Hi Aaron - Super interesting. I can't help but read this in the context of your interview with Richard Reeves, and, in particular, how the twin phenomena of deindustrialization and feminist advancement coupled to dramatically and adversely impact lower status and lower income men. As someone who, say, graduated from U Chicago and worked in finance, these spheres of action feel eminently achievable and meaningful. How do you think about this across class lines? What form do pursuits like wisdom, knowledge, legacy, and agency take for someone who lacks a college or highschool degree? I'm not saying it's impossible, only that they'll likely take different forms in order to be tangible and actionable. Also, related, but different: aside from fraternity, in what ways are these pillars distinctively masculine? I think of someone who is adrift amid deindustrialization and increasingly higher earning and higher educated women who is looking for a way to be in the world as a man. This question is alive for me as I look at starting a community for men who need recovery for addiction and isolation and economic marginalization.
My audience was college students, and virtually my entire readership is college educated. But yes, somebody needs to translate these into a blue collar idiom and other such walks of life.
Not all are distinctively masculine, but even where not, they are typically expressed by men in a masculine register.
Aaron, this is good stuff. I think you should package this, along with some of the Masculinist stuff into a book. I’d buy it, so that’s one copy sold. I think you are right to point out that in Evangelical circles it is man wrt woman, but rarely does one speak about man wrt to men. Likely this is because we don’t see church as a communion of men for reasons you’ve explored at length.
This is a little off topic, but what struck me is that woman are judged by whether they have children or not because it is a self sacrifice. But now with abortion (legalized infanticide), a woman can choose to be selfish.
Interesting thoughts as usual, though I'd be more supportive of greater focus on the gifts of the Spirit that make believers more like Christ, rather than arbitrary virtues attached to "gender"....
Hi Aaron - Super interesting. I can't help but read this in the context of your interview with Richard Reeves, and, in particular, how the twin phenomena of deindustrialization and feminist advancement coupled to dramatically and adversely impact lower status and lower income men. As someone who, say, graduated from U Chicago and worked in finance, these spheres of action feel eminently achievable and meaningful. How do you think about this across class lines? What form do pursuits like wisdom, knowledge, legacy, and agency take for someone who lacks a college or highschool degree? I'm not saying it's impossible, only that they'll likely take different forms in order to be tangible and actionable. Also, related, but different: aside from fraternity, in what ways are these pillars distinctively masculine? I think of someone who is adrift amid deindustrialization and increasingly higher earning and higher educated women who is looking for a way to be in the world as a man. This question is alive for me as I look at starting a community for men who need recovery for addiction and isolation and economic marginalization.
As always, thanks for the insightful work.
My audience was college students, and virtually my entire readership is college educated. But yes, somebody needs to translate these into a blue collar idiom and other such walks of life.
Not all are distinctively masculine, but even where not, they are typically expressed by men in a masculine register.
Aaron, this is good stuff. I think you should package this, along with some of the Masculinist stuff into a book. I’d buy it, so that’s one copy sold. I think you are right to point out that in Evangelical circles it is man wrt woman, but rarely does one speak about man wrt to men. Likely this is because we don’t see church as a communion of men for reasons you’ve explored at length.
This is a little off topic, but what struck me is that woman are judged by whether they have children or not because it is a self sacrifice. But now with abortion (legalized infanticide), a woman can choose to be selfish.
Interesting thoughts as usual, though I'd be more supportive of greater focus on the gifts of the Spirit that make believers more like Christ, rather than arbitrary virtues attached to "gender"....
Of course I have long been concerned about developing virtues in myself. Often regarding their emergence as a miracle on the level of a restored limb.
My sins are ever before me…