Traditional masculinity's emphasis on stoicism and disconnection walls men off from human connection, which is fostered through vulnerability.

“The way we connect is through feelings. The way we connect is through vulnerability.”

“We connect to each other through vulnerability. That's how human beings connect. And men are walled off.”

“I want men to come out of the straight jacket and have feelings. I want us to be whole and own our human vulnerabilities, but in a context in which we're connected to other people and we're neither cut off from them nor are we imposing on them, but we've learned the art and it's virtually lost of how to be with simply how to be with how to ask them to be with us and how to reciprocate and be with them”