No Mercy / No Malice: The Manosphere & Robert Mueller

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Scott Galloway, and this is No Mercy, No Malice. Robert Muller's life was a masterclass in masculinity, but that's not the real story here. Donald Trump's reaction to Muller's passing is a case study in how not to be a man. The Manosphere and Robert Muller, as read by George Hahn.

I think about masculinity a lot. I have two sons, and the market for good public male role models is experiencing a supply shock. In his new Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere, filmmaker Louis Thoreau chronicles influencers who cosplay as alpha males, displaying their fitness and wealth while vomiting misogynistic garbage regarding men dominating women. Spoiler alert, these guys will die alone and forgotten. They're also painfully boring.

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