The Mask of Masculinity: How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships and Live Their Fullest Lives by Lewis Howes

Author:Lewis Howes
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Self Help, Psychology, Personal Development
Publisher: Rodale
Published: 2017-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Behind their masks of pseudoinvulnerability and the drama of action, the one full emotion boys are “allowed” to express within the narrow bandwidth of developing masculinity—Anger—it is often hard to hear boys’ stifled but genuine voices of pain and struggle, their yearning for reconnection.1

If you think about it for even a minute, this starts to make sense. Anger is a shield. It protects us and helps us respond to moments when we feel small, helpless, and weak. That was certainly the case for both Andy Cona and Ray Lewis.

It doesn’t take long for cultural influences of violence to begin to creep into boys’ lives. And soon enough boys are using those very influences to vent their simmering anger. Take video games, for example. I’m not talking about the violence—even though it’s pervasive. I’m more interested in how anger dominates these games. As Ashly Burch, a writer and actor, told me:

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