Facts are stubborn things, they don't always fit conveniently into our lives.  The skills that are needed for effective leadership in government, particularly in the office of President, are naturally lacking in men. There is a reason why we fail year after year to improve our society. Our love affair with masculinity is a major blind spot and leads us to revere the wrong traits in our leaders.This has been one of our largest and most enduring problems because we sweep the problems with masculinity under the rug.  If we can speak openly and honestly about it, for a minute,  it should be one of the easiest ingredients to understand. 

Men make up over 93% of all of the people locked up in our society.  Why is that? Men are “alpha dogs”. If you look into what it means to be an alpha dog, and you look at an alpha dog's biological traits, and you compare them to a woman you would come to see the flaws in men that are not suited for leadership positions in projects involving a need for balance, moderation, and humility.   

Men are authoritarian and domineering by nature. If men cannot be noticed for doing good, men will more quickly resort to being noticed for being bad. This is true of all people, but more so of males. Men get more easily embarrassed by personal failure, than women.  Men are much slower to admit mistakes than women. Men are more power hungry than women. Men are worse at dealing with matters of complexity. They are less patient. Men take excessive pride in making fast decisions, at the expense of accuracy. 

America has never prioritized social emotional learning (mental health awareness) in our schools because of the myth of American Toughness. Kindness and compassion is seen in America as touchy, feely, or unmanly, uncool, overthinking, “womanly”. We’ve never taught our kids what they need to know about basic human psychology.

We have been fighting an uphill battle. The sooner we understand and accept certain facts about us, the sooner we can stop living according to myths and lies. 

Read LTM here on the Myth of Masculinity.