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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Men need to express their manly warrior/hunter/gatherer freely, in a balanced manner; they also need to learn to be weak and vulnerable in front of each—otherwise their masculinity gets banished to the shadow realm, and expresses itself in an unbalanced, inappropriate manner.
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