Marqus sits down with Sandra Fraser Maurer. She is a professional clinical counselor and a perinatal mental health specialist. They talk about the No Contact "trend" and how it overlaps with the Male Loneliness Epidemic and other problematic patriarchal systems. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c25qVdKgycI Reach out to Marqus on Instagram @MarqusLouis Resources: Social Media @JessBritvich @NoNonsenseSpirituality @HerFirst100k (Tori Dunlap) @Avitable @AlyssaLjub Books Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation - https://bookshop.org/p/books/jesus-and-john-wayne-how-white-evangelicals-corrupted-a-faith-and-fractured-a-nation-kristin-kobes-du-mez/15e03b9c81104c53?ean=9781631499050 Caliban and the Witch - https://bookshop.org/p/books/caliban-and-the-witch-women-the-body-and-primitive-accumulation-silvia-federici/60b26ce397f2c386?ean=9781570270598 Black AF History - https://bookshop.org/p/books/black-af-history-the-un-whitewashed-story-of-america-michael-harriot/477c46f12ab025e8?ean=9780358439165 A People’s History of the United States - https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-people-s-history-of-the-united-states-howard-zinn/c2b74cff038cd259?ean=9780062397348 Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism - https://bookshop.org/p/books/why-women-have-better-sex-under-socialism-and-other-arguments-for-economic-independence-kristen-r-ghodsee/8006dcbac0b44c8f?ean=9781645036364 Many Lives Many Masters - https://bookshop.org/p/books/many-lives-many-masters-the-true-story-of-a-prominent-psychiatrist-his-young-patient-and-the-past-life-therapy-that-changed-both-their-lives-brian/d616b708295f63b9?ean=9780671657864 Podcasts Maintenance Phase - https://www.maintenancephase.com/ Self Worst - https://open.spotify.com/episode/79puTWjyKJAVhCAFCueCdS Quotes To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (f*****g exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving. -Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory “I am continually fascinated by the complete lack of curiosity American Christians have about their own religion. They believe their book was written by the literal Creator of the Universe, yet they never actually read it, and they treat asking hard questions about it like a sin. As someone who reads the Talmud, that’s just completely alien to our culture. In Jewish tradition, to study is to read, argue, cross-examine, and ask questions. Curiosity isn’t a threat to faith; it’s literally part of the culture and how we worship." - Anonymous
