His 12 rules book is fantastic (so far, on rule 9 right now) and his videos are refreshing. I have a 2 year old son myself so it's very applicable. I've used some of his advice on conditioning my son to sleep in his big boy bed by himself at night, something that had been a struggle previously. I had a great parenting system growing up so a lot of his content is just reinforcing what I already knew.

I have seen how men are less masculine or at least the loudest ones are. I'm blessed that I grew up in a small town in Nebraska where the majority of men are pretty down to earth and have similar values on manhood. I recently was hanging out with friends and one of them has a daughter that was there. She had mentioned some boy she liked that ran an Instagram page and there was no trace of masculinity to be found at least in what he posted. I asked her a simple question. I asked her, "Do you like spiders?" She looked super confused and told me they're gross and she hates them. I casually responded, "if you end up with a guy like that, you'll be the one that has to smash them." Left her speechless, she wasn't sure she could argue against me on that because she recognized it was probably true.

Truthfully, that's the least of the concerns a woman should have with a man that doesn't seem to display any form of masculinity, it was meant to be about as humorous as helpful. There's an important need for the role of a masculine presence in the world just like there is for the feminine presence. People need to take thinkers like JP more seriously when it comes to these things because it's going to have quite an impact if masculinity is significantly reduced in the world.