What does it mean to be a man? Is manhood something that needs to be reorganized and rewritten?

Is manhood under attack? Yes, all good questions. I want to take you on a philosophical approach

through this question. Not so much me telling you what my philosophy is. More so me take

new on a journey through what I see to be the different options philosophically on how

to answer this question. And there's a reason I'm approaching it philosophically in this

case because I mean as I see I think there's three main options that you can have to both

define masculinity and then that's going to be prescriptive for then how you live it out.

So how you correct it or how you fulfill it or how you perform it is going to be dependent

upon the philosophical infrastructure of what you think masculinity or what you think gender

for that matter is. And then that could give us some guidance on what to do next. I think

there's a lot of people who genuinely want to get it right. Like there's a lot of people

in this conversation where they're trying to kind of narrow down on which parts of masculinity

are toxic and like what are the should nots of masculinity and and that seems pretty clear.

There's a lot of conversation around the should nots. But it's harder to find prescriptions

for what you should be doing. Like what does proper masculinity look like when it's acted

out like practically. And and I think there's three answers to that question. I think people

answer that question differently depending on how you construct it. So I'm going to do my

best to do justice to each of these philosophical schools. But you should know maybe going in. I'm

not like a trained historical philosopher in the sense of like I haven't been trained on these

psychological schools and how they manifest that. I'm kind of an amateur in that sense of

trying to put all that together. But I did my homework and I did my best here. But I am a trained

philosopher in the sense of I'm a psychotherapist and every psychotherapist is a philosopher.

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