https://simplecast.com Modern Manhood: The Podcast This podcast will mostly concentrate on the systemic issues, struggles, and hopes for masculinities. With a pro-feminist viewpoint, we'll investigate how masculinity has changed throughout our lives and what the future looks like for gender. This podcast is supported by NextGenMen (nextgenmen.ca) and the Alberta Podcast Network. en Mon, 13 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000 Mon, 13 May 2024 16:00:12 +0000 http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Modern Manhood: The Podcast https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/fa1483c0-9b38-4820-9ed8-f18a788e9080/4b6ccc43-b7bc-4ca8-a4c9-0b645574c522/3000x3000/mm-ngm-1.png?aid=rss_feed http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast episodic This podcast will mostly concentrate on the systemic issues, struggles, and hopes for masculinities. With a pro-feminist viewpoint, we'll investigate how masculinity has changed throughout our lives and what the future looks like for gender. This podcast is supported by NextGenMen (nextgenmen.ca) and the Alberta Podcast Network. German Villegas true https://feeds.simplecast.com/8uUfr7PQ males, manhood, mentalhealth, feminism, masculinity German Villegas modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com 8f30c66b-02fb-40bf-8a62-619049b5921e Full Interview with David Moscrop David was one of the first person’s I thought of when I thought about making Man V/s Machine because I wanted someone to talk about the weird political climate that was happening online and he didn’t disappoint.In this interview we talk about how we started on the internet since we’re about similar ages, as well as how gender plays into how we think about politics, as well as thinking about how we read the news.

You can find his work here at https://www.davidmoscrop.com/

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]]> Mon, 13 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast David was one of the first person’s I thought of when I thought about making Man V/s Machine because I wanted someone to talk about the weird political climate that was happening online and he didn’t disappoint.In this interview we talk about how we started on the internet since we’re about similar ages, as well as how gender plays into how we think about politics, as well as thinking about how we read the news.

You can find his work here at https://www.davidmoscrop.com/

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]]> Full Interview with David Moscrop German Villegas 01:01:53 David was one of the first person’s I thought of when I thought about making Man V/s Machine because I wanted someone to talk about the weird political climate that was happening online and he didn’t disappoint. In this interview we talk about how we started on the internet since we’re about similar ages, as well as how gender plays into how we think about politics, as well as thinking about how we read the news. You can find his work here at https://www.davidmoscrop.com/ David was one of the first person’s I thought of when I thought about making Man V/s Machine because I wanted someone to talk about the weird political climate that was happening online and he didn’t disappoint. In this interview we talk about how we started on the internet since we’re about similar ages, as well as how gender plays into how we think about politics, as well as thinking about how we read the news. You can find his work here at https://www.davidmoscrop.com/ true bonus 4 1c8bdbd3-45da-48bb-9834-8ca3b760da15 Episode 5: The Age of Distortion (w/ David Moscrop) There’s a common sentence you hear that the online world is not real. That whatever happens in social media is not real. This is factually incorrect, everything that happens online is part of the world world whether we like it or not. and if we take his statement at face value, this can be dangerous.

Our social lives revolve around the technology we have, s well as our business, our careers, our families, and the shape of what we think about the world. All of it revolves around what happens online. This can lead to healthy communities or dangerous ideas.

There’s a blend here. A distortion.

David Moscrop, political commentator and writer of the book "Too Dumb for Democracy" is here to help us through the muck.

 

Research: 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X1930065X

https://dourish.com/classes/readings/Slater-SocialRelationshipsIdentity.pdf

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/photoshop-ai-generated-images-1.6859130

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2016/12/stop-pretending-theres-a-difference-between-online-and-real-life/

(Critical Ignoring Paper  -https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214221121570 , https://theconversation.com/when-critical-thinking-isnt-enough-to-beat-information-overload-we-need-to-learn-critical-ignoring-198549) 

HBR - Social Media explained - https://hbr.org/2011/06/secrets-of-social-media-reveal (Why do people post)

https://everyonesocial.com/blog/the-psychology-of-how-and-why-we-share/

https://archive.ph/Q7Dn6

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7588715/

David Moscrop: 

https://www.davidmoscrop.com/p/how-to-read-the-news

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]]> Sun, 28 Apr 2024 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast There’s a common sentence you hear that the online world is not real. That whatever happens in social media is not real. This is factually incorrect, everything that happens online is part of the world world whether we like it or not. and if we take his statement at face value, this can be dangerous.

Our social lives revolve around the technology we have, s well as our business, our careers, our families, and the shape of what we think about the world. All of it revolves around what happens online. This can lead to healthy communities or dangerous ideas.

There’s a blend here. A distortion.

David Moscrop, political commentator and writer of the book "Too Dumb for Democracy" is here to help us through the muck.

 

Research: 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X1930065X

https://dourish.com/classes/readings/Slater-SocialRelationshipsIdentity.pdf

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/photoshop-ai-generated-images-1.6859130

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2016/12/stop-pretending-theres-a-difference-between-online-and-real-life/

(Critical Ignoring Paper  -https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214221121570 , https://theconversation.com/when-critical-thinking-isnt-enough-to-beat-information-overload-we-need-to-learn-critical-ignoring-198549) 

HBR - Social Media explained - https://hbr.org/2011/06/secrets-of-social-media-reveal (Why do people post)

https://everyonesocial.com/blog/the-psychology-of-how-and-why-we-share/

https://archive.ph/Q7Dn6

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7588715/

David Moscrop: 

https://www.davidmoscrop.com/p/how-to-read-the-news

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]]> Episode 5: The Age of Distortion (w/ David Moscrop) German Villegas 00:37:17 There’s a common sentence you hear that the online world is not real. That whatever happens in social media is not real. This is factually incorrect, everything that happens online is part of the world world whether we like it or not. and if we take his statement at face value, this can be dangerous. Our social lives revolve around the technology we have, s well as our business, our careers, our families, and the shape of what we think about the world. All of it revolves around what happens online. This can lead to healthy communities or dangerous ideas. There’s a blend here. A distortion. David Moscrop, political commentator and writer of the book "Too Dumb for Democracy" is here to help us through the muck. There’s a common sentence you hear that the online world is not real. That whatever happens in social media is not real. This is factually incorrect, everything that happens online is part of the world world whether we like it or not. and if we take his statement at face value, this can be dangerous. Our social lives revolve around the technology we have, s well as our business, our careers, our families, and the shape of what we think about the world. All of it revolves around what happens online. This can lead to healthy communities or dangerous ideas. There’s a blend here. A distortion. David Moscrop, political commentator and writer of the book "Too Dumb for Democracy" is here to help us through the muck. true full 5 4 be0240d7-eafd-4071-904f-3729180493c6 Bonus Episode: Tyler Prochnow and how online Group Chats become Healthy On this Bonus Episode of Modern Manhood, we give you the full interview with Tyler Prochnow who is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. 

He was my main voice in the Group Chat episode and we spoke a bit to his research in the online gaming and chat space. 

His research interests include the social dynamics which drive health behavior. Tyler has also done work with local Boys & Girls Clubs, health districts, gaming communities, and other research projects to better understand how social connections impact physical activity and mental health.

In this episode you’ll hear us talk about how group chats can become healthy or toxic, and also dissect even a group chat like mine with my friends. 

https://www.tprochnow.com/

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]]> Sun, 31 Mar 2024 19:27:58 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast On this Bonus Episode of Modern Manhood, we give you the full interview with Tyler Prochnow who is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. 

He was my main voice in the Group Chat episode and we spoke a bit to his research in the online gaming and chat space. 

His research interests include the social dynamics which drive health behavior. Tyler has also done work with local Boys & Girls Clubs, health districts, gaming communities, and other research projects to better understand how social connections impact physical activity and mental health.

In this episode you’ll hear us talk about how group chats can become healthy or toxic, and also dissect even a group chat like mine with my friends. 

https://www.tprochnow.com/

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]]> Bonus Episode: Tyler Prochnow and how online Group Chats become Healthy German Villegas 00:36:30 On this Bonus Episode of Modern Manhood, we give you the full interview with Tyler Prochnow who is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. He was my main voice in the Group Chat episode and we spoke a bit to his research in the online gaming and chat space. His research interests include the social dynamics which drive health behavior. Tyler has also done work with local Boys & Girls Clubs, health districts, gaming communities, and other research projects to better understand how social connections impact physical activity and mental health. In this episode you’ll hear us talk about how group chats can become healthy or toxic, and also dissect even a group chat like mine with my friends. On this Bonus Episode of Modern Manhood, we give you the full interview with Tyler Prochnow who is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University. He was my main voice in the Group Chat episode and we spoke a bit to his research in the online gaming and chat space. His research interests include the social dynamics which drive health behavior. Tyler has also done work with local Boys & Girls Clubs, health districts, gaming communities, and other research projects to better understand how social connections impact physical activity and mental health. In this episode you’ll hear us talk about how group chats can become healthy or toxic, and also dissect even a group chat like mine with my friends. true bonus 4 8193d561-0e24-4ddc-974a-f5c2320c7f31 Episode 4 - The Group Chat - Is it all toxic or is it healthy? When we think of an all male group chat, does your mind wander to places of toxicity, misogyny and overall bad behavior? or does it go to a place where people find a community, where guys lift each other up, and police their language?

Well it can be both.

Let’s explore how the group chat is today’s digital third place, and how men and boys have found toxicity or a healthy community in them

RESEARCH: 

https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/05/male-mental-health-mens-group-chats.html

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Constance-Steinkuehler/publication/228622890_Digital_literacies_for_the_disengaged_Creating_after_school_contexts_to_support_boys%27_game-based_literacy_skills/links/5b80ec84a6fdcc5f8b65944d/Digital-literacies-for-the-disengaged-Creating-after-school-contexts-to-support-boys-game-based-literacy-skills.pdf

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/38676179/Volume_2__Issue_2_Full_Issue.pdf?1441473367=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DVolume_2_Issue_2_September_2015.pdf&Expires=1708493753&Signature=HOfLxSvmQYZSDuiSJ1TdVaAEurSvJ8KY9Xhhs4SA1HVGqT4gAzu~Tws3if31EIubAuyl7WLz62YrvCGEHtfIScgebKu8ivoE3mT~5EkfFKCmGUyhy-ziPBcAE6BRz-B9iKnxo9mh3sdnfjRdt1Mfw5Dw2-8cJk277WwjMvE0t8UM7nD0E4ZtaWy0uu-a1X~~ZXySZ4vEcCgODh2cABKGInzoWSeVPdsrluV-vR6o-fONsRQ6C-7hbhsrxPFexGOcyXx2NUi2CA36wti3fZ1oIdLyAum6BBF1LsjRlRtcFCbp9~6c9s4M1h9b57sq8KhaDNBy1pVBj3DKt8ZdS0DcPA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA#page=9

https://www.insidehook.com/internet/10-things-to-start-doing-differently-in-your-all-male-group-chats 

https://thetab.com/uk/2021/02/19/toxic-male-group-chats-190149

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2lPptNghyI

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=46677c8e-7bd0-4210-a297-ba0cd0ffe624

https://www.tprochnow.com/project/onlinegaming/

 

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]]> Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast When we think of an all male group chat, does your mind wander to places of toxicity, misogyny and overall bad behavior? or does it go to a place where people find a community, where guys lift each other up, and police their language?

Well it can be both.

Let’s explore how the group chat is today’s digital third place, and how men and boys have found toxicity or a healthy community in them

RESEARCH: 

https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/05/male-mental-health-mens-group-chats.html

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Constance-Steinkuehler/publication/228622890_Digital_literacies_for_the_disengaged_Creating_after_school_contexts_to_support_boys%27_game-based_literacy_skills/links/5b80ec84a6fdcc5f8b65944d/Digital-literacies-for-the-disengaged-Creating-after-school-contexts-to-support-boys-game-based-literacy-skills.pdf

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/38676179/Volume_2__Issue_2_Full_Issue.pdf?1441473367=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DVolume_2_Issue_2_September_2015.pdf&Expires=1708493753&Signature=HOfLxSvmQYZSDuiSJ1TdVaAEurSvJ8KY9Xhhs4SA1HVGqT4gAzu~Tws3if31EIubAuyl7WLz62YrvCGEHtfIScgebKu8ivoE3mT~5EkfFKCmGUyhy-ziPBcAE6BRz-B9iKnxo9mh3sdnfjRdt1Mfw5Dw2-8cJk277WwjMvE0t8UM7nD0E4ZtaWy0uu-a1X~~ZXySZ4vEcCgODh2cABKGInzoWSeVPdsrluV-vR6o-fONsRQ6C-7hbhsrxPFexGOcyXx2NUi2CA36wti3fZ1oIdLyAum6BBF1LsjRlRtcFCbp9~6c9s4M1h9b57sq8KhaDNBy1pVBj3DKt8ZdS0DcPA__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA#page=9

https://www.insidehook.com/internet/10-things-to-start-doing-differently-in-your-all-male-group-chats 

https://thetab.com/uk/2021/02/19/toxic-male-group-chats-190149

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2lPptNghyI

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=46677c8e-7bd0-4210-a297-ba0cd0ffe624

https://www.tprochnow.com/project/onlinegaming/

 

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]]> Episode 4 - The Group Chat - Is it all toxic or is it healthy? German Villegas 00:33:26 When we think of an all male group chat, does your mind wander to places of toxicity, misogyny and overall bad behavior? or does it go to a place where people find a community, where guys lift each other up, and police their language? Well it can be both. Let’s explore how the group chat is today’s digital third place, and how men and boys have found toxicity or a healthy community in them When we think of an all male group chat, does your mind wander to places of toxicity, misogyny and overall bad behavior? or does it go to a place where people find a community, where guys lift each other up, and police their language? Well it can be both. Let’s explore how the group chat is today’s digital third place, and how men and boys have found toxicity or a healthy community in them true full 4 4 fd231db2-eb80-45c3-a53c-14da5fab1f9e Bonus Episode: Iliana Depounti and AI Companion Bots Today on Modern Manhood, a bonus episode for you with Iliana Depounti who is a researcher out of the University of Loughborough. She was one of the main writers of the research around Replika, an AI companion chat bot. 

Ever since I thought about doing a season on tech I wanted to do an episode on AI companionship, because it’s so god darn interesting in regards to how people, especially guys operate on the internet. And to the broader themes of relationships in general. 

And I had so many questions for Iliana, and so many quotes that I could’ve put in the episode. So this is the reason why I wanted to release the full interview.  We not only go through Replika, but the different tropes the user liked, also why people may be interested in using the AI bot, and what women liked from their AI companion bot. 

So enjoy my conversation with Iliana Depounti, on Modern Manhood: Man v/s Machine

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]]> Mon, 4 Mar 2024 17:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Today on Modern Manhood, a bonus episode for you with Iliana Depounti who is a researcher out of the University of Loughborough. She was one of the main writers of the research around Replika, an AI companion chat bot. 

Ever since I thought about doing a season on tech I wanted to do an episode on AI companionship, because it’s so god darn interesting in regards to how people, especially guys operate on the internet. And to the broader themes of relationships in general. 

And I had so many questions for Iliana, and so many quotes that I could’ve put in the episode. So this is the reason why I wanted to release the full interview.  We not only go through Replika, but the different tropes the user liked, also why people may be interested in using the AI bot, and what women liked from their AI companion bot. 

So enjoy my conversation with Iliana Depounti, on Modern Manhood: Man v/s Machine

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]]> Bonus Episode: Iliana Depounti and AI Companion Bots German Villegas 01:00:00 true bonus 4 43a26835-9413-4554-bb47-a1e561d40b59 Episode 3: Sex and Robots with Iliana Depounti Ever since the internet has arrived, sex has been the thing that has powered it’s evolution. From how fast the internet goes, to the regulations that policy makers have to make.

however it’s not just sex that’s causing people to turn to the internet, it’s also relationships. and how people use the internet for relationships right now tells us a lot on how gendered it is.

This is a story about chat rooms to AI companion bots with a researcher who studied the new AI companion bot. On the latest episode of man v/s machine

Research:

Samantha Cole - How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex

Janelle Shane - You Look like a Thing and I love You

Websites: 

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220628-what-if-the-internet-was-run-by-women

https://www.wired.com/1997/06/the-entrepreneur-next-door/ (https://archive.ph/XYA07)

https://www.xbiz.com/news/262767/persian-kitty-webmaster-beth-mansfield-passes

AI Replika: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/01634437221119021

https://venturebeat.com/games/adult-entertainment-moves-into-virtual-reality-with-red-light-center-for-the-oculus-rift/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2002/mar/03/internetnews.observerfocus

https://www.wired.com/story/chatbot-kill-the-queen-eliza-effect/

Research Eliza: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/365153.365168

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/chatbot-firm-restores-erotic-play

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]]> Sun, 18 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Ever since the internet has arrived, sex has been the thing that has powered it’s evolution. From how fast the internet goes, to the regulations that policy makers have to make.

however it’s not just sex that’s causing people to turn to the internet, it’s also relationships. and how people use the internet for relationships right now tells us a lot on how gendered it is.

This is a story about chat rooms to AI companion bots with a researcher who studied the new AI companion bot. On the latest episode of man v/s machine

Research:

Samantha Cole - How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex

Janelle Shane - You Look like a Thing and I love You

Websites: 

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220628-what-if-the-internet-was-run-by-women

https://www.wired.com/1997/06/the-entrepreneur-next-door/ (https://archive.ph/XYA07)

https://www.xbiz.com/news/262767/persian-kitty-webmaster-beth-mansfield-passes

AI Replika: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/01634437221119021

https://venturebeat.com/games/adult-entertainment-moves-into-virtual-reality-with-red-light-center-for-the-oculus-rift/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2002/mar/03/internetnews.observerfocus

https://www.wired.com/story/chatbot-kill-the-queen-eliza-effect/

Research Eliza: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/365153.365168

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/chatbot-firm-restores-erotic-play

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]]> Episode 3: Sex and Robots with Iliana Depounti German Villegas 00:31:27 Ever since the internet has arrived, sex has been the thing that has powered it’s evolution. From how fast the internet goes, to the regulations that policy makers have to make. however it’s not just sex that’s causing people to turn to the internet, it’s also relationships. and how people use the internet for relationships right now tells us a lot on how gendered it is. This is a story about chat rooms to AI companion bots with a researcher who studied the new AI companion bot. On the latest episode of man v/s machine Ever since the internet has arrived, sex has been the thing that has powered it’s evolution. From how fast the internet goes, to the regulations that policy makers have to make. however it’s not just sex that’s causing people to turn to the internet, it’s also relationships. and how people use the internet for relationships right now tells us a lot on how gendered it is. This is a story about chat rooms to AI companion bots with a researcher who studied the new AI companion bot. On the latest episode of man v/s machine true full 3 4 d6e08ab4-9d7c-47aa-bef9-d2910f93585a Full Interview with Alice Cappelle (Bonus) Alice's YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@AliceCappelle

Alice's Book - Collapse Feminism - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734146/collapse-feminism-by-alice-cappelle/

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]]> Sun, 11 Feb 2024 23:22:19 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Alice's YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@AliceCappelle

Alice's Book - Collapse Feminism - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734146/collapse-feminism-by-alice-cappelle/

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]]> Full Interview with Alice Cappelle (Bonus) German Villegas 00:56:06 On today’s Modern Manhood, it’s another bonus episode. This time it’s our full conversation with Alice Cappelle. A French youtuber, writer and internet essayist. Alice if you heard episode 2, came into my worldview through a video titled “Positive Masculinity is Overrated.” A provocative title, but a sentiment I honestly shared, As soon as I knew I wanted to do a season on tech the first person I thought of was Alice, and it was a great coincidence that she wrote a book called Collapse Feminism, which talks a lot about how internet and cultural conversation feeds into fascist and far right views. So these are the things I wanted to talk to Alice about, as well as influencers, French masculinity, her life online, as well as what she thought when one influencer responded to her video. On today’s Modern Manhood, it’s another bonus episode. This time it’s our full conversation with Alice Cappelle. A French youtuber, writer and internet essayist. Alice if you heard episode 2, came into my worldview through a video titled “Positive Masculinity is Overrated.” A provocative title, but a sentiment I honestly shared, As soon as I knew I wanted to do a season on tech the first person I thought of was Alice, and it was a great coincidence that she wrote a book called Collapse Feminism, which talks a lot about how internet and cultural conversation feeds into fascist and far right views. So these are the things I wanted to talk to Alice about, as well as influencers, French masculinity, her life online, as well as what she thought when one influencer responded to her video. true bonus 4 9d88dcc6-2814-4b97-94b6-859859a30d2e Ep 2 - Who Runs the Internet? with Alice Cappelle Books:

Alice Cappelle's "Collapse Feminism"

Kaitlyn Tiffany's "Everything I Need I get from You" 

Links:

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23158503/one-direction-fandom-book-kaitlyn-tiffany

https://www.vox.com/2016/11/23/13659634/alt-right-trolling

https://archive.ph/riYJt

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/02/sam-bankman-fried-found-guilty-on-all-seven-criminal-fraud-counts.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQqJqovXeDg

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdcHrQfaOCU

 

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]]> Sun, 4 Feb 2024 19:56:18 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Books:

Alice Cappelle's "Collapse Feminism"

Kaitlyn Tiffany's "Everything I Need I get from You" 

Links:

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23158503/one-direction-fandom-book-kaitlyn-tiffany

https://www.vox.com/2016/11/23/13659634/alt-right-trolling

https://archive.ph/riYJt

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/02/sam-bankman-fried-found-guilty-on-all-seven-criminal-fraud-counts.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQqJqovXeDg

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdcHrQfaOCU

 

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]]> Ep 2 - Who Runs the Internet? with Alice Cappelle German Villegas 00:35:13 In our latest episode of the season titled “Man v/s Machine”, we unravel the fascinating world of online fandoms and how gender influences the way we talk, socialize, and action on the internet For years, fandom has been the heartbeat of the internet. But did you know that the way men and women engage with their fandoms varies significantly? Women have harnessed the power of fandom to create nurturing communities, driving trends like the massive sale of Stanley Mugs. They have been the ones who have turned the “social” in social media, and their thriving support of artists like One Direction, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, K-Pop, and others have shaped the way we think about online discourse. Men, on the other hand, have channeled their fandom into the digital economy, pushing the possible dangers of cryptocurrencies and NFTs. As well as pushing up people like Jordan Perterson, Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, 4chan, and others. And who better to guide us through than YouTuber and Writer Alice Cappelle? Known for her youtube videos diving into sociology, and online interactions. Alice shares about her perspectives being a female YouTuber as well as her knowledge of fandom online. As well we look a bit at her book “Collapse Feminism” How do these diverse fandom expressions shape the internet we navigate daily? Do they bring positive culture or do they bring harm? In our latest episode of the season titled “Man v/s Machine”, we unravel the fascinating world of online fandoms and how gender influences the way we talk, socialize, and action on the internet For years, fandom has been the heartbeat of the internet. But did you know that the way men and women engage with their fandoms varies significantly? Women have harnessed the power of fandom to create nurturing communities, driving trends like the massive sale of Stanley Mugs. They have been the ones who have turned the “social” in social media, and their thriving support of artists like One Direction, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, K-Pop, and others have shaped the way we think about online discourse. Men, on the other hand, have channeled their fandom into the digital economy, pushing the possible dangers of cryptocurrencies and NFTs. As well as pushing up people like Jordan Perterson, Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, 4chan, and others. And who better to guide us through than YouTuber and Writer Alice Cappelle? Known for her youtube videos diving into sociology, and online interactions. Alice shares about her perspectives being a female YouTuber as well as her knowledge of fandom online. As well we look a bit at her book “Collapse Feminism” How do these diverse fandom expressions shape the internet we navigate daily? Do they bring positive culture or do they bring harm? true full 2 4 f6ccb966-2e3a-42d9-9fbc-510a4c1365e0 Full interview w/ Paris Marx - Bonus Episode Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Full interview w/ Paris Marx - Bonus Episode German Villegas 00:59:26 On today’s Modern Manhood, it’s a bonus episode that we’ll do after each regular episode of the season, where we’ll release most of the interview with our guest from the episode. This time it’s with Paris Marx. Paris is a Canadian based writer, podcaster, and leftist opinion maker, who I first heard of from his podcast “Tech Won’t Save Us.” Right now he runs the newsletter “Disconnect.” Paris has always been a person with a critical eye on the world of tech news, understanding that not every promise of rainbows and sunshine coming from the optimists of tech comes to pass. And if it does, it usually comes at the expense of other people, ideas, and culture. On this conversation, we'll talk about Elon Musk, Uber, AI, and all the tech bros. You can find Paris' show at Tech Won't Save Us (https://www.techwontsave.us/) and the newsletter Disconnect (https://disconnect.blog/) On today’s Modern Manhood, it’s a bonus episode that we’ll do after each regular episode of the season, where we’ll release most of the interview with our guest from the episode. This time it’s with Paris Marx. Paris is a Canadian based writer, podcaster, and leftist opinion maker, who I first heard of from his podcast “Tech Won’t Save Us.” Right now he runs the newsletter “Disconnect.” Paris has always been a person with a critical eye on the world of tech news, understanding that not every promise of rainbows and sunshine coming from the optimists of tech comes to pass. And if it does, it usually comes at the expense of other people, ideas, and culture. On this conversation, we'll talk about Elon Musk, Uber, AI, and all the tech bros. You can find Paris' show at Tech Won't Save Us (https://www.techwontsave.us/) and the newsletter Disconnect (https://disconnect.blog/) true bonus 4 bbe324c2-f25c-4468-9226-51f87d290f17 Ep 1 - Smash that Subscribe Button - How the internet created life as a subscription References for this episode: 

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]]> Ep 1 - Smash that Subscribe Button - How the internet created life as a subscription German Villegas 00:27:53 Today we start our journey, trying to unpack how the hell we got here. And one of the most provocative ideas came from Julio Vincent Cambuto in his book "Please Unsubscribe Thanks" that the internet has created relationships as subscriptions. So along with this idea in hand myself and guest Paris Marx (@parismarx) for this first episode get ready to explore the profound impact of technology on our social fabric and the ways we perceive reality. As a possible subscription model. 👨‍💻 Paris delves deep into the world of tech, shedding light on how our urban landscapes and personal interactions are being reshaped by the hands by the technocrats that run things like Uber. 🌍 How has the internet revolutionized my personal life? Find out how my digital journey began. And what are the hidden risks lurking behind the screen? And most importantly, how does technology mold the framework of masculinity in today's world? And vice versa Join us as we unravel these questions and more with Paris Marx, the voice behind "Tech Won't Save Us" and the newsletter "Disconnect". Discover the unseen forces that shape our digital and physical worlds and embark on a journey to understand the complex relationship between Man v/s the Machine. The new season of Modern Manhood. Today we start our journey, trying to unpack how the hell we got here. And one of the most provocative ideas came from Julio Vincent Cambuto in his book "Please Unsubscribe Thanks" that the internet has created relationships as subscriptions. So along with this idea in hand myself and guest Paris Marx (@parismarx) for this first episode get ready to explore the profound impact of technology on our social fabric and the ways we perceive reality. As a possible subscription model. 👨‍💻 Paris delves deep into the world of tech, shedding light on how our urban landscapes and personal interactions are being reshaped by the hands by the technocrats that run things like Uber. 🌍 How has the internet revolutionized my personal life? Find out how my digital journey began. And what are the hidden risks lurking behind the screen? And most importantly, how does technology mold the framework of masculinity in today's world? And vice versa Join us as we unravel these questions and more with Paris Marx, the voice behind "Tech Won't Save Us" and the newsletter "Disconnect". Discover the unseen forces that shape our digital and physical worlds and embark on a journey to understand the complex relationship between Man v/s the Machine. The new season of Modern Manhood. true full 1 4 16665f7e-fa6b-4e91-b5ae-10054c8bc61b Coming Soon: Man v/s Machine (Trailer) Sun, 14 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Coming Soon: Man v/s Machine (Trailer) German Villegas 00:01:26 What does it mean to find love, community, knowledge, and power on the internet? How was my digital experience different or the same as every other guy I know? And how has that shaped our culture. Join me as I find out how masculinity shaped the internet and the internet shaped masculinity What does it mean to find love, community, knowledge, and power on the internet? How was my digital experience different or the same as every other guy I know? And how has that shaped our culture. Join me as I find out how masculinity shaped the internet and the internet shaped masculinity true trailer 4 2e0c5f38-918c-40da-8f67-fdffeca683e4 Maskulinity Takeover: Tech Influencer Pipeline Sun, 7 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Maskulinity Takeover: Tech Influencer Pipeline German Villegas 00:39:54 Before we begin the new season, let's have a little fun. ⁠ ⁠ Join Remoy, Samantha, and myself as we dissect, debate, and delve into the news of Masculinity and gender and catching up Remoy on what tech is and who Andrew Tate is. And also previewing the new season of Modern Manhood: Man v/s Machine Expect a few lightbulb moments! 💡⁠ ⁠ Listen, reflect, and hit us up with your thoughts! And don't forget that in a couple of weeks time, the new season of Modern Manhood begins. Before we begin the new season, let's have a little fun. ⁠ ⁠ Join Remoy, Samantha, and myself as we dissect, debate, and delve into the news of Masculinity and gender and catching up Remoy on what tech is and who Andrew Tate is. And also previewing the new season of Modern Manhood: Man v/s Machine Expect a few lightbulb moments! 💡⁠ ⁠ Listen, reflect, and hit us up with your thoughts! And don't forget that in a couple of weeks time, the new season of Modern Manhood begins. true bonus 4 c7d2a35e-86f5-4167-b5a0-82961f9d8e07 Cold Takes - Jonathan Majors and Alex Garland's "Men" Fri, 7 Apr 2023 17:01:37 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Cold Takes - Jonathan Majors and Alex Garland's "Men" German Villegas 01:25:49 On this week’s episode, we’re talking about Jonathan Majors again, this time, not for great reasons. On the heels of box office success “Creed III”, Majors was accused of strangulation and intimate partner violence, so we will be talking about it. We are also going to get into another movie starring Jessie Buckley, MEN, written, directed and produced by Alex Garland. If you want more Cold Takes in your feed, subscribe here: https://pod.link/1637740882 On this week’s episode, we’re talking about Jonathan Majors again, this time, not for great reasons. On the heels of box office success “Creed III”, Majors was accused of strangulation and intimate partner violence, so we will be talking about it. We are also going to get into another movie starring Jessie Buckley, MEN, written, directed and produced by Alex Garland. If you want more Cold Takes in your feed, subscribe here: https://pod.link/1637740882 true bonus 3 d59fac1a-0e43-4453-95f1-7519cc44fd74 Cold Takes - Women Talking and Chris Rock Wanted to drop an episode of Cold Takes for you all. If you want to check out the Cold Takes feed, do so here: https://pod.link/1637740882

On this week’s episode, we’re talking about the Oscars snubbing some important movies and recognizing some others, including Women Talking, which we’ll get into. Chris Rock has a new Netflix special out where he finally addresses the infamous slap. We’ll also talk about Creed III and what the movie does for male relationships and brotherhoods!

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]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 02:49:27 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Wanted to drop an episode of Cold Takes for you all. If you want to check out the Cold Takes feed, do so here: https://pod.link/1637740882

On this week’s episode, we’re talking about the Oscars snubbing some important movies and recognizing some others, including Women Talking, which we’ll get into. Chris Rock has a new Netflix special out where he finally addresses the infamous slap. We’ll also talk about Creed III and what the movie does for male relationships and brotherhoods!

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]]> Cold Takes - Women Talking and Chris Rock German Villegas 01:26:15 Wanted to drop an episode of Cold Takes for you all. If you want to check out the Cold Takes feed, do so here: https://pod.link/1637740882 On this week’s episode, we’re talking about the Oscars snubbing some important movies and recognizing some others, including Women Talking, which we’ll get into. Chris Rock has a new Netflix special out where he finally addresses the infamous slap. We’ll also talk about Creed III and what the movie does for male relationships and brotherhoods! Wanted to drop an episode of Cold Takes for you all. If you want to check out the Cold Takes feed, do so here: https://pod.link/1637740882 On this week’s episode, we’re talking about the Oscars snubbing some important movies and recognizing some others, including Women Talking, which we’ll get into. Chris Rock has a new Netflix special out where he finally addresses the infamous slap. We’ll also talk about Creed III and what the movie does for male relationships and brotherhoods! true bonus 3 dddf0f52-5e5d-4760-8fa3-470683e3c92c Episode 7 - The Will to Change -Pro Feminsts in the 2000's References: 

 

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]]> Episode 7 - The Will to Change -Pro Feminsts in the 2000's German Villegas 01:44:51 “Feminism is going to make it possible for the first time for men to be free.” These are the words that started this season, and they were spoken more than a 100 years ago. And by now I’m sure you’re wondering where it all went wrong. Our last episode we left off talking about the male movements that inspired major calamities such as the January 6 storming of the capital, the Charlottesville Unite The Right march, the killings of Eliott Rodgers and Alex Minassian among other events However in the background though there have been many men and many male communities trying something different, something less toxic and hateful, some are feminist and some are not. People like Jackson Katz, Tony Porter, Michael Kaufman and others are responding to a specific policy, some are responding therapeutically. Some want to help every man, and some want to help specific men. In this episode to end this season we’ll highlight the many movements that are going on to this day and think about what has and has not helped, and what inspired them. “Feminism is going to make it possible for the first time for men to be free.” These are the words that started this season, and they were spoken more than a 100 years ago. And by now I’m sure you’re wondering where it all went wrong. Our last episode we left off talking about the male movements that inspired major calamities such as the January 6 storming of the capital, the Charlottesville Unite The Right march, the killings of Eliott Rodgers and Alex Minassian among other events However in the background though there have been many men and many male communities trying something different, something less toxic and hateful, some are feminist and some are not. People like Jackson Katz, Tony Porter, Michael Kaufman and others are responding to a specific policy, some are responding therapeutically. Some want to help every man, and some want to help specific men. In this episode to end this season we’ll highlight the many movements that are going on to this day and think about what has and has not helped, and what inspired them. true full 7 3 65b37f8c-1ba1-4009-b019-946a63534fc9 Episode 6 - Angry White Men - Incels, Proud Boys, and the 2010's Relevant Links: 

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]]> Episode 6 - Angry White Men - Incels, Proud Boys, and the 2010's German Villegas 02:18:34 “Men are angry at losing their kids in the divorce and taking their dream of raising them and reducing it to a child support payments and every-other weekend. Men are angry that they have a higher chance of being audited than they do of finding a successful long term relationship. Men are angry…and our anger is justified. It’s not all directed towards women nor even at feminism, but we are angry nonetheless, and when men are angry things happen” When men become angry, things happen. Well I couldn’t give a better explanation as to what happened in and after 2016. However as our episodes will tell you, men being angry and doing things is part and parcel of any men’s movements, but since this period of time was not that long ago, it’s the one that sticks most in our minds. So we will talk about one angry boy and then many "proud" boys and then some sexually deprived boys and then some black misogynist boys. “Men are angry at losing their kids in the divorce and taking their dream of raising them and reducing it to a child support payments and every-other weekend. Men are angry that they have a higher chance of being audited than they do of finding a successful long term relationship. Men are angry…and our anger is justified. It’s not all directed towards women nor even at feminism, but we are angry nonetheless, and when men are angry things happen” When men become angry, things happen. Well I couldn’t give a better explanation as to what happened in and after 2016. However as our episodes will tell you, men being angry and doing things is part and parcel of any men’s movements, but since this period of time was not that long ago, it’s the one that sticks most in our minds. So we will talk about one angry boy and then many "proud" boys and then some sexually deprived boys and then some black misogynist boys. true full 6 3 1f42f2c9-2668-4c05-a5ad-b0f46be5ab35 Episode 5 - The Red Pill - The Manosphere and the 2000's Relevant Links: 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/manosphere-mens-rights-movement-terms/

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/download/18053/17856/21548

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/GamerGate (GamerGate)

https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/20/20808875/gamergate-lessons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/14/the-red-pill-reddit-modern-misogyny-manosphere-men

https://www.elle.com/life-love/opinions-features/a38819237/black-manosphere-online-dating/ (The Black Manosphere)

https://escholarship.org/content/qt522199sh/qt522199sh.pdf (Play about Roosh V)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110214214049/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/style/he-aims-he-shoots-yes.html (Neil Strauss original article about PUA’s) 

https://web.archive.org/web/20141112203352/http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-realist/2013/mar/14/asking-roosh-v-what-legacy-has-feminism-left-men/ (Washington Times article about Roosh V)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/how-mens-rights-leader-paul-elam-turned-being-a-deadbeat-dad

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/daryush-roosh-valizadeh (Roosh V SPLC)

https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/08/14/are-roosh-vs-bang-books-how-to-guides-for-date-rape/ (Roosh V Bang books)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338737324_The_Evolution_of_the_Manosphere_Across_the_Web (Evolution of the Manosphere)

https://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844 (Gamergate)

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]]> Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Relevant Links: 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/manosphere-mens-rights-movement-terms/

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/download/18053/17856/21548

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/GamerGate (GamerGate)

https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/1/20/20808875/gamergate-lessons-cultural-impact-changes-harassment-laws

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/14/the-red-pill-reddit-modern-misogyny-manosphere-men

https://www.elle.com/life-love/opinions-features/a38819237/black-manosphere-online-dating/ (The Black Manosphere)

https://escholarship.org/content/qt522199sh/qt522199sh.pdf (Play about Roosh V)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110214214049/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/style/he-aims-he-shoots-yes.html (Neil Strauss original article about PUA’s) 

https://web.archive.org/web/20141112203352/http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-realist/2013/mar/14/asking-roosh-v-what-legacy-has-feminism-left-men/ (Washington Times article about Roosh V)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/how-mens-rights-leader-paul-elam-turned-being-a-deadbeat-dad

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/daryush-roosh-valizadeh (Roosh V SPLC)

https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/08/14/are-roosh-vs-bang-books-how-to-guides-for-date-rape/ (Roosh V Bang books)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338737324_The_Evolution_of_the_Manosphere_Across_the_Web (Evolution of the Manosphere)

https://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gamerga-1646145844 (Gamergate)

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]]> Episode 5 - The Red Pill - The Manosphere and the 2000's German Villegas 01:41:15 I personally didn’t hear the term The Manosphere until around the time of Gamergate, which we’ll talk about in this episode. And it’s weird because I did want to talk about masculinity and the effects it had on what I thought was my gender roles. However the masculinity discourse was completely taken over by this conversation. This idea to talk about being a man, this was the only avenue you had. It was either trying to have sex, or making fun of women, that’s it. It was a weird time and place to be. And I understood later on as to why when guys stumbled into a pro-feminist men’s organization or a conversation about masculinity that wasn’t misoginist that they thought it was a brand new thing. Because the manosphere was the only game in town, or so it seemed. This time, this era, not only encapsulates a lot of what’s wrong with the masculinity discourse now, it also brings forth the violent tactics that other internet vigilantes would use. Mainly harassment. So in this episode we'll talk about the start of Pick Up Artistry, Paul Elam and A Voice for Men, and Gamergate. I personally didn’t hear the term The Manosphere until around the time of Gamergate, which we’ll talk about in this episode. And it’s weird because I did want to talk about masculinity and the effects it had on what I thought was my gender roles. However the masculinity discourse was completely taken over by this conversation. This idea to talk about being a man, this was the only avenue you had. It was either trying to have sex, or making fun of women, that’s it. It was a weird time and place to be. And I understood later on as to why when guys stumbled into a pro-feminist men’s organization or a conversation about masculinity that wasn’t misoginist that they thought it was a brand new thing. Because the manosphere was the only game in town, or so it seemed. This time, this era, not only encapsulates a lot of what’s wrong with the masculinity discourse now, it also brings forth the violent tactics that other internet vigilantes would use. Mainly harassment. So in this episode we'll talk about the start of Pick Up Artistry, Paul Elam and A Voice for Men, and Gamergate. menslib, mensrights, avfm, masculinity, pickupartist true full 5 3 a4a5742a-1cb3-435d-a7de-8bb03a451cf8 Episode 4 - Iron John - 1990's and the Mythopoets Relevant Links: 

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]]> Episode 4 - Iron John - 1990's and the Mythopoets German Villegas 01:58:37 If you take a specific gander into people doing “masculinity work” you will find a lot of a specific type of man and organizations. They are big organizations like EVRYMEN, or Sacred Sons, or Mankind Project They make claims of reclaiming masculine power through rites of passages, usually going to the woods or nature, and hanging out with a bunch of other guys that have spent sometimes hundreds to thousands of dollars to go to these retreats. They claim to take guidance from some spiritual practice that dates back to ancient times. Or they talk a lot about alchemy or archetypes. Along the way they have been reported to do some questionable therapeutic practices which are used to bring some sort of wildness back to men. These groups are everywhere, and they all stem from a specific practice. From people called the mythopoets. The mythopoets, a compound word of the myths and poetry that they shared, had their start in the 80’s and 90’s. Their biggest inspiration came from a poet named Robert Bly who wrote the best selling book titled “Iron John.” However there are many other books in this category, like The Way of the Superior Man, and King Warrior Magician Lover. From these books, and from the works of people like Carl Jung, created their own “solution” for male malaise. A return to the wilderness. From them we get another branch of the men’s movements you see today, the spiritual warrior. If you take a specific gander into people doing “masculinity work” you will find a lot of a specific type of man and organizations. They are big organizations like EVRYMEN, or Sacred Sons, or Mankind Project They make claims of reclaiming masculine power through rites of passages, usually going to the woods or nature, and hanging out with a bunch of other guys that have spent sometimes hundreds to thousands of dollars to go to these retreats. They claim to take guidance from some spiritual practice that dates back to ancient times. Or they talk a lot about alchemy or archetypes. Along the way they have been reported to do some questionable therapeutic practices which are used to bring some sort of wildness back to men. These groups are everywhere, and they all stem from a specific practice. From people called the mythopoets. The mythopoets, a compound word of the myths and poetry that they shared, had their start in the 80’s and 90’s. Their biggest inspiration came from a poet named Robert Bly who wrote the best selling book titled “Iron John.” However there are many other books in this category, like The Way of the Superior Man, and King Warrior Magician Lover. From these books, and from the works of people like Carl Jung, created their own “solution” for male malaise. A return to the wilderness. From them we get another branch of the men’s movements you see today, the spiritual warrior. true full 4 3 031b6d8e-fd87-45b8-b053-760edae64600 Episode 3 - The Myth of Male Power - The 1980's and Men's Rights Related Links:

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]]> Episode 3 - The Myth of Male Power - The 1980's and Men's Rights German Villegas 01:37:14 The Men’s Rights Movement. When people hear of a bunch of guys talking about gender, if you grew up around the 2010’s, Men’s Right Activists or MRA’s are usually the first thing they think of. The Men’s Right Movements had it’s heyday in the 2010’s but men have been complaining about their rights for a long time now. Now don’t get me wrong, there are a bunch of things that men specifically have been led to believe is just and fair that is just not right. But when I mean that MRA’s complain, they are complaining about issues that if you look a few steps deeper they can find an equitable solution. But for the most part, MRA’s and the Men’s Right Movements have all set their targets on one thing, feminism. This is what separates MRA movements and the rest of the rest of the men’s movements. Their steadfast vitriol against women and feminism, which they blame all of their problems on. No matter how absurd their argument, it started from somewhere. And it’s been around for longer than you may think. The modern version of it also started from an unlikely source. Now this episode is not only a breakdown of where it started up until before the internet, that’s going to take another episode to talk about after the internet. But a breakdown of their most popular and hateful rhetoric, as well as end on its most infamous tragedy. With Guest Samanthan Nzessi from MASKulinity The Men’s Rights Movement. When people hear of a bunch of guys talking about gender, if you grew up around the 2010’s, Men’s Right Activists or MRA’s are usually the first thing they think of. The Men’s Right Movements had it’s heyday in the 2010’s but men have been complaining about their rights for a long time now. Now don’t get me wrong, there are a bunch of things that men specifically have been led to believe is just and fair that is just not right. But when I mean that MRA’s complain, they are complaining about issues that if you look a few steps deeper they can find an equitable solution. But for the most part, MRA’s and the Men’s Right Movements have all set their targets on one thing, feminism. This is what separates MRA movements and the rest of the rest of the men’s movements. Their steadfast vitriol against women and feminism, which they blame all of their problems on. No matter how absurd their argument, it started from somewhere. And it’s been around for longer than you may think. The modern version of it also started from an unlikely source. Now this episode is not only a breakdown of where it started up until before the internet, that’s going to take another episode to talk about after the internet. But a breakdown of their most popular and hateful rhetoric, as well as end on its most infamous tragedy. With Guest Samanthan Nzessi from MASKulinity men, warrenfarrell, mensrights, masculinity true full 3 3 cba1504b-0f35-418b-8586-a4f86d2dea20 Episode 2 - The Liberated Man - 1970's and Men's Lib Relevant Links: 

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]]> Episode 2 - The Liberated Man - 1970's and Men's Lib German Villegas 01:30:55 About 5 years ago or so, I don’t remember the exact date, I was messing around on the internet and I stumbled upon a Vox article talking about a reddit sub group called Men’s Liberation. It was and still is one of the dominant places where you can discuss pro feminist men’s topics on the internet. The more I got involved with the subreddit , I started to learn that the title Men’s Liberation which was already pretty easy to understand, came from somewhere else. In the 1970’s, there was a steady wave of progressive movements happening. And a lot of different ideas around norms were being questioned, and of course this came the question of male norms as well. Men, as the idea was, needed to be liberated from those norms. And they took a lot of ideas from the second wave of feminism happening at this time. Even though this movement seemed like a small dip in the pool of the progressive movement happening at the time. This specific movement will shape the discourse around men’s gender roles for decades to come. The people involved, the ideas that were shaped, and the momentum that happened will still be felt today. This is the story of the 1970’s Men’s Liberation movement About 5 years ago or so, I don’t remember the exact date, I was messing around on the internet and I stumbled upon a Vox article talking about a reddit sub group called Men’s Liberation. It was and still is one of the dominant places where you can discuss pro feminist men’s topics on the internet. The more I got involved with the subreddit , I started to learn that the title Men’s Liberation which was already pretty easy to understand, came from somewhere else. In the 1970’s, there was a steady wave of progressive movements happening. And a lot of different ideas around norms were being questioned, and of course this came the question of male norms as well. Men, as the idea was, needed to be liberated from those norms. And they took a lot of ideas from the second wave of feminism happening at this time. Even though this movement seemed like a small dip in the pool of the progressive movement happening at the time. This specific movement will shape the discourse around men’s gender roles for decades to come. The people involved, the ideas that were shaped, and the momentum that happened will still be felt today. This is the story of the 1970’s Men’s Liberation movement men, menslib, 1970's, masculinity, gender true full 2 3 ab7d7277-a35a-454f-b600-388e4f413673 Episode 1 - Feminism for Men - The 1900's Relevant Links: 

  • https://www.contrapoints.com/transcripts/men
  • https://thebaffler.com/ancestors/feminism-for-men
  • https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/progressive-era-to-new-era-1900-1929/womens-suffrage-in-progressive-era/
  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/190086
  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/189564
  • https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/theodore-roosevelt-considered-abortion-infanticide/
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ymca-first-opened-gyms-train-stronger-christians-180967665/
  • https://books.google.ca/books?id=7Ne5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=%22I+can+never+be+thankful+enough+for+the+courage+he+gave+to+many+of+us--young+and+doubtful--when+he+took+up+the+suffrage+movement+on+his+own%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=NDwZOAXWZf&sig=ACfU3U3Rl6ZplMkBHQs_rh8Y5GR_uR7_yg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqmJv818_6AhV_BTQIHSLnAuwQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=%22I%20can%20never%20be%20thankful%20enough%20for%20the%20courage%20he%20gave%20to%20many%20of%20us--young%20and%20doubtful--when%20he%20took%20up%20the%20suffrage%20movement%20on%20his%20own%E2%80%9D&f=false
  • https://www.6sqft.com/how-the-mens-league-for-womens-suffrage-revolutionized-voting-rights-in-new-york/

 

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]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2022 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Relevant Links: 

  • https://www.contrapoints.com/transcripts/men
  • https://thebaffler.com/ancestors/feminism-for-men
  • https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/progressive-era-to-new-era-1900-1929/womens-suffrage-in-progressive-era/
  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/190086
  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/189564
  • https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/theodore-roosevelt-considered-abortion-infanticide/
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ymca-first-opened-gyms-train-stronger-christians-180967665/
  • https://books.google.ca/books?id=7Ne5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=%22I+can+never+be+thankful+enough+for+the+courage+he+gave+to+many+of+us--young+and+doubtful--when+he+took+up+the+suffrage+movement+on+his+own%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=NDwZOAXWZf&sig=ACfU3U3Rl6ZplMkBHQs_rh8Y5GR_uR7_yg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqmJv818_6AhV_BTQIHSLnAuwQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=%22I%20can%20never%20be%20thankful%20enough%20for%20the%20courage%20he%20gave%20to%20many%20of%20us--young%20and%20doubtful--when%20he%20took%20up%20the%20suffrage%20movement%20on%20his%20own%E2%80%9D&f=false
  • https://www.6sqft.com/how-the-mens-league-for-womens-suffrage-revolutionized-voting-rights-in-new-york/

 

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]]> Episode 1 - Feminism for Men - The 1900's German Villegas 01:22:59 In 2019, Youtuber Natalie Wynn aka Contrapoints, a famous leftist video essayist did a video titled “Men” which is about masculinity and why boys are a little worried at that time. Same kind of sentiment happens today. Natalie ended her essay for a “what can we do” as this: “I think what we need is a new, positive ideal of manhood. Which I don't think is something that women cannot create for men, even if they wanted to. And honestly the best way for that to happen may actually be some kind of men's movement” But a little research would show that not only are men already organizing to talk about and deal with their own masculinity, but they have been doing so for a long time now. So now I’m here to not only document that, but also show how men organizing around masculinity has evolved throughout the decades. For the next episodes we’re going to highlight some of the historical instances where there was a movement for or against the freedom of masculinities. And we're going to start in the 1900's where we will talk about suffragette movement and the men who helped them, and the men who opposed them. We will also discuss at length Floyd Dell's essay "Feminism For Men" as the start of this journey for me and for you. In 2019, Youtuber Natalie Wynn aka Contrapoints, a famous leftist video essayist did a video titled “Men” which is about masculinity and why boys are a little worried at that time. Same kind of sentiment happens today. Natalie ended her essay for a “what can we do” as this: “I think what we need is a new, positive ideal of manhood. Which I don't think is something that women cannot create for men, even if they wanted to. And honestly the best way for that to happen may actually be some kind of men's movement” But a little research would show that not only are men already organizing to talk about and deal with their own masculinity, but they have been doing so for a long time now. So now I’m here to not only document that, but also show how men organizing around masculinity has evolved throughout the decades. For the next episodes we’re going to highlight some of the historical instances where there was a movement for or against the freedom of masculinities. And we're going to start in the 1900's where we will talk about suffragette movement and the men who helped them, and the men who opposed them. We will also discuss at length Floyd Dell's essay "Feminism For Men" as the start of this journey for me and for you. true full 1 3 0cff0232-02cd-4859-83a8-b85a74536eaa Modern Manhood Season 3 Trailer - The History of Modern Manhood Sat, 15 Oct 2022 19:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Modern Manhood Season 3 Trailer - The History of Modern Manhood German Villegas 00:03:00 Welcome back to a new season of Modern Manhood. Where we will look at the history of men's movements starting from the 1900's all the way to now in 2022. Episode 1 will drop tomorrow Oct 16th. Welcome back to a new season of Modern Manhood. Where we will look at the history of men's movements starting from the 1900's all the way to now in 2022. Episode 1 will drop tomorrow Oct 16th. true trailer 3 da8d1216-3b78-468a-8616-84ecb0bdd09b Bonus - Reddit's Mens Lib Discussion Sun, 9 Oct 2022 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Bonus - Reddit's Mens Lib Discussion German Villegas 02:10:19 Hello everyone! Welcome to a new season of Modern Manhood, where we're going to go through important sections of history and talk about the men's movements that were important during those times. However before we do that, I wanted to share a discussion I did back in April with the awesome people in Reddit's Men's Lib. There's a lot of people who joined and asked questions which not only talks about the history of the men's movement, but of masculinity in it's own modern discourse. It was a great discussion and I hope you enjoy it. Hello everyone! Welcome to a new season of Modern Manhood, where we're going to go through important sections of history and talk about the men's movements that were important during those times. However before we do that, I wanted to share a discussion I did back in April with the awesome people in Reddit's Men's Lib. There's a lot of people who joined and asked questions which not only talks about the history of the men's movement, but of masculinity in it's own modern discourse. It was a great discussion and I hope you enjoy it. true bonus 3 7e0fd9a7-9aa9-4a2c-a115-7285309b950b Cold Takes - Sports and Drag Shows Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Cold Takes - Sports and Drag Shows German Villegas 00:49:18 On Today's Cold Takes we talk about what the hell is going on in the US and now in Canada about the "discourse" around drag shows. Why is everyone upset at them all of sudden? And why is it important to keep vigilant. Plus we also talk about sports and why cheering for any type of sports can seem like a non ethical breach. On Today's Cold Takes we talk about what the hell is going on in the US and now in Canada about the "discourse" around drag shows. Why is everyone upset at them all of sudden? And why is it important to keep vigilant. Plus we also talk about sports and why cheering for any type of sports can seem like a non ethical breach. true bonus 2 f65f36e3-cb94-42c1-89b4-a2f6a6e2310e Cold Takes" Discusses the special "Rothanial" w/ Samantha Nzessi and Remoy Philip Sun, 10 Apr 2022 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Cold Takes" Discusses the special "Rothanial" w/ Samantha Nzessi and Remoy Philip German Villegas 01:04:21 Today we are joined by Samantha Nzessi and Remoy Philip to do an an emergency Cold Takes to talk about Jerrod Carmichael's special "Rothanial" where he breaks down his vulnerabilities in a unique and special way. CW: We spoil the special, so make sure you watch it before you listen, but please watch it because it's great. Today we are joined by Samantha Nzessi and Remoy Philip to do an an emergency Cold Takes to talk about Jerrod Carmichael's special "Rothanial" where he breaks down his vulnerabilities in a unique and special way. CW: We spoil the special, so make sure you watch it before you listen, but please watch it because it's great. true bonus 2 471d964a-6a58-489b-8b26-9ae46e3ce7d1 Bonus Episode: CJ Pascoe Link to CJ's Page: https://sociology.uoregon.edu/profile/cpascoe/

Dude: https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271487

HOMAGO: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/hanging-out-messing-around-and-geeking-out

 

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]]> Sun, 13 Mar 2022 20:34:47 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Link to CJ's Page: https://sociology.uoregon.edu/profile/cpascoe/

Dude: https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271487

HOMAGO: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/hanging-out-messing-around-and-geeking-out

 

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]]> Bonus Episode: CJ Pascoe German Villegas 00:29:36 You know the famous saying about heroes? That you’re not supposed to meet them? Because they invariably let you down. Well I’m sorry this is not one of those stories. CJ Pascoe is one of my academic heroes. She has written or been a part of two of the most influential texts about masculinity I have ever read: “Dude You’re a F*g” and “Exploring Masculinities.” She also has been a part of writing "HOMAGO" which to me is a real influential text understanding how teens use technology. Today it's all about her and her studies, expertise, and journey listening and studying boys You know the famous saying about heroes? That you’re not supposed to meet them? Because they invariably let you down. Well I’m sorry this is not one of those stories. CJ Pascoe is one of my academic heroes. She has written or been a part of two of the most influential texts about masculinity I have ever read: “Dude You’re a F*g” and “Exploring Masculinities.” She also has been a part of writing "HOMAGO" which to me is a real influential text understanding how teens use technology. Today it's all about her and her studies, expertise, and journey listening and studying boys true bonus 2 1c1d8c50-4acf-4423-ae33-6fc298ee47a2 Bonus Episode: A Conversation with John Rich Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Bonus Episode: A Conversation with John Rich German Villegas 01:09:35 Today we're going to release some of the content that we didn't get a chance to release when the season finished. In the coming episodes we have full interviews with the people in the show that maybe showed up for a song and a dance, or didn't show up at all, not because they were not good interviews, just because we couldn't fit them into the narrative. Dr John Rich is an educational psychologist, professor, and d certified parenting coach. As well as a father of two teenage sons. And in this episode we talk about child development through his eyes. You can check out his stuff at drjohnrich.com Enjoy! Today we're going to release some of the content that we didn't get a chance to release when the season finished. In the coming episodes we have full interviews with the people in the show that maybe showed up for a song and a dance, or didn't show up at all, not because they were not good interviews, just because we couldn't fit them into the narrative. Dr John Rich is an educational psychologist, professor, and d certified parenting coach. As well as a father of two teenage sons. And in this episode we talk about child development through his eyes. You can check out his stuff at drjohnrich.com Enjoy! true bonus 2 e209fa26-e0c5-4d7e-96f2-18675a903bea Episode 7: From Boy to Man Sun, 19 Dec 2021 17:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Episode 7: From Boy to Man German Villegas 00:31:49 In the last episode of the second season of Modern Manhood, I wanted to know and understand what it would be like for young men right now graduating and going off into the world. By looking back at other people's experience of being 18. With guests, Jake Stika, Jonathan Reed, Trevor Mayoh from Next Gen Men, and one of our producers Samantha Nzessi. In the last episode of the second season of Modern Manhood, I wanted to know and understand what it would be like for young men right now graduating and going off into the world. By looking back at other people's experience of being 18. With guests, Jake Stika, Jonathan Reed, Trevor Mayoh from Next Gen Men, and one of our producers Samantha Nzessi. true full 13 2 7d64a026-0cb4-487e-8d23-e3a337ecda7e Cold Takes: The Masculinity Media and a reflection of Modern Manhood and Oreja Peluda Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Cold Takes: The Masculinity Media and a reflection of Modern Manhood and Oreja Peluda German Villegas 01:17:25 Today on Cold Takes recorded on November 18th, 2021. We celebrate Next Gen Men's birthday! As well as our shows are winding down, we look back on what was and what has been recording Modern Manhood Season 2 and Oreja Peluda. We reflect on the questions we wanted to ask, to the themes and topics maybe we wanted to delve into a little further. We discuss race and gender types as well look further to find out what is in store for the future of masculinity media, including our own shows. Today on Cold Takes recorded on November 18th, 2021. We celebrate Next Gen Men's birthday! As well as our shows are winding down, we look back on what was and what has been recording Modern Manhood Season 2 and Oreja Peluda. We reflect on the questions we wanted to ask, to the themes and topics maybe we wanted to delve into a little further. We discuss race and gender types as well look further to find out what is in store for the future of masculinity media, including our own shows. true full 12 2 295aa412-5076-4d18-9544-bb32925dde6c Episode 6: Boys and Sports https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/magazine/sports-children-kids.html (Keith Gessen NYT Article) 

https://www.amazon.ca/Black-Cant-Shoot-Scott-Brooks/dp/022621141X (Dr Brook's Book 'Black Men Can't Shoot")

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]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/magazine/sports-children-kids.html (Keith Gessen NYT Article) 

https://www.amazon.ca/Black-Cant-Shoot-Scott-Brooks/dp/022621141X (Dr Brook's Book 'Black Men Can't Shoot")

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]]> Episode 6: Boys and Sports German Villegas 00:28:05 What is it about sports….and boys? There's a time when a lot of boys start, continue, and play sports. Yet this is not just an activity, it can be an identity, a career, and a means to an end. Sports are a cultural landscape and today we'll tackle how masculinity plays into how sports get played. Through a gender, class, and racial lens. This episode includes the voices of writer Keith Gessen, masculinity scholar Dr Michael Kehler, and researcher Dr Scott Brooks. What is it about sports….and boys? There's a time when a lot of boys start, continue, and play sports. Yet this is not just an activity, it can be an identity, a career, and a means to an end. Sports are a cultural landscape and today we'll tackle how masculinity plays into how sports get played. Through a gender, class, and racial lens. This episode includes the voices of writer Keith Gessen, masculinity scholar Dr Michael Kehler, and researcher Dr Scott Brooks. true full 11 2 b7ed2afa-4132-4384-a765-3906cbcfe64c Cold Takes: The Masculinity Hotline and The Complex Jonah Hill Here's the two articles we refer to:

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/world/americas/colombia-machismo-hotline-masculinity.html?referringSource=articleShare (Maschismo Hotline)
  • https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/ncna1281752 (Jonah Hill)

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]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2021 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Here's the two articles we refer to:

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/world/americas/colombia-machismo-hotline-masculinity.html?referringSource=articleShare (Maschismo Hotline)
  • https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/ncna1281752 (Jonah Hill)

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]]> Cold Takes: The Masculinity Hotline and The Complex Jonah Hill German Villegas 00:55:47 This month on Cold Takes we discuss the finale of Ted Lasso, and talk about how Nate reminds us of some men out there, hmmmm. As well we delve into Colombia's Machismo hotline, as well as how Jonah Hill is upending expectations of people commenting on his body This month on Cold Takes we discuss the finale of Ted Lasso, and talk about how Nate reminds us of some men out there, hmmmm. As well we delve into Colombia's Machismo hotline, as well as how Jonah Hill is upending expectations of people commenting on his body true full 10 2 f467d98c-885a-4cbd-980e-e811c08e6ab0 Episode 5: Failing at Sex Ed Sun, 10 Oct 2021 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Episode 5: Failing at Sex Ed German Villegas 00:31:55 No body that I know had a good first Sex Ed talk. How did we as a society mess this up so much? How did we take a very fundamental part of human life, our sexuality, and teach it like we were scared of it. Or treat it like a side dressing when in many cases it’s the main meal. This is especially true for young men, who at about the age of 10 are starting to think about their own sexuality. We break this down with experts Shafia Zaloom and Dr David Bell. No body that I know had a good first Sex Ed talk. How did we as a society mess this up so much? How did we take a very fundamental part of human life, our sexuality, and teach it like we were scared of it. Or treat it like a side dressing when in many cases it’s the main meal. This is especially true for young men, who at about the age of 10 are starting to think about their own sexuality. We break this down with experts Shafia Zaloom and Dr David Bell. true full 9 2 deac16c6-67d9-46b8-a8b1-b426385abe11 Cold Takes Talks The MET Gala, AOC, and Men's Fashion Sun, 19 Sep 2021 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Cold Takes Talks The MET Gala, AOC, and Men's Fashion German Villegas 01:24:54 The MetGala happened and we saw the looks the controversy, the dresses and the styles. Looking at this event, it reminds us of the conversations we had in the Inner Circle about fashion, about pink shoes, and dresses, and maybe how men's fashion (and fashion in general) can be restrictive. Or is it? What makes it restrictive? Is this a fashion problem or a men's problem? Or both? Let's dig in to the controversies (AOC, Cara Delavigne), the fashion, and the world around us. The MetGala happened and we saw the looks the controversy, the dresses and the styles. Looking at this event, it reminds us of the conversations we had in the Inner Circle about fashion, about pink shoes, and dresses, and maybe how men's fashion (and fashion in general) can be restrictive. Or is it? What makes it restrictive? Is this a fashion problem or a men's problem? Or both? Let's dig in to the controversies (AOC, Cara Delavigne), the fashion, and the world around us. true full 8 2 74e8f822-2cd2-4598-b178-3b648abf1e2b Bonus Episode: The Parents of Modern Manhood Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Bonus Episode: The Parents of Modern Manhood German Villegas 00:30:53 The last few episodes of Modern Manhood has focused a lot around how young children are. So I knew to make these last few episodes we had to get a lot of the voices of parents, people who are excited to be expecting children, or are in the midst of parenting. And of course they had some amazing insights, and we got a lot of tape. So much so that we had to cut a lot of it for our main episodes, but I knew it was too good to never be revealed. So this an episode all about some of the amazing pieces of knowledge like co-parenting, online life, gay couples parenting, and the age old question, do I even want kids? The last few episodes of Modern Manhood has focused a lot around how young children are. So I knew to make these last few episodes we had to get a lot of the voices of parents, people who are excited to be expecting children, or are in the midst of parenting. And of course they had some amazing insights, and we got a lot of tape. So much so that we had to cut a lot of it for our main episodes, but I knew it was too good to never be revealed. So this an episode all about some of the amazing pieces of knowledge like co-parenting, online life, gay couples parenting, and the age old question, do I even want kids? false full 7 2 8fa5ec61-1637-48c2-a0dc-a3b5f4f48746 Cold Takes Live - Hockey Struggle Fest with Elliott Tanti Some Links and Notes for the show: 

  1. Logan Mailloux
    1. https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/trudeau-says-canadiens-selection-logan-mailloux-shows-lack-judgment/
    2. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-draft-montreal-canadiens-logan-mailloux-1.6115744
    3. https://theathletic.com/news/prospect-logan-mailloux-dropped-from-at-least-9-nhl-teams-draft-lists/7p33VpUjGuXB
  2. Chicago Blackhawks scandal
    1. https://www.tsn.ca/rick-westhead-former-blackhawks-coach-gives-investigators-account-of-player-abuse-allegations-1.1680876
    2. https://theathletic.com/news/new-details-emerge-in-sexual-assault-allegations-against-former-blackhawks-coach/Lk2BMD3o2TZZ
  3. Simone Biles
    1. https://www.si.com/olympics/2021/07/30/simone-biles-addresses-accusations-of-quitting-answers-questions-about-twisties
    2. Naomi Osaka https://www.cbc.ca/sports/tennis/mental-health-tennis-1.6096382

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]]> Sun, 15 Aug 2021 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Some Links and Notes for the show: 

  1. Logan Mailloux
    1. https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/trudeau-says-canadiens-selection-logan-mailloux-shows-lack-judgment/
    2. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-draft-montreal-canadiens-logan-mailloux-1.6115744
    3. https://theathletic.com/news/prospect-logan-mailloux-dropped-from-at-least-9-nhl-teams-draft-lists/7p33VpUjGuXB
  2. Chicago Blackhawks scandal
    1. https://www.tsn.ca/rick-westhead-former-blackhawks-coach-gives-investigators-account-of-player-abuse-allegations-1.1680876
    2. https://theathletic.com/news/new-details-emerge-in-sexual-assault-allegations-against-former-blackhawks-coach/Lk2BMD3o2TZZ
  3. Simone Biles
    1. https://www.si.com/olympics/2021/07/30/simone-biles-addresses-accusations-of-quitting-answers-questions-about-twisties
    2. Naomi Osaka https://www.cbc.ca/sports/tennis/mental-health-tennis-1.6096382

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]]> Cold Takes Live - Hockey Struggle Fest with Elliott Tanti German Villegas 01:05:50 On this episode of Cold Takes Live, German speaks to Elliott Tanti about what the hell is going on with hockey. From the Chicago Blackhawks scandal to the Logan Mailloux drafting situation, to Tony D'Angelo and Ethan Bear. We get through all that and wonder why we're still fans. We also dig into women's sports in the Olympics and Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka. On this episode of Cold Takes Live, German speaks to Elliott Tanti about what the hell is going on with hockey. From the Chicago Blackhawks scandal to the Logan Mailloux drafting situation, to Tony D'Angelo and Ethan Bear. We get through all that and wonder why we're still fans. We also dig into women's sports in the Olympics and Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka. true full 6 2 a72fa6c1-b69f-407f-8f4c-57b7b3ec4278 Episode 3: To Be Touched Jordan Shapiro is a writer, father and developmental expert. His last book is called Father Figure: How to be a Feminist Dad.

Mark Pagan is one of the producers and the voice of “Other Men Need Help” a podcast about the specific views and ideas of masculinity

Judy Chu has a doctorate from Harvard for Human Development and Psychology. She’s also one of the board members at Promundo, a global leader in achieving gender justice. 

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]]> Sun, 1 Aug 2021 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Jordan Shapiro is a writer, father and developmental expert. His last book is called Father Figure: How to be a Feminist Dad.

Mark Pagan is one of the producers and the voice of “Other Men Need Help” a podcast about the specific views and ideas of masculinity

Judy Chu has a doctorate from Harvard for Human Development and Psychology. She’s also one of the board members at Promundo, a global leader in achieving gender justice. 

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]]> Episode 3: To Be Touched German Villegas 00:24:20 Years ago, my mother said something to me that reminded me of how abnormal a certain behaviour I did was in Canada. “Ahh, it’s so nice that you still kiss your father, even in public” She said. I think about that a lot, and notice how maybe my upbringing allowed me to normalize touch in a way that seemed abnormal where I lived, and possibly where you live. I wonder how much non sexualized touch boys get, and how that may effect the way they think about their parents, their relationships, and their life. This is the basis of this episode, understanding what consensual touch from caregivers (and the lack thereof) can affect a boys development. This episodes stars Jordan Shapiro, Judy Chu, and Mark Pagan Years ago, my mother said something to me that reminded me of how abnormal a certain behaviour I did was in Canada. “Ahh, it’s so nice that you still kiss your father, even in public” She said. I think about that a lot, and notice how maybe my upbringing allowed me to normalize touch in a way that seemed abnormal where I lived, and possibly where you live. I wonder how much non sexualized touch boys get, and how that may effect the way they think about their parents, their relationships, and their life. This is the basis of this episode, understanding what consensual touch from caregivers (and the lack thereof) can affect a boys development. This episodes stars Jordan Shapiro, Judy Chu, and Mark Pagan true full 5 2 3d7abeb8-669c-48f4-b2ab-6ce93805ac1a (TEASER) Episode 3 About 'Touch" Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:41:57 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast (TEASER) Episode 3 About 'Touch" German Villegas 00:04:16 This is a teaser for the third episode coming up on Sunday. And it stars Mark Pagan, writer and producer of Other Men Need Help. Hope you enjoy This is a teaser for the third episode coming up on Sunday. And it stars Mark Pagan, writer and producer of Other Men Need Help. Hope you enjoy true bonus 2 011c8acb-cf01-4ebb-b176-69d79baf8845 Cold Takes Live 3: Girlbosses and Dating for Feminists Mon, 12 Jul 2021 03:58:55 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Cold Takes Live 3: Girlbosses and Dating for Feminists German Villegas 01:33:56 On this episode of Cold Takes, German takes the day off and Samantha and Veronika take over to talk about Girlbosses through the lens of "I Care A Lot" as well as what dating and relationship advice has turned into in the 2021. It's not pretty y'all! On this episode of Cold Takes, German takes the day off and Samantha and Veronika take over to talk about Girlbosses through the lens of "I Care A Lot" as well as what dating and relationship advice has turned into in the 2021. It's not pretty y'all! true full 4 2 1b7b23ba-297b-4b30-9361-02e5a52b5283 Episode 2 - Pinkie and the Blue Boy In this episode we discuss these two papers/articles: 

  • Gender Socialization and Identity Theory by Michael J Carter (https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/3/2/242/htm)
  • The complicated Gender History of Pink https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/health/colorscope-pink-boy-girl-gender/index.html

Michael Reichert can be found here: https://www.michaelcreichert.com/ and Danielle Perszyk can be found here: https://twitter.com/drperszyk?lang=en 

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]]> Mon, 28 Jun 2021 04:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast In this episode we discuss these two papers/articles: 

  • Gender Socialization and Identity Theory by Michael J Carter (https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/3/2/242/htm)
  • The complicated Gender History of Pink https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/health/colorscope-pink-boy-girl-gender/index.html

Michael Reichert can be found here: https://www.michaelcreichert.com/ and Danielle Perszyk can be found here: https://twitter.com/drperszyk?lang=en 

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]]> Episode 2 - Pinkie and the Blue Boy German Villegas 00:37:34 In the continuation of our series titled "How to be a Man" we explore the nature of bias. Is bias useful? Is it dangerous? Does it help explain why boys wear blue and girls wear pink? We speak to Michael Reichert author of many books including "How to Raise a Boy" as well as a PhD in cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist Danielle Perszyk. In the continuation of our series titled "How to be a Man" we explore the nature of bias. Is bias useful? Is it dangerous? Does it help explain why boys wear blue and girls wear pink? We speak to Michael Reichert author of many books including "How to Raise a Boy" as well as a PhD in cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist Danielle Perszyk. bias, masculinity, boys, girls, gender, neuroscience, parents, psychology true full 3 2 7a447880-ccff-46de-9b40-19850b1dbea9 Modern Manhood Season 2 Trailer Thu, 10 Jun 2021 02:36:34 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Modern Manhood Season 2 Trailer German Villegas 00:02:38 In this season we wanted to try something small, you know like trying to figure out easy questions like: Who am I in this world? Find out more what we're cooking up on this season of Modern Manhood In this season we wanted to try something small, you know like trying to figure out easy questions like: Who am I in this world? Find out more what we're cooking up on this season of Modern Manhood true trailer 2 4184444d-b684-4c4f-a127-d4779ecdda35 Cold Takes Live - Is Abortions a Man's Issue? Also what's wrong about dad bods? (w/ Samantha Nzessi) ADS:

  • Daveberta Podcast - https://daveberta.ca/
  • Alberta Podcast Network - https://www.albertapodcastnetwork.com/
  • Taproot Edmonton - https://edmonton.taproot.news/

NEWS

  • Remains of 215 children found at former residential school site in Kamloops, BC
    • Catholic church has not apologized
    • Canadian gov’t has dragged their feet on TRC and actively fought survivors in court. Continues to fight Indigenous people when it comes to drinking water, reparations for Res Schools/sixties scoop, land rights, climate change, and more…
    • GENDER -Native Women's Association leaves national MMIWG action plan process, calling it 'toxic and dysfunctional'-- creates own plan: Our Calls, Our Actions https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/nwac-mmiwg-action-plan-1.6047671
    • https://www.nwac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NWAC-action-plan-FULL-ALL-EDITS.pdf
      “There can be no more aspirational documents. There can be no more playing around the edges of this genocide. The next steps must be concrete, actionable, costed, and quickly put into effect. We know what those steps are because they have been spelled out for us by the families and provided to the commissioners of the National Inquiry. They are the 2 3 1 Calls for Justice”.
    • Men who want to be involved in the fight: https://moosehidecampaign.ca/
       
  • Texas Heartbeat bill
    • texastribune.org/2021/05/18/texas-heartbeat-bill-abortions-law/
    • “Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Wednesday a measure that would prohibit in Texas abortions as early as six weeks — before some women know they are pregnant — and open the door for almost any private citizen to sue abortion providers and others. The signing of the bill opens a new frontier in the battle over abortion restrictions as first-of-its-kind legal provisions — intended to make the law harder to block — are poised to be tested in the courts”.
  • Dadcore

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]]> Sun, 6 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast ADS:

  • Daveberta Podcast - https://daveberta.ca/
  • Alberta Podcast Network - https://www.albertapodcastnetwork.com/
  • Taproot Edmonton - https://edmonton.taproot.news/

NEWS

  • Remains of 215 children found at former residential school site in Kamloops, BC
    • Catholic church has not apologized
    • Canadian gov’t has dragged their feet on TRC and actively fought survivors in court. Continues to fight Indigenous people when it comes to drinking water, reparations for Res Schools/sixties scoop, land rights, climate change, and more…
    • GENDER -Native Women's Association leaves national MMIWG action plan process, calling it 'toxic and dysfunctional'-- creates own plan: Our Calls, Our Actions https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/nwac-mmiwg-action-plan-1.6047671
    • https://www.nwac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NWAC-action-plan-FULL-ALL-EDITS.pdf
      “There can be no more aspirational documents. There can be no more playing around the edges of this genocide. The next steps must be concrete, actionable, costed, and quickly put into effect. We know what those steps are because they have been spelled out for us by the families and provided to the commissioners of the National Inquiry. They are the 2 3 1 Calls for Justice”.
    • Men who want to be involved in the fight: https://moosehidecampaign.ca/
       
  • Texas Heartbeat bill
    • texastribune.org/2021/05/18/texas-heartbeat-bill-abortions-law/
    • “Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Wednesday a measure that would prohibit in Texas abortions as early as six weeks — before some women know they are pregnant — and open the door for almost any private citizen to sue abortion providers and others. The signing of the bill opens a new frontier in the battle over abortion restrictions as first-of-its-kind legal provisions — intended to make the law harder to block — are poised to be tested in the courts”.
  • Dadcore

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]]> Cold Takes Live - Is Abortions a Man's Issue? Also what's wrong about dad bods? (w/ Samantha Nzessi) German Villegas 01:25:02 Today we bring along Samantha Nzessi to talk about the Heartbeat Bill in Texas and Abortion Rights. As well as talk about the 215 children's bodies found in a residential school. We also for Father's Day talk a little about the new cool trend, being a dad. Today we bring along Samantha Nzessi to talk about the Heartbeat Bill in Texas and Abortion Rights. As well as talk about the 215 children's bodies found in a residential school. We also for Father's Day talk a little about the new cool trend, being a dad. true full 2 2 c154199f-eda2-43e7-a5dc-a8d9af118482 Episode 1 - "Expectations" Modern Manhood cannot be done without the wonderful people of Next Gen Men and the Alberta Podcast Network. Logo done from Arcade Studio in Calgary, AB. This episode includes Dr Rob Weisskirch professor from CSU Monteray Bay and many wonderful parents. 

Modern Manhood team includes German Villegas, Remoy Phillip, Samantha Nzessi, and Danny Perez. 

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]]> Thu, 20 May 2021 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Modern Manhood cannot be done without the wonderful people of Next Gen Men and the Alberta Podcast Network. Logo done from Arcade Studio in Calgary, AB. This episode includes Dr Rob Weisskirch professor from CSU Monteray Bay and many wonderful parents. 

Modern Manhood team includes German Villegas, Remoy Phillip, Samantha Nzessi, and Danny Perez. 

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]]> Episode 1 - "Expectations" German Villegas 00:33:09 I'm in an age where people are talking about kids constantly. ⁠ "We're thinking of having kids!" ⁠ "Can this new place house kids?"⁠ "Can you come see the new baby?"⁠ With all this kid talking, there comes the expectations of parenthood. Especially the expectations of what that baby is going to be. This is where gendering first begins. ⁠ We will explore the ways parents' anxiety, stress, and hope can affect the raising of a new unborn child. ⁠ I'm in an age where people are talking about kids constantly. ⁠ "We're thinking of having kids!" ⁠ "Can this new place house kids?"⁠ "Can you come see the new baby?"⁠ With all this kid talking, there comes the expectations of parenthood. Especially the expectations of what that baby is going to be. This is where gendering first begins. ⁠ We will explore the ways parents' anxiety, stress, and hope can affect the raising of a new unborn child. ⁠ parenthood, masculinity, kids, parents true full 1 2 c880365c-ddf1-43cc-86ef-0a4e654c22f1 Cold Takes Live (Introducing Danny Perez) Sun, 16 May 2021 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Cold Takes Live (Introducing Danny Perez) German Villegas 01:16:09 The first ever episode we did experimenting a new format of Cold Takes, right to the people in the Inner Circle. The Inner Circle is part of the NGMenbership and with this you will get to hear the live version of this show recorded Thursday May 13th, and also get to ask questions during it. We also introduce Danny Perez of @orejapeludapod talk about the masculinity media, as well as finding out what makes a language gendered (especially French, English, and Spanish). We also announce the start of the season for Modern Manhood. The first ever episode we did experimenting a new format of Cold Takes, right to the people in the Inner Circle. The Inner Circle is part of the NGMenbership and with this you will get to hear the live version of this show recorded Thursday May 13th, and also get to ask questions during it. We also introduce Danny Perez of @orejapeludapod talk about the masculinity media, as well as finding out what makes a language gendered (especially French, English, and Spanish). We also announce the start of the season for Modern Manhood. true bonus 1 8b884851-6313-4581-8eb9-5a62c41e5c39 BONUS: Cold Takes x Kino Lefter Discuss "Promising Young Woman" Today I give you a little treat, a discussion myself, Veronika from Cold Takes, and Evan from @kinolefter had about the movie "Promising Young Woman." I'll also describe to you in audio form what is going on behind the scenes at Modern Manhood. I hope you enjoy and please leave us your comments on the movie below!

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]]> Wed, 3 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Today I give you a little treat, a discussion myself, Veronika from Cold Takes, and Evan from @kinolefter had about the movie "Promising Young Woman." I'll also describe to you in audio form what is going on behind the scenes at Modern Manhood. I hope you enjoy and please leave us your comments on the movie below!

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]]> BONUS: Cold Takes x Kino Lefter Discuss "Promising Young Woman" German Villegas 01:38:09 Today I give you a little treat, a discussion myself, Veronika from Cold Takes, and Evan from @kinolefter had about the movie "Promising Young Woman." I'll also describe to you in audio form what is going on behind the scenes at Modern Manhood. I hope you enjoy and please leave us your comments on the movie below! Today I give you a little treat, a discussion myself, Veronika from Cold Takes, and Evan from @kinolefter had about the movie "Promising Young Woman." I'll also describe to you in audio form what is going on behind the scenes at Modern Manhood. I hope you enjoy and please leave us your comments on the movie below! false full 99 1 89e00880-b018-47cb-b32f-2347d6c1c782 Cold Takes: 2020 Recap Show (with Jake and Veronika) It's a long one folks, but what better way to recap what has been an eventful and stressful year than to do our annual recap with three time host Jake, and Cold Takes co-host Veronika.

We recap the biggest events this year and what are our takeaways from it.

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]]> Sun, 20 Dec 2020 23:09:41 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast It's a long one folks, but what better way to recap what has been an eventful and stressful year than to do our annual recap with three time host Jake, and Cold Takes co-host Veronika.

We recap the biggest events this year and what are our takeaways from it.

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]]> Cold Takes: 2020 Recap Show (with Jake and Veronika) German Villegas 02:07:54 It's a long one folks, but what better way to recap what has been an eventful and stressful year than to do our annual recap with three time host Jake, and Cold Takes co-host Veronika. We recap the biggest events this year and what are our takeaways from it. It's a long one folks, but what better way to recap what has been an eventful and stressful year than to do our annual recap with three time host Jake, and Cold Takes co-host Veronika. We recap the biggest events this year and what are our takeaways from it. false full 98 1 7d16fc41-d20f-477e-bb50-4c0320adc31d The Way of the Superior Sham: The Problem of the Spiritualization of Masculinity Spiritualists and spiritualist groups will have their say in most of men's conversations. Groups who use spiritual practices and wildman Jungian archetypes to try to solve this notion of the broken man. We give them too leeway, and we don’t critique them enough. Because these groups for decades have been defending an idea of gender essentialism and use ideas that have been shown to be ideologically biased, sexist, and naive of what we think of as the modern man.

Links:

- https://jezebel.com/king-warrior-magician-revisionist-the-enduring-masc-1845215969

- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/books/review/revisiting-jill-johnstons-critique-of-robert-bly-and-iron-john.html

- https://realitysandwich.com/18481/masculine_spiritualities_and_problem_patriarchy/

- https://www.houstonpress.com/news/naked-men-the-mankind-project-and-michael-scinto-6587139

- https://thepowermoves.com/king-warrior-magician-lover/

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]]> Sun, 6 Dec 2020 21:51:11 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Spiritualists and spiritualist groups will have their say in most of men's conversations. Groups who use spiritual practices and wildman Jungian archetypes to try to solve this notion of the broken man. We give them too leeway, and we don’t critique them enough. Because these groups for decades have been defending an idea of gender essentialism and use ideas that have been shown to be ideologically biased, sexist, and naive of what we think of as the modern man.

Links:

- https://jezebel.com/king-warrior-magician-revisionist-the-enduring-masc-1845215969

- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/books/review/revisiting-jill-johnstons-critique-of-robert-bly-and-iron-john.html

- https://realitysandwich.com/18481/masculine_spiritualities_and_problem_patriarchy/

- https://www.houstonpress.com/news/naked-men-the-mankind-project-and-michael-scinto-6587139

- https://thepowermoves.com/king-warrior-magician-lover/

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]]> The Way of the Superior Sham: The Problem of the Spiritualization of Masculinity German Villegas 00:50:12 Spiritualists and spiritualist groups will have their say in most of men's conversations. Groups who use spiritual practices and wildman Jungian archetypes to try to solve this notion of the broken man. We give them too leeway, and we don’t critique them enough. Because these groups for decades have been defending an idea of gender essentialism and use ideas that have been shown to be ideologically biased, sexist, and naive of what we think of as the modern man. Spiritualists and spiritualist groups will have their say in most of men's conversations. Groups who use spiritual practices and wildman Jungian archetypes to try to solve this notion of the broken man. We give them too leeway, and we don’t critique them enough. Because these groups for decades have been defending an idea of gender essentialism and use ideas that have been shown to be ideologically biased, sexist, and naive of what we think of as the modern man. false full 97 1 ecd7ad2a-15a3-439e-96e3-691a53eac778 Cold Takes: Porn and Masculinity, plus The American Election In this episode we talk about how porn affects how we see women and sexuality, and getting deep (no pun intended) about how other people view porn.

As well, we have our thoughts on the American Election, President Elect Joe Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris.

Links:

https://reason.com/2018/01/11/the-performative-feminism-of-kamala-h/

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]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast In this episode we talk about how porn affects how we see women and sexuality, and getting deep (no pun intended) about how other people view porn.

As well, we have our thoughts on the American Election, President Elect Joe Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris.

Links:

https://reason.com/2018/01/11/the-performative-feminism-of-kamala-h/

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]]> Cold Takes: Porn and Masculinity, plus The American Election German Villegas 01:12:38 In this episode we talk about how porn affects how we see women and sexuality, and getting deep (no pun intended) about how other people view porn. As well, we have our thoughts on the American Election, President Elect Joe Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris. In this episode we talk about how porn affects how we see women and sexuality, and getting deep (no pun intended) about how other people view porn. As well, we have our thoughts on the American Election, President Elect Joe Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris. false full 96 1 8ad161b3-205d-48f7-83fa-207d56382ea4 The Prodigal Son: The Stories of Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling A lot is riding on young English soccer players to bring back glory not only for their country but for their town and club. Because not only are these players excepted to do well, they are expected to be exceptional. This is the story of the young players of England through the lens of Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling, which is a mirror to the young sports loving men of the world. To ask them, who is your enemy? And who is your prodigal son? 

Links:

- https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54689623

- https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/man-city-pay-tribute-after-the-death-of-former-youth-player-jeremy-wisten-254000

- https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/cast-adrift-how-football-is-failing-released-academy-players-254047

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]]> Sun, 8 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast A lot is riding on young English soccer players to bring back glory not only for their country but for their town and club. Because not only are these players excepted to do well, they are expected to be exceptional. This is the story of the young players of England through the lens of Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling, which is a mirror to the young sports loving men of the world. To ask them, who is your enemy? And who is your prodigal son? 

Links:

- https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54689623

- https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/man-city-pay-tribute-after-the-death-of-former-youth-player-jeremy-wisten-254000

- https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/cast-adrift-how-football-is-failing-released-academy-players-254047

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]]> The Prodigal Son: The Stories of Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling German Villegas 00:52:31 A lot is riding on young English soccer players to bring back glory not only for their country but for their town and club. Because not only are these players excepted to do well, they are expected to be exceptional. This is the story of the young players of England through the lens of Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling, which is a mirror to the young sports loving men of the world. To ask them, who is your enemy? And who is your prodigal son?  A lot is riding on young English soccer players to bring back glory not only for their country but for their town and club. Because not only are these players excepted to do well, they are expected to be exceptional. This is the story of the young players of England through the lens of Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling, which is a mirror to the young sports loving men of the world. To ask them, who is your enemy? And who is your prodigal son?  false full 95 1 69827b8e-6eb0-4864-91dc-d69d69e156a9 Cold Takes: The Last Days of Trump?/The Positivity of Ted Lasso (w/ Jake Stika) Veronika is busy this week, so we invite Jake Stika, Executive Director in Next Gen Men(nextgenmen.ca) to talk about the upcoming American election as well deep diving into our new favorite TV show "Ted Lasso" to explain the positive masculinity in it.

Links:

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]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2020 02:13:02 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Veronika is busy this week, so we invite Jake Stika, Executive Director in Next Gen Men(nextgenmen.ca) to talk about the upcoming American election as well deep diving into our new favorite TV show "Ted Lasso" to explain the positive masculinity in it.

Links:

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]]> Cold Takes: The Last Days of Trump?/The Positivity of Ted Lasso (w/ Jake Stika) German Villegas 01:03:03 Veronika is busy this week, so we invite Jake Stika, Executive Director in Next Gen Men(nextgenmen.ca) to talk about the upcoming American election as well deep diving into our new favorite TV show "Ted Lasso" to explain the positive masculinity in it. Veronika is busy this week, so we invite Jake Stika, Executive Director in Next Gen Men(nextgenmen.ca) to talk about the upcoming American election as well deep diving into our new favorite TV show "Ted Lasso" to explain the positive masculinity in it. false full 94 1 69c70d8a-ade5-4a17-8955-0fa44929e0ac "The Dress Code: Or the Policing of Young Bodies" The dress code is something we have discussed before but just casually, and I just keep thinking what is the big issue with the god damn dress code, why are we spending so much time on it, and why do people have so many different opinions on it. Well let me tell you that the dress code IS a big issue, because it’s a window to how our society treats women, men, our bodies, and our decency. 

Articles used:

https://www.racked.com/2018/7/2/17519874/dress-code-duct-tape-enforcement-violation

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/news/a44798/boys-wear-skirts-protest-dress-code/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/boys-in-several-quebec-high-schools-wear-skirts-to-protest-dress-code-1.5755570

https://noworegon.org/issues/model-student-dress-code/

 

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]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2020 05:19:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast The dress code is something we have discussed before but just casually, and I just keep thinking what is the big issue with the god damn dress code, why are we spending so much time on it, and why do people have so many different opinions on it. Well let me tell you that the dress code IS a big issue, because it’s a window to how our society treats women, men, our bodies, and our decency. 

Articles used:

https://www.racked.com/2018/7/2/17519874/dress-code-duct-tape-enforcement-violation

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/news/a44798/boys-wear-skirts-protest-dress-code/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/boys-in-several-quebec-high-schools-wear-skirts-to-protest-dress-code-1.5755570

https://noworegon.org/issues/model-student-dress-code/

 

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]]> "The Dress Code: Or the Policing of Young Bodies" German Villegas 00:34:31 The dress code is something we have discussed before but just casually, and I just keep thinking what is the big issue with the god damn dress code, why are we spending so much time on it, and why do people have so many different opinions on it. Well let me tell you that the dress code IS a big issue, because it’s a window to how our society treats women, men, our bodies, and our decency.  The dress code is something we have discussed before but just casually, and I just keep thinking what is the big issue with the god damn dress code, why are we spending so much time on it, and why do people have so many different opinions on it. Well let me tell you that the dress code IS a big issue, because it’s a window to how our society treats women, men, our bodies, and our decency.  false full 93 1 dab983ae-8369-411b-8ec5-e5593bcbb6c1 Cold Takes: Gendered Role Models On this episode of Cold Takes, Veronika and I go into what it means to have gendered role models as we reflect how we grew up noticing gender (including school dress codes).

We also talk about the death of RBG and try to gingerly walk around the controversy of the movie 'Cuties.'

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]]> Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast On this episode of Cold Takes, Veronika and I go into what it means to have gendered role models as we reflect how we grew up noticing gender (including school dress codes).

We also talk about the death of RBG and try to gingerly walk around the controversy of the movie 'Cuties.'

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]]> Cold Takes: Gendered Role Models German Villegas 01:21:32 On this episode of Cold Takes, Veronika and I go into what it means to have gendered role models as we reflect how we grew up noticing gender (including school dress codes). We also talk about the death of RBG and try to gingerly walk around the controversy of the movie 'Cuties.' On this episode of Cold Takes, Veronika and I go into what it means to have gendered role models as we reflect how we grew up noticing gender (including school dress codes). We also talk about the death of RBG and try to gingerly walk around the controversy of the movie 'Cuties.' false full 92 1 4dac163d-21d8-44dd-991c-1592ced7e827 "Leaving Teaching" with Garrett Carlson Today we're joined with Garrett Carlson from https://dudefluencer.com/ to talk about his ex career, the one of teaching and what made him leave. His frustrations which mirrored my frustrations. This will be the first of a multi part series on the Education System. 

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]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2020 03:50:30 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Today we're joined with Garrett Carlson from https://dudefluencer.com/ to talk about his ex career, the one of teaching and what made him leave. His frustrations which mirrored my frustrations. This will be the first of a multi part series on the Education System. 

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]]> "Leaving Teaching" with Garrett Carlson German Villegas 00:31:33 Today we're joined with Garrett Carlson from https://dudefluencer.com/ to talk about his ex career, the one of teaching and what made him leave. His frustrations which mirrored my frustrations. This will be the first of a multi part series on the Education System. Today we're joined with Garrett Carlson from https://dudefluencer.com/ to talk about his ex career, the one of teaching and what made him leave. His frustrations which mirrored my frustrations. This will be the first of a multi part series on the Education System. false full 91 1 ee0ff515-cbd8-4205-b980-68e145c18ae2 Cold Takes: "Bro-cialist" On this week's Cold Takes, we take a look at what is the slippery slope that can make a socialist or leftist movement unwelcome for women and people of color. We also dive into the politics and masculinity of the documentary "Boys State"

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]]> Mon, 31 Aug 2020 04:14:52 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast On this week's Cold Takes, we take a look at what is the slippery slope that can make a socialist or leftist movement unwelcome for women and people of color. We also dive into the politics and masculinity of the documentary "Boys State"

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]]> Cold Takes: "Bro-cialist" German Villegas 01:15:25 On this week's Cold Takes, we take a look at what is the slippery slope that can make a socialist or leftist movement unwelcome for women and people of color. We also dive into the politics and masculinity of the documentary "Boys State" On this week's Cold Takes, we take a look at what is the slippery slope that can make a socialist or leftist movement unwelcome for women and people of color. We also dive into the politics and masculinity of the documentary "Boys State" false full 90 1 85dfedc2-7db3-4fe6-aade-e63d664ce3b2 "Men are from Mars": Gender Essentialism One of the biggest pet peeves I have when I read or look at things about gender, is the amount of assumptions we make around what makes a man and what makes a woman. How many times have you heard the word or phrase: “Men’s brains are like this and they think about sex all the time or they think about being the protector because that’s how they were born to be because of their real life masculine brain.” So in this episode we’re going to find out, are men really cavemen? And why essentialism is a slippery rope

Links:

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.htm

https://forge.medium.com/how-i-finally-got-men-to-talk-about-their-feelings-in-therapy-cddd48b0af4c

 

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]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:47:23 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast One of the biggest pet peeves I have when I read or look at things about gender, is the amount of assumptions we make around what makes a man and what makes a woman. How many times have you heard the word or phrase: “Men’s brains are like this and they think about sex all the time or they think about being the protector because that’s how they were born to be because of their real life masculine brain.” So in this episode we’re going to find out, are men really cavemen? And why essentialism is a slippery rope

Links:

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.htm

https://forge.medium.com/how-i-finally-got-men-to-talk-about-their-feelings-in-therapy-cddd48b0af4c

 

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]]> "Men are from Mars": Gender Essentialism German Villegas 00:37:04 One of the biggest pet peeves I have when I read or look at things about gender, is the amount of assumptions we make around what makes a man and what makes a woman. So in this episode we’re going to find out, are men really cavemen? And why gender essentialism is a slippery rope One of the biggest pet peeves I have when I read or look at things about gender, is the amount of assumptions we make around what makes a man and what makes a woman. So in this episode we’re going to find out, are men really cavemen? And why gender essentialism is a slippery rope false full 89 1 4af8108f-b9bc-4773-88ab-ab482eabea2d Cold Takes - Mask-ulinity/Universal Basic Income In the latest episode of Cold Takes, we'll investigate what masculinity has to do whether you wear a mask or not. As well we go deep into what universal basic income is and how it can be a project worth fighting for.

Masks and Masculinity - 

- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/03/covid-19-masks-men-masculinity

- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/toxic-maskulinity-the-link-between-masculine-toughness-and-affective-reactions-to-mask-wearing-in-the-covid19-era/8753DA181D76C7D59D6712C8F0C666E7

- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/video/masks-and-the-modern-man-liz-plank-on-what-covid-19-can-teach-us-about-manhood-89344581761

UBI

- https://www.versobooks.com/books/1847-four-futures

- https://pfd.alaska.gov/

- https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2020/05/universal-basic-income-is-gathering-support-has-it-ever-worked-and

 

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]]> Sun, 2 Aug 2020 19:10:19 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast In the latest episode of Cold Takes, we'll investigate what masculinity has to do whether you wear a mask or not. As well we go deep into what universal basic income is and how it can be a project worth fighting for.

Masks and Masculinity - 

- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/03/covid-19-masks-men-masculinity

- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/toxic-maskulinity-the-link-between-masculine-toughness-and-affective-reactions-to-mask-wearing-in-the-covid19-era/8753DA181D76C7D59D6712C8F0C666E7

- https://www.nbcnews.com/think/video/masks-and-the-modern-man-liz-plank-on-what-covid-19-can-teach-us-about-manhood-89344581761

UBI

- https://www.versobooks.com/books/1847-four-futures

- https://pfd.alaska.gov/

- https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2020/05/universal-basic-income-is-gathering-support-has-it-ever-worked-and

 

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]]> Cold Takes - Mask-ulinity/Universal Basic Income German Villegas 01:09:20 In the latest episode of Cold Takes, we'll investigate what masculinity has to do whether you wear a mask or not. As well we go deep into what universal basic income is and how it can be a project worth fighting for. Masks and Masculinity -  - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/03/covid-19-masks-men-masculinity - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/toxic-maskulinity-the-link-between-masculine-toughness-and-affective-reactions-to-mask-wearing-in-the-covid19-era/8753DA181D76C7D59D6712C8F0C666E7 - https://www.nbcnews.com/think/video/masks-and-the-modern-man-liz-plank-on-what-covid-19-can-teach-us-about-manhood-89344581761 UBI - https://www.versobooks.com/books/1847-four-futures - https://pfd.alaska.gov/ - https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2020/05/universal-basic-income-is-gathering-support-has-it-ever-worked-and   In the latest episode of Cold Takes, we'll investigate what masculinity has to do whether you wear a mask or not. As well we go deep into what universal basic income is and how it can be a project worth fighting for. Masks and Masculinity -  - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/03/covid-19-masks-men-masculinity - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/toxic-maskulinity-the-link-between-masculine-toughness-and-affective-reactions-to-mask-wearing-in-the-covid19-era/8753DA181D76C7D59D6712C8F0C666E7 - https://www.nbcnews.com/think/video/masks-and-the-modern-man-liz-plank-on-what-covid-19-can-teach-us-about-manhood-89344581761 UBI - https://www.versobooks.com/books/1847-four-futures - https://pfd.alaska.gov/ - https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2020/05/universal-basic-income-is-gathering-support-has-it-ever-worked-and   false full 88 1 ec7e257e-aa60-48b9-acab-c42b6daf5fc8 "Inbetween Race and Masculinity" A conversation with Abdul Malik In the midst of the bigger conversation about Black Lives Matter, Abdul Malik sent me a message about something he has been thinking about for a while, the intersection of his culture within the ever-presence of toxic masculinity and white supremacy.

The intersection of race and masculinity is real, and we’re here to talk about it.

You can find Abdul Malik at abdulmalik.com or on Twitter @socialistraptor

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]]> Sun, 19 Jul 2020 20:29:36 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast In the midst of the bigger conversation about Black Lives Matter, Abdul Malik sent me a message about something he has been thinking about for a while, the intersection of his culture within the ever-presence of toxic masculinity and white supremacy.

The intersection of race and masculinity is real, and we’re here to talk about it.

You can find Abdul Malik at abdulmalik.com or on Twitter @socialistraptor

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]]> "Inbetween Race and Masculinity" A conversation with Abdul Malik German Villegas 00:34:09 In the midst of the bigger conversation about Black Lives Matter, Abdul Malik sent me a message about something he has been thinking about for a while, the intersection of his culture within the ever-presence of toxic masculinity and white supremacy. The intersection of race and masculinity is real, and we’re here to talk about it. This is Modern Manhood You can find Abdul Malik at adbulmalik.com or on Twitter @socialistraptor In the midst of the bigger conversation about Black Lives Matter, Abdul Malik sent me a message about something he has been thinking about for a while, the intersection of his culture within the ever-presence of toxic masculinity and white supremacy. The intersection of race and masculinity is real, and we’re here to talk about it. This is Modern Manhood You can find Abdul Malik at adbulmalik.com or on Twitter @socialistraptor false full 87 1 530ab515-8d03-435f-a2e5-9358af410522 Cold Takes: Sexual Violence Awareness and Men's Happiness equals to doing what you love, but what does that mean? Today Veronika has a special treat in which she will share with us some findings of Sexual Violence awareness campaigns she's learned. As well we talk about the Male Happiness Scale and what really makes men happy (Hint: It's Jobs).

Research on Sexual Violence

  • Amy R. Baugher and Julie A. Gazmararian: Masculine gender role stress and violence: A literature review and future directions
  • Carline, A., Gunby, C., & Taylor, S. (2018). Too drunk to consent? Exploring the contestations and disruptions in male-focused sexual violence prevention interventions. Social & Legal Studies, 27(3), 299-322. https://www.doi.org/10.1177/0964663917713346  
  • Silver, N., & Hovick, S. (2018). A schema of denial: The influence of rape myth acceptance on beliefs, attitudes, and processing of affirmative consent campaign messages. Journal of Health Communication, 23(6), 505-513. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2018.1473532 

 

Resources on Sexual Violence

  • SACE
  • I am with you 
  • Jeffrey Epstien documentary
  • Catch and Kill
  • Athlete A

 

Restorative Justice & Sexual Violence

Harry’s Study on Men’s Happiness

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-strongest-predictor-of-men-s-well-being-isn-t-family-or-health?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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]]> Sun, 5 Jul 2020 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Today Veronika has a special treat in which she will share with us some findings of Sexual Violence awareness campaigns she's learned. As well we talk about the Male Happiness Scale and what really makes men happy (Hint: It's Jobs).

Research on Sexual Violence

  • Amy R. Baugher and Julie A. Gazmararian: Masculine gender role stress and violence: A literature review and future directions
  • Carline, A., Gunby, C., & Taylor, S. (2018). Too drunk to consent? Exploring the contestations and disruptions in male-focused sexual violence prevention interventions. Social & Legal Studies, 27(3), 299-322. https://www.doi.org/10.1177/0964663917713346  
  • Silver, N., & Hovick, S. (2018). A schema of denial: The influence of rape myth acceptance on beliefs, attitudes, and processing of affirmative consent campaign messages. Journal of Health Communication, 23(6), 505-513. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2018.1473532 

 

Resources on Sexual Violence

  • SACE
  • I am with you 
  • Jeffrey Epstien documentary
  • Catch and Kill
  • Athlete A

 

Restorative Justice & Sexual Violence

Harry’s Study on Men’s Happiness

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-strongest-predictor-of-men-s-well-being-isn-t-family-or-health?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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]]> Cold Takes: Sexual Violence Awareness and Men's Happiness equals to doing what you love, but what does that mean? German Villegas 01:33:17 Today Veronika has a special treat in which she will share with us some findings of Sexual Violence awareness campaigns she's learned. As well we talk about the Male Happiness Scale and what really makes men happy (Hint: It's Jobs). Today Veronika has a special treat in which she will share with us some findings of Sexual Violence awareness campaigns she's learned. As well we talk about the Male Happiness Scale and what really makes men happy (Hint: It's Jobs). false full 86 1 860234ad-5c88-4940-8df4-e8b46ade119c "The Murder of George Floyd Pt 2" with John Morrison and Josh Indi Leidy The Murder of George Floyd has sparked an international wave of reconsideration and doubt over many things. Many things that we may have considered as normal.

The main one has been around the idea of policing. What does policing look like in the modern world? And is it broken? And do we even need it? Questions that not only question the role of one of the most established institutions that we have, but questions that break open what systemic racism looks like in the US, Canada, and throughout the world. 

Most importantly, I have to recognize that this has been a cultural moment that started in the US. So I wanted to speak to people to John Morrison (@John_Liberator) and Josh Indy Leidy (@Indi_SRS) about not only the wave shift, the idea of police abolition, but also their fight to remove a Philadelphia acknowledgment of Frank Rizzo. 

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2020 05:20:47 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast The Murder of George Floyd has sparked an international wave of reconsideration and doubt over many things. Many things that we may have considered as normal.

The main one has been around the idea of policing. What does policing look like in the modern world? And is it broken? And do we even need it? Questions that not only question the role of one of the most established institutions that we have, but questions that break open what systemic racism looks like in the US, Canada, and throughout the world. 

Most importantly, I have to recognize that this has been a cultural moment that started in the US. So I wanted to speak to people to John Morrison (@John_Liberator) and Josh Indy Leidy (@Indi_SRS) about not only the wave shift, the idea of police abolition, but also their fight to remove a Philadelphia acknowledgment of Frank Rizzo. 

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]]> "The Murder of George Floyd Pt 2" with John Morrison and Josh Indi Leidy German Villegas 00:37:55 The Murder of George Floyd has sparked an international wave of reconsideration and doubt over many things. Many things that we may have considered as normal. Most importantly, I have to recognize that this has been a cultural moment that started in the US. So I wanted to speak to people to John Morrison (@John_Liberator) and Josh Indy Leidy (@Indi_SRS) about not only the wave shift, the idea of police abolition, but also their fight to remove a Philadelphia acknowledgment of Frank Rizzo.  The Murder of George Floyd has sparked an international wave of reconsideration and doubt over many things. Many things that we may have considered as normal. Most importantly, I have to recognize that this has been a cultural moment that started in the US. So I wanted to speak to people to John Morrison (@John_Liberator) and Josh Indy Leidy (@Indi_SRS) about not only the wave shift, the idea of police abolition, but also their fight to remove a Philadelphia acknowledgment of Frank Rizzo.  false full 85 1 90a88a5b-6680-4524-8c48-4c05fc2d6641 "The Murder of George Floyd" w/ Avry Lewis-McDougall and Sharon Ruyter Two Weeks ago, George Floyd was murdered in the streets of Minneapolis. George Floyd, a black man whose body was treated like nothing, was killed by a police officer, while three other police officers stood by. All of this was caught on camera as another example of police brutality against black people. Ever since then, the cities of the world and especially in the US have exploded with protests, calls of action, calls for reform, calls for resignations, and calls for systemic change.

I invited two people who will be able to speak on their experience living as black people here in Edmonton. We will talk about what’s it like to be black here, as well as invite them to share their thoughts about the moment in America and here in Canada.

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]]> Sun, 7 Jun 2020 21:28:50 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Two Weeks ago, George Floyd was murdered in the streets of Minneapolis. George Floyd, a black man whose body was treated like nothing, was killed by a police officer, while three other police officers stood by. All of this was caught on camera as another example of police brutality against black people. Ever since then, the cities of the world and especially in the US have exploded with protests, calls of action, calls for reform, calls for resignations, and calls for systemic change.

I invited two people who will be able to speak on their experience living as black people here in Edmonton. We will talk about what’s it like to be black here, as well as invite them to share their thoughts about the moment in America and here in Canada.

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]]> "The Murder of George Floyd" w/ Avry Lewis-McDougall and Sharon Ruyter German Villegas 00:52:08 Two Weeks ago, George Floyd was murdered in the streets of Minneapolis. Ever since then, the cities of the world and especially in the US have exploded with calls for systemic change. I invited two people who will be able to speak on their experience living as black people here in Edmonton. We will talk about what’s it like to be black here, as well as invite them to share their thoughts about the moment in America and here in Canada. Two Weeks ago, George Floyd was murdered in the streets of Minneapolis. Ever since then, the cities of the world and especially in the US have exploded with calls for systemic change. I invited two people who will be able to speak on their experience living as black people here in Edmonton. We will talk about what’s it like to be black here, as well as invite them to share their thoughts about the moment in America and here in Canada. false full 84 1 54167c63-2f90-411f-9d23-5d23c5c5eeed Cold Takes: Joe Biden/Tara Reade and The History of Social Work Today on Cold Takes, Veronika and I talk about the Joe Biden sexual assault allegations, and the problem of partisanship within the #MeToo movement. As well, we will talk about the crappy neoliberal history of social work.

 

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2020 20:26:47 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Today on Cold Takes, Veronika and I talk about the Joe Biden sexual assault allegations, and the problem of partisanship within the #MeToo movement. As well, we will talk about the crappy neoliberal history of social work.

 

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]]> Cold Takes: Joe Biden/Tara Reade and The History of Social Work German Villegas 01:20:49 Today on Cold Takes, Veronika and I talk about the Joe Biden sexual assault allegations, and the problem of partisanship within the #MeToo movement. As well, we will talk about the crappy neoliberal history of social work.   Today on Cold Takes, Veronika and I talk about the Joe Biden sexual assault allegations, and the problem of partisanship within the #MeToo movement. As well, we will talk about the crappy neoliberal history of social work.   false full 83 1 5990eea8-4851-4a00-bbb4-3dd4a208252d "Hockey has a Problem" - Hockey's history with Racism and Misogyny If you look back at the 2019-2020 hockey season, it should be really eye opening to anyone who considers themselves a hockey fan. First came the misdemeanor charge for Auston Matthews, who intimidated a female security guard. Then came the firing of Mike Babcock and then the revelation of this toxic intimidating mind games towards his younger players, then came the revelations that Flames head coach Bill Peters used racist language towards a player of color, Akim Aliu. He was also fired from his job. Then came the firing of long time broadcaster Don Cherry after his xenophobic comments. Then came the racist zoombombing of black hockey player K’andre Miller. And now the Leipsic incidents

All of these incidents can be looked as isolated, in the moment, and not indicative of what the “culture” is like. And many have chosen to look at it that way, unfortunately. Another way to see this is the symptom of the culture that hockey, and dominant sports fandom creates. The toxic, racist, misogynistic culture that continues today, behind the scenes.

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]]> Mon, 11 May 2020 02:38:51 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast If you look back at the 2019-2020 hockey season, it should be really eye opening to anyone who considers themselves a hockey fan. First came the misdemeanor charge for Auston Matthews, who intimidated a female security guard. Then came the firing of Mike Babcock and then the revelation of this toxic intimidating mind games towards his younger players, then came the revelations that Flames head coach Bill Peters used racist language towards a player of color, Akim Aliu. He was also fired from his job. Then came the firing of long time broadcaster Don Cherry after his xenophobic comments. Then came the racist zoombombing of black hockey player K’andre Miller. And now the Leipsic incidents

All of these incidents can be looked as isolated, in the moment, and not indicative of what the “culture” is like. And many have chosen to look at it that way, unfortunately. Another way to see this is the symptom of the culture that hockey, and dominant sports fandom creates. The toxic, racist, misogynistic culture that continues today, behind the scenes.

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]]> "Hockey has a Problem" - Hockey's history with Racism and Misogyny German Villegas 00:39:53 If you look back at the 2019-2020 hockey season, it should be really eye opening to anyone who considers themselves a hockey fan. All of these incidents this year can be looked as isolated, in the moment, and not indicative of what the “culture” is like. And many have chosen to look at it that way, unfortunately. Another way to see this is the symptom of the culture that hockey, and dominant sports fandom creates. The toxic, racist, misogynistic culture that continues today, behind the scenes. If you look back at the 2019-2020 hockey season, it should be really eye opening to anyone who considers themselves a hockey fan. All of these incidents this year can be looked as isolated, in the moment, and not indicative of what the “culture” is like. And many have chosen to look at it that way, unfortunately. Another way to see this is the symptom of the culture that hockey, and dominant sports fandom creates. The toxic, racist, misogynistic culture that continues today, behind the scenes. false full 82 1 dfe39e86-6693-4212-8902-2a6d6cc108a1 "There's no such thing as Positive Masculinity" Intro to Multiple Masculinities Ask people to define what Positive masculinity is? Well, you’ll get a variety of answers, from being virtuous to being self-reliant, but not too self-reliant; being emotionally open, being a good father, or being a good partner.

It gets confusing, especially if we’re looking for examples! There’s a lot! But I get why we as men who really want to relieve ourselves from toxic masculinity want to look for what is positive masculinity. We want to be better, we want to be the opposite of toxic. At the same time, we get stuck with the definition. I believe there’s a reason for that. There’s a reason why we turn ourselves in knots.

I’m here to tell you that there isn’t any labels for positive masculinity. 

Links:

  • Raewyn Connell: http://www.raewynconnell.net/p/masculinities_20.html
  • Men's Lib Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/cvau9g/lets_talk_about_positive_masculinity/
  • New Masculinity Same as Old Masculinity: https://medium.com/the-establishment/meet-the-new-masculinity-same-as-the-old-masculinity-25dc5a65c7df
  • Dr NerdLove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXhUwNYnYQ

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]]> Mon, 4 May 2020 03:54:12 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Ask people to define what Positive masculinity is? Well, you’ll get a variety of answers, from being virtuous to being self-reliant, but not too self-reliant; being emotionally open, being a good father, or being a good partner.

It gets confusing, especially if we’re looking for examples! There’s a lot! But I get why we as men who really want to relieve ourselves from toxic masculinity want to look for what is positive masculinity. We want to be better, we want to be the opposite of toxic. At the same time, we get stuck with the definition. I believe there’s a reason for that. There’s a reason why we turn ourselves in knots.

I’m here to tell you that there isn’t any labels for positive masculinity. 

Links:

  • Raewyn Connell: http://www.raewynconnell.net/p/masculinities_20.html
  • Men's Lib Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/cvau9g/lets_talk_about_positive_masculinity/
  • New Masculinity Same as Old Masculinity: https://medium.com/the-establishment/meet-the-new-masculinity-same-as-the-old-masculinity-25dc5a65c7df
  • Dr NerdLove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXhUwNYnYQ

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]]> "There's no such thing as Positive Masculinity" Intro to Multiple Masculinities German Villegas 00:41:58 I get why we as men who really want to relieve ourselves from toxic masculinity want to look for what is positive masculinity. We want to be better, we want to be the opposite of toxic. At the same time, we get stuck with the definition. I believe there’s a reason for that. There’s a reason why we turn ourselves in knots. I’m here to tell you that there isn’t any labels for positive masculinity.  I get why we as men who really want to relieve ourselves from toxic masculinity want to look for what is positive masculinity. We want to be better, we want to be the opposite of toxic. At the same time, we get stuck with the definition. I believe there’s a reason for that. There’s a reason why we turn ourselves in knots. I’m here to tell you that there isn’t any labels for positive masculinity.  false full 81 1 8878f3c7-1399-4a87-b318-e4e3fdb269d7 Cold Takes - Gender and COVID-19, plus discussing 'The Platform' CW: Talk about Suicide

On today's edition of Cold Takes, Veronika and I talk about the economic impacts for men and women in regards to COVID-19 and how it aligns with the genders. As well we went on a deep dive on the movie 'The Platform' (get it).

Articles discussed:

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]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2020 21:12:01 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast CW: Talk about Suicide

On today's edition of Cold Takes, Veronika and I talk about the economic impacts for men and women in regards to COVID-19 and how it aligns with the genders. As well we went on a deep dive on the movie 'The Platform' (get it).

Articles discussed:

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]]> Cold Takes - Gender and COVID-19, plus discussing 'The Platform' German Villegas 01:23:34 CW: Talk about Suicide On today's edition of Cold Takes, Veronika and I talk about the economic impacts for men and women in regards to COVID-19 and how it aligns with the genders. As well we went on a deep dive on the movie 'The Platform' (get it). CW: Talk about Suicide On today's edition of Cold Takes, Veronika and I talk about the economic impacts for men and women in regards to COVID-19 and how it aligns with the genders. As well we went on a deep dive on the movie 'The Platform' (get it). false full 80 1 501cfc7d-daec-4be2-ab25-a827d0257de8 "Aging Men" w/ the men from Men's Shed COVID-19 affects the aging population at a greater risk than it does anyone else. Self-isolation we hear time and time again is not so much for us not to get the virus, but it’s so we don’t transmit it to the aging population who are at a higher risk to die. So for this Modern Manhood, you will hear from three aging males tell their stories of their life and the struggles they may face before we even knew about the coronavirus.

Articles:

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/3/27/21195762/coronavirus-older-people-quarantine-loneliness-health

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/12/21173938/coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing-elderly-epidemic-isolation-quarantine

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]]> Sun, 29 Mar 2020 23:05:04 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast COVID-19 affects the aging population at a greater risk than it does anyone else. Self-isolation we hear time and time again is not so much for us not to get the virus, but it’s so we don’t transmit it to the aging population who are at a higher risk to die. So for this Modern Manhood, you will hear from three aging males tell their stories of their life and the struggles they may face before we even knew about the coronavirus.

Articles:

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/3/27/21195762/coronavirus-older-people-quarantine-loneliness-health

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/12/21173938/coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing-elderly-epidemic-isolation-quarantine

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]]> "Aging Men" w/ the men from Men's Shed German Villegas 00:38:36 COVID-19 affects the aging population at a greater risk than it does anyone else. Self-isolation we hear time and time again is not so much for us not to get the virus, but it’s so we don’t transmit it to the aging population who are at a higher risk to die. So for this Modern Manhood, you will hear from three aging males tell their stories of their life and the struggles they may face before we even knew about the coronavirus. COVID-19 affects the aging population at a greater risk than it does anyone else. Self-isolation we hear time and time again is not so much for us not to get the virus, but it’s so we don’t transmit it to the aging population who are at a higher risk to die. So for this Modern Manhood, you will hear from three aging males tell their stories of their life and the struggles they may face before we even knew about the coronavirus. false full 79 1 d0e5f6ff-5173-4f0d-bb45-66443e7a1d94 Introducing - "Cold Takes" w/ Veronika Ilich In this episode of Modern Manhood, we're going to start something new and hopefully something continous. A way of reacting to the news cycle and having some fluid conversations with someone who is not only a good friend, someone who came up in the volunteer space around gender about the same time. Introducing "Cold Takes" a space to talk about articles and everyday life with my co-host Veronika Ilich, coordinator for Next Gen Men.

In this episode, we talk about BBC report about worldwide UN gender studies. And another report where it showed mothers being more unpleasant about little boy's emotions than fathers.

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]]> Sun, 15 Mar 2020 14:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast In this episode of Modern Manhood, we're going to start something new and hopefully something continous. A way of reacting to the news cycle and having some fluid conversations with someone who is not only a good friend, someone who came up in the volunteer space around gender about the same time. Introducing "Cold Takes" a space to talk about articles and everyday life with my co-host Veronika Ilich, coordinator for Next Gen Men.

In this episode, we talk about BBC report about worldwide UN gender studies. And another report where it showed mothers being more unpleasant about little boy's emotions than fathers.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Introducing - "Cold Takes" w/ Veronika Ilich German Villegas 00:58:09 In this episode of Modern Manhood, we're going to start a way of reacting to the news cycle and having some fluid conversations. Introducing "Cold Takes" a space to talk about articles and everyday life with my co-host Veronika Ilich, coordinator for Next Gen Men. In this episode, we talk about BBC report about worldwide UN gender studies. And another report where it showed mothers being more unpleasant about little boy's emotions than fathers. In this episode of Modern Manhood, we're going to start a way of reacting to the news cycle and having some fluid conversations. Introducing "Cold Takes" a space to talk about articles and everyday life with my co-host Veronika Ilich, coordinator for Next Gen Men. In this episode, we talk about BBC report about worldwide UN gender studies. And another report where it showed mothers being more unpleasant about little boy's emotions than fathers. false full 78 1 7156f9a4-c287-4009-82fb-bee2331dc772 MM100: "The Future of Masculinity" w/ voices from MensLib and Next Gen Men For the 100th episode of Modern Manhood, I want to think about the future. I asked people from the r/MensLib and Next Gen Men community to send me recordings of what they think the future of masculinity would be like. And you will hear my thoughts on the future of politics and culture in regard to gender. As well as ponder about the end of gender. 

Everyday Sociology article: https://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2018/06/the-future-of-gender.html

MM100 Party!: https://www.facebook.com/events/614647642701514/

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]]> Mon, 2 Mar 2020 03:43:10 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast For the 100th episode of Modern Manhood, I want to think about the future. I asked people from the r/MensLib and Next Gen Men community to send me recordings of what they think the future of masculinity would be like. And you will hear my thoughts on the future of politics and culture in regard to gender. As well as ponder about the end of gender. 

Everyday Sociology article: https://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2018/06/the-future-of-gender.html

MM100 Party!: https://www.facebook.com/events/614647642701514/

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]]> MM100: "The Future of Masculinity" w/ voices from MensLib and Next Gen Men German Villegas 00:38:36 For the 100th episode of Modern Manhood, I want to think about the future. I asked people from the r/MensLib and Next Gen Men community to send me recordings of what they think the future of masculinity would be like. And you will hear my thoughts on the future of politics and culture in regard to gender. As well as ponder about the end of gender.  For the 100th episode of Modern Manhood, I want to think about the future. I asked people from the r/MensLib and Next Gen Men community to send me recordings of what they think the future of masculinity would be like. And you will hear my thoughts on the future of politics and culture in regard to gender. As well as ponder about the end of gender.  false full 77 1 b8cda020-f0ca-4595-ac53-05cdc069358a "Modern Manhood v/s Modern Manhood" w/ Cleo Stiller author of Modern Manhood, the Book Cleo Stiller is the writer of Modern Manhood: Conversations about the Complicated World of Bring a Good Man Today, and we had an awesome chat about the book Modern Manhood, (obviously our values align here) and where the conversation about some of these tough issues around gender begin, and where we can go. 

As well, there is a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

You can find all of Cleo's work at cleostiller.net

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]]> Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:38:15 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Cleo Stiller is the writer of Modern Manhood: Conversations about the Complicated World of Bring a Good Man Today, and we had an awesome chat about the book Modern Manhood, (obviously our values align here) and where the conversation about some of these tough issues around gender begin, and where we can go. 

As well, there is a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

You can find all of Cleo's work at cleostiller.net

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]]> "Modern Manhood v/s Modern Manhood" w/ Cleo Stiller author of Modern Manhood, the Book German Villegas 00:34:21 Cleo Stiller is the writer of Modern Manhood: Conversations about the Complicated World of Bring a Good Man Today, and we had an awesome chat about the book Modern Manhood, (obviously our values align here) and where the conversation about some of these tough issues around gender begin, and where we can go.  As well, there is a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT You can find all of Cleo's work at cleostiller.net Cleo Stiller is the writer of Modern Manhood: Conversations about the Complicated World of Bring a Good Man Today, and we had an awesome chat about the book Modern Manhood, (obviously our values align here) and where the conversation about some of these tough issues around gender begin, and where we can go.  As well, there is a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT You can find all of Cleo's work at cleostiller.net false full 76 1 be788567-d482-4ebc-b16a-6f3d45ebd0d3 "Death Becomes Him": The Complexity of Death through Kobe Bryant (CW: Sexual Assault)

I know of Kobe Bryant. I know the titles, I know the 81 points, I know when he wanted to be called Black Mamba like in Kill Bill, I know the commercials, I have even said “Kobe!” when I shoot paper basketballs at garbage cans. I also know about the rape case, I know about Denver, I know about the trial, and I know about the arrest. 

What is appropriate to say at these times? And why can’t we say the full story, the full complexity of humanity? 

Think Progress Piece: https://thinkprogress.org/the-legacy-of-the-kobe-bryant-rape-case-6a42f159be7b/

Jessica Valenti: https://gen.medium.com/why-do-mens-legacies-matter-more-than-women-s-safety-b832c43735e9

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]]> Sun, 2 Feb 2020 23:41:44 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast (CW: Sexual Assault)

I know of Kobe Bryant. I know the titles, I know the 81 points, I know when he wanted to be called Black Mamba like in Kill Bill, I know the commercials, I have even said “Kobe!” when I shoot paper basketballs at garbage cans. I also know about the rape case, I know about Denver, I know about the trial, and I know about the arrest. 

What is appropriate to say at these times? And why can’t we say the full story, the full complexity of humanity? 

Think Progress Piece: https://thinkprogress.org/the-legacy-of-the-kobe-bryant-rape-case-6a42f159be7b/

Jessica Valenti: https://gen.medium.com/why-do-mens-legacies-matter-more-than-women-s-safety-b832c43735e9

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]]> "Death Becomes Him": The Complexity of Death through Kobe Bryant German Villegas 00:28:08 I know of Kobe Bryant. I know the titles, I know the 81 points, I know when he wanted to be called Black Mamba like in Kill Bill, I know the commercials, I have even said “Kobe!” when I shoot paper basketballs at garbage cans. I also know about the rape case, I know about Denver, I know about the trial, and I know about the arrest.  What is appropriate to say at these times? And why can’t we say the full story, the full complexity of humanity?  I know of Kobe Bryant. I know the titles, I know the 81 points, I know when he wanted to be called Black Mamba like in Kill Bill, I know the commercials, I have even said “Kobe!” when I shoot paper basketballs at garbage cans. I also know about the rape case, I know about Denver, I know about the trial, and I know about the arrest.  What is appropriate to say at these times? And why can’t we say the full story, the full complexity of humanity?  false full 75 1 4350b057-c574-4d7a-837c-cc863c0cf099 "Not for Everyman - Critiquing EVRYMAN" with Barrett Swanson Today, we speak to writer Barrett Swanson, who attended an EVRYMAN men's retreat and wrote about it for Harper’s for a piece titled "Men at Work". He will tell us through his eyes, what some of the red flags, emotionally, physical, and sociological groups like EVRYMAN can be. 

You can find Barrett at: https://www.barrettswanson.com/

Men At Work you can read here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa0c831b631b196e64ad3a/t/5dd970c38f514102b43bcab7/1574531272477/Swanson+11-01-19.pdf

 

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]]> Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:06:51 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Today, we speak to writer Barrett Swanson, who attended an EVRYMAN men's retreat and wrote about it for Harper’s for a piece titled "Men at Work". He will tell us through his eyes, what some of the red flags, emotionally, physical, and sociological groups like EVRYMAN can be. 

You can find Barrett at: https://www.barrettswanson.com/

Men At Work you can read here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa0c831b631b196e64ad3a/t/5dd970c38f514102b43bcab7/1574531272477/Swanson+11-01-19.pdf

 

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]]> "Not for Everyman - Critiquing EVRYMAN" with Barrett Swanson German Villegas 00:45:56 Today, we speak to writer Barrett Swanson, who attended an EVRYMAN men's retreat and wrote about it for Harper’s for a piece titled "Men at Work". He will tell us through his eyes, what some of the red flags, emotionally, physical, and sociological groups like EVRYMAN can be.  You can find Barrett at: https://www.barrettswanson.com/ Men At Work you can read here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa0c831b631b196e64ad3a/t/5dd970c38f514102b43bcab7/1574531272477/Swanson+11-01-19.pdf   Today, we speak to writer Barrett Swanson, who attended an EVRYMAN men's retreat and wrote about it for Harper’s for a piece titled "Men at Work". He will tell us through his eyes, what some of the red flags, emotionally, physical, and sociological groups like EVRYMAN can be.  You can find Barrett at: https://www.barrettswanson.com/ Men At Work you can read here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa0c831b631b196e64ad3a/t/5dd970c38f514102b43bcab7/1574531272477/Swanson+11-01-19.pdf   false full 74 1 9834db21-24e7-4e1a-9e4d-993aa8d2597d The Decade of Masculinity Pt 2 w/ Jake Stika On the last episode of Modern Manhood, we surveyed the landscape of masculinity in the last ten years starting from Tony Porter’s Man Box and the election of Rob For all the way to end of 2017

In this episode, the first of 2020, we continue the conversation with Jake Stika, Executive Director at Next Gen Men, highlighting what caused ripples in the world of gender and masculinity. 

Starting from Van Attack in Toronto all the way to the Don Cherry firing, finishing off with what we think the next ten years will look like for us and this world

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]]> Sun, 5 Jan 2020 23:31:56 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast On the last episode of Modern Manhood, we surveyed the landscape of masculinity in the last ten years starting from Tony Porter’s Man Box and the election of Rob For all the way to end of 2017

In this episode, the first of 2020, we continue the conversation with Jake Stika, Executive Director at Next Gen Men, highlighting what caused ripples in the world of gender and masculinity. 

Starting from Van Attack in Toronto all the way to the Don Cherry firing, finishing off with what we think the next ten years will look like for us and this world

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]]> The Decade of Masculinity Pt 2 w/ Jake Stika German Villegas 00:56:40 On the last episode of Modern Manhood, we surveyed the landscape of masculinity in the last ten years starting from Tony Porter’s Man Box and the election of Rob For all the way to end of 2017. In this episode, the first of 2020, we continue the conversation with Jake Stika, Executive Director at Next Gen Men, highlighting what caused ripples in the world of gender and masculinity.  On the last episode of Modern Manhood, we surveyed the landscape of masculinity in the last ten years starting from Tony Porter’s Man Box and the election of Rob For all the way to end of 2017. In this episode, the first of 2020, we continue the conversation with Jake Stika, Executive Director at Next Gen Men, highlighting what caused ripples in the world of gender and masculinity.  false full 73 1 cdc3d264-4445-4d86-9641-e3bebccc4ec7 "The Decade of Masculinity Part 1" with Jake Stika It’s been ten years since Tony Porter introduced The Man Box to us.

A tool and a theory that has shaped the way we see gender with men, and the system that hurts us and hurts others. 

But a theory is only as good as it’s proof of concept. And you can say that in the last ten years The Man Box theory has been proven over and over again.

On this episode and the one after this of Modern Manhood, we’ll look back at the 2010’s with my friend and the Executive Director of Next Gen Men, Jake Stika. 

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]]> Sun, 22 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast It’s been ten years since Tony Porter introduced The Man Box to us.

A tool and a theory that has shaped the way we see gender with men, and the system that hurts us and hurts others. 

But a theory is only as good as it’s proof of concept. And you can say that in the last ten years The Man Box theory has been proven over and over again.

On this episode and the one after this of Modern Manhood, we’ll look back at the 2010’s with my friend and the Executive Director of Next Gen Men, Jake Stika. 

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]]> "The Decade of Masculinity Part 1" with Jake Stika German Villegas 01:19:24 It’s been ten years since Tony Porter introduced The Man Box to us. A tool and a theory that has shaped the way we see gender with men, and the system that hurts us and hurts others.  But a theory is only as good as it’s proof of concept. And you can say that in the last ten years The Man Box theory has been proven over and over again. On this episode and the one after this of Modern Manhood, we’ll look back at the 2010’s with my friend and the Executive Director of Next Gen Men, Jake Stik It’s been ten years since Tony Porter introduced The Man Box to us. A tool and a theory that has shaped the way we see gender with men, and the system that hurts us and hurts others.  But a theory is only as good as it’s proof of concept. And you can say that in the last ten years The Man Box theory has been proven over and over again. On this episode and the one after this of Modern Manhood, we’ll look back at the 2010’s with my friend and the Executive Director of Next Gen Men, Jake Stik false full 72 1 785f7782-f7bc-46c1-8ac7-42e783a6e3f5 "Masculinity, Violence, and the Community" (Modern Manhood Live) Lately, we have seen a lot of warnings. From moms, dads, from adults that are worried about their sons. Their sons, for the most part, are easily susceptible and can be easily manipulated into communities online that are toxic, unhelpful, and in some cases downright dangerous.

Most of this is happening online, and for a lot of caregivers, they are fighting an everyday battle to just understand what is going in the digital lives of their sons. And right now they are losing the war. 

In this special episode, I will show you the live talk that I did in front of an audience at the Diverse Voices conference about anti-violence here in Edmonton, Alberta. This is a community issue and one that must be faced by everyone, and I thought it was appropriate to bring to this conference. I also was lucky to be joined by Michael Hoyt from the City of Edmonton to talk about sorts of healthy communities, like Men Sheds. 

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]]> Sun, 8 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Lately, we have seen a lot of warnings. From moms, dads, from adults that are worried about their sons. Their sons, for the most part, are easily susceptible and can be easily manipulated into communities online that are toxic, unhelpful, and in some cases downright dangerous.

Most of this is happening online, and for a lot of caregivers, they are fighting an everyday battle to just understand what is going in the digital lives of their sons. And right now they are losing the war. 

In this special episode, I will show you the live talk that I did in front of an audience at the Diverse Voices conference about anti-violence here in Edmonton, Alberta. This is a community issue and one that must be faced by everyone, and I thought it was appropriate to bring to this conference. I also was lucky to be joined by Michael Hoyt from the City of Edmonton to talk about sorts of healthy communities, like Men Sheds. 

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> "Masculinity, Violence, and the Community" (Modern Manhood Live) German Villegas 00:46:14 In this special episode, I will show you the live talk that I did in front of an audience at the Diverse Voices conference about anti-violence here in Edmonton, Alberta. This is a community issue and one that must be faced by everyone, and I thought it was appropriate to bring to this conference. I also was lucky to be joined by Michael Hoyt from the City of Edmonton to talk about sorts of healthy communities, like Men Sheds.  In this special episode, I will show you the live talk that I did in front of an audience at the Diverse Voices conference about anti-violence here in Edmonton, Alberta. This is a community issue and one that must be faced by everyone, and I thought it was appropriate to bring to this conference. I also was lucky to be joined by Michael Hoyt from the City of Edmonton to talk about sorts of healthy communities, like Men Sheds.  false full 71 1 26c31cea-ba29-4971-9261-8703b950dd4c "Nature and Men" (Wolfpack live!) Learning about masculinities, gender power structures, and feminist ideals can be key when people are organizing to fight the climate crisis. 

So in this episode of Modern Manhood, we’re going to take some of the beautiful speeches done at the Wolfpack about the environment, and weave it with ideas and thoughts about masculinity and the environment.

Links:

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/11/21/analysis/independent-alberta-would-be-worlds-worst-climate-polluter (Alberta, if they secede, would be the number 1 polluter per person)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/men-resist-green-behavior-as-unmanly/ (men resist green behavior as unmanly)

https://www.humansandnature.org/humans-nature-the-right-relationship (Humans and Nature)

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]]> Sun, 24 Nov 2019 23:51:07 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Learning about masculinities, gender power structures, and feminist ideals can be key when people are organizing to fight the climate crisis. 

So in this episode of Modern Manhood, we’re going to take some of the beautiful speeches done at the Wolfpack about the environment, and weave it with ideas and thoughts about masculinity and the environment.

Links:

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/11/21/analysis/independent-alberta-would-be-worlds-worst-climate-polluter (Alberta, if they secede, would be the number 1 polluter per person)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/men-resist-green-behavior-as-unmanly/ (men resist green behavior as unmanly)

https://www.humansandnature.org/humans-nature-the-right-relationship (Humans and Nature)

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]]> "Nature and Men" (Wolfpack live!) German Villegas 00:29:17 Learning about masculinities, gender power structures, and feminist ideals can be key when people are organizing to fight the climate crisis. So in this episode of Modern Manhood, we’re going to take some of the beautiful speeches done at the Wolfpack about the environment, and weave it with ideas and thoughts about masculinity and the environment. Learning about masculinities, gender power structures, and feminist ideals can be key when people are organizing to fight the climate crisis. So in this episode of Modern Manhood, we’re going to take some of the beautiful speeches done at the Wolfpack about the environment, and weave it with ideas and thoughts about masculinity and the environment. false full 70 1 b8359cb3a79240728cfeac8556294999 "Oil and Men Pt 2: Digging in The Dirt" w/ Dylan Rhys Howard The way Albertans reconcile with the Oil industry is a major way in which Albertans see their own identity, and the people who work in the oil patches are also in the crossfires and have been for ages. The rates of suicides went up, the rates of negative mental health have also gone up.  Today we talk to Dylan Rhys Howard, one of the directors for the documentary "Digging in the Dirt" which talks about these things.

These are the un-talked about consequences of the oil industry. Un-talked about until recently.

Links:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/omarmouallem/oil-heartbreak-and-manhood (Oil, Heartbreak, and Manhood)

https://www.nsi-canada.ca/2018/11/peak-oil/ (Peak Oil)

https://dylanrhyshoward.com/portfolio/digging-in-the-dirt/ (Digging in the Dirt)

https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2019/04/21/for-some-oilpatch-workers-a-sober-life-means-the-end-of-a-lucrative-career.html (Star-Metro)

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]]> Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:49:59 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast The way Albertans reconcile with the Oil industry is a major way in which Albertans see their own identity, and the people who work in the oil patches are also in the crossfires and have been for ages. The rates of suicides went up, the rates of negative mental health have also gone up.  Today we talk to Dylan Rhys Howard, one of the directors for the documentary "Digging in the Dirt" which talks about these things.

These are the un-talked about consequences of the oil industry. Un-talked about until recently.

Links:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/omarmouallem/oil-heartbreak-and-manhood (Oil, Heartbreak, and Manhood)

https://www.nsi-canada.ca/2018/11/peak-oil/ (Peak Oil)

https://dylanrhyshoward.com/portfolio/digging-in-the-dirt/ (Digging in the Dirt)

https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2019/04/21/for-some-oilpatch-workers-a-sober-life-means-the-end-of-a-lucrative-career.html (Star-Metro)

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]]> "Oil and Men Pt 2: Digging in The Dirt" w/ Dylan Rhys Howard German Villegas 00:34:17 The way Albertans reconcile with the Oil industry is a major way in which Albertans see their own identity, and the people who work in the oil patches are also in the crossfires and have been for ages. The rates of suicides went up, the rates of negative mental health have also gone up. Today we talk to Dylan Rhys Howard, one of the directors for the documentary "Digging in the Dirt" which talks about these things. The way Albertans reconcile with the Oil industry is a major way in which Albertans see their own identity, and the people who work in the oil patches are also in the crossfires and have been for ages. The rates of suicides went up, the rates of negative mental health have also gone up. Today we talk to Dylan Rhys Howard, one of the directors for the documentary "Digging in the Dirt" which talks about these things. false full 69 1 06bf68b343a74b60856fe2fe23c1af33 "Oil and Men" Part 1 Oil and Gas dominated the conversation for both elections here, and the people involved are caught in the crossfire. The workers who are mostly men have come to demonstrate the stereotype of Alberta men, the pickup driving, beer-drinking, hard ass. 

Yet, they are just humans as well. How has this industry affected the men who work there, and affected the community around it? The way that we look at Oil in Alberta is very common to how we look at dominant masculinity. 

Articles mentioned:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/alberta-canadas-tar-sands-is-growing-but-indigenous-people-fight-back/ (National Geographic)

https://www.pyriscence.ca/home/2017/9/30/boys-will-be-boys-albertas-toxic-oil-culture (Pyriscene)

https://www.parklandinstitute.ca/how_gender_and_race_shape_experiences_of_work_in_albertas_oil_industry (Parkland Institute)

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/extractive-populism-and-future-canada (Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives)

 

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]]> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 03:33:09 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Oil and Gas dominated the conversation for both elections here, and the people involved are caught in the crossfire. The workers who are mostly men have come to demonstrate the stereotype of Alberta men, the pickup driving, beer-drinking, hard ass. 

Yet, they are just humans as well. How has this industry affected the men who work there, and affected the community around it? The way that we look at Oil in Alberta is very common to how we look at dominant masculinity. 

Articles mentioned:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/alberta-canadas-tar-sands-is-growing-but-indigenous-people-fight-back/ (National Geographic)

https://www.pyriscence.ca/home/2017/9/30/boys-will-be-boys-albertas-toxic-oil-culture (Pyriscene)

https://www.parklandinstitute.ca/how_gender_and_race_shape_experiences_of_work_in_albertas_oil_industry (Parkland Institute)

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/extractive-populism-and-future-canada (Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives)

 

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]]> "Oil and Men" Part 1 German Villegas 00:23:09 Oil and Gas dominated the conversation for both elections here, and the people involved are caught in the crossfire. The workers who are mostly men have come to demonstrate the stereotype of Alberta men, the pickup driving, beer-drinking, hard ass. Yet, they are just humans as well. How has this industry affected the men who work there, and affected the community around it? The way that we look at Oil in Alberta is very common to how we look at dominant masculinity. Oil and Gas dominated the conversation for both elections here, and the people involved are caught in the crossfire. The workers who are mostly men have come to demonstrate the stereotype of Alberta men, the pickup driving, beer-drinking, hard ass. Yet, they are just humans as well. How has this industry affected the men who work there, and affected the community around it? The way that we look at Oil in Alberta is very common to how we look at dominant masculinity. true full 68 1 d9c0c87872f84b56b083fbe91b7efd4b "Big Brother" (Wolf Pack Live) w/ Issac and Talia Two months ago we talked about mentoring young men here at The Pint for Wolfpack. We're going to hear from a school counselor and a person from Big Brothers and Big Sisters about mentoring young men. Young men are feeling much more anxious, there is a lot more questioning of how men quote unquote should be in society. And there’s also a lot more complexity in the world, which allows not only for more breathing room for being your own self, but there’s a lot more pressure to pick a self that you want to be.

So the question around what it means to be a man, to me, breaks down to how do we treat our young boys? 

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]]> Mon, 14 Oct 2019 04:13:44 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Two months ago we talked about mentoring young men here at The Pint for Wolfpack. We're going to hear from a school counselor and a person from Big Brothers and Big Sisters about mentoring young men. Young men are feeling much more anxious, there is a lot more questioning of how men quote unquote should be in society. And there’s also a lot more complexity in the world, which allows not only for more breathing room for being your own self, but there’s a lot more pressure to pick a self that you want to be.

So the question around what it means to be a man, to me, breaks down to how do we treat our young boys? 

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]]> "Big Brother" (Wolf Pack Live) w/ Issac and Talia German Villegas 00:39:36 Two months ago we talked about mentoring young men here at The Pint for Wolfpack. We're going to hear from a school counselor and a person from Big Brothers and Big Sisters about mentoring young men. Young men are feeling much more anxious, there is a lot more questioning of how men quote-unquote should be in society. So the question around what it means to be a man, to me, breaks down to how do we treat our young boys? Two months ago we talked about mentoring young men here at The Pint for Wolfpack. We're going to hear from a school counselor and a person from Big Brothers and Big Sisters about mentoring young men. Young men are feeling much more anxious, there is a lot more questioning of how men quote-unquote should be in society. So the question around what it means to be a man, to me, breaks down to how do we treat our young boys? false full 67 1 39a9e3d03bf74d83a5f8103fc3110502 "Being Fat" Fat. It was a word that I was called when I was a kid, and a word that I still get called, by myself. It was the constant barrage of images and messages of what it was to look like a man. I wanted to examine why as men we’re very obsessed with not being fat. And the mental gymnastics people do to justify insulting people who are fat, and then insult themselves.

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]]> Mon, 23 Sep 2019 04:21:40 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Fat. It was a word that I was called when I was a kid, and a word that I still get called, by myself. It was the constant barrage of images and messages of what it was to look like a man. I wanted to examine why as men we’re very obsessed with not being fat. And the mental gymnastics people do to justify insulting people who are fat, and then insult themselves.

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]]> "Being Fat" German Villegas 00:23:13 Fat. It was a word that I was called when I was a kid, and a word that I still get called, by myself. It was the constant barrage of images and messages of what it was to look like a man. I wanted to examine why as men we’re very obsessed with not being fat. And the mental gymnastics people do to justify insulting people who are fat, and then insult themselves. Fat. It was a word that I was called when I was a kid, and a word that I still get called, by myself. It was the constant barrage of images and messages of what it was to look like a man. I wanted to examine why as men we’re very obsessed with not being fat. And the mental gymnastics people do to justify insulting people who are fat, and then insult themselves. false full 66 1 271ee76b03a84fdfb469627160ad715e "Our Favorites are Cancelled" w/ Carl Landra and Veronika Ilich In this episode, we go through a personal journey of how I am reconciling my feelings on Junot Diaz and Michael Kimmel. As well wondering how far do we take issues of "cancellation."

How do we separate the message from the man? Or do we not?

Carl Landra and Veronika Ilich join me in helping me navigate these muddy waters.

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]]> Sun, 1 Sep 2019 21:03:50 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast In this episode, we go through a personal journey of how I am reconciling my feelings on Junot Diaz and Michael Kimmel. As well wondering how far do we take issues of "cancellation."

How do we separate the message from the man? Or do we not?

Carl Landra and Veronika Ilich join me in helping me navigate these muddy waters.

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]]> "Our Favorites are Cancelled" w/ Carl Landra and Veronika Ilich German Villegas 00:43:17 In this episode, we go through a personal journey of how I am reconciling my feelings on Junot Diaz and Michael Kimmel. As well wondering how far do we take issues of "cancellation." How do we separate the message from the man? Or do we not? Carl Landra and Veronika Ilich join me in helping me navigate these muddy waters. In this episode, we go through a personal journey of how I am reconciling my feelings on Junot Diaz and Michael Kimmel. As well wondering how far do we take issues of "cancellation." How do we separate the message from the man? Or do we not? Carl Landra and Veronika Ilich join me in helping me navigate these muddy waters. false full 65 1 8d92116f963a4c9493f8349c29f35b5a Masculinity and the Media Pt 3: Breaking The Monster w/ Michelle Da Silva We’re here in 2019 because the media created a monster. So much that being anti-racist and anti-sexual harrassment or using gender pronouns or talking about toxic masculinity is somehow a political thing. Or that we’ve come to the point where issues that I think are community issues is now a wedge between man vs woman or left vs right. 

This type of media is not working anymore. And this media created a monster that platforms dangerous and troubling ideas.

How is the media handling this? How is the media dealing with gender in a bigger case? We speak with Michelle Da Silva from Xtra to find out more.

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]]> Mon, 19 Aug 2019 04:34:23 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast We’re here in 2019 because the media created a monster. So much that being anti-racist and anti-sexual harrassment or using gender pronouns or talking about toxic masculinity is somehow a political thing. Or that we’ve come to the point where issues that I think are community issues is now a wedge between man vs woman or left vs right. 

This type of media is not working anymore. And this media created a monster that platforms dangerous and troubling ideas.

How is the media handling this? How is the media dealing with gender in a bigger case? We speak with Michelle Da Silva from Xtra to find out more.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Masculinity and the Media Pt 3: Breaking The Monster w/ Michelle Da Silva German Villegas 00:43:59 We’re here in 2019 because the media created a monster. We’ve come to the point where issues that I think are community issues is now a wedge between man vs woman or left vs right. This type of media is not working anymore. And this media created a monster that platforms dangerous and troubling ideas. How is the media handling this? How is the media dealing with gender in a bigger case? We speak with Michelle Da Silva from Xtra to find out more. We’re here in 2019 because the media created a monster. We’ve come to the point where issues that I think are community issues is now a wedge between man vs woman or left vs right. This type of media is not working anymore. And this media created a monster that platforms dangerous and troubling ideas. How is the media handling this? How is the media dealing with gender in a bigger case? We speak with Michelle Da Silva from Xtra to find out more. false full 64 1 53913a131c274ee1a673a96c82e29f7e "The Gendered World Of Work" with Michael, Megha, and Dana (Wolfpack Live!) We had an awesome Wolf Pack last time. It was our one year anniversary of Wolf Pack in Edmonton and we celebrated by talking about how work has a gendered lens to it. Either through the careers we choose, to the trouble we give to men and women who are not working their “traditional work roles." We wanted to hear from the people that have experienced both sides of the coin, and to try to get to the gritty knowledge of what it’s like to be in those roles.

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]]> Mon, 5 Aug 2019 03:31:39 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast We had an awesome Wolf Pack last time. It was our one year anniversary of Wolf Pack in Edmonton and we celebrated by talking about how work has a gendered lens to it. Either through the careers we choose, to the trouble we give to men and women who are not working their “traditional work roles." We wanted to hear from the people that have experienced both sides of the coin, and to try to get to the gritty knowledge of what it’s like to be in those roles.

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]]> "The Gendered World Of Work" with Michael, Megha, and Dana (Wolfpack Live!) German Villegas 00:44:24 We had an awesome Wolf Pack last time. It was our one year anniversary of Wolf Pack in Edmonton and we celebrated by talking about how work has a gendered lens to it. Either through the careers, we choose, to the trouble we give to men and women who are not working their “traditional work roles." We wanted to hear from the people that have experienced both sides of the coin, and to try to get to the gritty knowledge of what it’s like to be in those roles. We had an awesome Wolf Pack last time. It was our one year anniversary of Wolf Pack in Edmonton and we celebrated by talking about how work has a gendered lens to it. Either through the careers, we choose, to the trouble we give to men and women who are not working their “traditional work roles." We wanted to hear from the people that have experienced both sides of the coin, and to try to get to the gritty knowledge of what it’s like to be in those roles. false full 63 1 18bf21ee9c0a4d43af5d880071772e70 Masculinity and the Media Pt 2: "Why do we get Toxic Masculinity so Wrong?" with Carl Landra and David Youn Toxic Masculinity, it’s what many people think this podcast is about, a term that comes loaded with many definitions: gender roles and dominations, expression of emotions, the opposite of healthy masculinity, whatever that looks like, and what can be noted as traditional. All of them  add to the confusion of what Toxic Masculinity, a phrase that is entrenched in our vernacular, actually is. So I ask, does the media get this essential part right? 

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]]> Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:28:44 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Toxic Masculinity, it’s what many people think this podcast is about, a term that comes loaded with many definitions: gender roles and dominations, expression of emotions, the opposite of healthy masculinity, whatever that looks like, and what can be noted as traditional. All of them  add to the confusion of what Toxic Masculinity, a phrase that is entrenched in our vernacular, actually is. So I ask, does the media get this essential part right? 

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]]> Masculinity and the Media Pt 2: "Why do we get Toxic Masculinity so Wrong?" with Carl Landra and David Youn German Villegas 00:41:41 Toxic Masculinity, it’s what many people think this podcast is about, a term that comes loaded with many definitions: gender roles and dominations, expression of emotions, the opposite of healthy masculinity, whatever that looks like, and what can be noted as traditional. All of them add to the confusion of what Toxic Masculinity, a phrase that is entrenched in our vernacular, actually is. So I ask, does the media get this essential part right? Toxic Masculinity, it’s what many people think this podcast is about, a term that comes loaded with many definitions: gender roles and dominations, expression of emotions, the opposite of healthy masculinity, whatever that looks like, and what can be noted as traditional. All of them add to the confusion of what Toxic Masculinity, a phrase that is entrenched in our vernacular, actually is. So I ask, does the media get this essential part right? false full 62 1 00d75db9deb1433dbf1569eb4be12618 Masculinity and The Media Pt 1: The Crisis of Masculinity The way that masculinity gets talked about in the general mainstream media really annoys me. 

If anyone wants to learn more about how masculinity shapes our daily life, or how gender affects the world at large, the media does a piss poor job of explaining even the basic of concepts. How does someone even learn about multiple masculinities, gender inequality structures, systemic issues that deal with masculinity?

Is there a solution to all of this? Or is this even a problem? 

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]]> Mon, 8 Jul 2019 00:35:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast The way that masculinity gets talked about in the general mainstream media really annoys me. 

If anyone wants to learn more about how masculinity shapes our daily life, or how gender affects the world at large, the media does a piss poor job of explaining even the basic of concepts. How does someone even learn about multiple masculinities, gender inequality structures, systemic issues that deal with masculinity?

Is there a solution to all of this? Or is this even a problem? 

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]]> Masculinity and The Media Pt 1: The Crisis of Masculinity German Villegas 00:28:38 The way that masculinity gets talked about in the general mainstream media really annoys me. If anyone wants to learn more about how masculinity shapes our daily life, or how gender affects the world at large, the media does a piss poor job of explaining even the basic of concepts. How does someone even learn about multiple masculinities, gender inequality structures, systemic issues that deal with masculinity? Is there a solution to all of this? Or is this even a problem? The way that masculinity gets talked about in the general mainstream media really annoys me. If anyone wants to learn more about how masculinity shapes our daily life, or how gender affects the world at large, the media does a piss poor job of explaining even the basic of concepts. How does someone even learn about multiple masculinities, gender inequality structures, systemic issues that deal with masculinity? Is there a solution to all of this? Or is this even a problem? false full 61 1 a4c20e3336f648c58f2c9e248884feb6 "Talking to Ryan" with Ryan Valley Ryan if you don’t know is one of the co-founders of Men Edmonton, and most importantly one of the men that guided me into the pro-feminist masculinity movement. I met him at a coffee shop in Edmonton, he wanted to suss me out before I could join Men Edmonton. Well i guess I fit the bill and I was invited in, and have been thankful ever since. And now he’s joined the Next Gen Men family, as the Program Manager for Wolf Pack.

We got a chance to talk about what it's like to be at a Wolf Pack, the highs, the challenges, and the tension. About the group and about masculinity in general

nextgenmen.ca

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]]> Sun, 9 Jun 2019 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Ryan if you don’t know is one of the co-founders of Men Edmonton, and most importantly one of the men that guided me into the pro-feminist masculinity movement. I met him at a coffee shop in Edmonton, he wanted to suss me out before I could join Men Edmonton. Well i guess I fit the bill and I was invited in, and have been thankful ever since. And now he’s joined the Next Gen Men family, as the Program Manager for Wolf Pack.

We got a chance to talk about what it's like to be at a Wolf Pack, the highs, the challenges, and the tension. About the group and about masculinity in general

nextgenmen.ca

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]]> "Talking to Ryan" with Ryan Valley German Villegas 00:38:40 Ryan is one of the co-founders of Men Edmonton, and most importantly one of the men that guided me into the pro-feminist masculinity movement. I met him at a coffee shop in Edmonton and have been thankful ever since. And now he’s joined the Next Gen Men family, as the Program Manager for Wolf Pack. We got a chance to talk about what it's like to be at a Wolf Pack, the highs, the challenges, and the tension. About the group and about masculinity in general nextgenmen.ca Ryan is one of the co-founders of Men Edmonton, and most importantly one of the men that guided me into the pro-feminist masculinity movement. I met him at a coffee shop in Edmonton and have been thankful ever since. And now he’s joined the Next Gen Men family, as the Program Manager for Wolf Pack. We got a chance to talk about what it's like to be at a Wolf Pack, the highs, the challenges, and the tension. About the group and about masculinity in general nextgenmen.ca false full 60 1 db172628ff414b8bb1c5f20fcfcd86e9 "The Questions Episode" To celebrate the third anniversary of Modern Manhood, I asked for people to submit questions that they have wonderings of in regards to masculinity and gender. So here's me answering a few. We're going to talk about: 

-Straight Man's Anxiety

-Young Boys

-Facts and Logic Bros

-Men's Groups

Links: Harper Bazaar's "Men have No Friends and Women Bear The Burden", Deloitte's "The Design of Everyday Man"

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]]> Mon, 27 May 2019 04:07:22 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast To celebrate the third anniversary of Modern Manhood, I asked for people to submit questions that they have wonderings of in regards to masculinity and gender. So here's me answering a few. We're going to talk about: 

-Straight Man's Anxiety

-Young Boys

-Facts and Logic Bros

-Men's Groups

Links: Harper Bazaar's "Men have No Friends and Women Bear The Burden", Deloitte's "The Design of Everyday Man"

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> "The Questions Episode" German Villegas 00:53:59 To celebrate the third anniversary of Modern Manhood, I asked for people to submit questions that they have wonderings of in regards to masculinity and gender. So here's me answering a few. We're going to talk about: -Straight Man's Anxiety -Young Boys -Facts and Logic Bros -Men's Groups To celebrate the third anniversary of Modern Manhood, I asked for people to submit questions that they have wonderings of in regards to masculinity and gender. So here's me answering a few. We're going to talk about: -Straight Man's Anxiety -Young Boys -Facts and Logic Bros -Men's Groups false full 59 1 c327b7fc41914d3f92808f4b845fdd47 "Can Men and Women be Friends?" aka The Friendzone (WolfPack Live!) We have been talking about the relationship between men and female friends for a long time. It was the basis of the movie When Harry Met Sally, a good 5 years before Friends invented the Friendzone. 

The issue is that the lesson of those movies and in fact of society is that men and women are sooooo attracted to each other that they cannot be friends.

So today, I’m going to give you a small treat, I’m going to give you a listen to the last WolfPack we did here in Edmonton, to get a chance to listen to our storytellers talk about The Friendzone.

Jessica runs Ripple Effect, go check her events out

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]]> Sun, 12 May 2019 05:11:08 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast We have been talking about the relationship between men and female friends for a long time. It was the basis of the movie When Harry Met Sally, a good 5 years before Friends invented the Friendzone. 

The issue is that the lesson of those movies and in fact of society is that men and women are sooooo attracted to each other that they cannot be friends.

So today, I’m going to give you a small treat, I’m going to give you a listen to the last WolfPack we did here in Edmonton, to get a chance to listen to our storytellers talk about The Friendzone.

Jessica runs Ripple Effect, go check her events out

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> "Can Men and Women be Friends?" aka The Friendzone (WolfPack Live!) German Villegas 00:54:12 We have been talking about the relationship between men and female friends for a long time. The issue is that the lesson of those movies and in fact of society is that men and women are so attracted to each other that they cannot be friends. Today, I’m going to give you a small treat, I’m going to give you a listen to the last WolfPack we did here in Edmonton, to get a chance to listen to our storytellers talk about The Friendzone. We have been talking about the relationship between men and female friends for a long time. The issue is that the lesson of those movies and in fact of society is that men and women are so attracted to each other that they cannot be friends. Today, I’m going to give you a small treat, I’m going to give you a listen to the last WolfPack we did here in Edmonton, to get a chance to listen to our storytellers talk about The Friendzone. false full 58 1 323f47a9cc27448f8f6c19ff601bec65 Ep 80: "Is Toxic Masculinity an issue for Climate Change?" There is a notion especially in western society that environmentalism is deemed girly or not manly. Either by being vegetarian, caring about animals, or just caring about the environment in general.

Why is that? Even though issues like climate change is a non-gendered issue that affects everyone, men for the most part resist green behaviour or activism. Why do a lot of men think being eco-friendly is unmanly?

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2019 04:47:56 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast There is a notion especially in western society that environmentalism is deemed girly or not manly. Either by being vegetarian, caring about animals, or just caring about the environment in general.

Why is that? Even though issues like climate change is a non-gendered issue that affects everyone, men for the most part resist green behaviour or activism. Why do a lot of men think being eco-friendly is unmanly?

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Ep 80: "Is Toxic Masculinity an issue for Climate Change?" German Villegas 00:42:57 There is a notion especially in western society that environmentalism is deemed girly or not manly. Either by being vegetarian, caring about animals, or just caring about the environment in general. Why is that? Even though issues like climate change is a non-gendered issue that affects everyone, men, for the most part, resist green behavior or activism. Why do a lot of men think being eco-friendly is unmanly? There is a notion especially in western society that environmentalism is deemed girly or not manly. Either by being vegetarian, caring about animals, or just caring about the environment in general. Why is that? Even though issues like climate change is a non-gendered issue that affects everyone, men, for the most part, resist green behavior or activism. Why do a lot of men think being eco-friendly is unmanly? false full 57 1 dcde4a780c67412787c60ecc0f882577 Ep 79: "Why is it Hard for Men to Call Themselves Feminists?" Even in the year 2019, there is a worry about the label of feminism when it comes to men. I just want to be clear, when I get a chance to talk to a lot of men there’s a lot they agree with in regards to pro-feminist values. You know except a few idiots here and there that try to be contrarian. It might feel like those idiots are everywhere but they’re not. Not that I see anyways, I see a lot of guys that are confused, misinformed, feeling shamed, feeling anxious about what they should support. They’re worried that if they embrace the word feminism, that they are more prone not only from other men but from women who are now holding them to a much higher standard.

My question is, why is that label so hard to hurdle? why is it so hard for men to say that they are feminist?

Men's Lib Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/b9vs3u/do_you_believe_that_menslib_should_be_considered/

and my episode with Matthew Hodges from MensLib

The Man's Survey: https://www.chatelaine.com/survey-define-masculinity/

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Sun, 14 Apr 2019 20:34:55 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Even in the year 2019, there is a worry about the label of feminism when it comes to men. I just want to be clear, when I get a chance to talk to a lot of men there’s a lot they agree with in regards to pro-feminist values. You know except a few idiots here and there that try to be contrarian. It might feel like those idiots are everywhere but they’re not. Not that I see anyways, I see a lot of guys that are confused, misinformed, feeling shamed, feeling anxious about what they should support. They’re worried that if they embrace the word feminism, that they are more prone not only from other men but from women who are now holding them to a much higher standard.

My question is, why is that label so hard to hurdle? why is it so hard for men to say that they are feminist?

Men's Lib Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/comments/b9vs3u/do_you_believe_that_menslib_should_be_considered/

and my episode with Matthew Hodges from MensLib

The Man's Survey: https://www.chatelaine.com/survey-define-masculinity/

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Ep 79: "Why is it Hard for Men to Call Themselves Feminists?" German Villegas 00:42:28 Even in the year 2019, there is a worry about the label of feminism when it comes to men. I see a lot of guys that are confused, misinformed, feeling shamed, feeling anxious about what they should support. They’re worried that if they embrace the word feminism, that they are more prone not only from other men but from women who are now holding them to a much higher standard. My question is, why is that label so hard to hurdle? why is it so hard for men to say that they are feminist? Even in the year 2019, there is a worry about the label of feminism when it comes to men. I see a lot of guys that are confused, misinformed, feeling shamed, feeling anxious about what they should support. They’re worried that if they embrace the word feminism, that they are more prone not only from other men but from women who are now holding them to a much higher standard. My question is, why is that label so hard to hurdle? why is it so hard for men to say that they are feminist? false full 56 1 6fed6283ebf046a599cf82442b4c85a2 "Fatherhood and Equity: Paternity Leave and Mentorship" with Michael Janz and Eric Arthrell The brunt of parenting and the fathers who are working to make a better more equitable world is tough when you think about ideas like paternity leave and mentorship. We’re going to talk to two individuals who are taking these two outcomes to reality. Two fathers, two lives, and their thoughts around gender, and fatherhood in modern world.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Sun, 31 Mar 2019 16:21:56 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast The brunt of parenting and the fathers who are working to make a better more equitable world is tough when you think about ideas like paternity leave and mentorship. We’re going to talk to two individuals who are taking these two outcomes to reality. Two fathers, two lives, and their thoughts around gender, and fatherhood in modern world.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> "Fatherhood and Equity: Paternity Leave and Mentorship" with Michael Janz and Eric Arthrell German Villegas 00:43:15 The brunt of parenting and the fathers who are working to make a better more equitable world especially when you think about ideas like paternity leave and mentorship. We’re going to talk to two individuals who are taking these two outcomes to reality. Two fathers, two lives, and their thoughts around gender, and fatherhood in the modern world. The brunt of parenting and the fathers who are working to make a better more equitable world especially when you think about ideas like paternity leave and mentorship. We’re going to talk to two individuals who are taking these two outcomes to reality. Two fathers, two lives, and their thoughts around gender, and fatherhood in the modern world. false full 55 1 ca5afb4742104a90a09ce375f7da7aa2 "The Complex Terry Crews" feat Terry Crews (sort of) Ever since the movement to create better ideals around masculinity, there have been a lot of popular male figures stepping up to the plate to talk these issue. None bigger though than movie and TV star, Terry Crews.

I got to hear Terry speak in an event hosted by the Alberta Council of Women's Shelter, so from then I wonder what is it about Terry Crews that we like? Why is he the flame in which this message gets carried on? Or is he just a man? Flawed like any other?

 

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:36:56 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Ever since the movement to create better ideals around masculinity, there have been a lot of popular male figures stepping up to the plate to talk these issue. None bigger though than movie and TV star, Terry Crews.

I got to hear Terry speak in an event hosted by the Alberta Council of Women's Shelter, so from then I wonder what is it about Terry Crews that we like? Why is he the flame in which this message gets carried on? Or is he just a man? Flawed like any other?

 

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> "The Complex Terry Crews" feat Terry Crews (sort of) German Villegas 00:45:54 Ever since the movement to create better ideals around masculinity, there have been a lot of popular male figures stepping up to the plate to talk these issue. None bigger though than movie and TV star, Terry Crews. I got to hear Terry speak in an event hosted by the Alberta Council of Women's Shelter, so from then I wonder what is it about Terry Crews that we like? Why is he the flame in which this message gets carried on? Or is he just a man? Flawed like any other? Ever since the movement to create better ideals around masculinity, there have been a lot of popular male figures stepping up to the plate to talk these issue. None bigger though than movie and TV star, Terry Crews. I got to hear Terry speak in an event hosted by the Alberta Council of Women's Shelter, so from then I wonder what is it about Terry Crews that we like? Why is he the flame in which this message gets carried on? Or is he just a man? Flawed like any other? false full 54 1 7a25c60542c74a12a51f39b237466d41 "Women, Men, Violence, And Hockey" with Tim Skuce and Megan McCormick Hockey, one of the most masculine sports in Canada. So much so, that a lot of Canadians feel a certain set of confidence when we measure it up with other sports. In the manliest of manliest of professional sports in Canada, how does masculinity play with how we view violence and gender? We speak to Tim Skuce from Brandon University and Megan McCormick.

 

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]]> Mon, 4 Mar 2019 03:38:01 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Hockey, one of the most masculine sports in Canada. So much so, that a lot of Canadians feel a certain set of confidence when we measure it up with other sports. In the manliest of manliest of professional sports in Canada, how does masculinity play with how we view violence and gender? We speak to Tim Skuce from Brandon University and Megan McCormick.

 

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]]> "Women, Men, Violence, And Hockey" with Tim Skuce and Megan McCormick German Villegas 00:48:50 Hockey, one of the most masculine sports in Canada. So much so, that a lot of Canadians feel a certain set of confidence when we measure it up with other sports. In the manliest of manliest of professional sports in Canada, how does masculinity play with how we view violence and gender? We speak to Tim Skuce from Brandon University and Megan McCormick.   Hockey, one of the most masculine sports in Canada. So much so, that a lot of Canadians feel a certain set of confidence when we measure it up with other sports. In the manliest of manliest of professional sports in Canada, how does masculinity play with how we view violence and gender? We speak to Tim Skuce from Brandon University and Megan McCormick.   false full 53 1 c83ba60379fe46eb90a4d9fab52fc4b6 "The Restriction of Boys Potential" with Carrie Starbuck and Nick Sandor Youth for the most part, they understand the rules but usually hate playing by them, and question why they’re there to begin with. In their eyes issues like gender and equality are night and day and they question why don't adults understand? So how do we teach youth when adults are fighting this battle as well. How do we teach boys when men are confused as well?

This episodes includes conversations with Carrie Starbuck from Happy Lands and Nick Sandor from Man Made

A clip from CBC Metro Morning with Matt Galloway is included

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]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2019 07:22:32 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Youth for the most part, they understand the rules but usually hate playing by them, and question why they’re there to begin with. In their eyes issues like gender and equality are night and day and they question why don't adults understand? So how do we teach youth when adults are fighting this battle as well. How do we teach boys when men are confused as well?

This episodes includes conversations with Carrie Starbuck from Happy Lands and Nick Sandor from Man Made

A clip from CBC Metro Morning with Matt Galloway is included

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]]> "The Restriction of Boys Potential" with Carrie Starbuck and Nick Sandor German Villegas 00:37:16 Youth for the most part, they understand the rules but usually hate playing by them, and question why they’re there to begin with. In their eyes issues like gender and equality are night and day and they question why don't adults understand? So how do we teach youth when adults are fighting this battle as well. How do we teach boys when men are confused as well? This episodes includes conversations with Carrie Starbuck from Happy Lands and Nick Sandor from Man Made A clip from CBC Metro Morning with Matt Galloway is included Youth for the most part, they understand the rules but usually hate playing by them, and question why they’re there to begin with. In their eyes issues like gender and equality are night and day and they question why don't adults understand? So how do we teach youth when adults are fighting this battle as well. How do we teach boys when men are confused as well? This episodes includes conversations with Carrie Starbuck from Happy Lands and Nick Sandor from Man Made A clip from CBC Metro Morning with Matt Galloway is included false full 52 1 500d3f33645c47e8bcf9962d2914df29 "Teaching Boys" with Jonathan Reed and Brendan Kwiatokski A lot of think pieces came out after the story of the Covington young men, and many focused on the social education of young men, and of the work educators of all stripes need to do create healthy role models for men. So we will talk to two young male healthy relationship teachers (Jonathan Reed, Brendan Kwiatokski), and hear from youth as well. 

Brendan is at Remasculate

Jon's Breaking The Boy Code

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]]> Mon, 4 Feb 2019 00:20:26 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast A lot of think pieces came out after the story of the Covington young men, and many focused on the social education of young men, and of the work educators of all stripes need to do create healthy role models for men. So we will talk to two young male healthy relationship teachers (Jonathan Reed, Brendan Kwiatokski), and hear from youth as well. 

Brendan is at Remasculate

Jon's Breaking The Boy Code

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]]> "Teaching Boys" with Jonathan Reed and Brendan Kwiatokski German Villegas 00:35:06 A lot of think pieces came out after the story of the Covington young men, and many focused on the social education of young men, and of the work educators of all stripes need to do create healthy role models for men. So we will talk to two young male healthy relationship teachers (Jonathan Reed, Brendan Kwiatokski), and hear from youth as well. Brendan is at Remasculate Jon's Breaking The Boy Code A lot of think pieces came out after the story of the Covington young men, and many focused on the social education of young men, and of the work educators of all stripes need to do create healthy role models for men. So we will talk to two young male healthy relationship teachers (Jonathan Reed, Brendan Kwiatokski), and hear from youth as well. Brendan is at Remasculate Jon's Breaking The Boy Code false full 51 1 4b58fcbaf4c541e883fbbe566b6bbf95 "Why is it so Hard to talk about Gender?" with Al Harris, Nick Sandor, and Elliott Tanti In the past few years there have been countless and countless examples of how gender has shaped our conversation, and how a lot of men and society are working to have this conversation around masculinity. #MeToo has ignited that conversation ten fold. For this episode I wanted to go back to those instances and talk about that......but then a perfect little storm happened when Gillette focused their new ad campaign tackling Toxic Masculinity

We will explore the ad and the discussion around it with Al Harris, Nick Sandor, and Elliott Tanti.

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]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2019 01:38:55 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast In the past few years there have been countless and countless examples of how gender has shaped our conversation, and how a lot of men and society are working to have this conversation around masculinity. #MeToo has ignited that conversation ten fold. For this episode I wanted to go back to those instances and talk about that......but then a perfect little storm happened when Gillette focused their new ad campaign tackling Toxic Masculinity

We will explore the ad and the discussion around it with Al Harris, Nick Sandor, and Elliott Tanti.

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]]> "Why is it so Hard to talk about Gender?" with Al Harris, Nick Sandor, and Elliott Tanti German Villegas 00:33:02 In the past few years there have been countless and countless examples of how gender has shaped our conversation, and how a lot of men and society are working to have this conversation around masculinity. For this episode I wanted to go back to those instances and talk about that......but then a perfect little storm happened when Gillette focused their new ad campaign tackling Toxic Masculinity We will explore the ad and the discussion around it with Al Harris, Nick Sandor, and Elliott Tanti. In the past few years there have been countless and countless examples of how gender has shaped our conversation, and how a lot of men and society are working to have this conversation around masculinity. For this episode I wanted to go back to those instances and talk about that......but then a perfect little storm happened when Gillette focused their new ad campaign tackling Toxic Masculinity We will explore the ad and the discussion around it with Al Harris, Nick Sandor, and Elliott Tanti. false full 50 1 107b30c6913f4029bc30ec35892f4f58 "What's Next for Men?" with Robert Kandell Robert Kandell is an accomplished teacher, coach, and lecturer, helping men find themselves and utilize their internal power for fourteen years.

He is the host of the well-known podcast, Tuff Love and is currently writing his book, unHIDDEN – A Book for Men and Those Who Are Confused By Them.     In here we talk about men’s feelings, mens’ next steps, and you’ll also listen to me ramble on and on about systemic change. Stay tuned.

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]]> Sun, 6 Jan 2019 22:32:21 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Robert Kandell is an accomplished teacher, coach, and lecturer, helping men find themselves and utilize their internal power for fourteen years.

He is the host of the well-known podcast, Tuff Love and is currently writing his book, unHIDDEN – A Book for Men and Those Who Are Confused By Them.     In here we talk about men’s feelings, mens’ next steps, and you’ll also listen to me ramble on and on about systemic change. Stay tuned.

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]]> "What's Next for Men?" with Robert Kandell German Villegas 00:46:27 Robert Kandell is an accomplished teacher, coach, and lecturer, helping men find themselves and utilize their internal power for fourteen years. He is the host of the well-known podcast, Tuff Love and is currently writing his book, unHIDDEN – A Book for Men and Those Who Are Confused By Them. In here we talk about men’s feelings, mens’ next steps, and you’ll also listen to me ramble on and on about systemic change. Stay tuned. Robert Kandell is an accomplished teacher, coach, and lecturer, helping men find themselves and utilize their internal power for fourteen years. He is the host of the well-known podcast, Tuff Love and is currently writing his book, unHIDDEN – A Book for Men and Those Who Are Confused By Them. In here we talk about men’s feelings, mens’ next steps, and you’ll also listen to me ramble on and on about systemic change. Stay tuned. false full 49 1 986a466d7a2f426aa0c86aaf35eca96e "The Year in Review" with Jake Stika In 2018, a lot of things happened, and it’s hard to encapsulate all of what happened, and all the thoughts around gender and masculinity I had into a lot of what went on. So to help me not only look back and think forward, I invited my buddy, Jake Stika who is the Executive Director of Next Gen Men to take some time dissecting the year that happened and look forward to the year that is going to be

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]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:20:49 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast In 2018, a lot of things happened, and it’s hard to encapsulate all of what happened, and all the thoughts around gender and masculinity I had into a lot of what went on. So to help me not only look back and think forward, I invited my buddy, Jake Stika who is the Executive Director of Next Gen Men to take some time dissecting the year that happened and look forward to the year that is going to be

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]]> "The Year in Review" with Jake Stika German Villegas 01:03:17 In 2018, a lot of things happened, and it’s hard to encapsulate all of what happened, and all the thoughts around gender and masculinity I had into a lot of what went on. So to help me not only look back and think forward, I invited by my buddy, Jake Stika who is the Executive Director of Next Gen Men to take some time dissecting the year that happened and look forward to the year that is going to be In 2018, a lot of things happened, and it’s hard to encapsulate all of what happened, and all the thoughts around gender and masculinity I had into a lot of what went on. So to help me not only look back and think forward, I invited by my buddy, Jake Stika who is the Executive Director of Next Gen Men to take some time dissecting the year that happened and look forward to the year that is going to be false full 48 1 7d9a7bbc2e0d4f39ab078bba9ac149dc (BONUS) David Lion and Evolving Men Summit Wanted to do a quick interview with David Lion who is starting a summit with his own interviews around masculinity. It's going on right now, and through this he explains his process and his own life. Check it out at Summit.evolving-men.com  

(PS, there's a bit of sound problem at the end, blame the Zoom thing!)

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]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2018 01:18:43 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Wanted to do a quick interview with David Lion who is starting a summit with his own interviews around masculinity. It's going on right now, and through this he explains his process and his own life. Check it out at Summit.evolving-men.com  

(PS, there's a bit of sound problem at the end, blame the Zoom thing!)

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]]> (BONUS) David Lion and Evolving Men Summit German Villegas 00:48:12 Wanted to do a quick interview with David Lion who is starting a summit with his own interviews around masculinity. It's going on right now, and through this he explains his process and his own life. Check it out at Summit.evolving-men.com Wanted to do a quick interview with David Lion who is starting a summit with his own interviews around masculinity. It's going on right now, and through this he explains his process and his own life. Check it out at Summit.evolving-men.com false full 47 1 e84d7bd3d3a44393872d70bb37ed1937 "Crying in Public" Pt 2 with Trent Wilkie from the "UnDad Podcast" Trent Wilkie is a writer/journalist/performer in Edmonton Alberta, Canada, and host to The UnDad Podcast. We continue this conversation with Trent and we touch upon subjects like crying in public, and the release of it. As well as answering a question I always had in my mind, why don't parents give themselves more credit?

We are supported by the Otherwise Show, Let's Do Coffee, and of course Next Gen Men

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]]> Sun, 9 Dec 2018 22:03:55 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Trent Wilkie is a writer/journalist/performer in Edmonton Alberta, Canada, and host to The UnDad Podcast. We continue this conversation with Trent and we touch upon subjects like crying in public, and the release of it. As well as answering a question I always had in my mind, why don't parents give themselves more credit?

We are supported by the Otherwise Show, Let's Do Coffee, and of course Next Gen Men

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]]> "Crying in Public" Pt 2 with Trent Wilkie from the "UnDad Podcast" German Villegas 00:45:49 Trent Wilkie is a writer/journalist/performer in Edmonton Alberta, Canada, and host to The UnDad Podcast. We continue this conversation with Trent and we touch upon subjects like crying in public, and the release of it. As well as answering a question I always had in my mind, why don't parents give themselves more credit? We are supported by the Otherwise Show, Let's Do Coffee, and of course Next Gen Men We are supported by the Otherwise Show, Let's Do Coffee, and of course Next Gen Men Trent Wilkie is a writer/journalist/performer in Edmonton Alberta, Canada, and host to The UnDad Podcast. We continue this conversation with Trent and we touch upon subjects like crying in public, and the release of it. As well as answering a question I always had in my mind, why don't parents give themselves more credit? We are supported by the Otherwise Show, Let's Do Coffee, and of course Next Gen Men We are supported by the Otherwise Show, Let's Do Coffee, and of course Next Gen Men false full 46 1 a4b29056b4c842bdbc68b07833e84d30 "Responsibility" w/ Trent Wilkie from "The UnDad Podcast" Trent Wilkie is a writer/journalist/performer in Edmonton Alberta, Canada. Trent has written for everything from CBC Radio (The Irrelevant Show) to Adbusters to Fangoria to almost every print media in Edmonton. He is also an experienced canoe guide, he in his words "considers the deep dark woods a therapy that only comes at the cost of comfort." Trent is also a new father late in his life, and someone who was adopted at a young age.This is one of many reasons why I wanted to talk to Trent about his vision for manhood, his ideas around fatherhood, and his wonderings about therapy.

You can find the UnDad Podcast here, or if you go to the Alberta Podcast Network website.

If you want to attend any of the Wolfpacks coming to Toronto, Calgary, and Edmonton, go here to sign up! Or just follow Next Gen Men on Facebook and Twitter

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]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2018 01:30:55 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Trent Wilkie is a writer/journalist/performer in Edmonton Alberta, Canada. Trent has written for everything from CBC Radio (The Irrelevant Show) to Adbusters to Fangoria to almost every print media in Edmonton. He is also an experienced canoe guide, he in his words "considers the deep dark woods a therapy that only comes at the cost of comfort." Trent is also a new father late in his life, and someone who was adopted at a young age.This is one of many reasons why I wanted to talk to Trent about his vision for manhood, his ideas around fatherhood, and his wonderings about therapy.

You can find the UnDad Podcast here, or if you go to the Alberta Podcast Network website.

If you want to attend any of the Wolfpacks coming to Toronto, Calgary, and Edmonton, go here to sign up! Or just follow Next Gen Men on Facebook and Twitter

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> "Responsibility" w/ Trent Wilkie from "The UnDad Podcast" German Villegas 00:35:21 Trent Wilkie is a writer/journalist/performer and has written for everything from CBC Radio (The Irrelevant Show) to Adbusters. He is also an experienced canoe guide, he in his words "considers the deep dark woods a therapy that only comes at the cost of comfort." Trent is also a new father late in his life and someone who was adopted at a young age. This is one of many reasons why I wanted to talk to Trent about his vision for manhood, his ideas around fatherhood, and his wonderings about therapy. Trent Wilkie is a writer/journalist/performer and has written for everything from CBC Radio (The Irrelevant Show) to Adbusters. He is also an experienced canoe guide, he in his words "considers the deep dark woods a therapy that only comes at the cost of comfort." Trent is also a new father late in his life and someone who was adopted at a young age. This is one of many reasons why I wanted to talk to Trent about his vision for manhood, his ideas around fatherhood, and his wonderings about therapy. false full 45 1 712f3cbc3fa0447facf9b65afbe313e9 "Empathy for Boys" with Brendan Kwiatkowski from Re.Masculate Brendan Kwitkowski, a Ph.D. student out of the University of Edinburgh, and a Canadian teacher out of BC, spent his master’s research time wondering why were 81% of students diagnosed with behavioural disorders male? Why are males 4-7 times more likely to commit suicide?

Those questions (among others) led him towards research that held the socialization of males at least partially responsible for these worrying statistics. So he dug further and did some research with young men.

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]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2018 06:56:45 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Brendan Kwitkowski, a Ph.D. student out of the University of Edinburgh, and a Canadian teacher out of BC, spent his master’s research time wondering why were 81% of students diagnosed with behavioural disorders male? Why are males 4-7 times more likely to commit suicide?

Those questions (among others) led him towards research that held the socialization of males at least partially responsible for these worrying statistics. So he dug further and did some research with young men.

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]]> "Empathy for Boys" with Brendan Kwiatkowski from Re.Masculate German Villegas 00:48:26 Brendan Kwitkowski, a Ph.D. student out of the University of Edinburgh, and a Canadian teacher out of BC, spent his master’s research time wondering why were 81% of students diagnosed with Those questions disorders male? Why are males 4-7 times more likely to commit suicide? Those questions (among others) led him towards research that held the socialization of males at least partially responsible for these worrying statistics. So he dug further and did some research with young men. Brendan Kwitkowski, a Ph.D. student out of the University of Edinburgh, and a Canadian teacher out of BC, spent his master’s research time wondering why were 81% of students diagnosed with Those questions disorders male? Why are males 4-7 times more likely to commit suicide? Those questions (among others) led him towards research that held the socialization of males at least partially responsible for these worrying statistics. So he dug further and did some research with young men. false full 44 1 a1e131d314114d3686c622da751f75c1 "I'm Afraid of Men" - A conversation with Vivek Shraya Vivek Shraya is an award winning artist artist who has published many books before but her newest book, titled I’m Afraid of Men, explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl—and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century. Not only that, she’s a person who is my age and was raised in Edmonton.

This is why I wanted to talk to her and I was lucky to do just that before she spoke at LitFest and interviewing Tegan And Sara at macEwan university.

vivekshraya.com

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]]> Sun, 28 Oct 2018 23:03:28 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Vivek Shraya is an award winning artist artist who has published many books before but her newest book, titled I’m Afraid of Men, explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl—and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century. Not only that, she’s a person who is my age and was raised in Edmonton.

This is why I wanted to talk to her and I was lucky to do just that before she spoke at LitFest and interviewing Tegan And Sara at macEwan university.

vivekshraya.com

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]]> "I'm Afraid of Men" - A conversation with Vivek Shraya German Villegas 00:42:03 Vivek Shraya is an award winning artist who has published many books before but her newest book, titled I’m Afraid of Men, explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl—and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century. Not only that, she’s a person who is my age and was raised in Edmonton. This is why I wanted to talk to her. Vivek Shraya is an award winning artist who has published many books before but her newest book, titled I’m Afraid of Men, explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl—and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century. Not only that, she’s a person who is my age and was raised in Edmonton. This is why I wanted to talk to her. false full 43 1 30b27b81e04c4fe983767cd450f3962f "Gender is Everywhere" Pt 2 with Col Cseke In the second part of my conversation with Col Cseke we talk about what his journey was like being a man, his family and the ways they didn't conform to gender biases, and the many ways in which fatherhood has shaped the way Col see gender for life. 

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]]> Mon, 15 Oct 2018 01:46:17 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast In the second part of my conversation with Col Cseke we talk about what his journey was like being a man, his family and the ways they didn't conform to gender biases, and the many ways in which fatherhood has shaped the way Col see gender for life. 

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]]> "Gender is Everywhere" Pt 2 with Col Cseke German Villegas 00:27:50 In the second part of my conversation with Col Cseke we talk about what his journey was like being a man, his family and the ways they didn't conform to gender biases, and the many ways in which fatherhood has shaped the way Col see gender for life. In the second part of my conversation with Col Cseke we talk about what his journey was like being a man, his family and the ways they didn't conform to gender biases, and the many ways in which fatherhood has shaped the way Col see gender for life. false full 42 1 434fc5ce66014a80aa8ec630a29942a3 "The Gym" with Col Cseke talking about consent and the theatre When Calgary’s theatre community was faced sexual harassment accusations, a lot of men came together to lean into these discussions around the privilege of masculinity, these discussions mirror the discussions a lot of communities have been having. And it helps especially during these times to understand what that conversations looks and sounds like. I got a chance to talk to one member of that community who wants to see a change in how we see privilege and how he sees that community shaping that conversation.

If you're in Calgary you can check out CART here. 

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]]> Mon, 1 Oct 2018 04:10:08 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast When Calgary’s theatre community was faced sexual harassment accusations, a lot of men came together to lean into these discussions around the privilege of masculinity, these discussions mirror the discussions a lot of communities have been having. And it helps especially during these times to understand what that conversations looks and sounds like. I got a chance to talk to one member of that community who wants to see a change in how we see privilege and how he sees that community shaping that conversation.

If you're in Calgary you can check out CART here. 

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]]> "The Gym" with Col Cseke talking about consent and the theatre German Villegas 00:35:37 When Calgary’s theatre community was faced sexual harassment accusations, a lot of men came together to lean into these discussions around the privilege of masculinity, these discussions mirror the discussions a lot of communities have been having. And it helps especially during these times to understand what those conversations looks and sounds like. When Calgary’s theatre community was faced sexual harassment accusations, a lot of men came together to lean into these discussions around the privilege of masculinity, these discussions mirror the discussions a lot of communities have been having. And it helps especially during these times to understand what those conversations looks and sounds like. false full 41 1 abe96405af0246d4bdde485991c37f2d "I Am" with Ahmed 'Knowmadic' Ali Poetry was something that Ahmed did but he hid it, until wife showed him a poetry club, and ever since then Ahmed has tried to show poetry to the world. He's the current Poet Laureate for Edmonton, and his love for his community and the love of the community he has in Edmonton lead him be nominated for that position. He was part of the Breathe in Poetry collective and has spoken about and with immigrants. There's a reason why I wanted to talk to Ahmed, his perspectives are limitless and he approaches so many things with empathy and love. It was inspiring to talk to him, and I hope you're inspired too. 

Join Ahmed and Karen Teng for the launch of Otherwise Podcast on Sept 28th, and keep that show on your mind when you hear this episode. To find out more info check out the Otherwise Podcast.

As well, if you want to check out Litfest there is a coupon code you can use if you check out the start of the show where you can get 5 bucks off. Go to litfestalberta.org for all the shows and tickets available in October. 

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]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2018 20:39:23 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Poetry was something that Ahmed did but he hid it, until wife showed him a poetry club, and ever since then Ahmed has tried to show poetry to the world. He's the current Poet Laureate for Edmonton, and his love for his community and the love of the community he has in Edmonton lead him be nominated for that position. He was part of the Breathe in Poetry collective and has spoken about and with immigrants. There's a reason why I wanted to talk to Ahmed, his perspectives are limitless and he approaches so many things with empathy and love. It was inspiring to talk to him, and I hope you're inspired too. 

Join Ahmed and Karen Teng for the launch of Otherwise Podcast on Sept 28th, and keep that show on your mind when you hear this episode. To find out more info check out the Otherwise Podcast.

As well, if you want to check out Litfest there is a coupon code you can use if you check out the start of the show where you can get 5 bucks off. Go to litfestalberta.org for all the shows and tickets available in October. 

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]]> "I Am" with Ahmed 'Knowmadic' Ali German Villegas 00:46:30 Poetry was something that Ahmed did but he hid it, until wife showed him a poetry club, and ever since then Ahmed has tried to show poetry to the world. He's the current Poet Laureate for Edmonton, and his love for his community and the love of the community he has in Edmonton lead him to be nominated for that position. It was inspiring to talk to him, and I hope you're inspired too. Poetry was something that Ahmed did but he hid it, until wife showed him a poetry club, and ever since then Ahmed has tried to show poetry to the world. He's the current Poet Laureate for Edmonton, and his love for his community and the love of the community he has in Edmonton lead him to be nominated for that position. It was inspiring to talk to him, and I hope you're inspired too. false full 40 1 c82b1ef53f784cf59947d1c098356872 "Sex Ed on the Internet" with Brianna Rader from 'Juicebox' Over all men between the ages of 25-29 were far more likely to get their sexual education from porn than any other form.

Now anyone who has a passing knowledge of internet porn can see how problematic that can be, if everything you learn about sex is through these forms of entertainment. It’s like learning how to drive a car from action movies.

Luckily as we have heard before from people like Bryony Cole, the sex tech industry is vastly evolving and now we have places where people can ask those sex questions that maybe you couldn’t ask your teacher, your mom, your dad, or hell even your doctor. Juicebox is an app that is made just for that, and I invited Brianna Rader the founder of Juicebox to tell us more about the app and how it can help men of all ages

You can try out the app by using the code MANHOOD

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]]> Sun, 2 Sep 2018 21:13:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Over all men between the ages of 25-29 were far more likely to get their sexual education from porn than any other form.

Now anyone who has a passing knowledge of internet porn can see how problematic that can be, if everything you learn about sex is through these forms of entertainment. It’s like learning how to drive a car from action movies.

Luckily as we have heard before from people like Bryony Cole, the sex tech industry is vastly evolving and now we have places where people can ask those sex questions that maybe you couldn’t ask your teacher, your mom, your dad, or hell even your doctor. Juicebox is an app that is made just for that, and I invited Brianna Rader the founder of Juicebox to tell us more about the app and how it can help men of all ages

You can try out the app by using the code MANHOOD

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]]> "Sex Ed on the Internet" with Brianna Rader from 'Juicebox' German Villegas 00:39:15 Overall men between the ages of 25-29 were far more likely to get their sexual education from porn than any other form. Luckily, the sex tech industry is vastly evolving and now we have places where people can ask those sex questions that maybe you couldn’t ask your teacher, your mom, your dad, or hell even your doctor. Juicebox is an app that is made just for that, and I invited Brianna Rader the founder of Juicebox to tell us more about the app and how it can help men of all ages Overall men between the ages of 25-29 were far more likely to get their sexual education from porn than any other form. Luckily, the sex tech industry is vastly evolving and now we have places where people can ask those sex questions that maybe you couldn’t ask your teacher, your mom, your dad, or hell even your doctor. Juicebox is an app that is made just for that, and I invited Brianna Rader the founder of Juicebox to tell us more about the app and how it can help men of all ages false full 39 1 6d8b79e2483b42a28f45585d9f0776ed "Be a Skeptic of advice going against your sense of Fairness" w/ Matthew Hodges of r/MensLib On this episode we speak again to Matthew Hodges a little more deeply on his own foundations around masculinity, and his father and his family. And we also end on an inspiring note about equal rights that is threaded all over r/MensLib

Matthew is also the host of Liquid Flannel and of The Bread Line

German also did an AMA at r/menslib

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]]> Sun, 19 Aug 2018 22:59:31 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast On this episode we speak again to Matthew Hodges a little more deeply on his own foundations around masculinity, and his father and his family. And we also end on an inspiring note about equal rights that is threaded all over r/MensLib

Matthew is also the host of Liquid Flannel and of The Bread Line

German also did an AMA at r/menslib

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]]> "Be a Skeptic of advice going against your sense of Fairness" w/ Matthew Hodges of r/MensLib German Villegas 00:41:59 On this episode we speak again to Matthew Hodges a little more deeply on his own foundations around masculinity, and his father and his family. And we also end on an inspiring note about equal rights that is threaded all over r/MensLib Matthew is also the host of Liquid Flannel and of The Bread Line German also did an AMA at r/menslib On this episode we speak again to Matthew Hodges a little more deeply on his own foundations around masculinity, and his father and his family. And we also end on an inspiring note about equal rights that is threaded all over r/MensLib Matthew is also the host of Liquid Flannel and of The Bread Line German also did an AMA at r/menslib false full 38 1 df465e0d895c4f588076e272e98583c0 "How To Talk Men's Issues on Reddit" with Matthew Hodges of the Subreddit r/mensLib I have long been a fan of Reddit’s MensLib subreddit just for things like their confidant and direct approach to tackling men's issues in an intersectional way, their constant and hardworking mods team, and the daily discussion on all things guys but in a way that’s inclusive, educated, and not made to vilify others.

So I was so happy to have Matthew Hodges, the founder of MensLib on Modern Manhood to have a long discussion about why he wanted to start MenLib, the values and foundations of that community, and his own personal life. And as usual, we talked a lot so this will be in two parts.

These are also the links The Gender Knot episode, and Next Gen Men's Patreon page.

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]]> Mon, 6 Aug 2018 20:09:10 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast I have long been a fan of Reddit’s MensLib subreddit just for things like their confidant and direct approach to tackling men's issues in an intersectional way, their constant and hardworking mods team, and the daily discussion on all things guys but in a way that’s inclusive, educated, and not made to vilify others.

So I was so happy to have Matthew Hodges, the founder of MensLib on Modern Manhood to have a long discussion about why he wanted to start MenLib, the values and foundations of that community, and his own personal life. And as usual, we talked a lot so this will be in two parts.

These are also the links The Gender Knot episode, and Next Gen Men's Patreon page.

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]]> "How To Talk Men's Issues on Reddit" with Matthew Hodges of the Subreddit r/mensLib German Villegas 00:32:55 I have long been a fan of Reddit’s MensLib subreddit just for things like their confidant and direct approach to tackling men's issues in an intersectional way and their constant and hardworking mods team. So I was super happy to talk to Matthew Hodges, the founder of MensLib on Modern Manhood to have a long discussion about why he wanted to start MenLib, the values and foundations of that community, and his own personal life. And as usual, we talked a lot so this will be in two parts. I have long been a fan of Reddit’s MensLib subreddit just for things like their confidant and direct approach to tackling men's issues in an intersectional way and their constant and hardworking mods team. So I was super happy to talk to Matthew Hodges, the founder of MensLib on Modern Manhood to have a long discussion about why he wanted to start MenLib, the values and foundations of that community, and his own personal life. And as usual, we talked a lot so this will be in two parts. false full 37 1 a4481734bd39430b8913e95f6b73a18d "Masculinity in a Word" by Tim Wegner of 'TheManEffect' “What does it means to be a man?”

“What are the words you think of when we hear the words 'masculinity'?”

These are some of the fundamental basic starting questions on your journey to this thing I like to call “exploring your own identity and gender.” Which kinda leads to critiquing societies idea of gender, which I hope leads to critiquing your ideas around gender. I am noticing more and more a lot of guys asking themselves that very basic but enlightening question. Tim Wenger is one of those guys, and he decided to start a project (The Man Effect) when he was questioning his own version of masculinity, asking people If you were to describe what it means to be a man in one word, what would it be and why?

Well I wanted to find out more about his project, and what he has learned from it.

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]]> Mon, 23 Jul 2018 01:41:54 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast “What does it means to be a man?”

“What are the words you think of when we hear the words 'masculinity'?”

These are some of the fundamental basic starting questions on your journey to this thing I like to call “exploring your own identity and gender.” Which kinda leads to critiquing societies idea of gender, which I hope leads to critiquing your ideas around gender. I am noticing more and more a lot of guys asking themselves that very basic but enlightening question. Tim Wenger is one of those guys, and he decided to start a project (The Man Effect) when he was questioning his own version of masculinity, asking people If you were to describe what it means to be a man in one word, what would it be and why?

Well I wanted to find out more about his project, and what he has learned from it.

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]]> "Masculinity in a Word" by Tim Wegner of 'TheManEffect' German Villegas 00:41:22 “What are the words you think of when we hear the words 'masculinity'?” These are some of the fundamental basic starting questions on your journey to this thing I like to call “exploring your own identity and gender.” I am noticing more and more a lot of guys asking themselves that very basic but enlightening question. Tim Wenger is one of those guys, and he decided to start a project asking people If you were to describe what it means to be a man in one word, what would it be and why? “What are the words you think of when we hear the words 'masculinity'?” These are some of the fundamental basic starting questions on your journey to this thing I like to call “exploring your own identity and gender.” I am noticing more and more a lot of guys asking themselves that very basic but enlightening question. Tim Wenger is one of those guys, and he decided to start a project asking people If you were to describe what it means to be a man in one word, what would it be and why? false full 36 1 3591c6fc3fcd40399e5f8c16c1c38864 "The Peace of Identity" Part 2 with Michael Rowley director of 'Hurdle' This is part two of our conversation with Michael Rowley who is a filmmaker from Dallas Texas, who also made a film about Palestinian youths, specifically who do parkour. The movie is called Hurdle (Hurdlefilm.com). Now the reason why I wanted to split this into two is to highlight the very vulnerable and very honest way in which Michael approaches identity, either his own or of the people around him, including his subjects. Michael also hands out some amazing advice that mirrors David Ogle's and that actually began from a conversation that he and another past guest, Remoy, had.

The trailer of Hurdle is here: https://vimeo.com/231203737/ec9eb0a431

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]]> Mon, 9 Jul 2018 00:13:07 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast This is part two of our conversation with Michael Rowley who is a filmmaker from Dallas Texas, who also made a film about Palestinian youths, specifically who do parkour. The movie is called Hurdle (Hurdlefilm.com). Now the reason why I wanted to split this into two is to highlight the very vulnerable and very honest way in which Michael approaches identity, either his own or of the people around him, including his subjects. Michael also hands out some amazing advice that mirrors David Ogle's and that actually began from a conversation that he and another past guest, Remoy, had.

The trailer of Hurdle is here: https://vimeo.com/231203737/ec9eb0a431

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]]> "The Peace of Identity" Part 2 with Michael Rowley director of 'Hurdle' German Villegas 00:27:09 The reason why I wanted to split this into two is to highlight the very vulnerable and very honest way in which Michael approaches identity, either his own or of the people around him, including his subjects. Michael also hands out some amazing advice that mirrors David Ogle's and that actually began from a conversation that he and another past guest, Remoy, had. The reason why I wanted to split this into two is to highlight the very vulnerable and very honest way in which Michael approaches identity, either his own or of the people around him, including his subjects. Michael also hands out some amazing advice that mirrors David Ogle's and that actually began from a conversation that he and another past guest, Remoy, had. false full 35 1 3d3ea4d7cb0c40a788089d7842a5dc53 "Being Aware of Your Reactions" with Michael Rowley of the film 'Hurdle' Michael Rowley is a filmmaker from Dallas Texas, who made a film about Palestinian youths, specifically who do parkour. The movie is called Hurdle (Hurdlefilm.com).

Now what is interesting to me, is not so much that last sentence (even though that last sentence can be unpacked in so many ways), what’s interesting is the man, Michael Rowley. Michael, born in Texas, a place as idealistic as I can find living outside of it, a place that screams guns, catholicism and trucks (not so different than Alberta to be honest), Michael went on to film a movie about one of the most divisive areas in the world, Palestine.

The trailer is here: https://vimeo.com/231203737/ec9eb0a431

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]]> Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:08:44 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Michael Rowley is a filmmaker from Dallas Texas, who made a film about Palestinian youths, specifically who do parkour. The movie is called Hurdle (Hurdlefilm.com).

Now what is interesting to me, is not so much that last sentence (even though that last sentence can be unpacked in so many ways), what’s interesting is the man, Michael Rowley. Michael, born in Texas, a place as idealistic as I can find living outside of it, a place that screams guns, catholicism and trucks (not so different than Alberta to be honest), Michael went on to film a movie about one of the most divisive areas in the world, Palestine.

The trailer is here: https://vimeo.com/231203737/ec9eb0a431

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]]> "Being Aware of Your Reactions" with Michael Rowley of the film 'Hurdle' German Villegas 00:31:16 Michael Rowley is a filmmaker from Dallas Texas, who made a film about Palestinian youths, specifically who do parkour. The movie is called Hurdle (Hurdlefilm.com). Now what is interesting to me, is not so much that last sentence, what’s interesting is the man, Michael Rowley. Michael, born in Texas, a place as idealistic as I can find living outside of it, a place that screams guns, Catholicism and trucks, Michael went on to film a movie about one of the most divisive areas in the world, Palestine. Michael Rowley is a filmmaker from Dallas Texas, who made a film about Palestinian youths, specifically who do parkour. The movie is called Hurdle (Hurdlefilm.com). Now what is interesting to me, is not so much that last sentence, what’s interesting is the man, Michael Rowley. Michael, born in Texas, a place as idealistic as I can find living outside of it, a place that screams guns, Catholicism and trucks, Michael went on to film a movie about one of the most divisive areas in the world, Palestine. false full 34 1 8ebf65baad7e4c97a8f90ffe787f72b9 Convos! with Jeff (Ep 1) - Chris Hardwick, Nas, Anthony Bourdain Today we're starting something new at Modern Manhood, a conversation series with I will bring on some of my (and yours) favorite conversational guests to talk about what's going on the news, and what is going on with our lives. They're going to come at you sporadically, so think of them as bonus pods in addition to the regular Modern Manhood.

On this episode, we speak to our buddy Jeff Perera about Anthony Bourdain's death, Chris Hardwick's allegations of abuse, and cats!  

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]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2018 16:00:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Today we're starting something new at Modern Manhood, a conversation series with I will bring on some of my (and yours) favorite conversational guests to talk about what's going on the news, and what is going on with our lives. They're going to come at you sporadically, so think of them as bonus pods in addition to the regular Modern Manhood.

On this episode, we speak to our buddy Jeff Perera about Anthony Bourdain's death, Chris Hardwick's allegations of abuse, and cats!  

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]]> Convos! with Jeff (Ep 1) - Chris Hardwick, Nas, Anthony Bourdain German Villegas 00:57:46 Today we're starting something new at Modern Manhood, a conversation series with I will bring on some of my (and yours) favorite conversational guests to talk about what's going on the news, and what is going on with our lives. They're going to come at you sporadically, so think of them as bonus pods in addition to the regular Modern Manhood. On this episode, we speak to our buddy Jeff Perera about Anthony Bourdain's death, Chris Hardwick's allegations of abuse, and cats! Today we're starting something new at Modern Manhood, a conversation series with I will bring on some of my (and yours) favorite conversational guests to talk about what's going on the news, and what is going on with our lives. They're going to come at you sporadically, so think of them as bonus pods in addition to the regular Modern Manhood. On this episode, we speak to our buddy Jeff Perera about Anthony Bourdain's death, Chris Hardwick's allegations of abuse, and cats! false full 33 1 c5f900aa5720410482f7f3d1d61e19ea "Masculinity Includes Community": A personal conversation with Jermal Alleyne The reason why I wanted to split this into two and make sure we get Jermal’s takes on masculinity right now is because he mentions a lot of key advice and ideas that have not been mentioned a whole lot lately, mainly about community and how men in general need to not only critique what goes around them (in a respectful way), but have the openness to be wrong. Critiquing is not a bad thing when done in an open manner, arguing for argument's sake...well that’s a different story. We might get stuck.

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]]> Mon, 4 Jun 2018 02:09:22 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast The reason why I wanted to split this into two and make sure we get Jermal’s takes on masculinity right now is because he mentions a lot of key advice and ideas that have not been mentioned a whole lot lately, mainly about community and how men in general need to not only critique what goes around them (in a respectful way), but have the openness to be wrong. Critiquing is not a bad thing when done in an open manner, arguing for argument's sake...well that’s a different story. We might get stuck.

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]]> "Masculinity Includes Community": A personal conversation with Jermal Alleyne German Villegas 00:36:16 The reason why I wanted to split this into two and make sure we get Jermal’s takes on masculinity right now is because he mentions a lot of key advice and ideas that have not been mentioned a whole lot lately, mainly about community and how men, in general, need to not only critique what goes around them (in a respectful way) but have the openness to be wrong. Critiquing is not a bad thing when done in an open manner, arguing for argument's sake...well that’s a different story. We might get stuck. The reason why I wanted to split this into two and make sure we get Jermal’s takes on masculinity right now is because he mentions a lot of key advice and ideas that have not been mentioned a whole lot lately, mainly about community and how men, in general, need to not only critique what goes around them (in a respectful way) but have the openness to be wrong. Critiquing is not a bad thing when done in an open manner, arguing for argument's sake...well that’s a different story. We might get stuck. false full 32 1 a3fc89ef45f24d36aeea119e5c3a804d "Boys To Men" with Rachel Giese, writer of 'Boys: What It Means to Become a Man' I was honored to talk about this and the research that Chataleine’s Editor at Large’s Rachel Giese has done to write the book “Boys: What It Means to Become A Man.” She has taken the time to look at what is going on in Canada in regards to the toxic forms of traditional western masculinity, interested in groups like WiseGuyz down in Calgary, and speakers like once and future guest Jeff Perera. We speak about her motivations for the books, what surprised her the most, complicity and the danger of “otherisms” in regards to #MeToo, and her call not only to the isolation of some men, but also to step back and think of the victims of violence.

You can find the men's survey that Chataleine did here.

If you want to see what Wolf Pack is about, they are making it happen in Calgary and in Toronto. Click the links to get your tickets.

YESSPAINTING can be found here

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]]> Sun, 20 May 2018 23:28:34 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast I was honored to talk about this and the research that Chataleine’s Editor at Large’s Rachel Giese has done to write the book “Boys: What It Means to Become A Man.” She has taken the time to look at what is going on in Canada in regards to the toxic forms of traditional western masculinity, interested in groups like WiseGuyz down in Calgary, and speakers like once and future guest Jeff Perera. We speak about her motivations for the books, what surprised her the most, complicity and the danger of “otherisms” in regards to #MeToo, and her call not only to the isolation of some men, but also to step back and think of the victims of violence.

You can find the men's survey that Chataleine did here.

If you want to see what Wolf Pack is about, they are making it happen in Calgary and in Toronto. Click the links to get your tickets.

YESSPAINTING can be found here

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> "Boys To Men" with Rachel Giese, writer of 'Boys: What It Means to Become a Man' German Villegas 00:41:18 I was honored to talk about this and the research that Chataleine’s Editor at Large’s Rachel Giese has done to write the book “Boys: What It Means to Become A Man.” We speak about her motivations for the books, what surprised her the most, complicity and the danger of “otherisms” in regards to #MeToo, and her call not only to the isolation of some men, but also to step back and think of the victims of violence. I was honored to talk about this and the research that Chataleine’s Editor at Large’s Rachel Giese has done to write the book “Boys: What It Means to Become A Man.” We speak about her motivations for the books, what surprised her the most, complicity and the danger of “otherisms” in regards to #MeToo, and her call not only to the isolation of some men, but also to step back and think of the victims of violence. false full 31 1 f861e1f0bb06228c9905ed4c70c16449 Ep 55: "Boys Groups and Men's Groups" with Jermal Alleyne For today’s guest, from the great city of Toronto, we have Jermal Alleyne. A leader of youth groups and men’s groups in two different capacities, one through Next Gen Men and one through the John Howard Society.

This interview was fascinating to me because it’s very close to what I do here in Edmonton, and our approaches are similar but at the same time it’s great to hear it said out loud. We go through the differences of teaching the two, we also touch a bit about Jermal’s father, and his journey to working anti-violence work.

You’ll hear part two of my conversation with Jermal on episode 57. But on the next Modern Manhood, we’re going to talk to Rachel Giese, the editor at large for Chatelaine about her new book all about Canadian masculinity.

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]]> Sun, 6 May 2018 21:26:43 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast For today’s guest, from the great city of Toronto, we have Jermal Alleyne. A leader of youth groups and men’s groups in two different capacities, one through Next Gen Men and one through the John Howard Society.

This interview was fascinating to me because it’s very close to what I do here in Edmonton, and our approaches are similar but at the same time it’s great to hear it said out loud. We go through the differences of teaching the two, we also touch a bit about Jermal’s father, and his journey to working anti-violence work.

You’ll hear part two of my conversation with Jermal on episode 57. But on the next Modern Manhood, we’re going to talk to Rachel Giese, the editor at large for Chatelaine about her new book all about Canadian masculinity.

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]]> Ep 55: "Boys Groups and Men's Groups" with Jermal Alleyne German Villegas 00:32:43 For today’s guest, from the great city of Toronto, we have Jermal Alleyne. A leader of youth groups and men’s groups in two different capacities. This interview was fascinating to me because it’s very close to what I do here in Edmonton, and our approaches are similar but at the same time, it’s great to hear it said out loud. We go through the differences of teaching the two, we also touch a bit about Jermal’s father and his journey to working anti-violence work. For today’s guest, from the great city of Toronto, we have Jermal Alleyne. A leader of youth groups and men’s groups in two different capacities. This interview was fascinating to me because it’s very close to what I do here in Edmonton, and our approaches are similar but at the same time, it’s great to hear it said out loud. We go through the differences of teaching the two, we also touch a bit about Jermal’s father and his journey to working anti-violence work. false full 30 1 0bfa4663b4e934f91ab5b7a2f3137c23 "Awareness" with David Ogle from Dose Coaching If you remember last week, we spoke to performance coach David Ogle. I wanted to splice his conversation in two just because I feel, just like his company’s namesake, it’s good in doses. In the first half we talked about what he thought about being a man in a place that was “made for women,” and in this half I wanted to tease out some theories with him, one specifically about the roles of coaches as a form of therapy for men. David also tells us about his life changing moment, a moment he calls his “ok we’re turning a corner here” moment. And he also quotes some Disney to give us his end of show advice. Stick around for it.

Our new sponsor is YESSPAINTING.COM which Youth Empowerment and Support Services are helping kids work and help out in the community

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:25:37 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast If you remember last week, we spoke to performance coach David Ogle. I wanted to splice his conversation in two just because I feel, just like his company’s namesake, it’s good in doses. In the first half we talked about what he thought about being a man in a place that was “made for women,” and in this half I wanted to tease out some theories with him, one specifically about the roles of coaches as a form of therapy for men. David also tells us about his life changing moment, a moment he calls his “ok we’re turning a corner here” moment. And he also quotes some Disney to give us his end of show advice. Stick around for it.

Our new sponsor is YESSPAINTING.COM which Youth Empowerment and Support Services are helping kids work and help out in the community

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> "Awareness" with David Ogle from Dose Coaching German Villegas 00:30:05 If you remember last week, we spoke to performance coach David Ogle. I wanted to splice his conversation in two just because I feel it’s good in doses. In the first half we talked about what he thought about being a man in a place that was “made for women,” and in this half, I wanted to tease out some theories with him, one specifically about the roles of coaches as a form of therapy for men. Our new sponsor is YESSPAINTING.COM If you remember last week, we spoke to performance coach David Ogle. I wanted to splice his conversation in two just because I feel it’s good in doses. In the first half we talked about what he thought about being a man in a place that was “made for women,” and in this half, I wanted to tease out some theories with him, one specifically about the roles of coaches as a form of therapy for men. Our new sponsor is YESSPAINTING.COM false full 29 1 883300657bb68f654ce52dc407023cb8 "Curiosities of a Coach" with David Ogle of Dose Coaching I wrote this piece for my little daily blog on Medium about life coaches and how I found them to be, kind of disingenuous. You know, giving you advice on what’s going on, and pretending to be nice so they can get money from you.  But I was surprised that I was asked to speak to David Ogle, who is a performance coach from Dose Coaching. He mentioned that he was curious about masculinity and how it shapes us, and was super keen to explore this with me. So I checked him out, and what I found was fascinating. We chatted for a while, and so for the sake of me not cutting his story, I’m going to split this into two parts. So this is part 1 with my conversation with David Ogle.

Dose Coaching and it's Blog can be found here, also you should subscribe to their newsletter

You can find the PodSummit info here

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Sun, 8 Apr 2018 23:01:02 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast I wrote this piece for my little daily blog on Medium about life coaches and how I found them to be, kind of disingenuous. You know, giving you advice on what’s going on, and pretending to be nice so they can get money from you.  But I was surprised that I was asked to speak to David Ogle, who is a performance coach from Dose Coaching. He mentioned that he was curious about masculinity and how it shapes us, and was super keen to explore this with me. So I checked him out, and what I found was fascinating. We chatted for a while, and so for the sake of me not cutting his story, I’m going to split this into two parts. So this is part 1 with my conversation with David Ogle.

Dose Coaching and it's Blog can be found here, also you should subscribe to their newsletter

You can find the PodSummit info here

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> "Curiosities of a Coach" with David Ogle of Dose Coaching German Villegas 00:29:39 I was surprised that I was asked to speak to David Ogle, who is a performance coach from Dose Coaching. He mentioned that he was curious about masculinity and how it shapes us, and was super keen to explore this with me. So I checked him out, and what I found was fascinating. We chatted for a while, and so for the sake of me not cutting his story, I’m going to split this into two parts. So this is part 1 with my conversation with David Ogle. I was surprised that I was asked to speak to David Ogle, who is a performance coach from Dose Coaching. He mentioned that he was curious about masculinity and how it shapes us, and was super keen to explore this with me. So I checked him out, and what I found was fascinating. We chatted for a while, and so for the sake of me not cutting his story, I’m going to split this into two parts. So this is part 1 with my conversation with David Ogle. false full 28 1 cdd51349fecdaee1f8bb1f02cc8b4031 "The Masculinity Media" Samantha Nzessi and Remoy Philip the First from MASKulinity Pod Led by Samantha Nzessi and Remoy Philip the first, MASKulinity podcast is a conversation about their lives and how masculinity was shaping it, from the female side and from the internal male side. I had a chance to talk to both Samantha and Remoy about the genesis of their show, the way masculinity is performed in their lives, and the work of media around our premises.

Samantha and Remoy, both from Brooklyn, New York are in the middle of their second season, and they started off with a bang, bringing up scholar and savant Michael Kimmel from the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities from Stony Brook University. You can also check out Remoy's blog here to find out about his interviews that I mention on the show

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2018 23:08:10 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Led by Samantha Nzessi and Remoy Philip the first, MASKulinity podcast is a conversation about their lives and how masculinity was shaping it, from the female side and from the internal male side. I had a chance to talk to both Samantha and Remoy about the genesis of their show, the way masculinity is performed in their lives, and the work of media around our premises.

Samantha and Remoy, both from Brooklyn, New York are in the middle of their second season, and they started off with a bang, bringing up scholar and savant Michael Kimmel from the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities from Stony Brook University. You can also check out Remoy's blog here to find out about his interviews that I mention on the show

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> "The Masculinity Media" Samantha Nzessi and Remoy Philip the First from MASKulinity Pod German Villegas 00:52:45 Led by Samantha Nzessi and Remoy Philip the first, MASKulinity podcast is a conversation about their lives and how masculinity was shaping it, from the female side and from the internal male side. I had a chance to talk to both Samantha and Remoy about the genesis of their show, the way masculinity is performed in their lives, and the work of media around our premises. Led by Samantha Nzessi and Remoy Philip the first, MASKulinity podcast is a conversation about their lives and how masculinity was shaping it, from the female side and from the internal male side. I had a chance to talk to both Samantha and Remoy about the genesis of their show, the way masculinity is performed in their lives, and the work of media around our premises. false full 27 1 8c79ef907ae9472c2d82a00c9ad29e80 "Life of a Gay Muslim Man" with Gianmarco Visconti Gianmarco Visconti is a feminist gay young muslim poet who is one of the host and producers of the feminist talk radio Adament Eve. And I asked him from a recommendation to come to Modern Manhood to talk about his stories of his wrestling identity of being Muslim, to his life as a gay man, and how his name represents a small mask but something that he has embraced. Listening back to this episode, I kept coming back to this phrase of multiple identities, and how we can inhabit them, and also to think about what life is like for a gay muslim, which in itself sounds like rebellion in a homophobic and islamaphobic society. 

If you want to check out Adament Eve, it’s airing on CJSR 88.5 in Edmonton on Fridays from 5:30pm to 6pm. If you want to go to see Doug Hoyer on March 17th, use the code APNROCKS to get 5 dollars off.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2018 19:49:46 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Gianmarco Visconti is a feminist gay young muslim poet who is one of the host and producers of the feminist talk radio Adament Eve. And I asked him from a recommendation to come to Modern Manhood to talk about his stories of his wrestling identity of being Muslim, to his life as a gay man, and how his name represents a small mask but something that he has embraced. Listening back to this episode, I kept coming back to this phrase of multiple identities, and how we can inhabit them, and also to think about what life is like for a gay muslim, which in itself sounds like rebellion in a homophobic and islamaphobic society. 

If you want to check out Adament Eve, it’s airing on CJSR 88.5 in Edmonton on Fridays from 5:30pm to 6pm. If you want to go to see Doug Hoyer on March 17th, use the code APNROCKS to get 5 dollars off.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> "Life of a Gay Muslim Man" with Gianmarco Visconti German Villegas 01:09:46 Gianmarco Visconti is a feminist gay young Muslim poet who is one of the host and producers of the feminist talk radio Adament Eve. And I asked him from a recommendation to come to Modern Manhood to talk about his stories of his wrestling identity of being Muslim, to his life as a gay man, and how his name represents a small mask but something that he has embraced. To think about what life is like for a gay Muslim, which in itself sounds like rebellion in a homophobic and Islamophobic society. Gianmarco Visconti is a feminist gay young Muslim poet who is one of the host and producers of the feminist talk radio Adament Eve. And I asked him from a recommendation to come to Modern Manhood to talk about his stories of his wrestling identity of being Muslim, to his life as a gay man, and how his name represents a small mask but something that he has embraced. To think about what life is like for a gay Muslim, which in itself sounds like rebellion in a homophobic and Islamophobic society. false full 26 1 b103257ceb128cf6a3570b5813633d76 Ep 50: "Opening the Door to Feminism" with Jake Stika from NextGenMen It’s our 50th episode of Modern Manhood! What an occasion! We have a special announcement which you can find out more through my blog post on Medium, basically Modern Manhood will be Modern Manhood Presented by Next Gen Men. So to give you a breadth of what NextGenMen are about, you’re going to hear one of their founders, Jake Stika, talk about the genesis of NGM. Jake will also talk about the work that they do, what the future looks like for them, feminism and it’s relation with men. We also sneak in some basketball talk in there.

You can also find anything to do with NextGenMen at nextgenmen.ca including Modern Manhood. Buy some socks! They are pretty sweet.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Sun, 25 Feb 2018 23:20:47 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast It’s our 50th episode of Modern Manhood! What an occasion! We have a special announcement which you can find out more through my blog post on Medium, basically Modern Manhood will be Modern Manhood Presented by Next Gen Men. So to give you a breadth of what NextGenMen are about, you’re going to hear one of their founders, Jake Stika, talk about the genesis of NGM. Jake will also talk about the work that they do, what the future looks like for them, feminism and it’s relation with men. We also sneak in some basketball talk in there.

You can also find anything to do with NextGenMen at nextgenmen.ca including Modern Manhood. Buy some socks! They are pretty sweet.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Ep 50: "Opening the Door to Feminism" with Jake Stika from NextGenMen German Villegas 00:54:59 It’s our 50th episode of Modern Manhood! What an occasion, and along with the 50th, we also have a special announcement to give you a breadth of what NextGenMen are about, you’re going to hear one of their founders, Jake Stika, talk about the genesis of NGM, the work that they do, the future, feminism and it’s relation with men, and what men can do to continue the hard work. We also sneak in some basketball talk in there. You can also find anything to do with NextGenMen at nextgenmen.ca It’s our 50th episode of Modern Manhood! What an occasion, and along with the 50th, we also have a special announcement to give you a breadth of what NextGenMen are about, you’re going to hear one of their founders, Jake Stika, talk about the genesis of NGM, the work that they do, the future, feminism and it’s relation with men, and what men can do to continue the hard work. We also sneak in some basketball talk in there. You can also find anything to do with NextGenMen at nextgenmen.ca false full 25 1 dba984743f32105dc3b4954b16e2565f "Men, Hold Space for One Another" - Relationships and Anger w/ Lyndsay Chaban Today we’re joined by one of my good friends, Lyndsay Chaban. We met almost 13 years ago, while working together at a big retail chain, both of us in customer service position, helping people with returns and complains. And I think, a theory of mine, in some weird way that has subconsciously informed us into the paths that she took. Working as a psychologist that is working with “Men’s Issues.” So I wanted to reconvene and chat with Lyndsay as to why she chose the path she took, and also, most importantly to dole out some great advice for men in regards to relationships, feelings, and anger. All of these informed from her own practice.

If you need to seek counselling with someone who deals with men as a specification, you can check out Lyndsay at Summit Counselling Services,

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:59:08 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Today we’re joined by one of my good friends, Lyndsay Chaban. We met almost 13 years ago, while working together at a big retail chain, both of us in customer service position, helping people with returns and complains. And I think, a theory of mine, in some weird way that has subconsciously informed us into the paths that she took. Working as a psychologist that is working with “Men’s Issues.” So I wanted to reconvene and chat with Lyndsay as to why she chose the path she took, and also, most importantly to dole out some great advice for men in regards to relationships, feelings, and anger. All of these informed from her own practice.

If you need to seek counselling with someone who deals with men as a specification, you can check out Lyndsay at Summit Counselling Services,

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> "Men, Hold Space for One Another" - Relationships and Anger w/ Lyndsay Chaban German Villegas 01:02:52 Today we’re joined by one of my good friends, Lyndsay Chaban. She is not working as a psychologist that is working with “Men’s Issues.” So I wanted to chat with Lyndsay as to why she chose the path she took, and to dole out some great advice for men in regards to relationships, feelings, and anger. All of these informed from her own practice. If you need to seek counseling with someone who deals with men as a specification, you can check out Lyndsay at Summit Counselling Services, Today we’re joined by one of my good friends, Lyndsay Chaban. She is not working as a psychologist that is working with “Men’s Issues.” So I wanted to chat with Lyndsay as to why she chose the path she took, and to dole out some great advice for men in regards to relationships, feelings, and anger. All of these informed from her own practice. If you need to seek counseling with someone who deals with men as a specification, you can check out Lyndsay at Summit Counselling Services, false full 24 1 176dd2d542d90b21b6d5a9eaf1bd0da7 Ep 48: "What the F*** is Normal?" - Sex and Technology w/ Bryony Cole Bryony Cole is leading the way, along with the many women of sex tech, in trying to understand what could be the healthy, and amazing future of sex, and how technology can be used to provide empathy, compassion, love, and positive interaction. She also cares a lot about how men are using these new technologies, and how pornography is being used in the day to day world.

We got to chatting about dating apps, pornography, VR, sex education, among many other things.

Check out the Future of Sex podcast anywhere you find good podcasts.

If you’re in Australia, on March 23-25 there will be a Hackathon where you can help design, create and build the Future of Sex! You can find all that information if you go to futureofsex.org/hackathon. I’ll also put that up in the show notes.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Mon, 29 Jan 2018 01:12:07 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Bryony Cole is leading the way, along with the many women of sex tech, in trying to understand what could be the healthy, and amazing future of sex, and how technology can be used to provide empathy, compassion, love, and positive interaction. She also cares a lot about how men are using these new technologies, and how pornography is being used in the day to day world.

We got to chatting about dating apps, pornography, VR, sex education, among many other things.

Check out the Future of Sex podcast anywhere you find good podcasts.

If you’re in Australia, on March 23-25 there will be a Hackathon where you can help design, create and build the Future of Sex! You can find all that information if you go to futureofsex.org/hackathon. I’ll also put that up in the show notes.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Ep 48: "What the F*** is Normal?" - Sex and Technology w/ Bryony Cole German Villegas 00:51:49 Bryony Cole is leading the way, along with the many women of sex tech, in trying to understand what could be the healthy, and amazing future of sex, and how technology can be used to provide empathy, compassion, love, and positive interaction. She also cares a lot about how men are using these new technologies, and how pornography is being used in the day to day world. We got to chatting about dating apps, pornography, VR, sex education, among many other things. Bryony Cole is leading the way, along with the many women of sex tech, in trying to understand what could be the healthy, and amazing future of sex, and how technology can be used to provide empathy, compassion, love, and positive interaction. She also cares a lot about how men are using these new technologies, and how pornography is being used in the day to day world. We got to chatting about dating apps, pornography, VR, sex education, among many other things. reality, tech, virtual, sex false full 23 1 b24f55fbf86136ff62d4f6a8213fc69c "You can't Always be the Bread Winner" with Alex Putici Alex Putici is an entrepreneur out in Calgary who I wanted to meet because he started a program called 100 men who give a damn, a foundation in which 100 guys gave money to a different charity each year. But he’s also a guy that tries to live and breath vulnerability, if you don’t believe me check out his website putici.com which cites how many times he got fired, how many times he’s gotten audited by the CRA, and if he has ADHD (yes he does).

But through my conversation with Alex, we tease out one of his vulnerable spots, the role of the provider as a man, along with some of his excellent expertise as a businessman.

You can check out all the projects Alex has going on at putici.com or see him in person in Calgary at WorkNicer.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Mon, 15 Jan 2018 06:20:34 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Alex Putici is an entrepreneur out in Calgary who I wanted to meet because he started a program called 100 men who give a damn, a foundation in which 100 guys gave money to a different charity each year. But he’s also a guy that tries to live and breath vulnerability, if you don’t believe me check out his website putici.com which cites how many times he got fired, how many times he’s gotten audited by the CRA, and if he has ADHD (yes he does).

But through my conversation with Alex, we tease out one of his vulnerable spots, the role of the provider as a man, along with some of his excellent expertise as a businessman.

You can check out all the projects Alex has going on at putici.com or see him in person in Calgary at WorkNicer.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> "You can't Always be the Bread Winner" with Alex Putici German Villegas 00:51:58 Alex Putici is an entrepreneur out in Calgary who I wanted to meet because he started a program called 100 men who give a damn, a foundation in which 100 guys gave money to a different charity each year. He’s also a guy that tries to live and breath vulnerability. But through my conversation with Alex, we tease out one of his vulnerable spots, the role of the provider as a man, along with some of his excellent expertise as a businessman. Alex Putici is an entrepreneur out in Calgary who I wanted to meet because he started a program called 100 men who give a damn, a foundation in which 100 guys gave money to a different charity each year. He’s also a guy that tries to live and breath vulnerability. But through my conversation with Alex, we tease out one of his vulnerable spots, the role of the provider as a man, along with some of his excellent expertise as a businessman. false full 22 1 e55f719b9f10c8dea6896f8d8d2ed076 "Dangers of the Old Boys Club" w/ Matt Lisac On the last episode of 2017, I invite an old friend of mine who wanted to share his story and progression of his understanding of feelings and emotions. And also to share the wisdom that he has gained through his journey as a business owner and a stand up comic. Either through the sexism that was created by the old boys clubs that he was a part of, or through the ethical problems he faced navigating such an environment.

This episode is sponsored by ECF’s Well Endowed Podcast

Modern Manhood is proud to be a part of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Sun, 31 Dec 2017 22:17:39 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast On the last episode of 2017, I invite an old friend of mine who wanted to share his story and progression of his understanding of feelings and emotions. And also to share the wisdom that he has gained through his journey as a business owner and a stand up comic. Either through the sexism that was created by the old boys clubs that he was a part of, or through the ethical problems he faced navigating such an environment.

This episode is sponsored by ECF’s Well Endowed Podcast

Modern Manhood is proud to be a part of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> "Dangers of the Old Boys Club" w/ Matt Lisac German Villegas 00:55:24 On the last episode of 2017, I invite an old friend of mine who wanted to share the wisdom that he has gained through his journey as a business owner and a stand up comic. Either through the sexism that was created by the old boys clubs that he was a part of, or through the ethical problems he faced navigating such an environment. This episode is sponsored by ECF’s Well Endowed Podcast. Modern Manhood is proud to be a part of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. On the last episode of 2017, I invite an old friend of mine who wanted to share the wisdom that he has gained through his journey as a business owner and a stand up comic. Either through the sexism that was created by the old boys clubs that he was a part of, or through the ethical problems he faced navigating such an environment. This episode is sponsored by ECF’s Well Endowed Podcast. Modern Manhood is proud to be a part of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. false full 21 1 0bd5910ff311d903effd0c91ec8aa4ff "Discourse On The Internet Without Losing Your Mind" feat Kevin Peterson aka "the1janitor" The discourse online it’s becoming kind of heated. It feels like you’re either with an opinion or against that opinion. No middle ground.

Well if you look hard enough, you can find some people who are generally nuanced and generally want to see the right in the world, and not interested in debating, but engaging in topics. One of those people I found is Kevin Peterson aka The1Janitor. He’s a Youtuber with a substantial following, and one of his mantras is “Be Honest, be assertive, be kind, be open-minded. But Kevin still engages in modern topics in a fun and informative way. On this episode we talk about #MeToo and what it takes for men to be assertive and pay attention online.

You can find Kevin or his Youtube name The1Janitor on twitter (https://twitter.com/the1janitor) and on YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/the1janitor/) where you can find all of his videos.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Mon, 18 Dec 2017 04:47:01 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast The discourse online it’s becoming kind of heated. It feels like you’re either with an opinion or against that opinion. No middle ground.

Well if you look hard enough, you can find some people who are generally nuanced and generally want to see the right in the world, and not interested in debating, but engaging in topics. One of those people I found is Kevin Peterson aka The1Janitor. He’s a Youtuber with a substantial following, and one of his mantras is “Be Honest, be assertive, be kind, be open-minded. But Kevin still engages in modern topics in a fun and informative way. On this episode we talk about #MeToo and what it takes for men to be assertive and pay attention online.

You can find Kevin or his Youtube name The1Janitor on twitter (https://twitter.com/the1janitor) and on YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/the1janitor/) where you can find all of his videos.

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]]> "Discourse On The Internet Without Losing Your Mind" feat Kevin Peterson aka "the1janitor" German Villegas 00:42:52 The discourse online it’s becoming kind of heated. It feels like you’re either with an opinion or against that opinion. No middle ground. Well if you look hard enough, you can find some people who are generally nuanced and generally want to see the right in the world, and not interested in debating, but engaging in topics. One of those people I found is Kevin Peterson aka The1Janitor. On this episode we talk about #MeToo and what it takes for men to be assertive and pay attention online. The discourse online it’s becoming kind of heated. It feels like you’re either with an opinion or against that opinion. No middle ground. Well if you look hard enough, you can find some people who are generally nuanced and generally want to see the right in the world, and not interested in debating, but engaging in topics. One of those people I found is Kevin Peterson aka The1Janitor. On this episode we talk about #MeToo and what it takes for men to be assertive and pay attention online. false full 20 1 ca412e33282dd3b77f30e31a14bdb611 Martial Arts and Masculinity w/ Jaredd Wilson It’s easy to say that the concept of martial arts and masculinity run in very close circles. I’m very curious about things like the rise of the UFC, or the portrayal of a violent form of conduct like martial arts in movies have an effect of how men view their masculinity.

Jaredd Wilson is a black belt Aikedo specialist who runs a podcast called Martial Thoughts out of Nashville Tennessee. He took on the challenge of trying to guide through my ignorance around martial arts and think about how he views his own masculinity through martial arts.

You can find Jarredd Wilson on Twitter at martialthoughts and his webpage which includes all his martial art reviews and his podcast at thinkingmartial.blogspot.com

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]]> Mon, 4 Dec 2017 05:41:51 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast It’s easy to say that the concept of martial arts and masculinity run in very close circles. I’m very curious about things like the rise of the UFC, or the portrayal of a violent form of conduct like martial arts in movies have an effect of how men view their masculinity.

Jaredd Wilson is a black belt Aikedo specialist who runs a podcast called Martial Thoughts out of Nashville Tennessee. He took on the challenge of trying to guide through my ignorance around martial arts and think about how he views his own masculinity through martial arts.

You can find Jarredd Wilson on Twitter at martialthoughts and his webpage which includes all his martial art reviews and his podcast at thinkingmartial.blogspot.com

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]]> Martial Arts and Masculinity w/ Jaredd Wilson German Villegas 00:52:43 Jaredd Wilson is a black belt Aikedo specialist who runs a podcast called Martial Thoughts out of Nashville Tennessee. He took on the challenge of trying to guide through my ignorance around martial arts and think about how he views his own masculinity through martial arts. Jaredd Wilson is a black belt Aikedo specialist who runs a podcast called Martial Thoughts out of Nashville Tennessee. He took on the challenge of trying to guide through my ignorance around martial arts and think about how he views his own masculinity through martial arts. false full 19 1 9504c65a299063759b8990da3b145a1a Shame feat Jeff Perera In the second part of my conversation with Jeff Perera we speak about the aspects of shame. And how shame colors the barriers of men to truly engage in the conversation of anti-violence and masculine liberation. To be able to confront those actions of our past, and to flex what Jeff calls “those empathy muscles.” In this conversation, we also get a chance to bond over one of our favorite bands: The Beastie Boys and I also get a chance to reflect on International Men's Day. 

 You can find Jeff Perera on Twitter and Instagram at Jeffperera. And you can check out his work through Higher Unlearning. Clip in the episode is  from the movie "The Punk Singer" about Kathleen Hanna

This episode is sponsored by ECF's Well Endowed Podcast

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]]> Mon, 20 Nov 2017 01:14:23 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast In the second part of my conversation with Jeff Perera we speak about the aspects of shame. And how shame colors the barriers of men to truly engage in the conversation of anti-violence and masculine liberation. To be able to confront those actions of our past, and to flex what Jeff calls “those empathy muscles.” In this conversation, we also get a chance to bond over one of our favorite bands: The Beastie Boys and I also get a chance to reflect on International Men's Day. 

 You can find Jeff Perera on Twitter and Instagram at Jeffperera. And you can check out his work through Higher Unlearning. Clip in the episode is  from the movie "The Punk Singer" about Kathleen Hanna

This episode is sponsored by ECF's Well Endowed Podcast

Modern Manhood is proud to be a part of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.

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]]> Shame feat Jeff Perera German Villegas 00:31:44 In the second part of my conversation with Jeff Perera we speak about the aspects of shame. And how shame colors the barriers of men to truly engage in the conversation of anti-violence and masculine liberation. To be able to confront those actions of our past, and to flex what Jeff calls “those empathy muscles.” In this conversation, we also get a chance to bond over one of our favorite bands: The Beastie Boys and I also get a chance to reflect on International Men's Day. In the second part of my conversation with Jeff Perera we speak about the aspects of shame. And how shame colors the barriers of men to truly engage in the conversation of anti-violence and masculine liberation. To be able to confront those actions of our past, and to flex what Jeff calls “those empathy muscles.” In this conversation, we also get a chance to bond over one of our favorite bands: The Beastie Boys and I also get a chance to reflect on International Men's Day. false full 18 1 6f04ddf85a258c32846752889b34298b Brave Spaces feat Jeff Perera I reached out to Jeff Perera, activist and public speaker out in Toronto that has been working for anti-violence projects out there for at least 10 years now. We talked about reconciliation for men, and we also connected on how we came to do the work we do, along with stories about his father, safe spaces, and the tragedy of December 6th. I had such an awesome convo with Jeff, actually felt lighter afterwards to be honest, that I’m splitting this up into two! Stay tuned for part 2 next episode

You can find Jeff Perera on Twitter and Instagram at Jeffperera. In this episode we also talked a lot about Next Gen Men, an organization that are doing some big and awesome things down in Calgary and in Toronto. You can find them at nextgenmen.ca

This episode is sponsored by ATB Financial

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]]> Sun, 5 Nov 2017 23:44:53 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast I reached out to Jeff Perera, activist and public speaker out in Toronto that has been working for anti-violence projects out there for at least 10 years now. We talked about reconciliation for men, and we also connected on how we came to do the work we do, along with stories about his father, safe spaces, and the tragedy of December 6th. I had such an awesome convo with Jeff, actually felt lighter afterwards to be honest, that I’m splitting this up into two! Stay tuned for part 2 next episode

You can find Jeff Perera on Twitter and Instagram at Jeffperera. In this episode we also talked a lot about Next Gen Men, an organization that are doing some big and awesome things down in Calgary and in Toronto. You can find them at nextgenmen.ca

This episode is sponsored by ATB Financial

Modern Manhood is proud to be a part of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.

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]]> Brave Spaces feat Jeff Perera German Villegas 00:45:17 I reached out to Jeff Perera, activist and public speaker out in Toronto that has been working for anti-violence projects out there for at least 10 years now. We talked about reconciliation for men, and we also connected on how we came to do the work we do, along with stories about his father, safe spaces, and the tragedy of December 6th. I had such an awesome convo with Jeff, actually felt lighter afterwards to be honest, that I’m splitting this up into two! Stay tuned for part 2 next episode I reached out to Jeff Perera, activist and public speaker out in Toronto that has been working for anti-violence projects out there for at least 10 years now. We talked about reconciliation for men, and we also connected on how we came to do the work we do, along with stories about his father, safe spaces, and the tragedy of December 6th. I had such an awesome convo with Jeff, actually felt lighter afterwards to be honest, that I’m splitting this up into two! Stay tuned for part 2 next episode false full 17 1 05f7e1aebef576433e1d987517561845 Man and his Penis w/ Laura Dodsworth When the media, schools, and society at large speak the issues of body image and how it affects your self-esteem, we usually hear about from a female lens. We don’t think of this as a male issue, but I can tell you honestly that the majority of men face body issue problems. And I think men of all sexual orientation have a specific relationship with their penis.

UK artist and photographer, Laura Dobsworth started a project to help women deal with body issues called Bare Reality in which she invited 100 women to bare their breasts for a photo book, and then have them share their stories around body image. She then asked, why can’t I do this for men? So she created Manhood: A Bare Reality in which she asked 100 men to bare their penises. This was all in an effort to normalize the way we look at penises, and especially for men to show us a real version of what a penis looks like. We had an awesome chat about the process and the privilage of asking 100 men about their penis.

You can order Manhood: The Bare Reality from Amazon in Canada right now and if you get a chance take a look at this blog post about the process that Laura has gone into to making this book. Along with all the press she has done for the project. 

The Man of The Hour was Simon Gorsek, check out the episode to find out why. This episode was sponsored by the Edmonton Community Foundation and as always The Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.

You can also find the Tight Ends Podcast which we talked about here.

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]]> Mon, 23 Oct 2017 04:19:55 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast When the media, schools, and society at large speak the issues of body image and how it affects your self-esteem, we usually hear about from a female lens. We don’t think of this as a male issue, but I can tell you honestly that the majority of men face body issue problems. And I think men of all sexual orientation have a specific relationship with their penis.

UK artist and photographer, Laura Dobsworth started a project to help women deal with body issues called Bare Reality in which she invited 100 women to bare their breasts for a photo book, and then have them share their stories around body image. She then asked, why can’t I do this for men? So she created Manhood: A Bare Reality in which she asked 100 men to bare their penises. This was all in an effort to normalize the way we look at penises, and especially for men to show us a real version of what a penis looks like. We had an awesome chat about the process and the privilage of asking 100 men about their penis.

You can order Manhood: The Bare Reality from Amazon in Canada right now and if you get a chance take a look at this blog post about the process that Laura has gone into to making this book. Along with all the press she has done for the project. 

The Man of The Hour was Simon Gorsek, check out the episode to find out why. This episode was sponsored by the Edmonton Community Foundation and as always The Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.

You can also find the Tight Ends Podcast which we talked about here.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Man and his Penis w/ Laura Dodsworth German Villegas 00:39:26 UK artist and photographer, Laura Dodsworth started a project to help women deal with body issues called Bare Reality in which she invited 100 women to bare their breasts for a photo book, and then have them share their stories around body image. She then asked, why can’t I do this for men? So she created Manhood: A Bare Reality in which she asked 100 men to bare their penises. We had an awesome chat about the process and the privilege of asking 100 men about their penis. UK artist and photographer, Laura Dodsworth started a project to help women deal with body issues called Bare Reality in which she invited 100 women to bare their breasts for a photo book, and then have them share their stories around body image. She then asked, why can’t I do this for men? So she created Manhood: A Bare Reality in which she asked 100 men to bare their penises. We had an awesome chat about the process and the privilege of asking 100 men about their penis. false full 16 1 8c134c34d6a2ec7783c81716cbe80aec Ally Fogg/ People not Labels Do we have a problem when politicians such as Justin Trudeau and Theresa May call themselves feminist? Especially if they back policies which in their root cause are anti-feminist? And the other big one, does feminism truly lead to a liberation of traditional masculinity? Or does it just critique? And if it just critiques, where does that lead the men who want to find their own masculinity?

Ally Fogg, writer for The Guardian and many other publications, has been asking these questions for years. And not only that has worked to push the UK government for a more gender inclusive language when they talk about issues like violence.  We spoke in the summer a little after the many terrorist attacks in the UK, which we get a chance to speak about, and we also talk about the dangers of labels, especially on politicians.

 I would encourage you to check out Ally’s fight with the UK government in the role of mislabelling male victims of abuse over at his blog. I would also encourage you to check out one of his latest posts about stopping men being violent through the lens of Raewyn Connell. Asking instead the question “why does society value violent men?” which makes it hard for men to walk away from violence.

This episode of Modern Manhood is brought to you by the Edmonton Community Foundation which is host to the Well Endowed Podcast, check out their new episode with the one and only, George Takei

I will also be speaking at the upcoming Rad Dad's event called The Summit. Check out Rad Dads on Instagram and Twitter if you want to come.

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]]> Sun, 8 Oct 2017 22:08:55 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Do we have a problem when politicians such as Justin Trudeau and Theresa May call themselves feminist? Especially if they back policies which in their root cause are anti-feminist? And the other big one, does feminism truly lead to a liberation of traditional masculinity? Or does it just critique? And if it just critiques, where does that lead the men who want to find their own masculinity?

Ally Fogg, writer for The Guardian and many other publications, has been asking these questions for years. And not only that has worked to push the UK government for a more gender inclusive language when they talk about issues like violence.  We spoke in the summer a little after the many terrorist attacks in the UK, which we get a chance to speak about, and we also talk about the dangers of labels, especially on politicians.

 I would encourage you to check out Ally’s fight with the UK government in the role of mislabelling male victims of abuse over at his blog. I would also encourage you to check out one of his latest posts about stopping men being violent through the lens of Raewyn Connell. Asking instead the question “why does society value violent men?” which makes it hard for men to walk away from violence.

This episode of Modern Manhood is brought to you by the Edmonton Community Foundation which is host to the Well Endowed Podcast, check out their new episode with the one and only, George Takei

I will also be speaking at the upcoming Rad Dad's event called The Summit. Check out Rad Dads on Instagram and Twitter if you want to come.

Modern Manhood is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Ally Fogg/ People not Labels German Villegas 00:52:55 Does feminism truly lead to a liberation of traditional masculinity? Or does it just critique? Ally Fogg, writer for The Guardian and many other publications, has been asking these questions for years. And not only that has worked to push the UK government for a more gender-inclusive language when they talk about issues like violence. We spoke in the summer a little after the many terrorist attacks in the UK, and we also talk about the dangers of labels, especially on politicians. Does feminism truly lead to a liberation of traditional masculinity? Or does it just critique? Ally Fogg, writer for The Guardian and many other publications, has been asking these questions for years. And not only that has worked to push the UK government for a more gender-inclusive language when they talk about issues like violence. We spoke in the summer a little after the many terrorist attacks in the UK, and we also talk about the dangers of labels, especially on politicians. false full 15 1 9dde200e459d7826175719f9be4e3b25 Andrew Paul/The Powerful Women Who Shape Your Life All of those times I changed my career path, they really gnawed at my question of identity. What was I supposed to be? What am I supposed to give out to the world? And it also answered the question that the path for a career, even for yourself was never in a straight line. We’re lucky if that happens.

Andrew Paul faced the same questions of identity. But Andrew is quick to say that his story is not singular, and it is actually helped along with the many fantastic powerful women in his life. We also ask what kind of man am I if I’m not doing my passion?  Who shapes our passions? And who questions them?

You can find more about the Well-Endowed Podcast and the Edmonton Community Foundation here.

The podcast I Don't Get It is back too!

Desmond Cole is our Man of The Hour, and you can find out the store of Beverley Braham here.

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]]> Mon, 25 Sep 2017 04:18:01 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast All of those times I changed my career path, they really gnawed at my question of identity. What was I supposed to be? What am I supposed to give out to the world? And it also answered the question that the path for a career, even for yourself was never in a straight line. We’re lucky if that happens.

Andrew Paul faced the same questions of identity. But Andrew is quick to say that his story is not singular, and it is actually helped along with the many fantastic powerful women in his life. We also ask what kind of man am I if I’m not doing my passion?  Who shapes our passions? And who questions them?

You can find more about the Well-Endowed Podcast and the Edmonton Community Foundation here.

The podcast I Don't Get It is back too!

Desmond Cole is our Man of The Hour, and you can find out the store of Beverley Braham here.

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]]> Andrew Paul/The Powerful Women Who Shape Your Life German Villegas 00:54:21 All of those times I changed my career path, they really gnawed at my question of identity. What was I supposed to be? What am I supposed to give out to the world? Andrew Paul faced the same questions of identity. But Andrew is quick to say that his story is not singular, and it is actually helped along with the many fantastic powerful women in his life. We also ask what kind of man am I if I’m not doing my passion? Who shapes our passions? And who questions them? All of those times I changed my career path, they really gnawed at my question of identity. What was I supposed to be? What am I supposed to give out to the world? Andrew Paul faced the same questions of identity. But Andrew is quick to say that his story is not singular, and it is actually helped along with the many fantastic powerful women in his life. We also ask what kind of man am I if I’m not doing my passion? Who shapes our passions? And who questions them? false full 14 1 c08ab67399ebab357f4b35bfc85fc0a3 Kristain Basaraba of "Rad Dads"/Punk Rock Fatherhood Kristain Basaraba grew up on punk rock, and his idols were punk rock singers. But he didn’t play or he didn’t sing, but he still wanted to do something punk rock. Being a dad he saw didn’t look punk rock, so Kristain has injected a bit of it to the Dad movement.

He paired up with a local designer (Nigel Hood)and created a skull and hearts logo to make Rad Dads, a chapter of a group down in the states of positive, active fathers wanting to create a network of empowered dads in the community. Why did he want to do it though? What brought him to a place of saying I want to build something cool for my son and for other little kids? And why dads?

Well his story has heartbreak and lessons learned, and his story should be heard.

Check out Rad Dad Edmonton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

On this episode we talk about Robert Webb of Mitchell and Webb fame, and his fight against traditional gender normative, especially as a man.

You can find more awesome podcasts at AlbertaPodcastNetwork.com, support for Modern Manhood comes from ATB and on this episode The Edmonton Community Foundation

 

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]]> Mon, 11 Sep 2017 04:26:37 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Kristain Basaraba grew up on punk rock, and his idols were punk rock singers. But he didn’t play or he didn’t sing, but he still wanted to do something punk rock. Being a dad he saw didn’t look punk rock, so Kristain has injected a bit of it to the Dad movement.

He paired up with a local designer (Nigel Hood)and created a skull and hearts logo to make Rad Dads, a chapter of a group down in the states of positive, active fathers wanting to create a network of empowered dads in the community. Why did he want to do it though? What brought him to a place of saying I want to build something cool for my son and for other little kids? And why dads?

Well his story has heartbreak and lessons learned, and his story should be heard.

Check out Rad Dad Edmonton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

On this episode we talk about Robert Webb of Mitchell and Webb fame, and his fight against traditional gender normative, especially as a man.

You can find more awesome podcasts at AlbertaPodcastNetwork.com, support for Modern Manhood comes from ATB and on this episode The Edmonton Community Foundation

 

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]]> Kristain Basaraba of "Rad Dads"/Punk Rock Fatherhood German Villegas 00:58:40 Kristain Basaraba grew up on punk rock, and his idols were punk rock singers. But he didn’t play or he didn’t sing, but he still wanted to do something punk rock. Being a dad he saw didn’t look punk rock, so Kristain has injected a bit of it to the Dad movement. Check out Rad Dad Edmonton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram You can find more awesome podcasts at AlbertaPodcastNetwork.com, support for Modern Manhood comes from ATB and on this episode The Edmonton Community Foundation Kristain Basaraba grew up on punk rock, and his idols were punk rock singers. But he didn’t play or he didn’t sing, but he still wanted to do something punk rock. Being a dad he saw didn’t look punk rock, so Kristain has injected a bit of it to the Dad movement. Check out Rad Dad Edmonton on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram You can find more awesome podcasts at AlbertaPodcastNetwork.com, support for Modern Manhood comes from ATB and on this episode The Edmonton Community Foundation dad, men, health, mental, fatherhood, suicide, edmonton false full 13 1 750d239282e83f575e6a94e1c9281a7f Carl Landra/Can Hockey Players Be Idols? How we as men here in Canada, especially in Alberta, view hockey players is right at the top of the masculinity hierarchy. This has been ingrained to us since we’re kids. And I can say even as adults we admire these players to what they can be, and look to them to be examples of leaders, to show us perseverance, resiliency, and humbleness. So hockey players have a distinct role to play in how Canadian men act and behave, so the question then becomes, are these men doing a good job?To try to answer these questions, I invited Carl

To try to answer these questions, I invited Carl Landra who runs The 4th Line Podcast and also part of the Alberta Podcast Network. And we take some time to talk about issues like LGBTQ representation in the NHL, Domestic Violence with players, and questions like does the NHL care about players being idols to kids.

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]]> Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:30:16 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast How we as men here in Canada, especially in Alberta, view hockey players is right at the top of the masculinity hierarchy. This has been ingrained to us since we’re kids. And I can say even as adults we admire these players to what they can be, and look to them to be examples of leaders, to show us perseverance, resiliency, and humbleness. So hockey players have a distinct role to play in how Canadian men act and behave, so the question then becomes, are these men doing a good job?To try to answer these questions, I invited Carl

To try to answer these questions, I invited Carl Landra who runs The 4th Line Podcast and also part of the Alberta Podcast Network. And we take some time to talk about issues like LGBTQ representation in the NHL, Domestic Violence with players, and questions like does the NHL care about players being idols to kids.

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]]> Carl Landra/Can Hockey Players Be Idols? German Villegas 00:48:12 I invited Carl Landra who runs The 4th Line Podcast and also part of the Alberta Podcast Network. And we take some time to talk about issues like LGBTQ representation in the NHL, Domestic Violence with players, and questions like does the NHL care about players being idols to kids. I invited Carl Landra who runs The 4th Line Podcast and also part of the Alberta Podcast Network. And we take some time to talk about issues like LGBTQ representation in the NHL, Domestic Violence with players, and questions like does the NHL care about players being idols to kids. hockey, health, mental, lgbtq, domestic, violence, gay false full 12 1 9db0edc22cbf9eccf0b50ca8abec081f Carolyn Petit from "Feminist Frequency"/Discrimination and Masculinity in Video Game Media Today we’re going to continue our exploration of things “nerdy.”  by talking about video games. And to help us, I invited Carolyn Petit who is the managing editor for Feminist Frequency. Now you might have heard of Feminist Frequency because of it’s executive director Anita Sarkeesan who was a prominent player in Gamergate. But besides this whole mess, I was more interested in how an almost male dominated platform as video games has effects in masculinity.

How we see ourselves in this monster of a medium, in which many boys partake in, and how we can work to show a more wholesome narrative. Carolyn not only has experience in critique of these platforms, she’s also worked at GameSpot.com and is herself a transgendered woman. And we get a chance to talk about all of this.

 You can find Carolyn and Feminist Frequency here:

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]]> Mon, 14 Aug 2017 01:52:36 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Today we’re going to continue our exploration of things “nerdy.”  by talking about video games. And to help us, I invited Carolyn Petit who is the managing editor for Feminist Frequency. Now you might have heard of Feminist Frequency because of it’s executive director Anita Sarkeesan who was a prominent player in Gamergate. But besides this whole mess, I was more interested in how an almost male dominated platform as video games has effects in masculinity.

How we see ourselves in this monster of a medium, in which many boys partake in, and how we can work to show a more wholesome narrative. Carolyn not only has experience in critique of these platforms, she’s also worked at GameSpot.com and is herself a transgendered woman. And we get a chance to talk about all of this.

 You can find Carolyn and Feminist Frequency here:

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]]> Carolyn Petit from "Feminist Frequency"/Discrimination and Masculinity in Video Game Media German Villegas 00:46:25 Today we’re going to continue our exploration of things “nerdy.” by talking about video games. And to help us, I invited Carolyn Petit who is the managing editor for Feminist Frequency. I was more interested in how an almost male dominated platform as video games has effects in masculinity. Modern Manhood is proud to be part of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB Today we’re going to continue our exploration of things “nerdy.” by talking about video games. And to help us, I invited Carolyn Petit who is the managing editor for Feminist Frequency. I was more interested in how an almost male dominated platform as video games has effects in masculinity. Modern Manhood is proud to be part of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB games, video, feminism false full 11 1 49c4f2df673c31573a393cd619704b4b Brandon Schatz/Comics, Introverts, and Wonder Woman Wonder Women came out in May, and along with it came a wake of good feelings, well wishes, and empowerment among women superhero lovers. Now of course, with anything involving geeky fandoms and women, the trolls came out. First it was whining about the all female screening of Wonder Woman in Texas, and then the just souring of the movie as some sort of “propaganda tool.”

Not only that we see it not just with women characters, but also any characters that don’t fit the white male archetype. I’m thinking of Squirrel Girl, Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel, and Black Panther. Why do men, specifically white men, get so riled up with the diversity this industry needs?

Well I brought in a lived experience expert, Brandon Schatz, co-owner of Varient Edition comics here in Edmonton. He’s got expert knowledge as to why males behave this way, and it has a lot to do with the history of the matter, he’s also indirectly lived the sexism when opening his store with his wife Danica. Besides that we’re also going to talk about his own life as a business owner, his life as an introvert who helps other introverts, and why he puts his money where his mouth is.

Question of the Episode: What was the coolest, most selfless thing another man has done for you? Send me your anwsers at @modernmanpod

You can find Brandon’s store Varient Edition at 10132 - 151 Street NW, Edmonton, AB or online at varientedition.com

You can find brandon on twitter @soupytoasterson please send all geeky questions to him! He knows a lot!

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]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 06:20:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Wonder Women came out in May, and along with it came a wake of good feelings, well wishes, and empowerment among women superhero lovers. Now of course, with anything involving geeky fandoms and women, the trolls came out. First it was whining about the all female screening of Wonder Woman in Texas, and then the just souring of the movie as some sort of “propaganda tool.”

Not only that we see it not just with women characters, but also any characters that don’t fit the white male archetype. I’m thinking of Squirrel Girl, Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel, and Black Panther. Why do men, specifically white men, get so riled up with the diversity this industry needs?

Well I brought in a lived experience expert, Brandon Schatz, co-owner of Varient Edition comics here in Edmonton. He’s got expert knowledge as to why males behave this way, and it has a lot to do with the history of the matter, he’s also indirectly lived the sexism when opening his store with his wife Danica. Besides that we’re also going to talk about his own life as a business owner, his life as an introvert who helps other introverts, and why he puts his money where his mouth is.

Question of the Episode: What was the coolest, most selfless thing another man has done for you? Send me your anwsers at @modernmanpod

You can find Brandon’s store Varient Edition at 10132 - 151 Street NW, Edmonton, AB or online at varientedition.com

You can find brandon on twitter @soupytoasterson please send all geeky questions to him! He knows a lot!

You can check out more Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB at albertapodcastnetwork.com

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Brandon Schatz/Comics, Introverts, and Wonder Woman German Villegas 00:56:43 Brandon Schatz, co-owner of Varient Edition comics here in Edmonton has got expert knowledge as to why males behave this way, and also indirectly lived the sexism. Besides that we’re also going to talk about his own life as a business owner, his life as an introvert who helps other introverts, and why he puts his money where his mouth is. Brandon Schatz, co-owner of Varient Edition comics here in Edmonton has got expert knowledge as to why males behave this way, and also indirectly lived the sexism. Besides that we’re also going to talk about his own life as a business owner, his life as an introvert who helps other introverts, and why he puts his money where his mouth is. nerd, comics, geek false full 34 1 4f90b9e75a7430ced142da4b3c206eb3 Ashley Thomson/Studying Masculinity in Australia When you work in any type of professional field, you usually end up meeting the same cast of characters. Working in what some people call the “men sector,” the people that are committed to issues like ending violence against women, creating healthy masculinities, and working with male victims is pretty small. Especially locally. One of the perks of doing this podcast, and living in a world where people are connected via social media, is that you get a chance to connect with people all around the world. Ashley Thomson is one of those people. Ashley started up the website Homer, dedicated to creating conversations around masculinity.

 Through this interview we’re going to talk about why he started Homer, his feelings of connections with other male friends, his time though depression and what helped him get out of it, and the things two people wondering about the same thing from other parts of the world have in common.

Homer: http://homeronline.com/

Homer's Half Hour Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/homer-half-hour

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Mon, 17 Jul 2017 05:33:57 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast When you work in any type of professional field, you usually end up meeting the same cast of characters. Working in what some people call the “men sector,” the people that are committed to issues like ending violence against women, creating healthy masculinities, and working with male victims is pretty small. Especially locally. One of the perks of doing this podcast, and living in a world where people are connected via social media, is that you get a chance to connect with people all around the world. Ashley Thomson is one of those people. Ashley started up the website Homer, dedicated to creating conversations around masculinity.

 Through this interview we’re going to talk about why he started Homer, his feelings of connections with other male friends, his time though depression and what helped him get out of it, and the things two people wondering about the same thing from other parts of the world have in common.

Homer: http://homeronline.com/

Homer's Half Hour Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/homer-half-hour

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Ashley Thomson/Studying Masculinity in Australia German Villegas 00:53:39 When you work in any type of professional field, you usually end up meeting the same cast of characters. Working in what some people call the “men sector,” the people that are committed to issues like ending violence against women, creating healthy masculinities, and working with male victims is pretty small. Especially locally. One of the perks of doing this podcast, and living in a world where people are connected via social media, is that you get a chance to connect with people all around the world. Ashley Thomson is one of those people. Ashley started up the website Homer, dedicated to creating conversations around masculinity.  Through this interview we’re going to talk about why he started Homer, his feelings of connections with other male friends, his time though depression and what helped him get out of it, and the things two people wondering about the same thing from other parts of the world have in common. Homer: http://homeronline.com/ Homer's Half Hour Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/homer-half-hour When you work in any type of professional field, you usually end up meeting the same cast of characters. Working in what some people call the “men sector,” the people that are committed to issues like ending violence against women, creating healthy masculinities, and working with male victims is pretty small. Especially locally. One of the perks of doing this podcast, and living in a world where people are connected via social media, is that you get a chance to connect with people all around the world. Ashley Thomson is one of those people. Ashley started up the website Homer, dedicated to creating conversations around masculinity.  Through this interview we’re going to talk about why he started Homer, his feelings of connections with other male friends, his time though depression and what helped him get out of it, and the things two people wondering about the same thing from other parts of the world have in common. Homer: http://homeronline.com/ Homer's Half Hour Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/homer-half-hour false full 9 1 faaabcb136e6a41d44e9beb539e05201 Nate Proctor/Radical Self-Awareness Have you ever looked at your body, looked in the mirror, and just hated it? So much so that you would go out of your way to not do things like go swimming, take off your shirt, and maybe even have sex with the lights off always. The concept of body image which in the past was something that for the most part gets attributed to women, now we can say that it affects both men and women. The policing of bodies though does happen in a higher frequency for women than it does for males, and I believe that’s one of the many reasons why we do focus a lot in respect to body image with women. But men definitely suffer through it, I know I have. Nate Proctor also has, and he took to YouTube to do what he thought was an almost impossible task, take off his shirt for everyone to see.

Nate did this because he knows the value of self-love, self-awareness, and how we can be more vulnerable with each other. He shares this message through his very popular Instagram account, his Youtube channel, and his articles he has written for Huffington Post.  He knows this because he too has suffered through a lot, addiction, homelessness, and depression. But he uses the lessons he has learned to share with everyone, and that’s what we’re going to do here, listen about his life, his lessons, and what we as men can take out of this.

Nate talks about two books on the podcast:

  1. Cheryl Strayed: Tiny Beautiful Things
  2. Katherine Schwarzenegger: I Just Graduated...Now What?

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]]> Tue, 4 Jul 2017 04:35:00 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Have you ever looked at your body, looked in the mirror, and just hated it? So much so that you would go out of your way to not do things like go swimming, take off your shirt, and maybe even have sex with the lights off always. The concept of body image which in the past was something that for the most part gets attributed to women, now we can say that it affects both men and women. The policing of bodies though does happen in a higher frequency for women than it does for males, and I believe that’s one of the many reasons why we do focus a lot in respect to body image with women. But men definitely suffer through it, I know I have. Nate Proctor also has, and he took to YouTube to do what he thought was an almost impossible task, take off his shirt for everyone to see.

Nate did this because he knows the value of self-love, self-awareness, and how we can be more vulnerable with each other. He shares this message through his very popular Instagram account, his Youtube channel, and his articles he has written for Huffington Post.  He knows this because he too has suffered through a lot, addiction, homelessness, and depression. But he uses the lessons he has learned to share with everyone, and that’s what we’re going to do here, listen about his life, his lessons, and what we as men can take out of this.

Nate talks about two books on the podcast:

  1. Cheryl Strayed: Tiny Beautiful Things
  2. Katherine Schwarzenegger: I Just Graduated...Now What?

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]]> Nate Proctor/Radical Self-Awareness German Villegas 00:46:23 Have you ever looked at your body, looked in the mirror, and just hated it? So much so that you would go out of your way to not do things like go swimming, take off your shirt, and maybe even have sex with the lights off always. The concept of body image which in the past was something that for the most part gets attributed to women, now we can say that it affects both men and women. The policing of bodies though does happen in a higher frequency for women than it does for males, and I believe that’s one of the many reasons why we do focus a lot in respect to body image with women. But men definitely suffer through it, I know I have. Nate Proctor also has, and he took to YouTube to do what he thought was an almost impossible task, take off his shirt for everyone to see. Nate did this because he knows the value of self-love, self-awareness, and how we can be more vulnerable with each other. He shares this message through his very popular Instagram account, his Youtube channel, and his articles he has written for Huffington Post.  He knows this because he too has suffered through a lot, addiction, homelessness, and depression. But he uses the lessons he has learned to share with everyone, and that’s what we’re going to do here, listen about his life, his lessons, and what we as men can take out of this. Nate talks about two books on the podcast: Cheryl Strayed: Tiny Beautiful Things Katherine Schwarzenegger: I Just Graduated...Now What? Have you ever looked at your body, looked in the mirror, and just hated it? So much so that you would go out of your way to not do things like go swimming, take off your shirt, and maybe even have sex with the lights off always. The concept of body image which in the past was something that for the most part gets attributed to women, now we can say that it affects both men and women. The policing of bodies though does happen in a higher frequency for women than it does for males, and I believe that’s one of the many reasons why we do focus a lot in respect to body image with women. But men definitely suffer through it, I know I have. Nate Proctor also has, and he took to YouTube to do what he thought was an almost impossible task, take off his shirt for everyone to see. Nate did this because he knows the value of self-love, self-awareness, and how we can be more vulnerable with each other. He shares this message through his very popular Instagram account, his Youtube channel, and his articles he has written for Huffington Post.  He knows this because he too has suffered through a lot, addiction, homelessness, and depression. But he uses the lessons he has learned to share with everyone, and that’s what we’re going to do here, listen about his life, his lessons, and what we as men can take out of this. Nate talks about two books on the podcast: Cheryl Strayed: Tiny Beautiful Things Katherine Schwarzenegger: I Just Graduated...Now What? addiction, health, mental, depression false full 8 1 4a0f11ca1e9e848f4b7f2867eab62938 Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio Pt 2/The Effects of Multiculturalism in Males On today’s show, we go a little more personal, and speak directly about Elliott and Michael’s background as first-generation Canadians and how their family households made them unique participants in the line for political commentators.  How their dads set them up to be more sensitive and vulnerable males, and how they enjoy each other as male friends. Not only that we speak to the masculinity and politics of Justin Trudeau, and the way some conservatives have pegged liberal masculinity. Particularly around the word “cuck”

That and a lot more in my second part of talking to Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio from The Highlevel Showdown

You can find Michael and Elliott on Twitter @highlevelshowdown and I will put their personal accounts in the shownotes which you can find at modernmanhood.org. Also check out the Patreon page at patreon.com/modernmanpod. You can find MMP in iTunes, Stitcher, or anywhere you find awesome podcasts. If you want to be a guest of the show, send me a line @modernmanpod on Twitter and Instagram, or find me on Facebook at Modern Manhood: The Podcast.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Wed, 28 Jun 2017 05:08:46 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast On today’s show, we go a little more personal, and speak directly about Elliott and Michael’s background as first-generation Canadians and how their family households made them unique participants in the line for political commentators.  How their dads set them up to be more sensitive and vulnerable males, and how they enjoy each other as male friends. Not only that we speak to the masculinity and politics of Justin Trudeau, and the way some conservatives have pegged liberal masculinity. Particularly around the word “cuck”

That and a lot more in my second part of talking to Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio from The Highlevel Showdown

You can find Michael and Elliott on Twitter @highlevelshowdown and I will put their personal accounts in the shownotes which you can find at modernmanhood.org. Also check out the Patreon page at patreon.com/modernmanpod. You can find MMP in iTunes, Stitcher, or anywhere you find awesome podcasts. If you want to be a guest of the show, send me a line @modernmanpod on Twitter and Instagram, or find me on Facebook at Modern Manhood: The Podcast.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio Pt 2/The Effects of Multiculturalism in Males German Villegas 00:42:43 On today’s show, we go a little more personal, and speak directly about Elliott and Michael’s background as first-generation Canadians and how their family households made them unique participants in the line for political commentators.  How their dads set them up to be more sensitive and vulnerable males, and how they enjoy each other as male friends. Not only that we speak to the masculinity and politics of Justin Trudeau, and the way some conservatives have pegged liberal masculinity. Particularly around the word “cuck” That and a lot more in my second part of talking to Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio from The Highlevel Showdown You can find Michael and Elliott on Twitter @highlevelshowdown and I will put their personal accounts in the shownotes which you can find at modernmanhood.org. Also check out the Patreon page at patreon.com/modernmanpod. You can find MMP in iTunes, Stitcher, or anywhere you find awesome podcasts. If you want to be a guest of the show, send me a line @modernmanpod on Twitter and Instagram, or find me on Facebook at Modern Manhood: The Podcast. On today’s show, we go a little more personal, and speak directly about Elliott and Michael’s background as first-generation Canadians and how their family households made them unique participants in the line for political commentators.  How their dads set them up to be more sensitive and vulnerable males, and how they enjoy each other as male friends. Not only that we speak to the masculinity and politics of Justin Trudeau, and the way some conservatives have pegged liberal masculinity. Particularly around the word “cuck” That and a lot more in my second part of talking to Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio from The Highlevel Showdown You can find Michael and Elliott on Twitter @highlevelshowdown and I will put their personal accounts in the shownotes which you can find at modernmanhood.org. Also check out the Patreon page at patreon.com/modernmanpod. You can find MMP in iTunes, Stitcher, or anywhere you find awesome podcasts. If you want to be a guest of the show, send me a line @modernmanpod on Twitter and Instagram, or find me on Facebook at Modern Manhood: The Podcast. politics, multiculturalism, canada false full 7 1 af9c130f11ee06341da4ab56e0a697cb Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio Pt 1/Men and Women in Politics I started listening to The Highlevel Showdown, a local politics show with two guys, Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio, from opposite sides of the political view talk about what the heck is going on in the world of politics. Now, lucky for me they also were curious about questions of manhood, and questions in how masculinity works in politics as much as I did. Even more lucky for me, they were curious about their own masculinity, and how their lives intertwined as immigrants, first generation Canadians (like they are), and most importantly as long time friends.

Now because I had a lot to ask of them and the conversation was flowing I decided to split this into two parts. The first part you’ll hear right now is Elliott, Michael, and myself talking about what was going on with the intersection of politics and masculinity which involves, yep, Donald Trump. But we also talk local politics and specifically the struggles that women have to get into politics, be heard, and the harassment they face.

Check all episodes of the podcast at modernmanhood.org

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2017 04:15:48 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast I started listening to The Highlevel Showdown, a local politics show with two guys, Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio, from opposite sides of the political view talk about what the heck is going on in the world of politics. Now, lucky for me they also were curious about questions of manhood, and questions in how masculinity works in politics as much as I did. Even more lucky for me, they were curious about their own masculinity, and how their lives intertwined as immigrants, first generation Canadians (like they are), and most importantly as long time friends.

Now because I had a lot to ask of them and the conversation was flowing I decided to split this into two parts. The first part you’ll hear right now is Elliott, Michael, and myself talking about what was going on with the intersection of politics and masculinity which involves, yep, Donald Trump. But we also talk local politics and specifically the struggles that women have to get into politics, be heard, and the harassment they face.

Check all episodes of the podcast at modernmanhood.org

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

You can also subscribe to the Substack at https://theferdinand.substack.com/

]]> Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio Pt 1/Men and Women in Politics German Villegas 00:26:04 I started listening to The Highlevel Showdown, a local politics show with two guys, Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio, from opposite sides of the political view talk about what the heck is going on in the world of politics. Now, lucky for me they also were curious about questions of manhood, and questions in how masculinity works in politics as much as I did. Even more lucky for me, they were curious about their own masculinity, and how their lives intertwined as immigrants, first generation Canadians (like they are), and most importantly as long time friends. Now because I had a lot to ask of them and the conversation was flowing I decided to split this into two parts. The first part you’ll hear right now is Elliott, Michael, and myself talking about what was going on with the intersection of politics and masculinity which involves, yep, Donald Trump. But we also talk local politics and specifically the struggles that women have to get into politics, be heard, and the harassment they face. Check all episodes of the podcast at modernmanhood.org I started listening to The Highlevel Showdown, a local politics show with two guys, Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio, from opposite sides of the political view talk about what the heck is going on in the world of politics. Now, lucky for me they also were curious about questions of manhood, and questions in how masculinity works in politics as much as I did. Even more lucky for me, they were curious about their own masculinity, and how their lives intertwined as immigrants, first generation Canadians (like they are), and most importantly as long time friends. Now because I had a lot to ask of them and the conversation was flowing I decided to split this into two parts. The first part you’ll hear right now is Elliott, Michael, and myself talking about what was going on with the intersection of politics and masculinity which involves, yep, Donald Trump. But we also talk local politics and specifically the struggles that women have to get into politics, be heard, and the harassment they face. Check all episodes of the podcast at modernmanhood.org ndp, alberta, politics, masculinity false full 6 1 ba5ab88ae2eca0bcca326f2be487185d Info Session 2: Men's Mental Health w/ Jessica Craig For today’s episode, I wanted to speak directly about men’s mental health and how men have problems getting the help they need either through the system that creates barriers or the society that sees them in a different light. This ties hand in hand with Men’s mental Health Awareness Day on June 13.

So for this, I wanted to speak to a front line worker here in Edmonton that deals directly with people with mental health disorders and problems. Jessica Craig has been helping kids and adults with mental health problems for years now, and is now an intake worker for a prominent place in Alberta. Lucky for me, she’s got a keen particular interest in men’s mental health, and also is a good friend of mine. I was lucky to share a bowl of pho with her, and sat down on her couch with her dog Zoe to speak about the issues that she sees in the front line.

Some of the links I have mentioned:

 

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]]> Sun, 4 Jun 2017 18:44:12 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast For today’s episode, I wanted to speak directly about men’s mental health and how men have problems getting the help they need either through the system that creates barriers or the society that sees them in a different light. This ties hand in hand with Men’s mental Health Awareness Day on June 13.

So for this, I wanted to speak to a front line worker here in Edmonton that deals directly with people with mental health disorders and problems. Jessica Craig has been helping kids and adults with mental health problems for years now, and is now an intake worker for a prominent place in Alberta. Lucky for me, she’s got a keen particular interest in men’s mental health, and also is a good friend of mine. I was lucky to share a bowl of pho with her, and sat down on her couch with her dog Zoe to speak about the issues that she sees in the front line.

Some of the links I have mentioned:

 

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]]> Info Session 2: Men's Mental Health w/ Jessica Craig German Villegas 00:28:09 For today’s episode, I wanted to speak directly about men’s mental health and how men have problems getting the help they need either through the system that creates barriers or the society that sees them in a different light. This ties hand in hand with Men’s mental Health Awareness Day on June 13. So for this, I wanted to speak to a front line worker here in Edmonton that deals directly with people with mental health disorders and problems. Jessica Craig has been helping kids and adults with mental health problems for years now, and is now an intake worker for a prominent place in Alberta. Lucky for me, she’s got a keen particular interest in men’s mental health, and also is a good friend of mine. I was lucky to share a bowl of pho with her, and sat down on her couch with her dog Zoe to speak about the issues that she sees in the front line. Some of the links I have mentioned: Alberta Men's Network Metro Community Choice Award Men's Mental Health Awareness Day G Radio Night Vision Music   For today’s episode, I wanted to speak directly about men’s mental health and how men have problems getting the help they need either through the system that creates barriers or the society that sees them in a different light. This ties hand in hand with Men’s mental Health Awareness Day on June 13. So for this, I wanted to speak to a front line worker here in Edmonton that deals directly with people with mental health disorders and problems. Jessica Craig has been helping kids and adults with mental health problems for years now, and is now an intake worker for a prominent place in Alberta. Lucky for me, she’s got a keen particular interest in men’s mental health, and also is a good friend of mine. I was lucky to share a bowl of pho with her, and sat down on her couch with her dog Zoe to speak about the issues that she sees in the front line. Some of the links I have mentioned: Alberta Men's Network Metro Community Choice Award Men's Mental Health Awareness Day G Radio Night Vision Music   health, menmhday, mental, masculinity false full 5 1 c9cd1a949eae459a23e8b254176c3e4d Allen Featherstone / Out of the Darkness Allen Featherstone has gone through his own journey of understanding how to be a proper man and human being. And it took him a long struggle with addictions, with hard drugs, then alcohol to understand what he has to do.

In this interview, you can see that he is still on this journey, one that he is willing to share with anyone who will listen. You can hear that he is working to better himself, and some days he wins and some days he loses. You can tell he wants to be more at peace with himself, with his wife, and with his daughter.

In this episode, I also talk about Ryan Getzlaf and his fine over an inappropriate comment.

You can check out Allen’s podcast The Featherstone by searching it on iTunes or on Stitcher . You can also find him on Instagram @theFeatherstonehimself an on twitter @thefeatherpod

If you want to support the Modern Manhood Podcast, check out the patreon page at patreon.com/modernmanpod

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Mon, 22 May 2017 21:14:32 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Allen Featherstone has gone through his own journey of understanding how to be a proper man and human being. And it took him a long struggle with addictions, with hard drugs, then alcohol to understand what he has to do.

In this interview, you can see that he is still on this journey, one that he is willing to share with anyone who will listen. You can hear that he is working to better himself, and some days he wins and some days he loses. You can tell he wants to be more at peace with himself, with his wife, and with his daughter.

In this episode, I also talk about Ryan Getzlaf and his fine over an inappropriate comment.

You can check out Allen’s podcast The Featherstone by searching it on iTunes or on Stitcher . You can also find him on Instagram @theFeatherstonehimself an on twitter @thefeatherpod

If you want to support the Modern Manhood Podcast, check out the patreon page at patreon.com/modernmanpod

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]]> Allen Featherstone / Out of the Darkness German Villegas 00:51:58 Allen Featherstone has gone through his own journey of understanding how to be a proper man and human being. And it took him a long struggle with addictions, with hard drugs, then alcohol to understand what he has to do. In this interview, you can see that he is still on this journey, one that he is willing to share with anyone who will listen. You can hear that he is working to better himself, and some days he wins and some days he loses. You can tell he wants to be more at peace with himself, with his wife, and with his daughter. In this episode, I also talk about Ryan Getzlaf and his fine over an inappropriate comment. You can check out Allen’s podcast The Featherstone by searching it on iTunes or on Stitcher . You can also find him on Instagram @theFeatherstonehimself an on twitter @thefeatherpod If you want to support the Modern Manhood Podcast, check out the patreon page at patreon.com/modernmanpod Allen Featherstone has gone through his own journey of understanding how to be a proper man and human being. And it took him a long struggle with addictions, with hard drugs, then alcohol to understand what he has to do. In this interview, you can see that he is still on this journey, one that he is willing to share with anyone who will listen. You can hear that he is working to better himself, and some days he wins and some days he loses. You can tell he wants to be more at peace with himself, with his wife, and with his daughter. In this episode, I also talk about Ryan Getzlaf and his fine over an inappropriate comment. You can check out Allen’s podcast The Featherstone by searching it on iTunes or on Stitcher . You can also find him on Instagram @theFeatherstonehimself an on twitter @thefeatherpod If you want to support the Modern Manhood Podcast, check out the patreon page at patreon.com/modernmanpod addiction, health, drugs, mental, anxiety false full 4 1 cd4d82aa178b0cbe3b9f25ccead2dfeb Happy Anniversary: Let's Talk Fatherhood In early May, Modern Manhood Podcast celebrated one year of life. In the last 12 months we have had an awesome collection of interviews and guests, each providing a unique spin on what they call manhood. In the first of many different clip shows, I'm going to be providing some feedback on my favorite parts of these interviews, as well as try to parse them in a way which is relevant to the study of masculinity. 

Today we talk about fatherhood, with guests like Micheal Hingston, Ryan Valley, and Darren Cheverie. And what that means to yourself as a man, and to your sons and daughters. I hope you enjoy and you can catch all these episodes in full at the modernmanhoodpodcast.com

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]]> Fri, 12 May 2017 04:39:43 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast In early May, Modern Manhood Podcast celebrated one year of life. In the last 12 months we have had an awesome collection of interviews and guests, each providing a unique spin on what they call manhood. In the first of many different clip shows, I'm going to be providing some feedback on my favorite parts of these interviews, as well as try to parse them in a way which is relevant to the study of masculinity. 

Today we talk about fatherhood, with guests like Micheal Hingston, Ryan Valley, and Darren Cheverie. And what that means to yourself as a man, and to your sons and daughters. I hope you enjoy and you can catch all these episodes in full at the modernmanhoodpodcast.com

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]]> Happy Anniversary: Let's Talk Fatherhood German Villegas 00:22:41 In early May, Modern Manhood Podcast celebrated one year of life. In the last 12 months we have had an awesome collection of interviews and guests, each providing a unique spin on what they call manhood. In the first of many different clip shows, I'm going to be providing some feedback on my favorite parts of these interviews, as well as try to parse them in a way which is relevant to the study of masculinity.  Today we talk about fatherhood, with guests like Micheal Hingston, Ryan Valley, and Darren Cheverie. And what that means to yourself as a man, and to your sons and daughters. I hope you enjoy and you can catch all these episodes in full at the modernmanhoodpodcast.com In early May, Modern Manhood Podcast celebrated one year of life. In the last 12 months we have had an awesome collection of interviews and guests, each providing a unique spin on what they call manhood. In the first of many different clip shows, I'm going to be providing some feedback on my favorite parts of these interviews, as well as try to parse them in a way which is relevant to the study of masculinity.  Today we talk about fatherhood, with guests like Micheal Hingston, Ryan Valley, and Darren Cheverie. And what that means to yourself as a man, and to your sons and daughters. I hope you enjoy and you can catch all these episodes in full at the modernmanhoodpodcast.com health, mental, fatherhood, masculinity false full 3 1 ab119c2025589945ab51e063683d51b5 Joseph Gelfer/Moving Beyond "Toxic Masculinities" Today I'm very excited to talk to Dr. Joseph Gelfer who is the founding editor of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality,  and the creator of the Future Masculinity online course and Director of Masculinity Research.

He also created the Five Stages of Masculinity model, which is used to view a person's understandings of masculinity. This model is the basis of the Masculinity Research organization directed by Joseph Gelfer which offers " insight into men and masculinity in three key areas: Market research for products and services, Social research for non-profit and governmental policymakers [and] People and culture development for businesses and organizations."

The conversation that we'll be talking about today, delves a lot into how we as people who talk about masculinities. We talk about the current problems of the discourse involving masculinities and how we can move beyond just talking about the opposite of "toxic masculinities" and how we as a society are stuck in stage 3 of masculinities. 

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]]> Sun, 23 Apr 2017 22:34:09 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Today I'm very excited to talk to Dr. Joseph Gelfer who is the founding editor of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality,  and the creator of the Future Masculinity online course and Director of Masculinity Research.

He also created the Five Stages of Masculinity model, which is used to view a person's understandings of masculinity. This model is the basis of the Masculinity Research organization directed by Joseph Gelfer which offers " insight into men and masculinity in three key areas: Market research for products and services, Social research for non-profit and governmental policymakers [and] People and culture development for businesses and organizations."

The conversation that we'll be talking about today, delves a lot into how we as people who talk about masculinities. We talk about the current problems of the discourse involving masculinities and how we can move beyond just talking about the opposite of "toxic masculinities" and how we as a society are stuck in stage 3 of masculinities. 

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Joseph Gelfer/Moving Beyond "Toxic Masculinities" German Villegas 01:00:15 Today I'm very excited to talk to Dr. Joseph Gelfer who is the founding editor of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality,  and the creator of the Future Masculinity online course and Director of Masculinity Research. He also created the Five Stages of Masculinity model, which is used to view a person's understandings of masculinity. This model is the basis of the Masculinity Research organization directed by Joseph Gelfer which offers " insight into men and masculinity in three key areas: Market research for products and services, Social research for non-profit and governmental policymakers [and] People and culture development for businesses and organizations." The conversation that we'll be talking about today, delves a lot into how we as people who talk about masculinities. We talk about the current problems of the discourse involving masculinities and how we can move beyond just talking about the opposite of "toxic masculinities" and how we as a society are stuck in stage 3 of masculinities.  Today I'm very excited to talk to Dr. Joseph Gelfer who is the founding editor of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality,  and the creator of the Future Masculinity online course and Director of Masculinity Research. He also created the Five Stages of Masculinity model, which is used to view a person's understandings of masculinity. This model is the basis of the Masculinity Research organization directed by Joseph Gelfer which offers " insight into men and masculinity in three key areas: Market research for products and services, Social research for non-profit and governmental policymakers [and] People and culture development for businesses and organizations." The conversation that we'll be talking about today, delves a lot into how we as people who talk about masculinities. We talk about the current problems of the discourse involving masculinities and how we can move beyond just talking about the opposite of "toxic masculinities" and how we as a society are stuck in stage 3 of masculinities.  false full 2 1 4bd531ead9f444b185eecf6fc6446679 Ian Moore/Life in a Heavily Male Workplace Today we're going to talk about the law. Not the law in regards to masculinity or how it affects males, but the law profession. How it affects the notions of self-care, and how the law profession is heavily run by males, and what the effect of that dynamic can be. We're going to talk to law student Ian Moore from Vancouver about this, plus I wanted to ask about his own life and what stories might he have over how he views his masculinity. Including an interesting story in which he gets mugged. 

If you haven't done so already, please check out The Ferdinand's new story by Derek Nadeau titled "Coping."  In which Derek goes through his journey into finding coping skills to take care of his own mental health, which took a drastic toll. 

If you want to share your own story through Modern Manhood, please send me a line at modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com or find me on Twitter @modernmanpod. 

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]]> Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:28:25 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast Today we're going to talk about the law. Not the law in regards to masculinity or how it affects males, but the law profession. How it affects the notions of self-care, and how the law profession is heavily run by males, and what the effect of that dynamic can be. We're going to talk to law student Ian Moore from Vancouver about this, plus I wanted to ask about his own life and what stories might he have over how he views his masculinity. Including an interesting story in which he gets mugged. 

If you haven't done so already, please check out The Ferdinand's new story by Derek Nadeau titled "Coping."  In which Derek goes through his journey into finding coping skills to take care of his own mental health, which took a drastic toll. 

If you want to share your own story through Modern Manhood, please send me a line at modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com or find me on Twitter @modernmanpod. 

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Ian Moore/Life in a Heavily Male Workplace German Villegas 00:53:07 Today we're going to talk about the law. Not the law in regards to masculinity or how it affects males, but the law profession. How it affects the notions of self-care, and how the law profession is heavily run by males, and what the effect of that dynamic can be. We're going to talk to law student Ian Moore from Vancouver about this, plus I wanted to ask about his own life and what stories might he have over how he views his masculinity. Including an interesting story in which he gets mugged.  If you haven't done so already, please check out The Ferdinand's new story by Derek Nadeau titled "Coping."  In which Derek goes through his journey into finding coping skills to take care of his own mental health, which took a drastic toll.  If you want to share your own story through Modern Manhood, please send me a line at modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com or find me on Twitter @modernmanpod.  Today we're going to talk about the law. Not the law in regards to masculinity or how it affects males, but the law profession. How it affects the notions of self-care, and how the law profession is heavily run by males, and what the effect of that dynamic can be. We're going to talk to law student Ian Moore from Vancouver about this, plus I wanted to ask about his own life and what stories might he have over how he views his masculinity. Including an interesting story in which he gets mugged.  If you haven't done so already, please check out The Ferdinand's new story by Derek Nadeau titled "Coping."  In which Derek goes through his journey into finding coping skills to take care of his own mental health, which took a drastic toll.  If you want to share your own story through Modern Manhood, please send me a line at modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com or find me on Twitter @modernmanpod.  false full 1 1 8731267f769bf360782e4ad88acd870d Info Session 2: The Mask You Live In Screening On April 1st, Men Edmonton put on a special event screening the movie The Mask You Live In by the Representation Project.

Through this movie Men Edmonton invited a panel of different men with different viewpoints, including old guest David Shepherd, to talk about masculinity in an open manner. The panel was hosted by 630CHED’s Ryan Jesperson, and the event was kicked off by Councillor and friend of the show, Scott McKeen.

I was so happy that Men Edmonton did this, and received quite well too. More than 400 people attended the free event, and I got a chance to talk to some of them before the movie, to hear what brought them to watch a movie about masculinity, after the movie to hear what they liked and didn't like, and their own perspectives on masculinity. I also got a chance to talk some of the presenters.

 In this episode, you will hear past guest Matt Souch, Jason Garcia, Scott McKeen , also The Ferdinand contributor Micheal Cameron, and a special appearance by Montreal Sauce host Chris Sikkenga.

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]]> Mon, 3 Apr 2017 05:54:39 +0000 modernmanhoodpodcast@gmail.com (German Villegas) http://modernmanhood.libsyn.com/podcast On April 1st, Men Edmonton put on a special event screening the movie The Mask You Live In by the Representation Project.

Through this movie Men Edmonton invited a panel of different men with different viewpoints, including old guest David Shepherd, to talk about masculinity in an open manner. The panel was hosted by 630CHED’s Ryan Jesperson, and the event was kicked off by Councillor and friend of the show, Scott McKeen.

I was so happy that Men Edmonton did this, and received quite well too. More than 400 people attended the free event, and I got a chance to talk to some of them before the movie, to hear what brought them to watch a movie about masculinity, after the movie to hear what they liked and didn't like, and their own perspectives on masculinity. I also got a chance to talk some of the presenters.

 In this episode, you will hear past guest Matt Souch, Jason Garcia, Scott McKeen , also The Ferdinand contributor Micheal Cameron, and a special appearance by Montreal Sauce host Chris Sikkenga.

This podcast cannot be done without the support of Next Gen Men, which you can support by subscribing to our online community at nextgenmen.ca/join

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]]> Info Session 2: The Mask You Live In Screening German Villegas 00:25:20 On April 1st, Men Edmonton put on a special event screening the movie The Mask You Live In by the Representation Project. Through this movie Men Edmonton invited a panel of different men with different viewpoints, including old guest David Shepherd, to talk about masculinity in an open manner. The panel was hosted by 630CHED’s Ryan Jesperson, and the event was kicked off by Councillor and friend of the show, Scott McKeen. I was so happy that Men Edmonton did this, and received quite well too. More than 400 people attended the free event, and I got a chance to talk to some of them before the movie, to hear what brought them to watch a movie about masculinity, after the movie to hear what they liked and didn't like, and their own perspectives on masculinity. I also got a chance to talk some of the presenters.  In this episode, you will hear past guest Matt Souch, Jason Garcia, Scott McKeen , also The Ferdinand contributor Micheal Cameron, and a special appearance by Montreal Sauce host Chris Sikkenga. On April 1st, Men Edmonton put on a special event screening the movie The Mask You Live In by the Representation Project. Through this movie Men Edmonton invited a panel of different men with different viewpoints, including old guest David Shepherd, to talk about masculinity in an open manner. The panel was hosted by 630CHED’s Ryan Jesperson, and the event was kicked off by Councillor and friend of the show, Scott McKeen. I was so happy that Men Edmonton did this, and received quite well too. More than 400 people attended the free event, and I got a chance to talk to some of them before the movie, to hear what brought them to watch a movie about masculinity, after the movie to hear what they liked and didn't like, and their own perspectives on masculinity. I also got a chance to talk some of the presenters.  In this episode, you will hear past guest Matt Souch, Jason Garcia, Scott McKeen , also The Ferdinand contributor Micheal Cameron, and a special appearance by Montreal Sauce host Chris Sikkenga. false full 0 1