Leon Rosenberg last night (Monday) uploaded a video to the social network Instagram in which he sought to comprehensively contradict the prejudices about character traits, which men are "forced" to carry in order to justify their definition as such.
For over a minute, Rosenberg explained his theory regarding the new male model, and gave examples of leading and famous figures to prove his claims.
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"What is a man?" Rosenberg asked at the beginning of his speech.
"If you had asked this question in the 1970s, they would have told you that a man is a breadwinner, leader, athlete, strong, assertive, opinionated, adventurous, successful, always interested in sex, knows how to take what he wants, doesn't let anything stop him, Doesn't express feelings, doesn't cry, and doesn't complain," he elaborated.
"Ugh! Who could be such a man?", he wondered in frustration.
"The truth is, I don't know any such man," he ruled.
"I mean, there are some who look like that, but that's because I don't know them deeply," he claimed.
"Fortunately, today men don't have to, and certainly don't want to, answer this whole list of qualities," he added.
We see all kinds of male models around us.
Men who wear women's clothes and women still fall for them," he added a photo of British singer Harry Styles.
Harry Styles, photo: AP.
"Very, very successful men who are not athletic and strong," added a photo of Bill Gates.
"We also see men who are really considered 'manly men' and still express emotions and even, mercifully, cry," gave the example of footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.
"In my lecture, when I ask the women in the hall what kind of man they would like, they say: 'A man who will see me, who will listen to me, who will take part in the household chores, who will know how to be with the children without calling me every second and asking me what we are doing,'" he shared in the answers received
"So let's do a survey here," he picked up the glove.
"Women, write me what kind of man you really want, and men, write me what kind of man you would like to be, and let's see what you write. I'm already dying to read the answers," he said at the end.
Campaign against violence against women, Leon and Paula Rosenberg, photo: Yanai Yehiel
Rosenberg's video received a response from his wife Paula, who contented herself with sending a red heart emoji this time, compared to women and men who responded to his request and shared their opinion more broadly.
"A man who will be connected to his feelings, who will not be afraid to speak, who will be contained, and who will not be afraid of being contained as well. Who will be present and not indifferent, who will cry when he is in pain, who will say when he is bad, and who will be one hundred percent a true partner in the home and in the family," Manatha Gulashat said.
Leon and Paula Rosenberg, photo: Tal Givoni
"May he be egoless," added another succinctly.
"I would like to be attentive," shared one follower.
"I have difficulty with this issue. I am busy with a million things and it is difficult for me to develop listening to my partner as I would like."
Full disclosure: Paula Rosenberg writes for the "Shishab" supplement of "Israel Hayom".
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