What’s going on with men?
There’s a growing body of evidence that men are falling behind. You can see it in education, in the labor market, and in the data on drug overdoses and deaths by suicide.
The fact is, we have an alarming number of lonely, alienated, and disaffected young men in this country. And whatever the reasons for that, this is something we have to deal with as a society.
Although the “masculinity” discourse has been raging for a while, most of it is unhelpful at best and harmful at worst. One of the exceptions to this has been Scott Galloway, a New York University professor and the host of The Prof G Pod, which is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Galloway is working on a book about masculinity, and he’s been a consistently insightful commentator on this front.
Among the many headwinds in this conversation is the reality that men are not the only ones struggling and we’re all accustomed to seeing men in…