Josh Hatcher from Manlihood.com talks about Nobility on today’s episode of the Manlihood ManCast. The Manlihood ManCast is a podcast for men.

Nobility is a choice

Nobility used to refer to an upper class – often blood related to royalty, or wealthy landowners.
Often, their nobility was in rank and class, and not in virtue.

Today, nobility refers to character more than rank or status.

You can be Jack W. Dirt from the East Side of the Wankbottom Trailerpark in Fartblossom Kansas – but if you’ve got good character, you’re a noble.

It’s a choice you make. Folks with good character are known for it. It precedes them like a trumpet fanfare.

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Things Men Don’t Want to Talk About: The Past

This can be related to last week’s episode about sexual abuse – or even about other kinds of abuse – but it’s not just that.

All of us have a past. Our own mistakes, our own flaws, or hard things we’ve had to endure.

It’s hard for us to look back there.

Men are fixers. We want to focus on what we can change. It doesn’t help to look at things we can’t change.

I know that if I look at my own past, I’ve got a lot of mistakes that I’ve made that I regret. A lot of people I’ve hurt, stupid things I’ve said or did…

Sometimes, when I try to fall asleep at night, all of those things come back to haunt me. I have an auditory memory. So I can replay conversations I had in my head from ten years ago. And I hear all the stupid things I said, and I feel like a jerk.

No. I don’t want to talk about the past. I don’t want to talk about what I did – or what others did.
I can’t change it. I can’t fix it.

I want to focus on today. I want to focus on the future. I can change those. I can influence those. I can fix those.

We can’t change the past – but if we just refuse to talk about it – we’re going to make the same mistakes.

Our failures, and our wounds from the past have a great sway on the decisions we make.
Like a weight on a chain behind us. We take it with us – all the while trying to pretend it didn’t happen.

You’ve got to deal with your past.

You’ve got to make amends, be honest, get to the root of why we think and react the way we do if we intend to make a better future for ourselves.

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In this installment of a five part series titled “Things Men Don’t Want to Talk About”
for the Manlihood ManCast, Josh Hatcher of Manlihood.com talks about Domestic Violence.

There are two kinds of domestic violence I’d like to address. Neither of them get talked about much.

Men abusing women and/or children.

This is unacceptable. If you’re caught in a cycle of this, you need to get help. Not talking about it is making you a monster. Because that’s who abuses women and children – monsters. You’re not a man, you’re a beast, or a little boy with beer muscles. Get help.

Men abused by women.

There’s got to be a tremendous amount of shame involved with this. Despite the fact that our culture has completely upended gender roles, there’s still a prevailing mindset, that a man is strong and that he is stronger than she is.

We also teach boys that it’s always wrong to hit a woman. So a man is actually trained to be susceptible to abuse because he’s trained not to fight back.

If you’re being abused, get out. Get safe.
Don’t be a victim.

You don’t HAVE to talk about it with anybody you don’t want to talk about it with. But you do have to talk to someone to make sure it stops happening.

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In this installment of a five part series titled “Things Men Don’t Want to Talk About”
for the Manlihood ManCast, Josh Hatcher of Manlihood.com talks about sexual abuse. 

Here’s some information on male sexual abuse from 1in6.org

A 2005 study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, on San Diego Kaiser Permanente HMO members, reported that 16% of males were sexually abused by the age of 18.1

A 2003 national study of U.S. adults reported that 14.2% of men were sexually abused before the age of 18.2

A 1998 study reviewing research on male childhood sexual abuse concluded that the problems is “common, under-reported, under-recognized, and under-treated.”3

A 1996 study of male university students in the Boston area reported that 18% of men were sexually abused before the age of 16.4

A 1990 national study of U.S. adults reported that 16% of men were sexually abused before the age of 18.5

That 1 in 6 statistic is based on reported, documented cases. There is a lot of reason to believe that the number is higher.

Men who have experienced sexual abuse in their past are very likely to experience these issues:

• Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.
• Alcoholism and drug abuse.
• Suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.
• Problems in intimate relationships.
• Underachievement at school and at work.

Bottom line is – Men don’t like to talk about it.
But maybe we should. Maybe not out in the open in front of everybody, if that makes you  uncomfortable – but find someone you can trust and talk about it. See a counselor if you’ve found yourself struggling with depression, or ptsd, or suicidal thoughts.

You are not alone

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Things Men Don’t Want to Talk About: Pornography and Masturbation

In this installment of a five part series titled “Things Men Don’t Want to Talk About”
for the Manlihood ManCast, Josh Hatcher of Manlihood.com talks about Pornography and Masturbation.

Men don’t want to talk about what they do when no one is looking.
For a few reasons.
One reason, we don’t want anyone to tell us we shouldn’t do it….
Or… we don’t want anyone to know we do it.

Masturbation takes away from our power. It may seem like a release, or like a biological way to “clear the pipes.” But it’s not that. It actually decreases desire, and can create a situation where you are training yourself to the fastest way possible to orgasm. This is the opposite of what you need in the bedroom with your spouse. 


Porn is harmful to men. It’s impact on the brain, impact on the emotions and addictive nature is never satisfied.

Porn is harmful to women.  It teaches men to devalue women, to degrade women. Porn is a nasty downward spiral of degradation toward women. That’s not was sex is meant to be.

It’s also harmful because the industry is SATURATED with human trafficking, including underage girls. You may think you’re watching porn that is consensual, but when you hear the horror stories of how women have been enslaved and are doing it because they have no other choice… it will make you sick. Someone’s daughter was drugged up, tortured, threatened, and forced to make that porn.

I was addicted to porn. It almost destroyed my marriage. It was not an easy fight. I would try to justify it or explain it away, but the truth is, I was  neglecting my wife and pleasing myself. I was gratifying my own desires – and it lead me to a dark place. It would have gone darker if I had continued.

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Things Men Don’t Want to Talk About: Our Feelings

In this installment of a five part series titled “Things Men Don’t Want to Talk About”
for the Manlihood ManCast, Josh Hatcher of Manlihood.com talks about the way men don’t like to talk about their feelings.

Dr. Amanda Rose of the University of Missouri did a survey of 2000 school aged boys and girls to explore feelings.

“For years, popular psychologists have insisted boys and men would like to talk about their problems, but are held back by fears of embarrassment or appearing weak. However, when we asked young people how talking about their problems would make them feel, boys didn’t express angst or distress about discussing problems any more than girls. Instead, boys’ responses suggest they just don’t see talking about problems to be a particularly useful activity.”

• The reason men don’t like to talk about these things is not because of a deep shame or a fear of opening up.

• We don’t talk about our feelings generally, because we don’t see the point.
• There is a time and place to talk about how we feel.
• As men, we do tend to compartmentalize and shove emotion aside in order to function.
• That CAN backfire. We need to properly process our feelings. We may need to talk about it. There IS a point. But it’s not THE point. 

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