Musa Okwonga
@Okwonga · joined 06 Jun 2010
Author. Co-founder, @stadio. Writer, @ringer and @BritishGQ. Guest, @WrightysHouse. Fellow, @RSLiterature. Honorary Fellow, @StJohnsOx.
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@Okwonga I hear him, I was at this stage🤷🏾
This tweet was probably after Arsenal lost 1-0 at home to Burnley, meaning we went a whole month without scoring
Arteta ball was closer to killing me, more than COVID
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@Okwonga You've been missed! https://t.co/d7F4cIvgvK
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Translated: “I am jealous of the attention my actual coach and players are getting - I’m even jealous of that guy with the big hair - let me have a childish rant for clout”
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In 2021, 60 Jewish associations in Germany warned that the AfD party was "a hotbed for anti-Semitism" (https://t.co/kNMJSlQI1v), a party who gave Farage a standing ovation in 2017 as their honoured guest (https://t.co/DV2M6nfL97). For anyone saying "it was all 50 years ago".
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https://t.co/1505Gy7ORA - my new article; if of interest, please share. https://t.co/EcnvS2c7jl
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Lastly - for anyone who is reading this thread (thank you very much for getting down this far) - please can I recommend you check out and maybe support the work of @iwspace, the best grassroots NGO I have come across in Germany. They are amazing. See here: https://t.co/KqMeGeCWbG
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@Okwonga Many groups of friends include one person who wants to be the alpha male. Usually, everyone else is polite to his face but roll their eyes as qoon as he leaves. He might think he commands respect but the reality is the opposite.
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17/ I just think: in a climate of fear, it is far easier to sell what the Right is selling. As a man, it takes far more guts to be vulnerable, to keep learning, and it always will. It may not be as cool - but I will take that type of masculinity all day, every day, forever. /End
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16/ It just strikes me that for all the talk of strongmen running our society, the men who end up the most beloved are the ones who were humble and kind. That's why the strongmen hate them - because deep down they will never be remembered with such affection.
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15/ I think we ignore their examples because compassionate masculinity still scares the hell out of a lot of people. But let's not pretend that a healthy masculinity, based on the bravery of truly confronting oneself, does not exist and is not being practised by countless men.
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14/ We can say that there is a crisis in masculinity. We can also say - masculinity has never been in a healthier state. Look at the brilliant grassroots activists throughout history (Simon Nkoli! Steve Biko!) So the question is - why do we consistently ignore their examples?
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13/ We have to be so careful as a society when we pass the megaphone to "traditional" men telling us that they alone understand what boys and men need, while ignoring the countless women, men and everyone in between who right now are raising happy and healthy boys and men.
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12/ One of the best men I never knew died recently. He was kind beyond measure. He left a letter for his children asking them really not to praise him at his funeral because there was so much that he wished he could have done better (they thankfully ignored him).
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11/ I am in my early forties and I can tell you for a fact that the men who observed the rites of "traditional masculinity" are not as happy as they think they are - because they only get an edited version of people's lives. They are too judgmental to be trusted with secrets.
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10/ The best men I have ever known are not the ones who could win fistfights or intimidate someone into silence. They are the ones who were always available to listen, who anticipated my fears and who checked in on me, who made space for others.
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9/ And here is the other obvious thing (to me!) about healthy masculinity (if such a phrase is useful) - you don't need men to teach you what it is. Women can and do teach us what it is all the time - they definitely taught me. We don't have to wait around for men to instruct us.
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8/ The men who will always impress me the most - the men who have always existed! - are the ones, like Dr. Denis Mukwege (https://t.co/uHlcVdiUaZ) who retain their tenderness even when the world around them is at its most cruel. It feels like a disservice not to celebrate them.
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7/ When I think of the men who impress me the most, they are the ones who go about their lives without the need to feel as if, when it comes down to it, they have to crush women and other men. Because that's ultimately what the Right is selling. And it is an easy sell.
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6/ A lot of people are not going to like this but...if you want to know what it means to survive a crisis in masculinity, then just talk to any well-adjusted queer man. Once you come out, you literally have to rebuild your sense of what it is to be a man from the ground up.
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5/ I get a bit wary of some - not all! - of the talk about "boys and men feel under attack" because it sometimes feels like the "legitimate concerns" that people have about immigration. It's a fear of a new world that we should actually be embracing in order to move forward.
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4/ A lot of these conversations about masculinity aren't necessarily about what boys and men need. They are about "how do boys and men maintain competitive advantage in a world where girls and women are getting or perceived to be getting more opportunities". That's not progress.
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3/ I get baffled when I see T@te and P3terson held up as men who somehow have the answer to what boys and men need because the last time I checked there were countless incredible role models for boys and men. It's just that they aren't being promoted as such.
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2/ A lot of the conversation around masculinity is "get your life together and eventually women are the reward" - that's dominant masculinity, not collaborative masculinity, which I have always found to be much healthier.
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1/ I was asked yesterday by someone to give examples of men who represented healthy masculinity and I thought, "well, it's men who don't think that being a man ultimately involves dominance over everyone in your surroundings".
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never thought I’d be more hopeful about socialism than arsenal and yet here we are.
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Bookmarks4.8%2 529 in total
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