Richard Reeves

My friends would think, what are you talking about?

What's wrong with you?

We have to go hiking or soccer or watch something or do something.

We have to pretend to be doing something else while we're just being friends.

And men are a bit more comfortable shoulder to shoulder than face to face, it turns out.

That seems to be true on average.

But what that means is that we do have to have a bit more...

and social structure around male interaction.

Women, on the average, women seem to be a little bit better at just making those social connections organically and naturally without the need for it to be because you're starting a pickleball league or whatever.

And so what that means is that we need institutions for men, right?

And so whether it's church or union or club or whatever.

And I'm a bit worried.

There's a suspicion about all-male groups and all-male spaces.

And I get why from historically, right?

Of course I get why.

Fight club.

That's what people are worried about.

Or the old boys club or whatever.

It's like, and there's a Pew survey on this showing that like Democrat and Democrat-leaning women are most likely to say that all female social groups are good for society.

And the majority of them say that all male social groups are bad for society.