Warring Ideals

Growing up in the States, it tends to amaze me how we can have this tension about our cultural peculiarities. On the one hand, we’re immensely proud of being Americans and all that entails, but we also look fondly on our incomplete cultural heritage. We talk about how our ancestors are from this country or […]

Aging and Complementarianism

Self-reliance. Power over women. Playboy. Emotional Control. Winning. Risk-taking. Violence. Dominance. Pursuit of status. Primacy of work. Disdain for homosexuals. These eleven masculine norms thrive in youth and health, but as men age, many of them begin to show signs of negative mental health outcomes and lower positive mental health outcomes, in addition, men are […]

On Agency

A couple of thousand years ago, when the Bible was written, the world was different place for women. There was a lot that women couldn’t do; while some cultures permitted slightly more freedoms than others in certain areas or certain exceptions – by and large, women were kept in specific boundaries. Those boundaries were decided […]

Ideal Complementarianism

Have you ever had an ideal concept of something that turned out very differently when it was actually put into practice? I remember the time my friend asked me to join the Robotics Club at school; she was sure we would both get in and that as members of the team we would create and […]