Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-10-10
Books mentioned on Does Anyone Care About Men's Struggles? - Richard Reeves - #537
Richard V. Reeves is a writer, scholar and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Richard Reeves discussed The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers and The Life of Dad by Anna Machin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The War Against Boys
The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers is a provocative critique examining how modern educational and social policies have allegedly disadvantaged young males.
Discussed“and you get books like the war against boys the war on men Etc which is that there is intentional discrimination against boys”
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The Life of Dad
The Life of Dad by Anna Machin is an insightful examination of modern fatherhood through the lens of evolutionary anthropology, exploring how and why men have evolved to care for their children.
Discussed“she's an Oxford evolutionary psychologist um and talks about how fatherhood developed precisely for the the reasons that you just hinted at which is the increased calorific requirements of raising kids”
Where to get it
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Plugged Of Boys and Men
“and and it was just like being and actually there was this I talk about this in my book there was an incident that my kids High School uh that got International attention as an expression of toxic masculinity which really woke me up to the way this term has been sort of thrown around and used indiscriminately”