The idea that men and boys can only experience hardship due to internalised problems, or some kind of personal failing, has to stop. The idea that, if men only talked more, it would solve all their problems, is nonsense.
This suggestion that all of men’s suffering boils down to some kind of “toxic” male mindset to be exorcised, or emotional repression to be cried away, is a regressive and objectively unhelpful view.
‘Women have problems, men *are* problems’, as Glen Poole once said.
And he’s right. It’s all I hear.
When women have an issue, we ask ‘what can we do to fix society?’
Yet when men have a problem, even if it’s the same problem, we only ask ‘what can men do to fix themselves’?
The truth is, men and boys face structural, systemic issues, just like women and girls. So why are we so afraid to say that?
What do you think?
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Talking with Big Bros podcast podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Y2rGsj9hyR84oHxNYEX8Y
2026-05-29