#1579 Positive masculinity is a process that is underway (Throwback)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Original 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
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
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this throwback edition of the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast |
| 0:07.0 | where we remember the past and choose to repeat it. As the production crew |
| 0:11.3 | here manages the inevitable delays brought on by a wave of COVID infections among us, |
| 0:16.5 | we have today's episode, which was originally published almost exactly one year ago in August 2023. |
| 0:24.4 | Recently, a friend told me about a college kid |
| 0:27.2 | who he works with, who likes to talk about politics. |
| 0:30.2 | And this friend asks me to recommend one episode of Best of Left for him to pass along to this young guy. |
| 0:36.8 | He figures that sure he could suggest the show but thought maybe I'd have some insight on what would be a particularly good topic for someone just coming to grips with the world of politics. |
| 0:49.0 | This episode is the one I recommended. |
| 0:51.0 | In a world of rising online misogyny from the manosphere, the unsurprising, though sad |
| 0:57.5 | backlash to the progress of feminism over the past few decades, and understanding of why misogyny is finding new appeal for young men and how |
| 1:06.0 | positive masculinity can combat that trend is desperately needed, particularly for |
| 1:11.8 | young men themselves. |
| 1:14.0 | But in the year since we produced this episode, the shape of the presidential race has dramatically |
| 1:18.6 | changed and in a way that has put positive masculinity in the spotlight. |
| 1:23.3 | Biden, after arguing with Donald Trump about their golf scores and their one debate, |
| 1:28.7 | voluntarily relinquished his hold on power for the greater good and opened the door to an entirely different kind of |
| 1:35.0 | matchup. |
| 1:36.0 | Kamal Harris is now running for president, needing the votes of millions of men in order to win. |
| 1:41.6 | Meanwhile, one of Fox News's top Stooges made a painfully awkward anti-trans joke about how if men vote for women, they then transition into women. |
| 1:52.0 | Because that's the worst thing a man could imagine happening. |
| 1:57.1 | Get it? |
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