Richard Reeves

Now, they could be thinking about fraternities.

We don't know what they're thinking about in answer to that question.

And there's some evidence that women are now more likely to travel with other women in a group and so on than men are.

So the kind of girls weekend away is more common than the boys weekend, etc.

And look, I don't in any way want to inhibit women from doing it, of course.

Hopefully that's clear by now.

But I do still have some female friends who are like, yeah, I'm not sure I want these guys all going off on their own together.

Really?

Because we kind of need to go off on our own together.

We like hanging out with our mates sometimes.

And the suspicion of that or the fear of that is maybe a problem now.

Yes, these weekends.

There's a thing called the New Warrior Weekend is one of them.

I'll say in the spirit of doing the research for my book, I tried to do one.

And I lasted an hour.

I'm like, I'm out of here.

I really, I mean, I thought I've got to do this.

Did they call you a sissy?

There were some issues right up front.

Let's just say that.