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The Bulwark Podcast
The book was referenced when discussing healthy masculinity, arguing that masculinity itself should not be linked with toxicity except in rare cases, and that it embodies good qualities like self-sufficiency and protecting the weak. The speaker asserted that there was more conservatism in one paragraph of this book than in ten Trump rallies.
You know, author of Sex Matters. Guilty, guilty.
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The book was referenced when discussing healthy masculinity, arguing that masculinity itself should not be linked with toxicity except in rare cases, and that it embodies good qualities like self-sufficiency and protecting the weak. The speaker asserted that there was more conservatism in one paragraph of this book than in ten Trump rallies.
You know, author of Sex Matters. Guilty, guilty.
I loved what you said about Holly and masculinity, because as you know, I wrote a whole book called sex matters where I talked about healthy masculinity and that we shouldn't link the words toxic and masculinity except in rare cases where, yeah, there are situations where it is, but we shouldn't think of masculinity itself as being inherently bad.
And I will say here on the air, what I've said in print many times, Mona, I imagine you're pretty disaffected from what is called conservatism. But I'm here to tell one and all that there is more conservatism in one paragraph of sex matters than there is in 10 Trump rallies.