Molding Masculinity

This week we shift gears and explore what exactly positive masculinity looks like, where we find our own examples of positive masculinity, and what the framework of positive masculinity means. We discuss Mr. Rogers, Captain America, and Star Trek. We dive into inclusive identities versus exclusive identities, buckets of examples, and the enjoyable parts of self discovery. As is said in Klingon, QaghmeylIjtIchID, yIyoH.

This week we discuss the previous episodes under a lens of fatherhood. Along the way, we discuss the importance of processing implicit racism and classism, the importance of mental health for both parents and kids, and the logic (or lack thereof) of social hegemony.

This week we talk about gender divides in workspaces, the inconsistent and shifting history of those artificial divides, abuse in the workplace, and how to be a better coworker.

This week we bring in a few guests and talk about the current world of online dating. In the course of our conversation we discuss how to successfully navigate the dating world, and link many of the realities of the dating world to other subjects we've discussed on the podcast.

This week we discuss several myths that circulate the incel community and the general "manosphere". We talk about what those spaces are, how they came to be, and how the ideas they generate filter into the general consciousness.

This week we discuss several recent topics under a lens of fatherhood and parenting. We talk about hobbies, extracurricular activities, and the importance that this topic has within the framework of childhood. We talk about teaching healthy relationship behaviors and processing our own issues before our negative behaviors re-emerge in our kids. We also talk about consumerism and how... weird... the world we live in is.

This week we discuss the impact of hobbies on mental health. Along the way we discuss the value and social constructs of labor, as well as the complicated milieu around monetizing hobbies. We give tips on how to keep your hobbies as hobbies when you monetize them, and we discuss the social value of hobbies like D&D.

This week we discuss data and personal experiences around sexual harassment, and how to become safer coworkers and friends.

This week we sit down with Chad from Polyamfam and discuss the structures of healthy interpersonal relationships within both the scope of monogamy and polyamory. Along the way we discuss toxic masculinity and how it lends itself to toxic jealousy and toxic monogamy.

This week we discuss marketing strategies that raise prices for gendered products and the effect that consumer capitalism has on our society. We discuss strategies for revolutionary change and how to avoid grifts and dishonest marketing.