Sam
JA WestenbergMen deserve better than having their gender used as cover for petulant, capricious and immature misbehavior.
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https://www.theindex.media/what-does-masculine-energy-even-mean-mark/
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JM MD PhD
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Jeff Clemmons
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CheriSwears
Jon? Jhon? John?@Daojoan @theindex Great article and absolutely true! Thank you for saying that.
Matthew Skelton
Deborah Sampson“He's not calling for more masculine traits. He's calling for permission to emulate #trump 's brand of toxic leadership w/o facing the social consequences.
He wants the freedom to slash diversity programs, lay off 1000s & still be celebrated as a "bold, masculine leader" rather than being called what he is: a pwrful man using gender as a shield for his worst impulses.”
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Frank Schimmel
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Elric@Daojoan The entire world deserves better than rich billionaire frat boys spewing nonsense.
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵
Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦@Daojoan @theindex Thank you for writing this! As a man, I find it all incredibly embarrassing… so of course I had to write about that: https://findthethread.blog/Sad-Masculinity/
Sad Masculinity
Mark Zuckerberg has always been a personality void. Of all of the criticisms I could level against Elon Musk, that is not one: he is always aggressively himself. But “Zuck” always comes off to me as someone scrabbling to justify a success he does not understand and, deep down, feels that he has not earned.
Captain Norm (He/him/any)
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Thomas Vander Wal
Stephen Collins@Daojoan @theindex @vanderwal that opening paragraph gives me the wiggins. Especially the bit about aggression in martial arts.
I learned and taught traditional taekwondo for 16 years. At no point was the externalisation of aggression, except in the context of displaying one’s skills for others to learn from or assess, an acceptable behaviour. Martial arts are about learning control, containment, and stillness, even in the moment of delivering the most destructive of techniques.
If Zuck is learning what I’ll term “Cobra Kai” style martial arts, he has terrible teachers. It’s the antithesis of good martial arts. That said, I’m utterly unsurprised that his kind of tech bro digs that approach.
Texan Tally@vanderwal @trib @Daojoan I was thinking this very thing. If the only "martial arts" he appreciates is what he's seen in the movies (especially the "bad guys"), then he's got no clue.
@trib @Daojoan I've rewatched the a chunk of the interview (first and second watching wasn't intentional, but auto-play when a background focus video ends and the interview or summaries follow it) and there is so much that is just mangled thinking and understanding. He's not known for being someone who has serious depth of understanding nor strong vision for long paths forward, but this is even more odd.
John Meadows@Daojoan @theindex Isn't the point of REAL martial arts to avoid fighting, though you must be able to defend yourself and win if you cannot avoid fighting? I am a re-newbie to it, but I cannot recall any martial arts that say "go pick fights with others so you can take out your frustrations on them." Martial arts is mental FIRST, isn't it?
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