There's a conversation happening in culture right now about fairness — about how standards have been unequal, how certain people have been held to higher expectations than others, and how we need to fix that. Robbie agrees with the problem. He just disagrees with the solution. Because the answer to unequal standards isn't to lower the bar for everyone. It's to raise it.

This is a direct, unfiltered take on a cultural pattern Robbie sees everywhere — at home, at work, in parenting, in how we talk about men and women — and why grace and accountability aren't opposites. You can give yourself room to fail while still expecting more of yourself. Those things aren't in conflict. Most people just pick one and call it a day.

Topics covered: why lowering standards to create equality is the wrong move, the specific ways Robbie sees men failing to raise their game as fathers and partners, the difference between giving yourself grace and giving yourself a pass, and why the most useful thing you can do right now is hold yourself to a higher standard — not a perfect one, just a higher one.

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