Molding Masculinity

Tom McFarland and Phillip Sipe
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Conversations about the issues we face while defining and shaping what it personally means to be masculine. We talk about coping with anger and stress, parenting and fatherhood, relationships and friendships, and everything else involved in molding masculinity.

  1. 08/31/2022

    The Final Analysis

    This week we discuss our final conclusion on the concept of masculinity, and unveil a new project. Raise 'Em Left!

    The Final Analysis

  2. 08/14/2022

    Parenting and Policing: Listening.

    This week we dive deeper into issues with policing, and discuss the "Broken Windows" theory of policing, as well as Baumrind's parenting typology.

    Parenting and Policing: Listening.

  3. 08/06/2022

    Parenting and Policing: Wait Until Dad Gets Home

    In the first of a multi-part series we discuss the connections between "Strict Father" models of parenting and the current American police state.

    Parenting and Policing: Wait Until Dad Gets Home

  4. 08/02/2022

    Bread Winning

    This week we talk about work, labor, and its gendered divisions and social constructs.

    Bread Winning

  5. 07/16/2022

    Practicing Vulnerability pt. 2: Fundamentalism

    This week we discuss Tom's close brushes with fundamentalism and cultural appropriation. We also discuss our experiences with COVID (we both recently had it) and how the landscape of leftist organizing desperately needs non-consumptive community spaces.

    Practicing Vulnerability pt. 2: Fundamentalism

  6. 05/26/2022

    Men and Mass Shootings

    This week we have a joint episode with the Handy with Handguns podcast and discuss a culture of violence that exists in American masculinity. We also discuss systemic failures, cultures of abuse, bullying, and mental health. Finally, we discuss firearm regulation, policing, and the proliferation of weapons in the United States.

    Men and Mass Shootings

  7. 05/03/2022

    Practicing Vulnerability Part 1: Faith and Religion

    This week we practice vulnerability and discuss Phillip's journey out of Christian Evangelicalism.

    Practicing Vulnerability Part 1: Faith and Religion

  8. 04/15/2022

    Vulnerability

    This week we talk about what vulnerability is, how to practice it, and how to create spaces where it is safe to display.

    Vulnerability
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Conversations about the issues we face while defining and shaping what it personally means to be masculine. We talk about coping with anger and stress, parenting and fatherhood, relationships and friendships, and everything else involved in molding masculinity.

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  • Creator
    Tom McFarland and Phillip Sipe
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
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  • Show Website
    Molding Masculinity