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KEW Episode 111: Vulnerability is Your Superpower

By kpluseiswise | February 9, 2023February 5, 2023 by kpluseiswise

I have been thinking a lot about the popular images of aggressive male competitors. Silverback gorillas. Wrestlemania or UFC fighters. These popular ideas feature ‘Alpha males’ bullying and pushing around ‘weaker’ males in order to get mates, habitat, or food. These toxic stereotypes probably spill over into popular culture and contribute to the issues we have among genders today. My question is, how common are these ‘alpha males’? How ‘fit’ were these gender differences across…

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FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 7: Maleness

By kpluseiswise | February 28, 2022 by kpluseiswise

Toxic masculinity. The #metoo movement. Sexual harassment throughout the headlines. Cancel culture. What is a person to do? Are the gender definitions changing? Surely they are. Most words and things do change (and in these two episodes I argue for why this is natural and critical: https://chrisburcher.com/2021/09/03/kew-episode-61-the-are-vs-should-problem-change-is-hard-but-resisting-change-is-wrong/, https://chrisburcher.com/2021/09/10/kew-episode-62-change-cont/), so why wouldn’t our definitions of masculinity, femininity, and everything in between? But I’m a male and that’s what I know and have at least a limited…