The origin of shame is often an awkward, nameless void when we expect a tuned-in response by the person to whom we’re expressing ourselves. Thus what is most important about the actual experience of shame is that it does not
Shame Benefits Our Growth: 1. Popular Awareness and Physiology
Prologue: WHY FOCUS ON “TOXIC MASCULINITY?”
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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
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
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