We made it. 🎉🥳 One thousand posts. Ten thousand slides. A deluge of angry rants, with myths debunked, foes slain, and conventional wisdom shattered. My incessant yelling into the online void, with countless hours of reading, writing, researching; cutting, cropping, and kerning; blowing my mind every day with the latest, greatest data, and then scrambling to put it all back into my head, and onto a page. It’s been a wild ride, but I’ll be honest – TheTinMen was never meant for you, it was originally meant for me. Something of a secret weapon so to speak; one quite literally held under the table, as I went to war with my fellow lefties, both friend and family alike; in pubs, clubs, and coffee shops; at dinner parties, nights out, and on lunch breaks; it was a page that armed me with the best data, to twist my opponents into knots, within the fiercest battle of them all – one for our men and boys. It was my response to being told to “create your own page”, and –start your own conversation!” And so I did, and here it is. That unwelcome discussion, now for you too; an arsenal of unpopular facts and prickly data, to use as you see fit, in ways that I hope shine a light onto all the things the world doesn’t know, or are too afraid to say. It’s a page I’ve poured myself into, haemorrhaged money from, sacrificed career opportunities for, and built upon the burnt bridges of more than a few friends. But – It’s given back far more, bringing me amazing connections, and wonderful opportunities; countless platforms, podiums, and panels, on which I’ve tried my best to fill in the gaps of advocacy that so many men and boys have fallen down. And now – the question is, does TheTinMen stay on Instagram? Because something has changed. I used to gain 100 followers every couple of days here, then that number took me a week, soon it was 30 days… and now it takes three months (!?) So is the juice still worth the squeeze, or is it time I sought new, sandier shores? What do you think?

2025-05-09