Eric FitzMedrud
As a therapist, my impact is powerful but small. I get to help one person or one couple at a time to make powerful and significant changes in their lives. It is deeply rewarding to help men in particular to become more skillful at loving and being loved. But a therapy practice doesn't scale. That's the carrot to write for me, to scale up what impact I can have.
When I see men being drawn to manosphere influencers, it is painful. I know these people are speaking to men's pain but also enflaming men's anger and deepening the divisions in our society. They reinforce men blaming others for their problems instead of empowering men to deepen their relationships with practical psychological tools. That's my stick. If I don't write a feminist and diversity-inclusive alternative to that crap, then I'm complicit in the devolution of our society.
When I see men being drawn to manosphere influencers, it is painful. I know these people are speaking to men's pain but also enflaming men's anger and deepening the divisions in our society. They reinforce men blaming others for their problems instead of empowering men to deepen their relationships with practical psychological tools. That's my stick. If I don't write a feminist and diversity-inclusive alternative to that crap, then I'm complicit in the devolution of our society.
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