#1579 Positive masculinity is a process. Many boys hear more about what they shouldn't say, how they shouldn't act, but without a strong alternative example which opens the door for the purveyors of toxic masculinity like Andrew Tate to fill the gap.
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 8/23/2023
For decades, we have rightly been focused on dialing back endemic misogyny and poking holes in the patriarchy in the hopes of a new normal of gender relations emerging that would be genuinely healthier for everyone, not just women. But, with so much of the focus on the type of masculinity men and boys shouldn't embrace, we may have fallen short on giving positive direction to boys about what they should be and do.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Andrew Tate & Re-examining Masculinity - Long Story Short The Daily Show - Air Date 4-21-23
Jordan Klepper looks at Andrew Tate and breaks down how a void of role models has harmful consequences for young boys.
Ch. 2: The new crisis of masculinity - The Gray Area - Air Date 8-7-23
What does masculinity mean these days? Sean Illing speaks with Christine Emba, a columnist at The Washington Post who wrote the piece “Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness.”
Ch. 3: The New Masculinity - ON BOYS podcast - Air Date 4-27-23
Boys and men, Manley says, are caught between traditional definitions and understandings of masculinity, and a future definition that hasn’t been fully defined.
Host Roy Wood Jr. sits down with the co-founder of “A Call to Men,” Ted Bunch, and developmental psychology professor at NYU, Niobe Way, to chat about boys' friendships and how therapy could be transformative for a lot of men.
Ch. 5: What Does Positive Masculinity Look Like? - Paging Dr. NerdLove - Air Date 4-12-18
Toxic masculinity doesn’t mean that being a man is toxic, bad, or even undesirable. At the same time, non-toxic or positive masculinity doesn’t mean apologizing for being a man or trying to be as gender-neutral as possible.
Ch. 6: What is Positive Masculinity: How Patriarchy Oppresses Men - Swolesome - Air Date 12-2-22
Looking at what patriarchy teaches boys to do
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Ch. 8: The New Masculinity Part 2 - ON BOYS podcast - Air Date 4-27-23
Ch. 9: Why Allan Energy Is The New “Big D_CK Energy” - Barbie Movie - Fashionistas - Air date 8-4-23
Examining positive masculinity through Allen from The Barbie Movie
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on why emotionally stunted men are a social, not individual, problem
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| 0:00.0 | During today's episode, I'm going to be telling you about a show I think you should check |
| 0:06.2 | out. |
| 0:07.2 | It's the straight white American Jesus podcast, so take a moment to hear what I have to |
| 0:11.5 | say about them in the middle of the show and listen to it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:16.8 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast in which we shall take |
| 0:21.8 | a look at the state of patriarchy for the next generation of boys. |
| 0:26.8 | More decades we have been rightly focused on dialing back endemic misogyny and poking |
| 0:32.4 | holes in the patriarchy in the hopes of a new normal of gender relations emerging that |
| 0:38.1 | would be genuinely healthier for everyone, not just women. |
| 0:42.9 | But with so much of the focus on the type of masculinity men and boys shouldn't embrace, |
| 0:50.1 | we may have fallen short on giving positive direction to boys about what they should |
| 0:54.8 | be and do. |
| 0:57.0 | Sources today include the Daily Show, The Grey Area, The On Boys Podcast, Paging Dr. Nerd |
| 1:04.1 | Love, and Swole Sum with additional members' only clips from The Daily Show and The On Boys |
| 1:10.7 | Podcast. |
| 1:17.7 | America is in the midst of some long overdue changes around gender and power. |
| 1:22.2 | Reexamining ideas of masculinity, femininity, the spectrum in between, and how fluid it |
| 1:26.7 | all is. |
| 1:27.7 | It's a difficult and necessary conversation, but luckily for us, we get to have these |
| 1:32.3 | nuanced debates on Twitter. |
| 1:34.5 | Now, this cultural change is important, and I'm glad it's happening. |
| 1:38.7 | But when there is a cultural shift, it's easy to get lost within it, and even though |
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