Juneteenth marks the day when enslaved people in Texas were finally told they were free. It is a holiday about delayed freedom, but also about what happens when a country has to face the difference between what it claims and what it does. That has something to say to men.

Men’s work is not slavery, and the comparison should not be made casually. But men do inherit ideas that can limit us: that strength means silence, that anger is safer than sadness, that control proves authority, that needing other people is weakness, and that tenderness makes a man less serious. Those ideas do not........

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