![]() ![]() Bullying as a form of control and reinforcing the hierarchy These are all crucial aspect in whether men can or cannot form relationships at all, and is one of the reasons for the increase in social isolation and loneliness of men. It abuses boys and men to conform to restrictive ideas for decades over the course of men’s lives that has a traumatic impact on men’s emotional state, sense of identity, the performance of masculinity, and connection with others. “Wrongly gendering the universal capacity for human connection as feminine and then coaching boys to see feminine as less is how we block our sons from the trial and error process of growing their powerful relational capacities, leading to a lifetime of isolation.” The challenge with man box culture is that it is brutally enforced between men. Men are taught from an early age, as young boys, to think in a certain way, including to not show their emotions, to be a leader, aggressive, dominant, sexually active, care and talk about sports, and to be a real man. Men have been taught to suppress, deny and take for granted their masculine identities. Mark explains where the term, “man box” came from and how he defines “masculinity”. In this Living OUT Leadership Interview we cover a broad range of topics that relate to the problems of masculinity and man box culture, the patriarchy, bullying, silencing, and policing gender. Saliha Bava, of The Relational Book for Parenting. Greene is the author of The Little #MeToo Book for Men and Remaking Manhood, and the co-author along with Dr. ![]()
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