Podcast
Molding Masculinity
Hosted by Tom McFarland and Phillip Sipe · EN
Conversations about the issues we face while defining and shaping what it personally means to be masculine. We talk about coping with anger and stress, parenting and fatherhood, relationships and friendships, and everything else involved in molding masculinity.
10episodes
Episodes
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The Final Analysis
Aug 31, 202200:32:02Tap to summarizeThis week we discuss our final conclusion on the concept of masculinity, and unveil a new project. Raise 'Em Left!
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Parenting and Policing: Listening.
Aug 14, 202201:13:21Tap to summarizeThis week we dive deeper into issues with policing, and discuss the "Broken Windows" theory of policing, as well as Baumrind's parenting typology.
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Parenting and Policing: Wait Until Dad Gets Home
Aug 6, 202200:49:50Tap to summarizeIn the first of a multi-part series we discuss the connections between "Strict Father" models of parenting and the current American police state.
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Bread Winning
Aug 2, 202200:56:05Tap to summarizeThis week we talk about work, labor, and its gendered divisions and social constructs.
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Practicing Vulnerability pt. 2: Fundamentalism
Jul 16, 202201:17:30Tap to summarizeThis week we discuss Tom's close brushes with fundamentalism and cultural appropriation. We also discuss our experiences with COVID (we both recently had it) and how the landscape of leftist organizing desperately needs non-consumptive community spaces.
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Men and Mass Shootings
May 26, 202201:05:25Tap to summarizeThis week we have a joint episode with the Handy with Handguns podcast and discuss a culture of violence that exists in American masculinity. We also discuss systemic failures, cultures of abuse, bullying, and mental health. Finally, we discuss firearm regulation, policing, and the proliferation of weapons in the United States.
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Practicing Vulnerability Part 1: Faith and Religion
May 3, 202201:14:18Tap to summarizeThis week we practice vulnerability and discuss Phillip's journey out of Christian Evangelicalism.
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Vulnerability
Apr 15, 202201:16:01Tap to summarizeThis week we talk about what vulnerability is, how to practice it, and how to create spaces where it is safe to display.
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Fatherhood: A Prospective view into Parenting
Apr 9, 202201:07:22Tap to summarizeThis week we discuss becoming a father, gender reveals and sex assignments, the pressures of being a new parent, discipline, cultural pressures and just a whole lot more. Parenting is a lot ya'll.
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The Batman
Mar 29, 202201:08:37Tap to summarizeThis week we talk about some exciting personal news, and we dive into the new Robert Pattinson movie! We discuss how it relates to masculinity, leftist thought, and the overall Batman universe. Warning, spoilers abound.
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