Molly

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

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.

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

The way a man’s life, especially in the beginning, is often built around one question: How do I become worthy?

You don’t need to be told you’re not enough. The world says it in a thousand little ways. You just kind of know. Somewhere between being a boy and becoming a man, you look around and realise everything you want- respect, love, attention, p... See more

THE BROTHERHOOD OF QUITTING ZYN , nyt

Quitting Zyn has become its own kind of social movement among young men, with over 10,000 members in Reddit’s QuittingZyn community swapping “bro-y” encouragement like “Keep smashing it 💪.” Zyn had $581 million can sales in 2024, 75% of which came from men, but Gen Zers say the habit quickly spirals from “fitt... See more

This is where they want to go around and get drinks and run into people and look cool,” said Hruska MacPherson. “It’s like Disneyland for them. Let’s let them be young and have fun, even if we cringe at it. Let’s let them have their Aperol spritzes. We were also discovering ourselves.”

But Gen Z’s spiritual awakening isn’t heading back to church in any predictable way. It’s splintered, with queer‐affirming congregations distancing themselves from partisan politics on one side, and tradwife influencers turning devotion into lifestyle content on the other. Whether this moment leads to a true return to organized religion or not, one... See more

But when ease becomes the default measure of value—when “fast” and “frictionless” are always better, we lose something critical: the slow, inconvenient texture of real life and real relationships.