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Jordan Peterson said he was already full speed ahead once he started recruiting Arizona over a year ago.

Peterson was having success in Arizona especially at talent-rich high school Desert Edge. But now his phone is ringing even more after the Arizona schools announced they are joining the Big 12.

Peterson talked about the added benefits and his thoughts on the cornerback group in fall camp.

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I must admit, the little red devil perched upon my left shoulder loves the new X and dare I say under the leadership of Elon Musk.

Not always a popular opinion with people who think hes the devil incarnate and this isnt to say that I love everything he does. Actually, a lot of what he does is rather nauseating.

However, the platform itself is anything but boring these days and a bit of controversy makes the world go round. As long as no one gets seriously hurt, that is.

After Elon Musk notoriously bought out Twitter, recently rebranded as X, he vowed to make it a place where free speech would reign supreme. Hed been a fierce critic of what he deemed as censorship by Twitter under the direction of former CEO Jack Dorsey.

True to his word, after acquiring Twitter, Musk reinstated many accounts that had previously been suspended, like Mike Lindell and Jordan Peterson, and invited back arguably one of the most divisive personalities ever, former President Donald Trump (who said he was just fine sticking with his far-right Truth Social platform.)

To be sure, I dont care for any of these people, Lindell and Peterson are completely ignorable in my book, and Im glad Trump stayed away in his own online hemisphere.

Free speech is awesome but inciting violence is not.

In another controversial move, Musk eventually declared parody accounts would be allowed as long as they were indeed labeled as parody.

Well now, Musk opened the door, so he had to be prepared to walk through it, right? Remember, hed previously suspended Kathy Griffin for her own parody, although she was reinstated days later.

But, prepared he was.

One of the most popular parody accounts currently on the platform is the one of Elon Musk himself. How fitting indeed.

This meme of Musk dressed up as (perhaps?) a secret Barbie fan proved popular as well as this one of a homeless Musk:

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Perhaps its only coincidental but this, the summer of Barbie, also is the summer of our discontent in politics over manhood.

Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, helped to get the ball rolling with a new book, Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs.

I thought it was rather amusing since my vivid memories of Hawley on Jan. 6 included two newsmaking images: One was a photo of him raising a defiant fist of support toward the crowd of Donald Trump loyalists who were about to storm the Capitol. The other was a video clip of him running swiftly through the Capitol to escape the same crowd after it turned riotous.

Thats politics. Conditions can change on you. It doesnt take away from Hawleys manly manliness for him to know when its time to get away from a riot.

Hawley also knows when it is the right time to sell a book about manhood, a topic that has produced a long line of books in recent years, such as Jordan Petersons 2018 bestselling 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos, which my son recommended to me, although I am not sure whether he actually read it.

Peterson, I soon learned, is a Canadian psychologist and YouTube star who broke through in 2016 with a series of videos criticizing a Canadian law to introduce gender identity and expression as prohibited grounds for discrimination. Peterson argued, not unreasonably, that the bill would make the use of certain gender pronouns compelled speech.

He quickly became the darling of conservative critics of political correctness and identity politics. Although he often described himself as a classic British liberal and traditionalist, he became a star of the conservative lecture circuit, thanks to a content distribution deal with the conservative media company The Daily Wire. His podcasts have gathered millions of views.

Thats how I heard about him, thanks to my son who is better wired into content that has youth appeal these days than I am.

As little as these men would appear to share in common, they each have been cited numerous times in various media stories and broadcast discussions of todays reputed masculinity crisis and the various reactions to it.

This is hardly a new topic. I recall historians in the late 1960s declaring a crisis of masculinity to describe the anxieties of middle-class men in the Vietnam War era and the resurgence of the largest womens liberation movement since American women won the vote.

Now I hear similar lamentations about a new rising generation of young men. It began with genuine concerns about misogyny and women being treated as subordinates through discrimination, dominance or abuse.

It turned into accusations of toxic masculinity which I and countless other men learned was a genuine problem for women, just as second-class citizenship was a genuine problem for racial minorities and the Civil Rights Movement.

Much progress has been made on those issues, yet we also see a very different sociopolitical landscape these days, and not just for women and minorities.

This is a generation that is living increasingly without purpose or place, without meaning, without direction, Hawley said to the Stronger Mens Conference in Springfield, Missouri, where pastors, sports figures and niche Christian influencers sermonized about masculinity.

Such are the responses to changing times that we have seen emerge on the right and the left in recent years, although with very different ideas for remedies.

For those who lean toward the progressive agenda, the suggestions for this rising generation of anxieties seem obvious.

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Raising the federal minimum wage would quickly raise the living standard for those who struggle in the lower income brackets and undercut the ability of working-class immigrants to put downward pressure on wages. We see this beginning to happen already as states and local governments raise their minimum wage, but more could be done.

We could pass universal health care and pay for it with higher taxes on the superrich as Democrats suggest, which also would reduce economic pressure on the working class.

In the name of supporting families, we could take steps to establish universal day care, pass federal paid family leave and bring back that lovely child tax credit that actually cut child poverty in half, to its lowest level in history during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In other words, we have the tools to deal with the problems of Americans who have the desire to work hard, support their families and try to step up the ladder of upward mobility but could use a little help in getting started.

We have the resources and the brainpower to deal with these problems. But I ask my fellow Americans, are we man or woman enough to do it?

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Less than a week after its release,The Barbie Moviehasgarneredan intense reaction from the Right, fromaccusationsof delivering more lectures than laughs,andthe most anti-man film ever made, to a 43-minute rant by Ben Shapiro, during which heburneda Barbie, Ken, and a toy car,claimingthe movie undermines basic human values.

In their urgency to crush a perceived feminist agenda, Right Wing commentators are missing the films remarkably balanced attempt to mend a rift in the cultural dialogue about gender and identity. Rather than heeding the critics who cry woke, conservatives would do well to see the film and judge for themselves.

Greta GerwigsBarbieexplores themes that should appeal to conservatives, championing the value of motherhood I challenge any parent to not get misty-eyed refusing to dichotomize traditional femininity and professional achievement, criticizing the ironically anti-woman elements of internet feminism, and even acknowledging the struggle to achieve constitutional equality between groups. As a psychologist, however, what I found most interesting, and certainly most relevant to the right wing discourse surrounding the movie, is the films interaction with the psychological principle of precarious manhood.

Precarious manhood refers to the male tendency to measure their masculinity according to others estimation, rather than by personal or objective means. In other words, the respect of being a real man is something that is difficult to gain, easily lost, and must be constantly proved. Men who perceive their manhood as being threatened tend to respond aggressively, often posturing and blustering to appear tough and manly. This other-dependent masculinity is one of the central themes of the movie and its the reason why many right wing critics are reacting so strongly.

Barbies Ken, played with Oscar-winning aplomb by Ryan Gosling, is a man-doll whose identity is entirely tied up in his desired relationship with Barbie. The narrators introduction perfectly summarizes Kens self-concept: Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him. When it becomes clear that Barbie isnt interested, Kens threatened precarious manhood drives him to embrace patriarchy, conquer Barbieland, and brainwash the once-independent Barbies into wearing French Maid outfits and serving the Kens brewski beers.

Many across the ideological spectrum, including theAmerican Psychological Association, feminist scholarChristina Hoff Sommers, and even Ben Shapiros fellow Daily Wire contributorJordan Peterson, have all highlighted the dangers of this masculine insecurity. Lack of self-identity mixed with feelings of isolation in other words, precarious manhood drives men to dangerous beliefs and behaviors. Although Ken is the antagonist, the film treats him compassionately, and Ken resolves his crisis by realizing that he is Kenough, and must anchor his identity beyond his job (which is not a lifeguard, but simply beach) or desired romantic relationships. Instead, he must view himself as an individual with innate value. Sure its not quite Russell Kirks The Conservative Mind, but youd think this positive depiction of individualism as the solution to a crisis of masculinity deserves some Right Wing approval.

The trouble is many conservativecriticsare afflicted by the same precarious manhood as Ken. For example, Id suggest that setting toys on fire likeToy Storys kid-nightmare Sidis not the behavior of someone secure in their masculinity. Modern conservative media is full of similar examples, from Donald Trumps constant temper tantrums to supposed masculinity advocate Jordan Petersonsrefusingto apologize for sexist comments about swimsuit models.Testicle tanningTucker Carlson takes the cake by sympatheticallyinterviewingallegedsex trafficker andadmittedsexual predator Andrew Tate as a part of his efforts to address his perception of societys masculinity crisis.

Clearly thereisa crisis of masculinity within our society, but solving it would require admitting that these problems exist, not just blame-shifting or melting down every time someone else points them out.Barbies critics are too consumed by their precarious manhood to do this so much so that a movie affirming mens need to source their identity in something stronger than female approval has provoked their ire and left them seeing an olive branch as a threat. Were these people more secure in their manhood if they could only realize that they, too, are Kenough then their response toBarbiewould likely be very different. It would certainly involve less burnt plastic.

I wont pretend thatThe Barbie Movieis perfect. For instance, I wish the father character had been less buffoonish. However, I didnt perceive the films questions or jokes as a threat to men, but as opportunities to engage in important conversations. Greta Gerwigclaimsshe intended the film as an invitation for everybody men and women, liberal and conservative. The film simultaneously rejects toxic masculinity and extreme feminism, patriarchy and matriarchy, suggesting that answers to our cultures ideological differences must lie somewhere in the middle. Like Barbie and Ken, the audience is left to work out our answers through our own self-examinations and discussions..

But those discussions cant occur if we burn Barbie-mobiles instead of building bridges. Like Ken, we should abandon our precarious manhood and instead follow Barbies example: do the imagining, dont be the idea. Go see the movie yourself (wear pink!) you might be pleasantly surprised.

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