Michael Ian Black
speaker
458 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 16 Jun
Michael Ian Black’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Women are excelling in school.
And boys are falling further and further behind.
And there are all kinds of complicated sociological reasons for why this is happening, but we have to look at sort of the root of it.
And if we want to have a society that's thriving, we actually need to implement these changes for men.
We need to give them a permission structure to say, hey, I'm really struggling here.
We need to have them not be afraid to walk into the gas station and say, hey, I'm lost.
Can you help me?
Right.
We need all of that.
for very practical reasons.
The economy now runs on those kinds of jobs, runs on cooperation, creativity, collaboration.
If you want to have just a functioning society, men need to step up and figure out how to be their full selves.
It just has to happen.
The problem is
That has been cast among reactionary voices as feminizing the culture.
And what do you – the worst thing you could say to a man or a young man who was caught in this kind of moment of indecision and not knowing who he is, is to say, oh, yeah, you're being a girl, you know.
Yeah.
That's going to shut him off entirely.
Now you have these legions of young, angry white men listening to Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan and all these other dude bros who are telling them, no, all you got to do is take ivermectin and work out three times a day and chicks are going to love you.
It's this bizarre caveman mentality, but what it does is it offers a promise to men.
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