen-year-old daughter had been sitting alone on a beach when an older man approached and wouldn’t leave. A father in his forties noticed, walked over as though the two of them already knew each other, struck up a conversation with her, and casually steered the man away before circling back to make sure he stayed go
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