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1. The family funeral band
Growing up, my family played a lot of music. We also performed... mostly funerals. The driving force behind it all? My dad. So, in order to better understand my dad, I revisited the audio cassettes of those funerals and the deaths that prompted them.
2. I watch porn
Internet porn. We’ve all seen it. It’s popular and loved. And yet, for fairly obvious reasons, it’s also reviled for its misogyny, as something that perpetuates cycles of violence against women. In this episode, we wade into the murky waters of sexual fantasy. In part one, we hear from a sociologist who went into men's homes and watched their porn. In part two, we try a different approach - we hear from porn users themselves. In this electronic opera, porn users interact with pundits and music in an amalgam of sounds composed to form a larger conversation about porn.
3. Beneath the dome
4. the muskie rule
If I say body image, what do you think of? Stomach fat? Thigh gap? Laser hair removal? You probably think of women. And for good reason. Because women get a lot of pressure to look a certain way. But this happens to men, too. And that’s worth talking about. In this episode, we’ll hone in on one aspect of men’s body image: hair loss. First, we’ll take a look inside the thriving hair loss prevention industry and then we’ll explore the underlying motivations that drive men to take drastic measures and how the world of psychotherapy might approach this differently.
This episode is a collaboration with the wonderful podcast A Therapist Walks Into A Bar.
Episode 4 is the first installment in a series on men and crying. We will revisit the incident that lead to the Muskie Rule, which is an unwritten maxim in politics that candidates who cry in front of the press will end up like Edmund Muskie, whose 1972 presidential bid imploded when he choked up in public.
5. Muskie today
6. The Past in the present
In recent years, we’ve seen politicians cry, many of them men. It makes you wonder: is the Muskie Rule, that there’s no crying in politics, finally dead? In Part II of Boys Don’t Cry, a series Man-ish is doing on men and crying, we find out how much things have changed. If Muskie got into a time machine and traveled to present day, what would happen?
The third and final installment of Boys Don’t Cry. Tom Lutz wrote the book on crying. I say the book because if you’ve read any modern studies of tears, you inevitably come across a reference to his book. And as we near the end of our crying series, we’re going to hear from Tom Lutz himself, speaking about his personal history with tears.
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1. The Family Funeral Band
2. I Watch Porn
3. Beneath the Dome
4. The Muskie Rule
5. Muskie Today
6. The Past in the Present
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