Todd Adams
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562 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2021
last heard Nov 2022
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And we work from this unconscious place that we're just always trying to be on the social ladder.
So I know my value is not predicated on how much money I have, although I still have money baggage that I'm
continuing to work through.
But when when you're in your 20s and 30s, you're trying if you happen to identify as straight.
A lot of guys think that you're only as cool as how many girls that you are able to court.
The man box means I can't have any feelings, or if I can have any feelings at all, it anger is the only one that's tolerable.
I can't be afraid, I can't be sad, I can't even be joyful.
It's uncool to be joyful.
And if there's any middle-aged men like me listening out there, my invitation is: when was the last time you like had a big belly laugh?
When was the last time you literally jumped for joy?
Away.
That doesn't happen very often.
So that so let me pivot over to the toxic masculinity thing.
It's funny because I don't get triggered by that term, toxic masculinity.
But some of the some men who I care deeply about who've done men's work forever.
They get so reactive to that term because they think it's an assault on them.
I'm navigating whether or not I still want to use that term because it it's something I feel comfortable using and it describes it doesn't take much effort to find out why that term is used.
You know, one in six college age girls are sexually assaulted.
Although sexual assault does happen to boys and men, most of the people who get assaulted are women by men.
So I know.
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