The Examined Life of Masculinities (First published https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/the-examined-life-of-masculinities/) The Man-Woman binary is now, thankfully, nearly dead. The 2019 guidance [1] from the American Psychological Association gives us the good news that minus stereotypes and expectations, there isn ’t much difference in the basic behaviours of men and women. Some studies [2] , have established that, for example, men enjoy caring for their children as much as women do. And a 2013 meta-analysis [3] has found that adolescent boys, for example, contrary to expectation, displayed fewer externalizing emotions such as anger than did adolescent girls. Almost unwittingly, the man-woman binary has left behind a progeny that we are still getting to know – the dualism of the masculine and the feminine, characteristics of which, we now know, reside in each of us. The masculine and the feminine have been in bed with each other’s powers...