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by voxl 2408 days ago
Ah stoicism, toxic masculinity lite
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That doesn't gel with my understanding and experience of Stoicism. What makes you think of it that way?
Hollywood popularized Han Solo, Clint Eastwood, and the likes as the Stoic Male archetype which recently became the poster boy for toxic masculinity.

Shame though, because Stoic derives from Latin for porch. The Stoics sat and shared their ways of a happy life on porches.

Stoicism does not subscribe itself to the male gender - it is a pursuit, much like Taoism or Buddism, to reach peace within the Logos, or rather the grand chaos that is the universe itself.

Anyone of any descent or gender may become one with the Logos.