I've gotten questions from well-meaning people asking why, after years and years of relative success as a man I'm abandoning masculinity. I try to explain that my relationship with masculinity was one of social need and convenience but superficial at best. The expiration date ran out. Of course it gets deeper than that, but in a nutshell that is core. It's also interesting to discover their definitions of masculinity are pretty superficial and not mutually exclusive to a single gender expression.
I'm spending "Covid-19 Times" attempting to write my story and this is an interesting problem I've been unable to get much other perspective on.
What has been your relationship with masculinity through your life? Partners? Adversaries? Co-inhabitants? Something else maybe?
