Commune with Jeff Krasno
103. EVRYMAN with Ashanti Branch, Touré, and Sascha Lewis
July 1, 2020 · 1 hr 10 min
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Three men examine why the stoic male ideal is fueling loneliness, addiction, and mass incarceration.
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In this episode
- Why suppressing emotion costs men their health and relationships
- How mass incarceration connects to narrow definitions of masculinity
- What makes the BLM movement distinct from earlier civil rights efforts
- How men are building community through vulnerability and honest conversation
About this episode
We have to change the paradigm of what it means to be a man in our society. For so long, the ideal man was someone who suppressed his emotions, never showing that side of him to the world. But what has internalizing these values led to? A loneliness epidemic, addiction, grief, and suffering. Today, we explore the archetypal characteristics of maleness, mass incarceration, how the BLM movement is different from past civil rights movements, and what one group is doing to bring men together to be vulnerable with each other and cultivate other aspects of humanity.
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