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Good to have you guys back today. This week we're putting toxic masculinity

on trial. So we're taking the culture's accusations against men, lining them up and measuring them

against Scripture. So we're going to keep coming back to one anchor point, tethered masculinity.

And our definition for that is it's the identity and actions of a man

submitted to the authority of scripture. So let's go to cultural claim number three.

Stoicism is emotional suppression. So I want to make something clear right from the jump here for

this episode. I'm not talking about the philosophy, right? Or you could call it a worldview of

stoicism. So that started around 300

BC in Athens, and you've likely read some of the stuff by the Stoics, as they were called,

you know, Marcus Aurelius, S. Syneka the Younger and so on. That's capital S. Stoicism.

The Stoicism I'm talking about, I guess, lowercase S stoicism, is about the personality trait that prioritizes

emotional restraint, emotional suppression, silent suffering, composure,

you know, stuff like that. And that is the claim that culture is referring to. If a man is

stoic, that means he's suppressing his healthy emotions and that's toxic or whatever.

And it's actually pretty interesting because the same atheistic confused culture will say that

men need to process and express their emotions openly and honestly, while simultaneously

castigating those men for doing so because it would infringe on the sincerely held emotions

of women. So go figure. You're

screwed either way. And look, in some ways, the culture is right. When men suppress their emotions or

refuse to process them in a healthy way, men will typically lash out and do unhealthy things.

They can get violent. They can get abusive. They can become slaves to addictions of many kinds.

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