Miss Amanda Chen Show

Hello and welcome back to the Miss Amanda Chen Show. We are now in Season 4 of the 100 Masked Men series, where I anonymously interview different men from all walks of life about masculinity, sex and relationships, and how that contributes to our self worth.

Continuing with this week's theme on vulnerability, Masked Man #89 is the Ashamed Man. He shares his story about having HSV (or more commonly known as herpes) and how that has affected his romantic relationships. I really wanted to get into more of the physicality of our sexuality with this one, and we uncovered so much guilt and shame. I mean how many of you still make herpes jokes in the group chat?

I really appreciate the vulnerability in this episode, from the guilt in giving HSV to a partner without telling her to now making sure it is something he discusses straight away. I think it's a conversation we really need to dig into deeper. Let's get into it. I hope you enjoy the show.

Hello, you're listening to the Miss Amanda Chen Show. Welcome to Season 4 of the 100 Masked Men series, where I anonymously interview different types of men on dealing with relationships in today's modern world. 

Masked Man #88 is The Masked Provider. Rather than just defining what masculinity means, we take it one step further to speak about how we show up in relationships, what is the core masculine role that we embody, and do we switch roles depending on who we believe should lead? 

In this episode we discuss the difficulty that we experience in wanting to follow our natural feminine or masculine energy, but resist it because of the shame we have received in our lives. Whether that is not letting a man open the door for you because you can do it all by yourself or you can't be vulnerable in front of a woman because what kind of man are you - it's like we're doomed either way as fulfilling or not fulfilling the stereotype. Let's get into it. I hope you enjoy the show.

Hello and welcome back to the Miss Amanda Chen Show. We are now in Season 4 of the 100 Masked Men series, where I anonymously interview different men from all walks of life about masculinity, sex and relationships, and how that contributes to our self worth.

Continuing with this week's theme on dismantling the social construct of gender, Masked Man #87 is the Drag Queen. He shares his story about how drag helped him come to terms with the shame he felt for being feminine.

In this episode we learn about how this man was continuously punished for performing any non-masculine behaviour, how that rejection made him repulse himself and try to follow the gender standards taught to him, to then find peace in drag. 

We talk a lot about representation here, and how his experience was being a Mexican man embracing both his feminine self while also maintaining his family ties and culture, specifically with his relationship with his mother. Let's get into it. I hope you enjoy the show.

Hello, you're listening to the Miss Amanda Chen Show. Welcome to Season 4 of the 100 Masked Men series, where I anonymously interview different types of men on dealing with relationships in today's modern world. 

This week I'm questioning heterosexuality as a whole. Is straightness even real? Masked Man #86 is Cut Both Ways. In this conversation I learn about the risk involved in defining yourself as trans, the fetishization of the LGBTQ community, and practicing consent in a long-term relationship.

After hearing this person unveil the silliness of deciding to date someone simply because of what is inside your pants, I literally whisper  that I don't believe straightness is real anymore. Rather, we are attracted to a lot of things, but the problem lies in trying to be the only thing someone is attracted to. Talk about control issues. Let's get into it. I hope you enjoy the show.

Hello and welcome back to the Miss Amanda Chen Show. We are now in Season 4 of the 100 Masked Men series, where I anonymously interview different men from all walks of life about masculinity, sex and relationships, and how that contributes to our self worth.

Continuing with this week's theme on miscommunication on relationships, how much do we play up our sexual attraction with friends, just for the drama? Masked Man #85 is the Selfless Man. He shares his story about a best friend he's in love with and is doing everything in his power to destroy his feelings for her because it would be selfish to go for it. 

I'm still a bit unclear about all the details, but it sounds like your typical third party situation and I actually get pretty heated because I don't back down when he calls me selfish. We obviously eventually arrive at the conclusion that choosing love would be the courageous thing to do, but only if you have this conversation with the third party and figure shit out. I guess we'll have to tackle that confrontation another day. Let's get into it. I hope you enjoy the show.

Hello, you're listening to the Miss Amanda Chen Show. Welcome to Season 4 of the 100 Masked Men series, where I anonymously interview different types of men on dealing with relationships in today's modern world. 

This week I'm focusing on miscommunication in relationships. Masked Man #84 is the Giver. He is a newly single man that gets really open and honest about how his last relationship fell apart.

He talks about how he gives and gives and gives, and compromises his work and time for this girlfriend that apparently acted like it was never enough. And how trying to make her happy ultimately made him feel so trapped and stuck it sucked out all the love they had.

Now I have heard about this a lot from men on this show, on prioritizing a relationship over their work and feeling lazy or like they're not at where they used to be when she wasn't in their life yet. But how often does love enter your life? Wouldn't that be worth taking a break from whatever your goals are, live a little? Then what are we living for, if not for love? Let's get into it. I hope you enjoy the show.

Hello and welcome back to the Miss Amanda Chen Show. We are now in Season 4 of the 100 Masked Men series, where I anonymously interview different men from all walks of life about masculinity, sex and relationships, and how that contributes to our self worth.

Continuing with this week's theme on platonic relationships, I noticed that a lot of straight men don't have friendships with not only women but also gay men. Masked Man #83 is the Masked Outsider. 

This is a fun episode where I get to chat with a gay man about his perspective observing straight men as an outsider looking in. I discovered him from his videos on red flags with straight men in relationship with women and I find it interesting that no one ever said he was wrong, they just said he was gay, so what does he know. 

I can really relate with this one being a female host trying to understand the position of straight men and how we can all work together on building better relationships. Let's get into it. I hope you enjoy the show.

Hello, you're listening to the Miss Amanda Chen Show. Welcome to Season 4 of the 100 Masked Men series, where I anonymously interview different types of men on dealing with relationships in today's modern world. 

This week I'm focusing on platonic relationships. Masked Man #82 is the Best Friend. I discovered him on TikTok from his video on the weirdness of having a best friend act like a romantic partner and crossing boundaries.

In this episode we talk about how we might like to remain in the grey zone in a friendship situation to feel like we can always get that ego boost with them, or maybe we want to use them to make our actual romantic partner jealous, whatever it is, it's just the fact that we are leveraging one person to affect our relationship with another person.

I really hope in this conversation we can try to open up the discussion of platonic relationships to show that this can happen and that not every interaction with the opposite sex has to result in a tumultuous movie scene situation. Let's get into it. I hope you enjoy the show.

Hello and welcome back to the Miss Amanda Chen Show. We are now in Season 4 of the 100 Masked Men series, where I anonymously interview different men from all walks of life about self identity, self worth and self love in relationships.

Masked Man #81 is the Disconnected Man. He bravely shares the three times he's been in a relationship and in all of those times he was abused, lied and cheated on. I think it's important to see that women do these things too, although it's just not spoken about that much. 

In this episode I challenge him to think about how he might be in a cycle of repeating the same patterns, going for the same types of people, just to prove that he should be alone and that he can't trust anyone else but himself. It would be a different story if he tried things differently and got the same results. I guarantee you, just by changing you will receive a different result. Let's get into it. I hope you enjoy the show.

Hello, you're listening to the Miss Amanda Chen Show. Welcome to Season 4 of the 100 Masked Men series, where I anonymously interview different men from all around the world about masculinity, sex and relationships, and how that contributes to our self worth.

Masked Man #80 is Ex-Wall Street. In this episode we talk a lot about the imposter syndrome, of overcompensating to do a good job in case we might get found out we’re not actually who we say we are, and the courage in blocking out a poor mindset to realize how rich we really are. 

We talk about leaving the matrix and traveling the world, and then returning home as a completely transformed person and how that can affect our relationships with our family and friends. What happens when you are so different you can't even recognize yourself? Let's get into it. I hope you enjoy the show.