Why Is It So Hard For Men To Talk About Anything Of Relevance?

This is a deeper story.

Ted Bauer
5 min readMay 12, 2023

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In 2021 and 2022, I was pretty active in this F3 Nation Men’s Workout Group thing. I liked it for a while, then it annoyed me. Most of the guys were nice and genuine, but for 5–7 guys, their entitlement could power Argentina for six months. That got tedious. Plus, I was struggling with conceiving (still am) and a lot of these dudes were flippant-as-fuck fathers, i.e. “Wifey’s away, guess I’m babysitting the kids this weekend.” It got tedious there too.

While I was in F3, tho, I led a bunch of workouts. I actually led one with an addiction theme, which was cool.

Right before my wife and I did IVF the first time, I led a fertility-themed workout at Walsh Ranch, west of Fort Worth. I did exercises that started with “I,” “V,” and…

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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.