Masculinity Training in AM

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Masculinity has been known about for a long time.   Coming up with a new way to categorize and define it simply gives new ways to work with the issue.

Masculinity simplified is maximizing the positive expression of testosterone based attributes while controlling the process with healthy and mature emotions and thoughts.

I disagree on your first point. Masculinity has always been around, but it has been conflated with whatever agenda people had. I've seen it defined by being a father, a good person, an attractive mate for a women. As far as I'm aware, this is the first book I've seen which takes it back to a hunter gatherer, evolutionary psychology direction.

I'm just wondering out loud if the masculinity programming in AM could be improved, to (perhaps) focus less on women and focus more on developing strong, masculine relationships with other men, or groups of men.

Whatever culture or agenda is being lived in,  there have always been masculine men that do as they choose.  Yes, they adapt to the needs of whatever society they are in, but that doesnt mean that masculinity hasnt existed or only existed in some warped version.  I personally have no desire to live like a caveman and i think that people that overemphasize this idea would be served well by becoming more self fulfilling and independent before they decide what myths they choose to believe in as far as evolution and gender roles.

Relationships with men is as useful to a man as relationships with women.  Its all dependent on the person and what they want and/or need.  

I never understood the ideas men come up with about male vs female relationships, which they should build and which they should ignore.  That just seems like a person is trying to build more arbitrary rules.  Men can be just as destructive as women if you don't keep your boundaries healthy.