I found this on Facebook recently:

On Facebook, it was treated as a joke, but I googled the article title and it’s apparently a real thing. To that I say: good!

There is nothing wrong with men being platonically affectionate with other men. I hug plenty of dudes, including my best male friend, and he says “love you, man” all the time. It’s not a matter of being “secure in your masculinity” anymore, either; it’s about expressing yourself to people you care about, and fulfilling your needs as a human. Humans need touch, and a group of dudes getting together and cuddling fulfills that need. Plus, they can probably talk about sports or whatever.

Masculinity is so fragile and toxic, often at the same time, and the media reinforces that with movies, TV shows, news articles, and Youtube videos. Jokes about men being touchy-feely with other men abound. But women are allowed to hug whomever they want, and if they hug another woman, they’re not called “gay” or “weak” or “girly”. So why is it wrong for a man to hug another man, or cuddle with a bunch of other men? It doesn’t make the men gay, or weak, or girly. If they like or want to date men, then they’re gay. If they can’t bench-press as much as an average man of their size, they’re weak. If they dress up like women, they’re girly. But if it’s just a bunch of dudes wearing t-shirts and jeans, getting together to engage in platonic touch to fulfill a human need, it’s none of those things.

Men: cuddle another man sometime. See how it goes. You might like it. You might discover that the touch you’ve been missing can be provided by another man, not just by women. (I’m talking specifically about heterosexual men here; they’re the ones that need this information the most.)