Category: Gender Expectations
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What Dad Taught Me
In considering how to be a good father, I’d have to speak from no experience, because I don’t yet have children. Even if I’ve cultivated a sort of “inner-father” to myself after leaving home. So, in honor of Father’s Day, I want to share what I learned from my father that I choose to emulate—today…
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You Can’t Inspire a Man by Using the Same Language that Took away his Inspiration
I often hear from both men and women that men today aren’t pulling their weight—that women have been doing a lot of work on themselves and really desire for men to “step up.” Have all men been lumped into a category of being privileged and lazy? As a man who’s been engaged with inner work…
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Opening Up Like a Man
In a past relationship I got some feedback on the way I came across to my partner as a 30 year-old, powerless child. At the time, I thought I was being vulnerable and sharing openly about my feelings. She told me something I will never forget. “I have no problem with you telling me when…