"Men who conformed to traditional masculine norms had higher rates of mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and stress, and lower rates of positive mental health outcomes, such as life satisfaction, self-esteem and psychological well-being"

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2017/02/men-left-behind

#RayKahn #masculinity #gender #mentalHealth

"If mere dollars were to be considered, the actually destitute in our section could undoubtedly have been fed and clothed more cheaply than the works projects [that] have been carried out. But in our national economy, manhood must be considered as well as money. People employed to do some useful work may retain their self-respect to a degree impossible under cash relief…"

"If we must worry so over the ruinous effects of 'made work' on people of this type, why haven’t we been worrying for generations over the character of the idlers to whom some accident of birth or inheritance has given wealth unmeasured, unearned, and unappreciated?"

#RayKahn #masculinity #WPA #newDeal #dustBowl #work

https://ideastream.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/relief-dust-bowl-video-9013/ken-burns-the-dust-bowl/kenburnsclassroom/

"Though all the world mistrust him because he lives in simple, self-respecting happiness, he takes offence at none, but unswervingly treads the road onward to life's close, where duty bids him arrive in purity and peace, unreluctant to depart, in perfect and unforced unison with fate's apportionment."
– Marcus Aurelius

#RayKahn #stoicism #stoic #theMeditations #masculinity #transmasc

"…boys and men have been programmed from birth on to believe that at some point they must be violent, whether psychologically or physically, to prove that they are men."
– bell hooks

#masculinity #BellHooks #RayKahn