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.
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
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.
Expensive conferences 🫣 so true!
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
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