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The Elephants in Our Rooms (opens the original)
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Certain conversations remain unspoken because of two common dialogues inside our hearts and heads.There’s the seen but unspoken version: “It’s there. I see it. But I’m still not going to talk about it.”The second kind sounds something like this: “It doesn’t even occur to me to talk about that.”In a group as large as the 31 women, four men and one nonbinary individual participating in the February 2026 masculinity Talking Circle, it’s safe to assume tha
Masculinity Distilled (opens the original)
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Walk into almost any bar and look behind the bartender.Most of us know the bottles sitting at eye level. They’re familiar. Accessible. They get the job done.Then there’s the top shelf.The difference isn’t simply price. A fine spirit has been subjected to a more complicated process — careful distillation, separation, time in the cask. It develops complexity and character precisely because it has been worked on.Joe Burnham thinks masculinity works much the same way.Joe jokingly calls himself, a “r
The Empathy Trap (opens the original)
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It was one of the greatest divorces in the American feminist movement.And it’s extremely instructive if we want to better understand how some men and women inhibit progress towards gender equality, and in some cases, backslide significantly.It can be argued that in the 1970s, Warren Farrell was the most prominent male supporter of America’s second-wave feminist movement. He worked alongside friends like Gloria Steinem and served on NOW’s New York board from 1971 to 1974.Farrell also collaborated
What Makes a Man Who He Is? (opens the original)
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What if the best way to figure out who you are is to stop trying to figure out who you are? And what if becoming a better man starts not with attaching a label to yourself, but with simply doing stuff?Ken Posner came to Mindful Masculinity with a provocative proposition: “There is no being in life. There is only action.”For a former Army Ranger, Wall Street veteran, ultramarathoner and man currently pursuing a goal of climbing 1,000 mountains barefoot, perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising.But wh
Ending the gender wars starts here (opens the original)
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Thirty-one men. Four women. Invited to a discussion about the struggles of women.The conversation kicks off with men scoffing at women for things the men feel women don’t do well.Men tell stories about their wives’ failures and express exasperation and exhaustion.The group largely accepts female ineptitude as a given.Now stop and ask yourself:How strong an environment have the attendees built to fulfill the promise of discussing female struggles, and learn something that can lead to changes that
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