What if the American man didn’t fail us—what if we failed him? In this season finale of The Hidden Cut, I reflect on how circumcision shaped not just bodies, but identities—and how silence became the mold from which masculinity was cast. We trace the myth of the strong, silent type through pain, performance, and forgetting, until what’s left is a man without a mirror. But when the spell breaks, something else can emerge: not shame, not blame—but the radical act of remembering what it means to feel.
Next season, we leave the hospital and enter the temple—unraveling the sacred story behind the blade. The Hidden Cut: Sacred Flesh begins soon.
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