>>24649716
Families are important but the overemphasis on the family unit has excluded most communal child rearing which was prominent historically.
It's not that mothers are a bad thing, it's that a child who can only learn from his mother, with no relationship with his father, grandfathers, or the men of his community, struggles to naturally attune himself to a healthy masculine spirit.
Boys benefit from seeing masculinity in diverse forms, such as in the bravery of a solider, the resilience of a farmer battling drought, the gregariousness of a family patriarch, and so on. Communal involvement in child rearing provides this.
When it is absent, as it is nowadays, men acutely sense their lack of masculinity and tragically compensate by either rejecting it entirely or by orienting their masculinity around a caricature that is equal parts comedic and horrifying.
