RR Phantom
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| Subject: Isolation from platonic touch is a tragedy of modern manhood Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:25 pm | |
| Since becoming the parent of a son, I've become interested in looking at how men police each other's expression of masculinity. It seems especially sad to me that men – and young men in particular – are conditioned against embracing the pleasures of a physically expressed platonic love with each other from fear that the authenticity of their manhood may be challenged.
You may have heard the homophobic rejoinder of "no homo" to anything that even vaguely implies an expression of affection or admiration between men determined to maintain their reputations of strict heterosexuality.
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/news-and-views/opinion/clementine-ford-isolation-from-platonic-touch-is-a-tragedy-of-modern-manhood-20170802-gxnl30.html |
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