I think you’re talking past each other here Goddess/feminine spirituality is a sort of self-starter SMB spirituality thing, which is in defiance of orthodoxy I think QC is trying to talk about the “missing market” of the male equivalent heterodoxy
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In practice, dudes do have their small/localised forms of communion, ritual, meaning - podcasts, video games, sports, alcohol, suits, beards, etc. List goes on. Sometimes dudes will do this sort of thing in a half-ironic way: https://twitter.com/apiecebyguy/status/1192621098116042752?s=21 …https://twitter.com/apiecebyguy/status/1192621098116042752 …
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What QC is asking for is a very improbable niche-within-niche thing where the “unit economics” don’t work. Like 1% of straight guys might be interested in “Masculine Spirituality”, and the framing is so contaminated that barely anybody worth talking to is going to touch it
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Yes. This is actually a very strong argument with a good deal of historical evidence for it. “Spirituality” has often been defined around essentialized feminine patterns of relating and knowing, both formally/institutionally, and in folk practices.
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this is interesting and i'm gonna have to chew on it. i've spent a decent amount of time with men who are trying to do "masculine spirituality" in various ways and it's at least the case that many of them avoid "spirituality" as a branding, probably wisely
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Your sobsquad idea is much more deeply subversive than I think you’ve realized, and as a disruptive “masculinity startup” will take far more work to establish than you might have suspected.
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You’re narrowly focused on one “feature” of inner traditions (the therapeutic value of varied modes of emotional access), but incumbents have many more features than just that. You can choose to center an access mode like crying, but a lot more features are needed to compete.
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to be fair, it's smart to break thru with the killer app/feature before you build out the rest of the platform
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You do need the whole platform though. The original Wii wasn’t just a remote controller. It included a gaming device too. You can cut corners on non killer features but not ignore them altogether.
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