Michael Ian Black

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458 appearances 5 recordings 2 series first heard May 2025 last heard 16 Jun

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The Commercial Break · TCB's Endless Day #4: Michael Ian Black · 31 May 2025 podcast

Yeah.

Because I feel like – and it's not because of the word toxic exactly.

It's because we don't have a model in our culture –

to me, that expresses a kind of healthy masculinity.

I don't even think most of us could define what masculinity is.

It is an amorphous trait of characteristics that people sort of foist on men and say, well, if you're a man, you do X, or if you're a man, you do Y. And they will say things like, be a man, as if you are not already.

Mm-hmm.

um so i don't feel like we have a sense of healthy masculinity against which to label masculinity which is toxic um and so masculinity as a whole when we think of those those traits that you just listed we we've now been conditioned to think of that as toxic and i don't think it is and it's clear you don't think it is no to me

masculinity, I'll discuss masculinity the way I think women have been talking about femininity for the last 60 or 70 years.

The women's rights movement

which began, you know, you could argue 200 years ago, but I'm just talking about modern women's rights movement, was predicated on the idea that women, these delicate flowers who to this point had never lifted themselves from bed longer than cooking their man breakfast, that these people –

somehow also had the ability to go out in the workforce and to run for office if they want and to fulfill whatever dreams they had.

In this burgeoning movement of women's rights, what happened is the notion of what femininity was expanded gradually.

Now women were no longer just caretakers and helpmates and raisers of children.

They were lawyers and truck drivers and firefighters.

And they were strong and they were brave and they were Wonder Woman.

And we saw that women can be all of those things.

And now we don't even think twice about it.

But that effort took arguably 200 years, but let's say 60 years.

Men have not invested those same time and resources into figuring out who we are.

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