The Gender Expert: Men Are Emotionally Dependent On Women & We're Treating Them Like Malfunctioning Women! Richard Reeves

It is pretty clear. Partnerless men, childless men. They don't do so well. In fact they do terribly. And in modern society, that's a problem. Richard Reeves is the founder of the American Institute for Boys and Men. An organization dedicated to researching and tackling the challenges faced by boys and men in modern society. We're in the early stages of a cultural revolution, so that women are not economically reliant on men, which is great. One consequence of that is that it's put a big question mark next to the role of Mick, which used to be filled with a whole script of ways to be a man, ways to be a head of household, etcetera.

Because of that, they're struggling. They're behind in education, wages have stagnated, you're seeing a massive rise of young men who are single, and now the suicide rate is four times higher and rising. They looked at the words that men use to describe themselves before taking their own lives. And the two most commonly used words were useless and worthless. And the most fatal place to end up in as a human being is to feel unneeded. You said the hardest thing you've ever done as a man is couples therapy. Why? I was talking about what I'd done at home and how it's supported her career and my wife said that you seem to think the problem is that you're not feminist enough. Problem is that you're not masculine enough. What I came to realise is that men feel like that in order for women to become bigger, we had to make ourselves smaller. That is not the answer. So what would you do at a social level to fix things? The most important move would be

Just Uh Oh You wrote a book called Of Boys and Men Why the Modern Male Is Struggling and Why It Matters and What to Do About It.

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