There is a battle going on right now between multiple sides about what the definition or the right archetype of masculinity is. And it's a fight that will never the one by anyone, for several reasons. The main reason is that there is no absolute definition of what masculinity is. The problem, especially here in America, is that we've gotten into a zero-sum game where everything is absolute and there's no room for the coexistence of ideas. 

It seems everywhere you look, the latest and greatest trend is to call on men to be vulnerable. in fact, to make this transition palatable the tagline is vulnerability IS strength.  that's pretty clever because who doesn't want to be a strong man?  What you're asking, if not demanding, is for men to abandon and forget eons of generational evolution that vulnerability is weakness.

But you're not just going to unravel and undo hundreds of centuries of generational evolution just because it makes you feel good. Words matter. Reality matters. Being a man is hard. If it were easy everyone would do it.

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