Metamodern Masculinity
Characteristics
- The two ingredients of metamodern masculinity: why "Californian neo-hippies have no understanding of the real metaphysical phallus:
Tom Amarque writes:
"As everybody probably knows, there has been a resurgence of the men’s movement over the past few years, concerned with the very question of masculinity. I am certainly not the first to notice that a good chunk of them seem incredibly feminine in their outlook—talking about integration of feeling, the anima, self-discovery, and performative self-expression (gimme my ax!). Which is fine, but which is also incredibly postmodern and psychological.
<As the great scholar Susanne Cook-Greuter once noted, the postmodern stage and its correlate stages of consciousness are about communion, while the integral, metamodern, or whatever stages are more about agency. >
And this is also the reason why performative ‘masculine’ guys like Aubrey Marcus are fundamentally so pussy-whipped: These Californian neo-hippies have no understanding of the real metaphysical phallus.
Which is another way of saying: You have to have the intellectual and emotional qualities and sensibilities, but ALSO the volitional."