In so many words, the larger discourses of society has demonized, vilified, and used masculinity as a foil for all evil according to the views of disenchanted modernity. Boys are encouraged to deny their own selves, drugged into oblivion, cast aside by (mostly female) teachers,
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Told to be numale types, http://etc.to in other words, compete in the world of the archetypal feminine, and look; does this ultra restrictive nu-sensitivity and demonization of masculinity produce healthier, spiritually sound men?
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Here's a good place to mention three dominant types of masculinity we've inherited from the middle ages: the knightly capacity for violence, the priestly/scholarly capacity to distance oneself from beasts, and the capacity to take care of one's own and organize change (craftsman)
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As a society we have demonized the first form, praised the second, and found heaps 'problematic' issues with the third. In my opinion men ought to strive in all three categories if they want to cultivate a matured sense of masculinity that is robust and sane.
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That's a very great way of putting it, and following the language of Jung (not the derivative JBP!) there is the individuation of each part of the divine masculine coming together into its own as a whole, the same for the divine feminine, women too have to integrate their parts.
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