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#511 - Max Dickins - Does Anyone Care About Male Loneliness?

Modern Wisdom

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What Is a Man?

Men's friendships aren't represented in the modern conversation because we're measuring the wrong thing. Men talk a lot in moral terms men about friendship, which is superloyal and resilient. And that's what closeness is. Shared adventure used to be a big iconography of male friendships. You think you really miss it when your friends are 18 years old? That was for me what i missed as a man. I looked at my life from an adult point of view -  i can do that with my mate, metaphorically, and they'll still be my mate.

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