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Amongst men, locker-room banter and casual jokes often cut deeper than anyone admits. When a couple struggles to conceive, you will often hear friends jokingly tease a man that he is “firing blanks.”<\/p>\n
In our communities, where manhood, virility, and fatherhood are deeply tied together, that phrase is never just a joke. It carries a sharp sting of shame. For decades, cultural expectations have placed the burden of childlessness entirely on women, while men quietly hide behind bravado. Yet, when a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Amongst men, locker-room banter and casual jokes often cut deeper than anyone admits. When a couple struggles to conceive, you will often hear friends jokingly tease a man that he is “firing blanks.” In our communities, where manhood, virility, and fatherhood are deeply tied together, that phrase is never just a joke. It carries a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,31704,13858,10357,257,7414,254,19692,4686,421],"class_list":["post-243496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blanks","tag-count","tag-firing","tag-news","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sperm","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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