Hi Matt. I hope you go around & talk to young men on manhood. This is an incredibly well written piece & young men need to hear this from a man with your character.
Hi Matt. I wonder where we've gotten to when you are not considered a conservative or a moderate at a stretch. I campaigned for you because I thought you had a better chance of winning in a district poisoned by Elise's rhetoric than your opponent, whose more moderate policies I preferred. This country no longer has a mainstream Left, only Right and farther Right. This "good men will save us" post that - as noted in the previous comment - completely fails to acknowledge women is a great example of how we are being pushed ever farther backward.
Hey, Matt - I've been an admirer of yours for years. I worked on your campaign and was active with Rensselaer County Women for Change to mobilize a small army of women who also worked very hard to try to get you elected. Good women. Decent women. Strong women. Hard working women with impressive moral fortitude.
I was disappointed to see that your essay focused solely on men.
So, we as women don't need more lip service from men about all of the work we are doing and have done. It's lovely to be recognized, but we need more men calling out other men. It is what we've asked them to do to be good allies. Men telling other men to be decent in a world and media environment dominated by podcast bros and influencers denigrating women and bragging about harming women is vital. Let's not criticize someone who is doing what we've asked of him and trying to model good behavior for other men.
Matt, a nice piece, but in the next one make sure you pay some attention to the importance of women in making our country a better place. We miss your presence in the North Country since you ran for Congress in 2022.
I recall a presentation given by one of the Clan Grandmothers of Akwesasne, about the traditional Mohawk view of society. Picture, she said, the children in a group. Around them in a circle are the women, who nurture them. Around the women are the men, whose role is protect the women and children. In today's American society too many men see themselves, individually or collectively, as the center of the world. Such a society cannot long survive.
The way I see it? What people don't know, they don't know. Behavior is learned. Very few people have exposure to psychological field work but these issues are being addressed and yes, it's invisible due to the nature of medicine and privacy. Also, it's not taking place in a sexy (profitable) form but through developmentally disabled children and their parents.
The political future involves enhanced comm & behavior standards. Most of these 'political' battles will take place in town halls, school meetings (not polls) over the direction of medicalized education and how to deal with the enormous gaps occuring due to unchecked emotional regulation as ongoing caregiving resources continue to be decimated.
Immersed in that kind of world? There are no political parties. There are those with extensive and verifiable survival wisdom (talent) vs propaganda artists (noise).
Hi Matt. I hope you go around & talk to young men on manhood. This is an incredibly well written piece & young men need to hear this from a man with your character.
Hi Matt. I wonder where we've gotten to when you are not considered a conservative or a moderate at a stretch. I campaigned for you because I thought you had a better chance of winning in a district poisoned by Elise's rhetoric than your opponent, whose more moderate policies I preferred. This country no longer has a mainstream Left, only Right and farther Right. This "good men will save us" post that - as noted in the previous comment - completely fails to acknowledge women is a great example of how we are being pushed ever farther backward.
Hey, Matt - I've been an admirer of yours for years. I worked on your campaign and was active with Rensselaer County Women for Change to mobilize a small army of women who also worked very hard to try to get you elected. Good women. Decent women. Strong women. Hard working women with impressive moral fortitude.
I was disappointed to see that your essay focused solely on men.
So, we as women don't need more lip service from men about all of the work we are doing and have done. It's lovely to be recognized, but we need more men calling out other men. It is what we've asked them to do to be good allies. Men telling other men to be decent in a world and media environment dominated by podcast bros and influencers denigrating women and bragging about harming women is vital. Let's not criticize someone who is doing what we've asked of him and trying to model good behavior for other men.
Matt, a nice piece, but in the next one make sure you pay some attention to the importance of women in making our country a better place. We miss your presence in the North Country since you ran for Congress in 2022.
I recall a presentation given by one of the Clan Grandmothers of Akwesasne, about the traditional Mohawk view of society. Picture, she said, the children in a group. Around them in a circle are the women, who nurture them. Around the women are the men, whose role is protect the women and children. In today's American society too many men see themselves, individually or collectively, as the center of the world. Such a society cannot long survive.
The way I see it? What people don't know, they don't know. Behavior is learned. Very few people have exposure to psychological field work but these issues are being addressed and yes, it's invisible due to the nature of medicine and privacy. Also, it's not taking place in a sexy (profitable) form but through developmentally disabled children and their parents.
The political future involves enhanced comm & behavior standards. Most of these 'political' battles will take place in town halls, school meetings (not polls) over the direction of medicalized education and how to deal with the enormous gaps occuring due to unchecked emotional regulation as ongoing caregiving resources continue to be decimated.
Immersed in that kind of world? There are no political parties. There are those with extensive and verifiable survival wisdom (talent) vs propaganda artists (noise).