Richard Reeves

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TED Radio Hour · Beyond the manosphere: Supporting boys and men in the real world · 29 May 2026 podcast

And so as those are the jobs of the future, we've got to do a better job and learn from the lessons of the women into STEM movement, to get more men into what I call HEAL professions, healthcare, education, administration, literacy.

I think that means scholarships, that means outreach programs, that means particular institutions whose job it is to help boys think of those careers as ones for them, early apprenticeships, etc.,

Let's try and break down the stereotypes that these are somehow, quotes, women's jobs.

I long for the day when we don't say male nurse or male teacher in just the same way that we shouldn't anymore be saying lady lawyer or female doctor because more than half of our law schools and medical schools are women now and those professions are moving rapidly to equality.

And so breaking down the gender stereotypes around occupations has now become a bit of an existential thing for the employment prospects of men and no longer just a sort of seminar nice to have.

I think one of the really most unfortunate turns recently has somehow to feel that to pay attention to men, to have some empathy for the position that men are in, to actually allow men to, quote, be men in ways that are positive, not negative, but without expecting them to somehow become androgynous, right?

Somehow the reaction to that has been to lean back into a more hyper-masculinity, as you say.

It's just this sort of almost cartoonish...

adolescent view of masculinity.

You know what I mean?

I sometimes think about, like, wow, what's all of this reminding me of, right?

And actually what it's reminding me of is not my 26-year-old son, to pick one of them, but my 16-year-old son.

And so I actually don't find the toxic, as I said, toxic masculinity is a very unhelpful term, but I do think there's something to the idea of maturity.

What does it mean to be a grown-up, to be mature?

And I think for men that is much more of a...

Social construction in some ways.

So what does it mean to be grown up rather than adolescent?

And so there's a bit of a glorying sometimes in the transgressiveness and boorishness that is much more associated with a young man, an immature man, a man in his puberty.

Like I was not as boring as...

when I was 14 as I am and I'm 56 because guess what?

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