Being authentic helps younger people find genuine community instead of isolating themselves. The speaker argues that traditional masculine norms often promote isolation, and embracing who you really are early on is the best way to avoid that trap.
Aside from that, if we can get to them even younger, we should make them know and feel like being your authentic self actually brings you closer to community, not further from it. Facts. Because it's going to bring you towards the right community. Exactly. It's going to keep you from doing self-isolating activities. Exactly. And all those other things. I absolutely agree. Exactly. Because all the things that we essentially do that makes us feel masculine, or we're told that makes you feel— makes us feel masculine, is actually isolating.
