Richard Reeves

Richard Reeves is unimpressed by online influencers who peddle ideas about hyper-masculinity.

Ideas about the next era of manhood.

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Richard Reeves is unimpressed by online influencers who peddle ideas about hyper-masculinity.

Ideas about the next era of manhood.

That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast.

Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Richard Reeves is unimpressed by online influencers who peddle ideas about hyper-masculinity.

Ideas about the next era of manhood.

That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast.

Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Keep it boring.

And as my son said to me one day, he said, well, if that's your motto, Dad, you are definitely the man for that job.

Exactly.

But the point is actually by being quite dispassionate about it and just saying, look, these are facts and hopefully reasonably even-handed, I think what it did was create a space for a conversation that was already there.

It just didn't quite know how to break into the open.

I just kept running across these data points that showed me on lots of fronts now, boys and men are the ones who are behind.

In education, for example, we see that by the end of high school, boys are a year behind girls in literacy.

There's a bigger gender gap on college campuses today than there was in the 1970s, but it's the other way around.