The Opposite of Man Is Not Woman

Understanding why could save a generation of young men

We may have destroyed the minds of an entire generation. It’s our fault — we let it happen. There’s no one else to blame. We stood aside and watched passively as the media glorified masculinity and attributed it to Manhood. We said nothing as society degraded femininity and wrapped it around Womanhood like a veil. Now, what’s left? False attribution and misunderstanding.

We’ve fallen for a simple but devastating lie ‘man is the opposite of woman’ — and it’s ruining our lives. If you ask a person, male or female, what it is to be a man, what might they say?

But are these qualities unique to Manhood? No, and here lies the problem. If we believe that a man is the opposite of a woman, we need to define Manhood by qualities we feel are uniquely male and separate from Womanhood.

With this in mind, if you ask a person, male or female, what it is to be a man, what might they say?

Now things are apt to go awry.

A tall man around thirty-six years old is walking the streets of L.A. It’s summer, almost 30 degrees, but he’s wearing a long black cardigan, a Jamiroquai hat, and bangles on his wrist. There is a keenness in his eyes as if searching for something that others might not see — but what?

He notices a young woman around twenty-four years old walking towards him. He watches her for a moment — her face is all motion. A series of tics and peculiar expressions suggest some kind of internal symphony. Her eyelids keep the rhythm while her mouth breathes out the beat, her nostrils flare a high hat a timpani, her eyebrows crawl and dance to lick her black flame curls and those eyes — two ink pools. ‘I…

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