These days I find myself comforted by examples of positive masculinity. Like Mollyboy reacting to Tracy Chapman's *Fast Car *

And the first few minutes of Critical Role's Campaign 4,Episode 12 where Brennan Lee Mulligan and Liam O'Brien (both fathers in their own lives) roleplay soothing a crying baby with humour and tenderness. That doesn't seem to be on YouTube yet, so no link, sadly.

https://youtu.be/6dgFqUx0wag?si=H7afGOAozCieyFYn

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Many men these days don't seem to get that the distant, stoic provider archetype is born of an age where service to your king came before loyalty to your family and women tolerated that status quo under threat of violence. Given a choice, we want a man who will burn the hierarchy to the ground if it benefits our children.

This is the kind of attitude I look for in a husband and father:
https://youtu.be/Ker0LPaaKCY
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I came across this today and I can't tell you how true it is. Even from my perspective being an older man, I graduated high school in 1997 and to this day I find I have to define for myself what it means to be a man. Through no problem with my own father, who I have a sense struggles with the exact same thing but does not know how to talk about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/upshot/boys-men-mentors.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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Really like this, can't remember where I first saw it.:

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Strong people don’t have attitudes, we have standards.

Learn to say “ I don’t put up with that behavior,” “ I don’t put up with that guff,” and “find a better tone of voice when you are speaking to me.”

Timid behavior will not get you far in life: BE BOLD.
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