Zebulon McCain
Ethos of Men blog
Men: Having Needs isn’t Needy
Some years ago, my wife and I along with our teenage son took a local parenting class offered by our county Social Services. It was a group class called the Nurturing Parenting Program and it ran each Monday evening for thirteen weeks. A variety of other families with teenage kids attended the sessions. An eye-opening…
To Navigate and Thrive as a Man Today
Author and survivor of multiple Nazi concentration camps Dr. Viktor E. Frankl has some heavy perspectives on seeking happiness in his book Man’s Search for Meaning. His descriptions of life as a captive in the hellish camps is horrifying, yet his insights are brilliant. He writes “success, like happiness cannot be pursued, it must ensue,…
Plight of the Domesticated Man
British zoologist Dr. Desmond Morris’ 1969 sociobiological book The Human Zoo made a huge impression on me upon discovering it back in the late nineties. Morris makes the undeniable point that modern people live in an unnatural environment. Biologically and psychologically, we are ultimately built for a close-knit hunter-gatherer tribal lifestyle. We are not evolved…
The War on Men
Ultimately, I believe that women (despite their argument to the contrary) instinctively prefer their men to be masculine as opposed to effeminate, that we be capable of setting boundaries as well as being emotionally hardened providers and protectors. Women do not want to be protectors or keepers of men; they are built to nurture children…
The Ego is Necessary
A June 2019 Vice magazine online article entitled “The pursuit of High Self Esteem is Making us Miserable” mentions that the term “self-esteem” comes from 1890, but the theory that it could be tied to success in life dates to 1969. The article adds that the modern “self-esteem movement” truly began with a task force…
Grit
The first Ethos of Men book addresses the positive effects of practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. In this article, we are exploring the toughness, perseverance, and fighting spirit that is embodied in BJJ and how that mindset spills into and affects the everyday life of its practitioners. Even outside the gym, these guys have an…
Father Support
Being a father is truly awesome, yet it comes with a shit load of challenges. Being a man is one thing, fatherhood is a level up. We take on a whole new list of expectations and obligations as a father. Society has no shortage of people reproducing haphazardly, but there is a severe shortage of…
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Striving for a conflict free life and the necessary mental gymnastics to maintain it are ridiculous. Men are over domesticating themselves into an unhealthy state. We allow others to manipulate us by reacting to them… with our agreeableness. We might like to think that we are being patient and cooperative, but I consider it an…
Gear Testing
Ethos of Men is pleased to announce we will be working with http://www.elitesports.com and http://www.borntough.com to torture test some of their products here at the local Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gym. After a few competitive sessions on the grappling mat and the MMA training camp we will let you guys know with a review post on…
Hormone Cycles of the Human Female
The fact that the genders have remarkably different reproductive functions tell me that our respective male and female brains are quite different. How can the genders possibly think alike when each has such distinctive functions? Even how each gender experiences love surely is different from one another. I believe how a female experiences the feeling…
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