Posted on 03/24/2021 7:01:58 PM PDT by simpson96
Former President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen discussed toxic male behaviors, the definition of masculinity in America and struggles with their fathers in the latest episode of their “Renegades: Born in the USA” podcast, released on Monday.
In a monologue opening the episode, Obama argued that, unfortunately, society’s definition of masculinity has not substantially changed since the days when he and Springsteen were children and many of these “narrow distorted ideas ... contributed to so many of the damaging trends we continue to see in the country, whether it is the growing inequality in our economy or our complete unwillingness to compromise on anything in our politics.”
As examples of these flawed ideas, Obama listed an “emphasis on physical toughness and suppressing your feelings, having success defined mainly by what you own and your ability to dominate rather than on your ability to love and care for others [and] the tendency to treat women as objects to possess rather than full-fledged partners and fellow citizens.”
The 44th president added that these qualities had come up constantly in conversations about masculinity with friends of his daughters, Malia and Sasha. Both men agreed that members of their generation had never fully reckoned with the potential harm of these ideas, and the Me Too movement was the result.(snip)
Obama, meanwhile, discussed how he struggled with not having a constant male presence in his life as a child, alternating between an Indonesian stepfather who had died relatively young, a white grandfather he had difficulty relating to as a Black man, and a Kenyan birth father whom he had met only sparingly as a young adult.
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Bad times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make bad times...
Never mind that without “toxic masculinity” we’d all be speaking German and/or Japanese. The lack of masculinity in this country will kill it.
Barack Obama - toxic masculinity!!? This must be the Babylon Bee
2 toxic metro or homo sexuals.
Doesn’t seem to bother them that much when ‘toxic masculinity’ is killing bad guys overseas. Apparently they make up for that by allowing gangbangers, drug dealers and terrorists to walk across the southern border and get a free hotel room.
These two f*ckwads.... doesn’t anyone listen to their mutual fellatio?
How could obozo have any problems with his father? He never knew the man.
Since they’re here what about the sins of their mothers ?
Well you can’t accuse Barry of toxic masculinity. Not many democrats fall into that category either.
Yeah, Barry, the Beta’s Beta, knows all about toxic masculinity. Yeah, right.
So Bruce, why do you hang out at state parks after dark, during the winter? We all know.
“Bad times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make bad times...”
The old pendulum theory. It applies to so many different situations and is usually predictable....usually.
I think masculinity is built in to the Male psyche. It’s a survival instinct. But there is a time and place for everything. To some it is like a drug and they never seem to grow out of it. The real men (mature considerate adults) get a bad rap.
>>Obama, meanwhile, discussed how he struggled with not having a constant male presence in his life as a child, alternating between an Indonesian stepfather who had died relatively young, a white grandfather he had difficulty relating to as a Black man, and a Kenyan birth father whom he had met only sparingly as a young adult.
And a transvestite Nanny.
And a black Father who didn’t mean to impregnate his mother. Neither of his parents apparently wanted to be punished with a baby.
He got a book and a Grammy out of it, didn’t he?
He puts on a George Michael impersonation.
Sounds like they are both pretty TOXIC to me... Don’t know about the dads.
I was just watching a documentary about Charles Starkweather the serial killer and it mentioned that Springsteen actually used a quote of this murderer in one of his songs💩.
Sin of Bruce Springsteen’s father:
“Factory”
Early in the morning factory whistle blows,
Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes,
Man takes his lunch, walks out in the morning light,
It’s the working, the working, just the working life.
Through the mansions of fear, through the mansions of pain,
I see my daddy walking through them factory gates in the rain,
Factory takes his hearing, factory gives him life,
The working, the working, just the working life.
End of the day, factory whistle cries,
Men walk through these gates with death in their eyes.
And you just better believe, boy,
somebody’s gonna get hurt tonight,
It’s the working, the working, just the working life.
Toxic Masculinity ? lol Because they have no masculinity?
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