Lemonada Most young men are not falling for the reactionary bullshit. They are absolutely not. There is no strong evidence of a turn towards more reactionary views on gender among the overwhelming majority of boys and young men. Hey, hi. Great to see you. Come on in.

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Okay.

So, in your opinion, what does it mean to be a man?

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

Is it just a question purely of biology?

Is it about more?

Is it about providing, protecting, chopping down a tree, making a house, rebuilding a carburetor, making a cup of tea

for your friend?

You want tea?

Because as a man, I think it's actually really complex, but I keep hearing in the media and especially online in this thing called the manosphere, that it's actually pretty simple, that it's really just about strength and dominance and the ability to choke you out and kick your ass and to never, ever be wrong.

And I got to say, that pisses me off, because it's just so tragically inadequate, right?

Strength has to be about something else. Real strength has to be about more else real strength has to be about more than that Yoda was not

able to lift the x-wing because he was yoked he was tapped into something that was more than muscles

and so on one hand here you go keep hearing this definition of masculinity that's

just about being tough. And on the other hand, I keep hearing that there is a crisis of masculinity

and all these warnings that we might somehow be at the end of men.

And that's got me wondering,

if this current definition of masculinity is supposed to be so tough.

Why does it also seem so fragile?

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