We all suffer from a dominance-based culture of masculinity that attacks the feminine at every level. — Feminism isn’t the problem. It’s the response to it. Our collective problem is our dominance-based culture of masculinity which relies on the hourly denigration of the feminine to bully young boys out of emotional expression and connection. Once our culture breaks their emotional expression and connection, boys and men are…

Boomers fueled the MAGA movement and now the bell curve is descending. — The MAGA movement, based on aging white boomer victimhood is a bell curve. That bell curve has peaked for the simple reason that boomers, of which I am one, are dying off. We are the MAGA movement. …

Republican candidates are trying to hide their anti-democratic beliefs but if they win the Congress, they won’t hide them any longer. — The Republican Party has gone fully Trump/MAGA/QAnon/extremist. Candidates nominated by the party at this point will be from those circles. In terms of their histories, their policies, their past statements, they will “feel” a little off as they struggle to hide their more extreme beliefs.

An epidemic of male loneliness is at the root of the violence and aggression threaded though modern masculinity. — NYU Professor Niobe Way’s research in her book Deep Secrets reveals how boys are trained out of close male friendships by our culture of masculinity. Seeking to prove they are not “little kids, girly, or gay” boys in late adolescence give up close friendships leading to lifetimes of male isolation.

Alpha/Beta masculinity is a terrible idea. It’s also driving the Republican Party’s descent into madness. — Sen. Josh Hawley, one of the most well known authoritarian voices in the Republican Party is not a so-called alpha. If we go with the arguably terrible alpha/beta view of masculinity, Hawley is a beta trying to be an alpha. @JasonAblin recently tweeted this:

What underlies extremism and the victimhood frame. —

This long standing conservative political strategy is being codified into law again. — The men forcing birth on women by making abortion illegal fully understand that women raising children are less likely to show up in the workplace, in politics, in any place where they can challenge the power of conservative men. Overturning Roe v. Wade is designed to suppress women’s political, educational…

That’s who these men are. Men who support forced pregnancy, as now mandated in states like Texas, support rape culture. That’s just who these men are. The modern GOP is a weaponized product of our generations old dominance-based culture of masculinity. Men in dominance-based masculine culture debase, control, abuse and rape women as the central…

Depicting the Remarkable Caregiving Capacities of Men in America is the Next Big Challenge for Hollywood. This week, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, in partnership with Equimundo, released their report on the depiction of men as caregivers in entertainment media. While depictions of men as caregivers is growing and some bright spots are out there, mainstream entertainment continues to negate male care givers’…