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    Month: February 2020

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    Toxic Masculinity 1: Introduction

    by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Toxic Masculinity has become a polarizing cliché since the early 2000s. Men who don’t understand what it means are outraged., Women who don’t understand it either can feel vindicated in disliking men as well

    Love & Power Institute February 5, 2020March 15, 2020 The Male Ego No Comments Read more

    The Male Emotional Strait-Jacket 2: Cross-cultural Types of Emotional Dynamics

    by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | As Cultural Anthropology was emerging from the ethnocentrism of Western colonialism pioneering emotions theorist SilvanTomkins challenged the widespread Euroamerican Social Darwinist belief in white (and male) supremacy with cross-cultural evidence pointing to a dichotomy

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    Toxic Masculinity 3: American Culture is Unusually Warlike

    by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Let’s consider the proposition that American culture is one of these warlike cultures in which men expect to dominate. Men consider women to be less capable than them and also likely to feel emotions

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    Toxic Masculinity 4: American Gendered Emotional Management

    by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Excitement and risk-taking are highly valued in America where the American rags-to-riches myth emphasizes big-risk entrepreneurship and ruthless business competition to make it to the top. We have explored in Joy Blog #5 some

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    Toxic Masculinity 5: Men Handle Love Emotions Less Consciously

    by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | The last central emotional issue between men and women we’ll take up is the most precious in personal life, love. Love is not included among the nine inborn emotions because it arises from several

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    Toxic Masculinity 6: Central Problems in Our Love

    by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | But here is where the emotional problems between men and women are so clear and easy to understand. Boys learn to stop themselves from crying with a few terribly shaming experiences in the early

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    What Blocks us from Accepting Women as Leaders?

    What Blocks us from Accepting Women as Leaders?

    by Marsha Hudson, Ph.D. Recently, former President Barack Obama said, “If more women were put in charge, there would be less war, kids would be better taken care of and there would be a general improvement in living standards and outcomes.”

    Love & Power Institute February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Women's Leadership No Comments Read more

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