Patriarchy, Power, Politics & Pain
Sarah C Vaughan ???????
L&D Expert | AI-led L&D | Digital Content Design | UX Writer | GDS Writer | WCAG, AAA l Ops Expert | L&D Strategy | Corporate Training | Product Coaching | MSc. Open, BSc (Hons) First Class.
Let's be woke folks. All of this is happening as real men spiral, and experience more and more pain, more and more pressure to provide, to be macho 24/7, yet their inclinations towards suicide increase further. Let us not delude ourselves in how damaging all of this is to the masculine psyche, and not for one second fail to have compassion, for the horrific pain and trauma and absolute fuck up of a smorgasbord, which we now call masculinity. Men do not know what to do with themselves anymore. They do not know how to be. They’re either “wankers or snowflakes”. Saints or Sinners? They are so lost it is untrue. So let us acknowledge that they are allowed to have their pain, and their feelings, and their emotions, and their shame, and their horrors, and their traumas as well. And know that their manifestations, and releasing of pain and traumas, often fuels more of the same into the Shadow Patriarchy of politics and power, and this hideous culture we’ve bred of “more, more, more”.