What’s the Matter with Men?

What Did Men Do to Deserve This?

Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”

How the Far Right Feeds on Male Insecurity

A new book explores the strange ways young men get sucked into toxic ideologies like the alt-right. But according to the author, "many of the guys who get out quietly slip back into society."

Men not at work: Why so many men aged 25 to 54 are not working | Brookings

The job market is a whole lot better than it was during the worst of the Great Recession, but around 7 million American men between the ages of 25 and 54 – mostly too old to be in school and too young to retire – are neither working nor looking for work.  That amounts to […]

Dear young men: The old stereotypes of what it is to be a 'man' are a load of rubbish

Whether you want it or not, you’ve inherited the responsibility of creating a new answer to the ancient question of what it means to be a man

About the boys: Tim Winton on how toxic masculinity is shackling men to misogyny

In an excerpt from a speech about his new book The Shepherd’s Hut, the author says it is men who need to step up and liberate boys from the race, the game, the fight

‘Men seem to make life for women worse’: single US women share the woes of dating in 2025

Here’s why some women feel like there’s little hope in the current dating pool of men – if they’re still in the market for one

The problem isn’t that the women are unattractive.

Misogyny masquerading as social critique.

“There’s too many men”: What happens when women are outnumbered on a massive scale

China and India have 70 million more men than women. The consequences are far-reaching.

Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism

It is imperative to ask why and how this obscure Canadian academic, who insists that gender and class hierarchies are ordained by nature and validated by science, has suddenly come to be hailed as the West’s most influential public intellectual. Peterson rails against “softness,” arguing that men have been “pushed too hard to feminize,” like other hyper-masculinist thinkers before him who saw compassion as a vice and urged insecure men to harden their hearts against the weak (women and minorities) on the grounds that the latter were biologically and culturally inferior. Peterson’s ageless insights are, in fact, a typical, if not archetypal, product of our own times: right-wing pieties seductively mythologized for our current lost generations.

“Women Don’t Need Rescuing”: Navigating the AI Gender Gap in an Industry That’s Obsessed | LBBOnline

Little Black Book, Is the AI gender gap a problem to be solved, a question of control or a strategic advantage? LBB’s Laura Swinton Gupta asks

So, about this Googler’s manifesto.

You have probably heard about the manifesto a Googler (not someone senior) published internally about, essentially, how women and men are…

Gender Performativity | The Paper Pilot

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