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Toxic masculinity.

That's the headline, right?

I mean, you guys have seen it all over the place.

It's just kind of casually thrown out there as an accusation and as an ace of space to end any argument about culture, right?

And guys, to be honest, I get interviewed

on a lot of shows and I almost always get asked about quote unquote toxic masculinity, what it is,

what it isn't, how to avoid it, should we even care about it, so on and so forth. And for me,

the accusation is always pretty amusing. I mean, anytime someone accuses me of being toxicly

masculine or doing something in being toxicly masculine or doing

something in a toxicly masculine category, I actually look at it as a compliment. I think you should

as well. The reason is because I've dealt with people like that for so long that I know that they,

well, I know what they mean by the term toxic masculinity, but they don't even have the foggiest idea of

why I act the way that I do and why I do the things that I do and why I encourage men all over

the globe to do the same things. The reason isn't toxic masculinity. It's actually a new term

that I want to introduce to all of you so that you can start using it, tethered masculinity. Tethered

masculinity. So what is it? It's actually pretty simple. It's the identity and actions of a man

submitted to the authority of scripture. That's it. It's the identity and the actions of a man

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