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R. M. Burkhardt is 3% done

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.

— Jan 10, 2025 07:25PM

The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making

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R. M. Burkhardt is 7% done

“[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.”

— Jan 11, 2025 11:04AM