Masculinity

“[T]he work of defining what makes a man a man has been going on for centuries.” - Intellectual Takeout

“The APA introduces its new guidelines this way: ‘Thirteen years in the making, they draw on more than 40 years of research showing that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.’” - W. Examiner

“The average American man dies five years before the average American woman, in part because of increased death rates among males from opioids, alcohol, and suicide.” - Intellectual Takeout

“Today’s boys are in very bad shape. That’s the key takeaway from The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It.” National Review

“You’d have to ignore a huge amount of settled science in order to repeat the pieties of 1970s-era feminism, and yet this is exactly what our leaders continue to do.” W. Examiner

What Jordan Peterson understands and Swedish preschools do not

“Canadian doctor Kyle Sue has declared in the British Medical Journal that I am not being ‘a baby,’ as some in my household have alleged, but instead proposed that ‘man-flu’ is probably real.” Intellectual Takeout

“I dutifully worked through the New Testament epistles, looking for any instructions to men. That’s where it got interesting. There aren’t as many passages as you think.” Rooted Thinking

Is the overuse of video games and pervasiveness of online porn causing the demise of guys?Increasingly, researchers say yes, as young men become hooked on arousal, sacrificing their schoolwork and relationships in the pursuit of getting a tech-based buzz.…The consequences could be dramatic: The excessive use of video games and online porn in pursuit of the next thing is creating a generation of risk-averse guys who are unable (and unwilling) to navigate the complexities and risks