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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Rod Serling could not have written an episode of the Twilight Zone that would come near to what the United States has turned into.
WHO IS BARRY HUSSEIN’S FATHER??
DOES HE KNOW? DOES HIS HALF SISTER KNOW, just wondering if his Mother ever told her daughter just who his daddy was...
Will Americans ever be told the truth about that FRAUD?
Which one is the top and which one is the bottom?
Rod Serling could not have written an episode of the Twilight Zone that would come near to what the United States has turned into.
Obviously you have never seen “The Obsolete Man” and” “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” (substitute the media for aliens) Serling saw this coming. We just thought it was entertainment. It was a warning.
What a couple of pansies. 🙄
No matter what he was, what kind of low life put his deceased father down in public?
Lot’s of folks do. You can gain creed by criticizing parents. It is the Mommie Dearest syndrome. But I don’t criticize the Cowsills for airing the dark deeds of their deceased parents because they are in a position to know and claim to have experienced rough times. But I do hold out in fully agreeing with all the Cowsills say since the parents are no longer here to speak in their own defense.
As for Obama, he is as low as one can go and is in no position to shift any blame.
I bailed after his songs stopped being about fast cars with Hemis and 396s.
/still racing in the street
Regards,
A stinking draft dodger an an illegal alien get press time. Pathetic.
The only solution to their toxic masculinity would be castration. Obama has been a eunuch for years.
Wager they have many complex issues that need to be addressed.
KENYAN BIRTH FATHER-—and BORN IN KENYA.....
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