Issues

Weight of Softness. AI-Generated.
My father’s hands were maps of labor. They were calloused, nicked with scars from tools and machinery, and permanently stained with grease. They could fix a carburetor, frame a wall, and, on rare occasions, administer a disciplinary spanking that stung for days. They were not hands for gentle things.
By The 9x Fawdi2 months ago in Men
Unwritten Script. AI-Generated.
There is a script for being a man. An old, dog-eared script passed down through generations. It has chapters on stoicism, on being a provider, on fixing things with your hands, on swallowing fear and grief until they become a hard, silent stone in your gut.
By The 9x Fawdi2 months ago in Men
Picky Playerz
Before I get started with this message, let me emphasize one thing I firmly believe: Solid men don't fret for support. With that being said, try your best not to misconstrue the tone of what I'm about to write. I just happen to be a man that goes where inspiration leads him and I'm at an era of my life in which the selective nature of people keeps being made prominently obvious. Make no mistake, such a nuisance of habits is not new to me at all—just shockingly more apparent right now. To prove it, I dove deep into my timeworn journals for any text that shines light on the common person's deliberate manner of applauding or acknowledging others; Self-interested selectiveness. As I said, I'm no stranger to low vibrational games, so I'll kick off this topic with a journal I penned 7 years ago.
By JeRon Baker2 months ago in Men
Why I Kept Attracting the Wrong People (And the One Shift That Finally Broke the Pattern)
For years, I kept attracting the wrong people — emotionally unavailable partners, draining friendships, people who took more than they gave, and relationships that left me confused or hurt.
By Aman Saxena2 months ago in Men
How to Fix a Loose Laptop Hinge (Before It's Too Late)
You are typing, and you see that the screen is vibrating with each keystroke. After one week, the lid is loose, as though it has a sigh in it. Soon enough, you are struggling to use your laptop to lean it against your pile of books so your laptop screen will not collapse over.
By Mubashir2 months ago in Men
Rebuilding Reciprocity
Truth alone can heal what pride has broken. The war between men and women is not natural. It is manufactured by a culture that rewards resentment and mocks responsibility. Men are not the enemy of women, and women are not the enemy of men. The true enemy is the spirit of division that turned cooperation into competition. To rebuild what was lost, both must return to the principle that made civilization possible: reciprocity.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Men
The Asymmetry of Consequence
A society cannot survive when truth applies to one group but not another. Every civilization that endures is built on shared accountability, equal justice, and balanced consequence. When one group is shielded from correction while another carries the full weight of judgment, corruption takes root. Today, that imbalance has become deeply gendered. Men are punished for failure, while women are protected from it. Men are held to the standard of results, while women are measured by intentions. The scales of consequence are no longer even, and the results are visible everywhere.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Men
Men Are Not Utilities
Society praises men for what they produce but rarely for who they are. From childhood, men are taught that their value comes from their performance. They are measured by their paycheck, their strength, their endurance, and their ability to provide. They are expected to sacrifice without complaint, to solve problems without emotion, and to keep standing no matter how much weight they carry. What society calls manhood is often servitude disguised as virtue.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Men
"I Don't Need Another Daughter!"
This story is based on real events that happened in the 1970s in the Soviet Union, before use of the ultrasound became common for pregnancies.
By Lana V Lynx2 months ago in Men
Generations were taught to hide the storm.
For centuries, men were told that feeling is weakness. Women were told the same – and punished for it. Tears, grief, joy, desire: all policed. Women’s hearts were called “too much,” men’s hearts were called “off-limits.”
By THE HONED CRONE2 months ago in Men
The Garden After the War
Across the ages, we’ve played out this wound—the fall from Eden, the wars of gods and lovers, the burning of witches, the crucifixion of truth. But the myths are shifting now. The garden is not lost; it waits within us. Every healed heart is a seed, every honest union a bloom. We are rewriting the story of creation—not from power over, but power with. This is the new genesis.
By THE HONED CRONE2 months ago in Men
FALLS & FOOLS
Somewhere around the time of discovering this platform called Vocal, I dove deep into my collection of journals and texts to dig up anything with enough value to be showcased. Amongst these precious files, a number of them were no-brainers to adapt for publishing, but the same couldn't be said for them all. A handful of the written works were plentiful in significance, yet puny in word count—too puny to stand alone on this website.
By JeRon Baker2 months ago in Men