x) okay, a tHreAd! just so it's out there... just gunna throw it out there folx. i think there is an ocean of distance between a lot of men. i think there's a bit of a fallacy that men oftentimes have a more seamless bond with their peers. an 'easy camaraderie' that perhaps women
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(stereotypically) don't have. i think perpetuating this oversimplified narrative is ridding many men of doing more proper 'inner work' and recognizing that there's a lot of "stuff" that is a barrier between them and other men. i'm talking ego stuff, i'm talking insecurities,
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i'm talking the deep deep DEEP sense of wanting to *compete* with other men. wanting to establish oneself as more 'alpha', etc.
society likes to tell us that there isn't these hugely complex dynamics happening between men on a subtextual level. that everything is 'spoken'.
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and it's total bs. there's a LOT of 'psychological games' that are at play, if you want to call them that. although that phrase may suggest more malicious intent, when really i'm talking about *unconscious* dynamics, without conscious intent at all.
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i feel like could use better language here than me. i suppose i could be talkin about the shadow realm!
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Good insights. Men tend to be more to-the-point and simple in their relationships, less likely to embrace the contents of their unconscious or reveal their anxiety and wounding. Men want to feel heroic so they maintain an unspoken contract to appear that way around each other
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