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You are the man and you are responsible.

October 16, 2023.

Over many years of counseling and teaching, I have discovered that one of the most difficult

lessons for men to learn is the distinction between guilt and responsibility.

I believe that this is a difficult lesson for any man to learn in this fallen world,

but our egalitarian generation has made it many times more difficult.

This has been done through its resentful revolt against masculinity itself, coupled with

its signature reflex move of routinely blaming the man.

After a few years of being blamed for everything, it is not surprising that a manosphere began

to take shape.

Some of that was within the normal range of human reactions, making Jordan Peterson

popular, while some of it was kind of out there.

You think masculinity is toxic?

I'll show you toxic, making Andrew Tade popular.

Something that some have taken my teaching on a man's responsibility is being simply

a pious variant of blaming the man.

I thought it best to dedicate this one blog post as something of an explainer.

This is what I mean, and just as important, what I do not mean.

Sometimes the guilty party is also the responsible party, and so everything seems pretty straight

forward to everyone.

But there are other situations where the guilty party is not the responsible party, and this

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