""It's a good shorthand phrase for healthy masculinity in 2025. The first instinct of a mensch is to protect, to sacrifice for something bigger than oneself, and not to pick on the vulnerable but to look out for your family and community. Real men don't start bar fights; they break them up. They don't shit-post other people or their country; they defend both. A man's default setting should be to protect, in any situation.""
""Historically, being a provider was a man's job," Galloway continues. "But women also becoming breadwinners doesn't mean the role is any less important for men. At the outset of his career, every man should assume he needs to take economic responsibility for his household. A man with a decent job in a strong economy is creating wealth, paying taxes, and earning social capital, not to mention his own self-respect. He also provides stability, support, love, and trust for his family, community, and himself.""
Healthy masculinity in contemporary society is framed around three core responsibilities: protect, provide, and support. Protect means prioritizing defense of family and community, intervening to stop harm, and rejecting cruelty, bullying, and abuse of power. Provide involves assuming economic responsibility early in a career, creating stability through work and earning social capital, while sometimes deferring financial control to a more capable partner and contributing in other ways. Emotional and practical support includes offering stability, love, trust, and stepping up where needed. Masculinity rooted in sacrifice, honor, and service emphasizes restraint, responsibility, and constructive leadership rather than aggression.
Read at Axios
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