"We live in a world that has tried to dull the masculine edge, often for understandable reasons, because unregulated masculine energy can be destructive. But the answer to destructive masculinity was never the absence of masculinity—it was its maturation. A boy sees himself in terms of what he wants, what he feels, and what he is missing. A man begins to see himself in terms of who depends on him, what must be upheld, and what must be protected. Masculinity that does not mature becomes performative, violent, or hollow; masculinity that matures becomes protective, grounded, and quietly powerful. And nowhere is this tested more honestly than in fatherhood, whether literal or symbolic."
Fragment of my book "The Art of Becoming", what are your thoughts on fatherhood and masculinity?