Men are struggling because of their inability to see what is hurting and what can help them. The simple fact is the majority of men are stuck in old ideas of masculinity that they have yet to review. Now many men reading this may think I am going to bash masculinity but if you know me or have listened to anything I have written or recorded you know that is not the case. I come from a blue collar background, I come from grit, hard work, and old views of masculinity many men like to mislabel as "Traditional". I say all of this because there is a place for this by examining what we were given by the previous generation, what is valuable and helpful, and what is detrimental.

We have been seeing a lot of bashing on masculinity in society today and most notably, we have seen the outdated “second wave” feminists performing the construction of that narrative. The issue here is that in this perspective, we are not looking at masculinity as the same positive force as femininity. The outdated version of second wave feminism painted masculinity as the villain in society and truthfully, it was incredibly unjust and biased. I am not saying this as the victim, I am saying this from the perspective of how this poorly developed social perspective has tainted the view of men and women nowadays and how it has permeated to the masses that choose to not become properly educated in this matter. However, I have to admit, as a patriarchy, the men in our society were complicit in this evaluation.