Man shaming and the patriarchy virus.

This is what we're going to be talking about today.

I have noticed, and maybe you've noticed, that there is a massive rise in the social acceptance

of openly, publicly, behind closed doors, person to person,

shaming men.

Some people call this man shaming.

But it's basically when people, women, culture, society shames men for just being male,

for having preferences that are male, for enjoying male-oriented

things. You know, maybe you saw this James Cameron comment, I think it was last year where

it was like, if only we could get rid of testosterone. It's like, well, that's shaming the hormone

that makes us what we are, which is asin. It's insane, right? I mean, that testosterone

probably helped him to produce some of the amazing works of art and movies that he did in his

career. But it's become commonplace to openly shame in online, to screenshot, you know, what a guy texted you, or to record a man in public

trying to pick up a woman or trying to talk to a woman and shaming him, to shame a man for

his male-oriented behavior. Now, the ridiculousness of this is as follows.

One, shame is a very, very, very, very potent tool.

It is something that many of us try and deploy to shift and alter our behavior.

And you maybe grew up in a house where shame was deployed as a means to try and control you, right? When you were unruly, when you were loud, when you were maybe hitting, when you

didn't do what your parents told you, maybe your parents deployed shame. What's wrong with you?

Why can't you just get this right? Where's the other 5%? Right? You bring home a 95%% test. Where's the other 5%? What's wrong with you?

So maybe you grew up in a household where shame was deployed to control you, to control your

behavior, to shape your behavior, to shape your character. That shame will always and inevitably

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