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The 'masculinity crisis' is actually a crisis of self-esteem | Psyche Ideas
 There’s a modern belief that talent or effort can carry anyone to the top. It’s a myth that’s especially harmful to men
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Editor's Note: My contention is that the competition for self-esteem, and the widespread lack of it that results, is to blame for much of what we attribute to the crisis in masculinity. Men are frustrated because they feel like failures, and they feel like failures because - given the way our society distributes self-esteem - almost everybody has to feel like a failure.
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WorkWorkCould a Trump deal change the Middle East in 2025? With just over a week until President-elect Donald Trump takes office, the soon-to-be second-time U.S. leader famed for his "art of the deal" approach in business and politics prepares to take on a series of interconnected yet equally volatile conflicts in the Middle East.
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WorkTwo Waves of Aging: How Midlife Biomolecular Shifts Accelerate Decline For decades, scientists have proposed various models to explain the mechanisms underlying aging. The damage-accumulation theory, for example, posits that aging results from the gradual buildup of molecular and cellular damage, including oxidative stress, DNA mutations, and protein misfolding. Work
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WorkWorld's first AI-generated and 3D-printed shoe makes its dubious debut In the world of ugly shoes, we've had some real bangers. First was the Croc, a rubber one-piece shoe best suited as a doorstop - that is until you tried one on and realized it might be the most comfortable thing you've ever put on your foot, despite the scornful looks from your peers. Work
WorkWorkWhat Will Congestion Pricing Do to Manhattan Dining? The sky did not fall during the first week of Manhattan's congestion pricing. But you wouldn't have known that by talking to restaurant owners in the affected zone, who are in a state of high anxiety. The charges -- $9 for a car or van, up to $21. WorkThe Painting, the Photograph and the War for Ukraine's Culture It looks like a serene snapshot from Ukraine's battlefield: A group of armor-clad soldiers huddled around a makeshift table scattered with food and playing cards. Some laugh or smoke, and one lounges on the ground, smiling as he scrolls through his phone. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow a Week of Weather Extremes Upended Lives of Americans It was a week of fire and ice. It began with millions of people across the U.S. shivering amid blizzard conditions and frigid air that lasted for days, thanks to a jet stream that slips out of its usual path more often these days. Then, catastrophe in California, with wind-whipped flames taking off in a landscape parched by months of drought to become Los Angeles' worst-ever wildfires. WorkWorkWorkWorkAt-home ECGs will detect early heart issues and save thousands, say doctors This point was backed by Alahmadi. “Even for trained clinicians it can be difficult and time-consuming to interpret ECGs. This technology will be a real help for them. And if you are making the general public actually understand their own ECGs then this would also make a big difference. It could save many people’s lives.” Work2 Warren Buffett Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist and 1 to Avoid American Express is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Reuben Gregg Brewer has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Berkshire Hathaway and Chevron. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. WorkThe Video Game Industry Is Unionizing Last month, 461 video game workers with Microsoft's ZeniMax Online Studios announced they were unionizing with the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees-Communications Workers of America (CODE-CWA). WorkPalisades Lost “There’s nothing left,” said Darby Woods, a local real estate agent who lost her home in the fire. “It literally looks like what you see on TV in Ukraine. It looks like we’re in a war zone and there’s no reinforcements coming. It’s just decimated.” WorkInside Elon Musk's Plan for DOGE to Slash Government Costs Mr. Trump has said the effort would drive “drastic change,” and that the entity would provide outside advice on how to cut wasteful spending. DOGE itself will have no power to cut spending — that authority rests with Congress. Instead, it is expected to provide recommendations for programs and other areas to cut. WorkWorkWorkThe Eaton Fire Is Now One of California's Deadliest Five people are also confirmed dead in the Palisades fire, bringing the total death toll for the series of blazes raging across Los Angeles to 16. Officials have warned that the number of fatalities is likely to rise. WorkWorkWorkWorkWhy Cities Are Getting Rid of Decades-Old Parking Rules But like most policy changes that affect the everyday lives of a wide swath of people, changing the parking rules have received backlash from residents who are concerned that reducing requirements will lead to less parking overall and, as a result, an influx of traffic from drivers hunting for on-street spaces. WorkWorkBills and Lions Give NFL Fans in Canada Reason to Cheer A four-hour drive apart just past London, the cities have much in common, from shuttered factories to gutted neighborhoods to faded histories. The Bills’ founding owner, Ralph Wilson, was close with the Ford family, which still owns the Lions. Wilson kept his office in Detroit, and for years the Bills and the Lions played preseason games. In 2022, the Bills played a home game in Detroit because of snowstorms in Buffalo. WorkWorkChronic Pain Afflicts Billions of People. It's Time for a Revolution. But when none of those tests could point to an obvious cause, I fell into the mystery bucket. Not the fascinating, fun kind of mystery that gets solved by a medical savant. This was the other kind, in which you are punted from doctor to doctor until you run out of specialists, who, this being real life, are far too overscheduled to fixate on one patient’s oddball symptoms. WorkA French Cathedral Turned to Hams to Restore Its Organ After the French Revolution, church properties were seized by the state, which eventually took responsibility for overseeing most of them. But the central government and local municipalities have struggled to fund the maintenance of the country’s cathedrals and churches. WorkOpinion | How to Survive January Do not move until the thick white goop recedes into your sad winter skin. It could be days. A joke about Go-Gurt from an old Ellen DeGeneres special comes to mind. “Was there a big mobility problem with yogurt before?” she asks, then mimes picking up the phone and receiving an invitation from a friend. Moments later, spirits falling, she remembers she’s just opened a traditional yogurt that must be eaten with a spoon. Having committed to the complex task at hand, she obviously can’t make the date. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkTories back Badenocha??s a??riskya?? call for grooming gangs inquiry "It is indisputably true that, because of a range of pretty unpalatable figures, it has rocketed up the news agenda, but that doesn't change the fact that now mainstream politicians have got to deal with it. The problem is simply that whatever you say about it, she can now reasonably be accused of trying to make political capital out of it." 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