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Potentially Worth Asking Now: What Exactly Is The Point Of A Man?

Are we into post-modernist masculinity now? Or, like, Masculinity 3.0?

Ted Bauer
8 min readApr 24, 2023

My sperm are slow and shitty and it makes me feel slow and shitty most days, so my wife and I had to do IVF back in April 2022. Well, I guess we actually started in February 2022 and it finished, unsuccessfully, in April 2022. It started with a real whimper, too — I got shitfaced the night before it even began.

If you believe in karma and all that, maybe that’s why it didn’t work. Then we did it again before we went to Fiji, and that one didn’t work either. So, I tell you all this to help you understand that I might be coming at all this from a biased place, and I get that. I can lean into my own shortcomings, though.

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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