The Love and Power Institute posits a few fundamental ideas about the crisis threatening our sustainability as a species today: that overpopulation and unprecedented technological capabilities have led us to destabilize and degrade the earth until very drastic measures will
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
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
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
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
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
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
by Marsha Hudson, Ph.D. | How often have you been in a social situation when a man is speaking and found yourself exchanging knowing, humorous looks with a woman friend as if to say, “There’s that male ego!”? What is
by Norman M. Brown, PhD | One way to conceive of the male ego is as a shield which each man carries with him on the road of life, in order to cope with the myriad challenges he might encounter.