Conversations about the issues we face while defining and shaping what it personally means to be masculine. We talk about coping with anger and stress, parenting and fatherhood, relationships and friendships, and everything else involved in molding masculinity.

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This week we discuss our final conclusion on the concept of masculinity, and unveil a new project. Raise &#39;Em Left!

The Final Analysis

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This week we dive deeper into issues with policing, and discuss the &#34;Broken Windows&#34; theory of policing, as well as Baumrind&#39;s parenting typology.

Parenting and Policing: Listening.

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In the first of a multi-part series we discuss the connections between &#34;Strict Father&#34; models of parenting and the current American police state.

Parenting and Policing: Wait Until Dad Gets Home

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This week we talk about work, labor, and its gendered divisions and social constructs.

Bread Winning

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This week we discuss Tom&#39;s close brushes with fundamentalism and cultural appropriation. We also discuss our experiences with COVID (we both recently had it) and how the landscape of leftist organizing desperately needs non-consumptive community spaces.

Practicing Vulnerability pt. 2: Fundamentalism

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This week we have a joint episode with the Handy with Handguns podcast and discuss a culture of violence that exists in American masculinity. We also discuss systemic failures, cultures of abuse, bullying, and mental health. Finally, we discuss firearm regulation, policing, and the proliferation of weapons in the United States.

Men and Mass Shootings

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This week we practice vulnerability and discuss Phillip&#39;s journey out of Christian Evangelicalism.

Practicing Vulnerability Part 1: Faith and Religion

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This week we talk about what vulnerability is, how to practice it, and how to create spaces where it is safe to display.

Vulnerability

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This week we discuss becoming a father, gender reveals and sex assignments, the pressures of being a new parent, discipline, cultural pressures and just a whole lot more. Parenting is a lot ya&#39;ll.

Fatherhood: A Prospective view into Parenting

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This week we talk about some exciting personal news, and we dive into the new Robert Pattinson movie! We discuss how it relates to masculinity, leftist thought, and the overall Batman universe. Warning, spoilers abound.

The Batman

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In the first of a series of episodes we discuss Batman and masculinity!

Batman 1989

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This week we talk about masculinity and the dramatic arts, societal gender expectations, and the patriarchal frameworks of capitalism.

Men and Musicals

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This week we&#39;re discussing the season one episode of SpongeBob Squarepants titled &#34;Oops I Ripped My Pants&#34;.

"Oops I Ripped My Personality"

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This week we listen to stories submitted by individuals who have experienced situations of being told to &#34;Man Up&#34; or &#34;Be a Man&#34;. We discuss, disassemble and process what these phrases mean and what their impact is.

Let's break down "Manning up"

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The opening poem is Dulce et Decorum Est, written by Wilfred Owen. It was published posthumously in 1920. This week we discuss the connections between social ideas of masculinity and the glorification of warfare.

Masculinity and War

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This week we continue our discussion on Starfleet Captains with Janeway, Archer and Pike.

Starfleet Captains Part 2

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nuq&#39;neH! This week we&#39;re beginning a 2 part mission to explore the most famous Starfleet Captains in Star Trek history, and discuss how their stories have impacted and shaped our societal concepts of masculinity.

Starfleet Captains Part 1

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This week we talk about anxiety around COVID, coping with repeated trauma and ongoing stressors, and how to process things beyond our control. We also talk about the experiences of kids, adolescents and teens during COVID and how we can be better listeners and systems of support.

Coping with COVID

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This week we&#39;re going to unpack the legends, myths, and cryptozoological records of the jolly bearded fellow in the red velvet suit. How does he relate to our social views of consumption and capitalism? How does he relate to adults and the concepts of philanthropy? How does he relate to our own ideas of positive masculine role models, and how might that echo across other societies and cultures? All these questions and so much more, this week!

Santa Claus: Figures in Positive Masculinity

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This week we talk about brotherhoods and other community spaces of men and masculine folks. We discuss why community is important, and the positive elements that can be found in well curated community spaces. We also talk about toxicities that can exist and develop, and how to avoid them.

Brotherhood

Conversations about the issues we face while defining and shaping what it personally means to be masculine. We talk about coping with anger and stress, parenting and fatherhood, relationships and friendships, and everything else involved in molding masculinity.