Status Updates From The Man They Wanted Me to B...

okay period…it’s like a full on life story and i’m eating it up but also the men in this guys past are scary🫣

YAYYAY an interesting book for school that makes perfect sense! which is good since it needs to be finished in the next couple days🫠

“[My father] told me the expectations he'd carried, as a father, as a son, as a man, had sabotaged his relationships and prevented him from […] really enjoying intimacy, emotionally or intellectually, his entire life. Shocked at the depth of frustration and despair my dad had suffered, I listened and realized […] the masculinity I'd sought, the masculinity I'd been denied, had always been an impossibility.”

I’ve been waiting to read this for a few months now! As a non-binary person not raised with male expectations, which I’m now commonly met with in my adult life, I have a general experience as a “third party”. I do have less understanding as to how those expectations affect us as we’re growing INTO adults, so I’m pretty excited to read this anecdotal work.