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Apr 18·edited Apr 18Liked by Johnathan Reid

I have read this about four times. I interpreted a few things:

1. Women are no longer dependent on men to reproduce (I mean, they are but I mean, they don't need to be with a male partner). They can just single parent it with a donor.

2. Intimacy and sex are some of the only real experiences we have left that we can share with someone.

3. The breakdown of relationships and the preference of other things in the place of sex.

4. Men and manhood being silenced by the "toxic masculinity" or "me too" culture wars. Male experiences being slowly rubbed out of the notebooks because although "not all men", men aren't allowed to have a seat at the table at the moment. Instead, they are reduced to 'inconsequential flesh'.

Am I barking up the wrong tree?

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Apr 19·edited Apr 19Author

He's a smart man, with a smart wife 😊. We do need more intelligent conversation and less divisive shouting. I just try to hold up a mirror and continue to turn it both ways.

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I have read the text on a cup and I am already enough of this.

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