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#664 - Christine Emba - Talking To A Feminist About Masculinity

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Christine Emba is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post, journalist, social commentator, and an author. Christine wrote one of the best articles on modern masculinity that I've ever read and it absolutely broke the internet. But it begs the question of why it's come down to a woman to raise the topic of men's issues. Expect to learn why making men and women equal is good but overreaching into making men and women the same is terrible, whether Christine thinks it is harder to be a man in 2023, the biggest issues that boys & men are facing, why it is women who are dominating the narrative on what it means to be masculine, why the only "non-toxic" suggestions for masculinity just look a lot like traditional femininity and much more... Sponsors: Get $150/£150 discount on the Eight Sleep Pod Cover at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get 10% discount on Marek Health’s comprehensive blood panels at https://marekhealth.com/modernwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show.

0:03.0

My guest today is Christine Ember.

0:05.0

She's an opinion columnist at the Washington Post,

0:07.0

a journalist, social commentator, and an author.

0:10.5

Christine wrote one of the best articles on modern masculinity that I've ever read,

0:15.0

and it absolutely broke the internet a couple of weeks ago,

0:18.0

but it does beg the question of why it's come down to a woman

0:21.0

to raise the topic of men's issues in the mainstream media.

0:25.0

Expect to learn why making men and women equal is good,

0:28.0

but overreaching into making men and women the same is terrible.

0:31.0

Whether Christine thinks it's harder to be a man in 2023,

0:34.0

the biggest issues that boys and men are facing,

0:36.0

why it is women who are dominating the narrative on what it means to be masculine,

0:40.0

why the only non-toxic suggestions for masculinity

0:43.0

look an awful lot like traditional femininity,

0:46.0

and much more.

0:48.0

Christine is fantastic.

0:50.0

Her article on masculinity was really, really great,

0:53.0

and if you enjoyed this episode, you should go and check it out

0:55.0

at the Washington Post once we've finished.

0:57.0

You might have noticed I've been doing a little season of modern masculinity

1:01.0

over the last month or a couple of months.

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