THREAD: When loved ones or friends are feeling distress, it can be very difficult for us to experience. We may feel unable to hang in with them, especially when we're stretched thin during difficult times. ⚓ anchor.fm/relational-pla… /1
We may try and quickly name and fix others' distress in order to manage our own anxiety at witnessing it. We may simply turn away or shut down. /2
How we can learn to better care for loved ones, friends, or co-workers who are feeling distress? Dr. Saliha Bava and Mark Greene, authors of The Relational Book for Parenting explore our relational capacities for for supporting our loved ones during crisis. /3
The latest installment of the Relational Play Podcast shares how to hold space for the distress of others. It's a powerful capacity that can reduce our own anxiety and create deeper more meaningful connections. Links to all major podcasting platforms. anchor.fm/relational-pla… /4
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The MAGA Republican Party meltdown, floating island of garbage joke, beeper going off comment on CNN, “enemy within” declarations by Trump. All of it is a sign of MAGA rage and panic fueled by the power of Vice President Kamala Harris’s political campaign, and Harris herself.
Yes, we must be mindful of a coordinated MAGA plan to overthrow the 2024 election. Trump’s intentionally divisive demonization of Americans, Democrats, LGBTQ folks, immigrants, people of other faiths as targeted by Project 2025 are designed to motivate MAGA for another Jan 6.
Women outperform men because they are adopting traditional masculine strengths and adding them to their own faster than men are adopting traditional feminine strengths and adding them to theirs. We can all be fully empowered by claiming our full range of human capabilities. /1
Men hesitate to display universal human capacities like empathy, emotional expression, care giving and curiosity because in our generations old dominance-based Man Box culture of masculinity, we’ve been taught these capabilities are feminine and therefore weak. They’re neither /2
Millions of men are breaking out of Man Box culture and bringing our full range of human capacities to parenting, partnering, workplaces and communities. When we do, we discover that these so called feminine capacities are the key to ending our epidemic levels of loneliness. /3
Ya’ll see where this is going, yeah?—Republican Chair Says Only Christians Should Be Elected to Government - Newsweek newsweek.com/kandiss-taylor…
Getting the knack of spotting extremist MAGA language trial balloons. They’re testing the limits of what is acceptable; saying the quiet parts out loud out on the fringe. Next up, some GOP State Rep in Montana repeats it.
Then, of course, there’s the part where MAGA Christian nationalists take power and then start deciding who’s a legitimate Christian and who’s not. That’s a whole different kind of blood bath.
THE NEXT BIG CALL: WHITE DUDES FOR HARRIS. This group of men is stepping up. Inspired by, and following in the footsteps of Black women, it's time for white men to get 100% engaged and make sure Kamala Harris is elected as our next President. Join here: /1 bit.ly/whitedudesforh…
The reasons why white men like myself must show up in support of Kamala Harris for President were on full display at the Republican National Convention. Trump/Vance’s Project 2025 MAGA movement is a war on women, especially Black women. /2
For too long, Man Box culture has positioned white men at the top of a bullying and rigid dominance-based culture of masculinity which teaches us that the only power that matters is power we create over others. The result has been economic, political and environmental disaster /3
@Meta is now actively defending Project 2025 across all its platforms. Instagram/Facebook are tagging posts raising the alarm about Project 2025 with this statement. "Partly false information. The same information was reviewed by independent fact-checkers in another post.” /1
The "independent fact checkers" they are citing? The Dispatch.
Who is The Dispatch? The “neutral fact checker” that Meta is relying on? Of course The Dispatch is a self defined conservative source. Of, course it is. /2en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispa…
From Wikipedia: "After The Weekly Standard ceased publication in December 2018, Hayes, Goldberg, and Stock were inspired to start a media company with the goal of 'producing serious, factually grounded journalism for a conservative audience.'" /3
The reason men in the manosphere are so angry at women? Because empowerment for women requires accountability from men. For men, being held accountable, and moreso, *holding ourselves accountable* in relationships where women have equal power requires self-reflection. /1
For men raised in our bullying dominance-based culture of masculinity, self reflection is forbidden, punished. Who we authentically are doesn’t matter in Man Box culture, We are trained instead to model our identity on a narrow set of rules for how to be a man. /2
“Don’t show your emotions. Be tough. Have control of women and girls. Be heterosexual. Never talk about anything deep. Be a breadwinner not a caregiver. Have lots of sex.” All these rules require we show dominance over those around us, including over the women in our lives. /3