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This is about a time and context when black laborers were supposed to work themss to death. in a more contemporary movement, you think about it now and people work because they have to work. you are driving yourself not only because of ideas of masculinity, black masculinity, because you dont have health insurance and if you do not go to work you do not get paid. the driving is not only about a personal disposition about being hypermasculine, but a social context that forces people to work when ...

Maybe like ten years ago, there would have been a sense of maybe im a little embarrassed. now, im proud, im not going to have her carrying this baby. im carrying this baby. >> youve seen commercials about that where its being celebrated, a guy with a baby carriage. >> right. >> louis c.k., hardly a model, comedian for masculinity in the traditional sense, nonetheless in a kind of macho way has talked about youre not a real man if youre not parenting. hes saying that -- hes questioning your manho...

But often for poor men, we have suggested since you cant make a lot of money, what youre going to have to do is man up and manning up, if you cant write the big check, manning up becomes the aggression, right? >> certainly at the lower end of the economic spectrum, the economic consequences have hit men much harder. we know it in terms of construction jobs lost, manufacturing jobs lost. theres a lot of stress out there, lot of anxiety and a lot of undermining of traditional manhood in terms of y...

Masculinity as well. >> you bring up a good point. one of the problems i think that especially in sport is that they make being a man anti-woman. by that i mean you say stuff like oh, you throw like a girl. just this week, darrelle revis, his first insult to richard sherman was youre running your mouth like a little girl. so when you have language like that thats coded deeply in sports, where masculinity is defined a lot, then it sort of imbeds it in their mind that in order for me to be who i n...

Bay buccaneers, a sports reporter and analyst. lovely to have you at the table. i want to start by -- this is not an all men are violent segment. it is, though, what happens if instead of telling the story through women who are the victims, we tell the story through men who are the perpetrators. would that shift our discourse so that we start looking at men as the basis of solution to the violence against women? >> i think we probably have to redefine how we look at masculinity. you spoke about ...

Refusing to pass gun laws, even as they refuse to pass this element of the violence against women act, and when guns are involved, women are seven times more likely to die in assaults against them. its not just about whos perpetrating the violence in terms of men. guns are also an issue like you pointed out. >> well, guns, though, become this expression and extension of what constitutes manhood. so they end up being connected in a way that we say a man is a person who can, for example, wield a g...

Isnt because they have some great emotional moment, right, its because they ultimately get their gun and shoot everybody in the room, right? >> i think to pull back to what you were saying when we came into this segment, you look at for instance the reaction to gay bashing in professional sports. this is really pretty interesting. when magic johnson came out and told us that he was hiv positive, and he was asked are you gay and of course not, you know, absolutely not and everyone sort of laughed...

Reasons like the nine second interval that separates a woman who was just assaulted from another woman who is about to be. reasons like the 1.3 million women who are victims of intimate partner violence every year. these are some of the facts we cant help but see while all of our eyes are on the bill. still, right in the middle of the big statistics is a big old elephant that we just avoid all together. notice the language we use to discuss violence against women, women who are assaulted, women ...

For one of our cultures most visible displays of masculinity, takes the measure of their men. only lately, we have seen a handful of players recalibrating the metrics of what makes a man. pro ballers speaking out for marriage equality are offering their own measurement of manhood and its not in inches or yards, but the length to which a man is willing to stick out his neck for somebody else. so as you already know, nerdland, i love football but there is something in this moment that is so like l...

Part of why we see this violence on the part of men towards women and other men and ultimately towards themselves and we have seen a reconfiguring of masculinity, then have i simply got it wrong and in fact, whatever it is thats causing the violence is not that, is not about men? >> well, dont go giving up already. while i do think its changing, it is to some degree at a glacial pace. if you watch -- >> have you seen how fast the glaciers are melting? >> well, if you look at the nba, for example...