Are Men Ok Pt 2

The “cut them off” theory is (coincidentally?) trending on TikTok, with young people ending relationships over small perceived slights, like not texting “landed safely” or forgetting to offer coffee.

Sauna Raves and Status Tans

We have a clique of powerful middle-aged men who want nothing more than to be boys.

Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg Has a Funny Idea of What It Is to Be a Man

Right now, too many young men are being fed the junk food variety of masculinity. The magic bullet, use steroids, dominate others, get rich quick on Crypto version. We’re not doing a good enough job of championing a more sustainable and healthier version, one that ultimately leads to more success than the bastardized concept of an alpha-male.

Steve Magness • The Crisis of Masculinity

I started wondering, who's offering a compelling alternative ideal of masculinity? I texted my friend Thomas Page McBee, who has written two books about becoming a man. He pointed out (in the least ’splainy way possible!) that I was asking the wrong question. Feminism, he replied, has helped women divest from the idea that there is a monolithic way

Ann Friedman • A More Expansive Masculinity

As one man put it, “Especially now when the worst forms of masculinity feel ascendant, there are a lot of types of man I don't want to be, but very few visions of positive masculinity that I see and want to emulate.

Ann Friedman • A More Expansive Masculinity

But some men find their own liberation within their marriages, dropping the patriarch act. Elizabeth told me about one woman’s husband who now sports a floral trucker hat. He has learned he likes hiking and identifying plants. Bronson mentions another “very manly” man who has taken up gardening to make his own simple syrups for cocktails and the bo... See more

Sarah Stankorb • Inside TikTok’s Runaway Trad Wife Phenomenon

Young men are struggling, and we wanted to figure out just how badly and why.

Boys enter kindergarten lagging behind girls in both academic readiness and behavior. A majority of teenagers agree that boys are more disruptive. Large shares say girls get better grades, have more leadership roles and speak up more in class.

Note: Survey conducted Sept. 1... See more

The Morning: Tariff flip-flops

And that’s the great irony of it all: we all just want to be seen. Men, women, everyone. We ache to be understood without having to explain. To be held without being asked to justify our weight.

Gor • what women don't understand about men

Most men aren’t afraid of women. They’re afraid of being seen and found lacking.

That’s why rejection doesn’t just bruise; it brands. It tells a man he isn’t what he thought he was. And the world, especially for men, isn’t very forgiving about that.

Vulnerability doesn’t get medals. It gets laughed at. Or ignored. Or quietly pitied.

And so men learn... See more