Larry Reid points out that T.I. said on Red Table Talk that marriage steals his masculinity: “There are men out there like that. If I’m being honest, that’s how I felt at one time, not just marriage, and this is going to blow your mind — church. I felt that church was stealing my masculinity. I believe that a whole lot of men in the church feel like they have had their masculinity stolen. Some of that is because of the feminization of the black male in the church.”