“Man Up: Declaring a war on warrior culture in the wake of the Miami Dolphins bullying scandal”
“I love football — it’s so much fun, it’s beautiful, it’s thrilling, it’s an excuse to drunk-tweet in the mid-afternoon — but it has also become the major theater of American masculine crackup. It’s as if we’re a nation of gentle accountants and customer-service reps who’ve retained this one venue where we can air-guitar the berserk discourse of a warrior race. We’re Klingons, but only on Sundays. The Marines have a strict anti-hazing policy, but we need our fantasy warrior-avatars to be unrestrained and indestructible.”
On mental health and masculinity — this is a great essay. It is a little bit tryna use the master’s tools to dismantle the master’s house, but it’s still great (as defined as: I feel as though I learned something about masculinity)
(credit to KM)
