Zac Seidler

allowing the individual to have a sense of empowerment around what they're watching.

I was thinking the other day how

early on, on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram, who we followed is what we saw.

Now, someone else, this agentic puppet is deciding what we watch and is really deciding who we vote for, who we're angry at, what we buy.

And I think that that lack of internal capacity, this insight, this reflective ability that young men are losing because...

they are not privy to the back end of the decisions that are being made for them.

It would be freedom of speech if there was any sense of equality in the way in which content was offered.

Like all you get is transgressive crap.

Like all there is is this notion of very quickly if there is anything positive about men and boys, any content that I put up or, you know, Tarang Chawla or The Man Cave or these incredible groups, you know, Luke Bateman, an incredible influencer, we cannot compete with stuff that is fundamentally negative

really dangerous because that is going to get eyeballs and it's also going to lead to the fundamental understanding that this is somehow what young men want.

The research shows that even if young men don't click on these things, if they don't like it, they will still get more of it because they're watching it

I think that young men, in many ways similar to men in their 70s and 80s, feel like they don't matter.

They feel like they are not valued.

And lots of listeners might get angry at this.

And I think that there are very clear delineations here which need to be outlined, which is there is a difference between truth and reality, which is that young men fundamentally have privileges that lots of young women and marginalized groups don't have.

But the reality is that you sit down with a 15-year-old boy, as I do in a clinical space, and you tell him about male privilege.

When he is struggling to get a job, he doesn't understand why he can't talk to girls.

He's failing at school because he's struggling to pay attention.

And now you're telling him, oh, the world is fundamentally out to benefit you.

All of the systems and structures exist just for you.