From #WhiskeyLeaks via @SonsOfLibertyOfficial: “Texas, testosterone politics, and the fake masculinity of men who confuse lunch with leadership.”

A few quotes:

Barbecue is not a governing program. Testosterone is not a character reference. And calling another man weak because you think he eats the wrong food is not masculinity. It is schoolyard politics with a bigger donor list.

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If your best argument against a man is what you imagine he had for lunch, you do not have an argument. You have a lunch fixation.

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The fake-alpha crowd loves to talk about strength, but it keeps defining strength downward until it fits inside a bumper sticker. Eat meat. Talk loud. Insult women. Mock compassion. Worship dominance. Never apologize. Never reflect. Never admit fault. Never take responsibility unless the responsibility can be subcontracted to a staffer, lawyer, wife, intern, or enemy.

That is not strength. That is emotional credit card debt.

Real strength is steadier than that. It can handle disagreement without needing a nickname. It can take rejection without turning into a sewer pipe. It can lose an argument without inventing a conspiracy. It can stand next to women without treating them as props, prizes, servants, threats, or proof of masculine worth.

Read the whole article, here:

https://whiskeyleaks.org/texas-testosterone-politics-and-the-fake-masculinity-of-men-who-confuse-lunch-with-leadership/

#uspol #txpol #bluePill #JamesTalarico #nontoxicMasculinity

An important article from #WhiskeyLeaks, via @SonsOfLibertyOfficial: “The Empty Garage: Young Men Are Waiting For A Better Deal”

A few excerpts:

The left does not need to imitate bro culture. It needs to stop abandoning masculinity to grifters. Trucks, beer, guns, work, family, and responsibility are not the problem. Cruelty is.

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But here is the problem for Democrats and the broader left: being right about Trump failing is not the same thing as offering men somewhere to go.

The left does not need better bro cosplay. It needs a serious answer to male drift.

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Start with honesty. A lot of young men feel useless.

That is not an excuse for cruelty. It is not an excuse for misogyny. It is not an excuse for treating women like vending machines for sex, comfort, status, or unpaid therapy. It is not an excuse for racism, authoritarian politics, or hiding inside some podcast guru's idea of strength.

But the wound is real.

A man who cannot see a path to stable work, a decent home, a family if he wants one, and some basic social respect is not going to be inspired by a policy memo written in conference-room English. He is also not going to be rescued by being told that his desire to provide, protect, build, compete, marry, father, lead, or be taken seriously is automatically suspect.

That is where the grifters enter.

Read the article here:

https://whiskeyleaks.org/the-empty-garage-young-men-are-waiting-for-a-better-deal/

#bluePill #nontoxicMasculinity #leftist #uspol #cdnpoli

Songs about men who been done wrong by that woman but they keep hanging on:

• - Prince - When U Were Mine
• They Might Be Giants - Out of Jail
• Billy C. Farlow - Cannonball

This post has no mockery or condemnation of the men represented. I have an appreciation for songs in which a man is in love with a woman who isn't "faithful" to him or doesn't "treat him right," yet the man stays devoted to the woman. These songs are from the men's point of view and involve no vindictiveness or even (arguably rational) disconnection from the relationship. Maybe it's a flavor of non-toxic masculinity, a topic frequently on my mind. I don't feel any "cringe" or secondhand embarrassment when I hear these songs; I feel sympathy and want to buy those guys a beer.

For my own clarification, songs in this mental category have these characteristics:

• First-person man singing about a woman
• The woman is not sexually and/or romantically exclusive to the man
• The man wishes she was
• The man shows no vindictiveness
• The man is still in love with her
• The man continues to maintain, pursue, or wish for a relationship with her

The song, therefore, can't just be an "I'm sad because you left" or "because you don't love me back" kind of thing (e.g. Hall & Oates She's Gone and the Marshall Tucker Band's Can't You See? don't quite fit). Asaf Avidan's Baby if You Want Me is really close (and I love love this song) but the narrator sounds pretty OK when he sings "I know that you ain't just mine; that's okay, babe." This category requires clearly feeling the pain of one's ladywoman not being just yours.

I need a shorter label for this category. "Uxorious" is specific to marriage and missing a couple of elements. "P**y whipped" is pretty close, details-wise, but has baked-in hegemonic masculinity, including some misogyny.
#NonToxicMasculinity #music #prince #HallandOates #tmbg #theymightbegiants

Lovely Peeps, the newspaper link no longer works (which is a shame because it was a great article) but I still love the idea, so am moving over my original post without it - & now there is a website! 😊

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🚨​ Love this! 😃​

#BlackMenFlowerProject, a nonprofit centering the health & well-being of #BlackMen since 2021, is asking #Black men to nominate others they know for flower delivery as a way to show appreciation & build community.

Already in a few cities, #florists in more are enquiring about joining, and there may soon be a nationwide network of Black men connecting with each other through nature. 💪​

https://www.blackmenflowerproject.org/

#NonToxicMasculinity #Florespondence #Albuquerque #Chicago #Columbus #SantaFe #NYC #NewYorkCity #Florist #Flowers #Barbershop #Community

This is important. Today was the 8 year anniversary.

https://youtu.be/Brq-exSvB7Q

#TomHolland #Zendaya #Umbrella #LipSyncBattle #NontoxicMasculinity

#Indigenous #mermen all over #Manitoba, representing their #communities with great #humour and fine #fashion! 🧜‍♂️ 😃

#FirstNations #Canada #humor #NonToxicMasculinity

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/merman-trend-social-media-first-nations-1.6874696

Example #NontoxicMasculinity:

Chainsawing fallen trees while listening to grunge and metal. 🤘