Violence And The Modern Man

A few weeks ago I mentioned that according to the current cultural narrative, a man is measured along two axes. One was his ability to get sexual partners, and the other was his capacity for violence. I want to explore the relationship between masculinity and violence, why that relationship is so toxic right now, and how we can work to dismantle it.

#YesAllWomen And Not All Men

Over the past several days, in response to the toxic masculinity that manifested in Elliot Rodgers and led to the tragedy in California on Friday, there's been a macro-conversation going on via Twitter linked by the hashtag #YesAllWomen. This conversation has been exposing the billions of ways that women are forced to deal with sexual aggression from men in their day-to-day life. As men, how should we be responding to these conversations?

The Tragedy of Hypermasculinity

Last Friday, May 23rd, 22-year-old Elliot Rodgers went on a violent killing spree that ended with 7 people dead, including himself, and 13 injured. He did this because he was still a virgin and blamed others for his lack of romantic success.

The Porcelain Man

For my first post, I wanted to dive straight into the main topic this blog will be centered around: Masculinity. More specifically, I want to examine just how fragile society's current concept of masculinity is, how it got to be that way, and why we need to redefine it for the current day and age. I'm going to try to keep this as concise as I can, and I realize there will be some points that may not seem immediately obvious. Rest assured I plan to explore them individually in future posts, and in the meantime you can feel free to send questions and topic requests to todaysmasculinity@gmail.com.