Masculinity... from a Wife's Perspective - Guests Stacy Manning & Julia Bringolf

<p>We are joined for our very first female guests: Julia Bringolf and author, Stacy Manning, as we get a wife's perspective on masculinity. Definitely one of our best and most controversial episodes, with these bold and fiery women as we discuss marriage, if "toxic masculinity" a thing and is masculinity under attack in our culture.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>NOTES:</strong></p> <ul> <li>This Weeks Whiskey: The Balvenie Caribbean Cask 14 year - Single Malt Scotch</li> <li>Guests:</li> <ul> <li>Julia Bringolf - Christian Bringolf's wife</li> <li>Stacy Manning - Co-Author of "<a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Them-Before-Us-Childrens-Movement/dp/1642935964/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3EY6WRB6IZF1F&dchild=1&keywords=them+before+us+by+katy+faust&qid=1617580509&sprefix=them+before%2Caps%2C220&sr=8-2">Them Before Us, Why We Need a global Children's Rights Movement</a>"</li> </ul> <li>Questions:</li> <ul> <li>Does "Toxic Masculinity" exist....?</li> <ul> <li>The role that absent fathers play in the home - Men are missing from the home and missing as fathers</li> <li>The inappropriate exercise of men's violence - Using it towards woman and children, instead of using their violence and strength for protecting, sports or battle</li> <li>Is there a correlation between man's anger and their violence?</li> <ul> <li>Can violence be expressed absent of anger?</li> <li>What happens when the cultural norm for a man swings from "The Greatest Generations" stoic, un-emotional, distant and quite man (like many of our grand fathers, to the soft and sensitive "man" who wears his emotions on his sleeve and is emotionally and physically delicate, who doesn't stand up for what is right and suites when life gets hard?</li> </ul> <li>The opposite side of men being violent, is them being gentle and tender towards their wives and children... and having both a father and mother in the home is key to children seeing and learning this</li> <li>Woman (especially single-moms) are statistically more likely to be the phys