Finale Uitverkoop Double Bind: Escaping the Contradictory Demands of Manhood – Ph.D. Rodney L. Cooper

If you’re like most men, cultural demands have turned you into an emotional chameleon. You’re expected to be aggressive at work, yet nurturing at home; guarded in public, but sensitive in private.
Dr. Rodney Cooper calls such contradictory demands “double binds ” – no-win situations men face every day, such as: A man’s identity is reduced to the roles he plays rather than who he really is – but he can’t adequately fulfill his roles without a firm sense of his true identity. The man who provides for his famil…