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Honestly, Tho, Have We Made Men Useless?
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Honestly, Tho, Have We Made Men Useless?

Brief takes on modern masculinity.

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Ted Bauer
Feb 02, 2025
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I have written a shit ton on masculinity since I started writing more on here. When I had my old blog, I wrote much less on that topic. What changed? Well, I got divorced and experienced a bunch around infertility, which makes you question “who” or “what” a “man” really is. Then around 2021–2022, I was in this men’s faith-based workout group, and most of the guys in there ended up kinda being performative affluent assholes. I maybe questioned some more stuff in there. Then my dad got older, so I questioned that relationship and the notion of “legacy,” etc. So while I’m not Red Pill, I do think about masculinity and what it means and where it’s going a bunch. Here is a longer dive on it all.

Yesterday, while searching for new income sources (talk about “modern masculinity”), I took a break and the algorithm fed me this video:

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