The Male in Modern Society
Starting Strength Radio
Mark Rippetoe
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The male in modern society. |
| 0:04.0 | The route from Beowulf to Pajama Boy has been a very long downhill slide. |
| 0:14.0 | Popular culture has always shaped our standards and expectations then as well as now. |
| 0:23.0 | Pajama Boy, a term recently applied to the famous photo of an employee of organizing for action, |
| 0:33.0 | a political advocacy group which supported Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, is the current |
| 0:40.0 | archetype of a new style of mail. |
| 0:44.6 | The government approved, popular culture validated mail, perhaps best defined by a New York |
| 0:53.9 | Times article back in 2015 featured a list of 27 ways to be a modern man. |
| 1:03.0 | You can Google that. |
| 1:05.0 | From wastefulness, the modern man checks the status of his Irish spring bar before jumping in for wash. |
| 1:17.6 | Too small, it gets swapped out. |
| 1:21.6 | To silliness. |
| 1:23.6 | Does the modern man have a melon baller? |
| 1:28.3 | Well, what do you think? |
| 1:29.3 | How else would the cantaloupe, watermelon, and honeydew he serves be so uniformly shaped? |
| 1:37.3 | To the assumption, of course, that he lives in the city, specifically the city of Brooklyn. The modern man has no use |
| 1:51.3 | for a gun. He doesn't own one, and he never will. To the relaxation of expectations. |
| 2:03.6 | The modern man cries. |
| 2:06.6 | He cries often. |
| 2:10.6 | The modern male identity situation, as you can see, has deteriorated into ambiguity. |
| 2:20.9 | Physical strength has long been the purview of that which is regarded as masculine. |
| 2:29.1 | Pajama Boy is the embodiment of the absence of physical strength and thereby the supplantation of the concept of physical masculinity. |
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