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Welcome to Raising Good Humans.

I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman,

and I am thrilled to have Michael Ian Black on this podcast again for the second time.

He just published a book called A Better Man, a mostly serious letter to my son. It's such a beautiful reckoning with what

masculinity is and you know how we're how we're raising ourselves how we were raised and so I asked

him to have a conversation about it and I'm really excited to share it with you because we can't do much to end the parts of our culture that are harmful and begin to heal and be open to expanding and repairing inequities

without reflecting closely so we can understand ourselves and how

we're raising our kids. And at the end of this conversation, don't forget to stick around for listener Q&A.

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There are so many beautiful ways of looking at something that I think anybody of a certain age is really wrestling with right now,

women and men about this world and masculinity and all of the things that come out of that paradigm being what it is.

And I don't know, I think it's really inspiring to force us all to be a little bit

reflective but not judgmental.

And that's a very tall order to step back and be reflective and not judgmental and also to acknowledge that for women, I don't know what the

cutoff is, but there is an age cutoff where this is more confusing and complex than it is for a different

generation and actually I'm imagining the conversations

you had with your wife were and are quite different about her definitions of

masculinity than they are with your daughter?

The only reason I'm hesitating answering this question is because I actually don't know that

I've ever had a conversation with my daughter about this subject.

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