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Melissa Richardson's avatar

Family role models are so important. Grandfathers who model authentic masculinity need to get more involved with their grandsons (and granddaughters too). Show them what it really means to be a man. Pass your wisdom on.

Xtine's avatar

Expensive conferences 🫣 so true!

SJ's avatar

I really enjoyed this. I've found performative masculinity can be so ingrained to people's lives that it becomes the norm. My views come from my lived experience of being a women in a male dominated industry (finance), I've shared more about this here: https://jes321.substack.com/p/soft-power-hard-rooms?r=1yhozx

MIchael Tscheu's avatar

Lost Boys

No longer sharing a field at harvest,

men’s bodies glistening with sweat

and a common silence.

Seeing his father’s blood from a sharpened scythe.

Knowing what it means to bleed.

Now… starched shirts out the door… crisp and conforming.

Never knowing that the fourth beer is the bandage for his wounds,

when whiteness and submission return from a field…

he has never smelled nor seen.

And the boy out into another dark night

wearing a t-shirt with bold words, “No Fear”,

Wounded but without a story or a scar to share.

Michael Tscheu

In memory of Robert Bly