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This will make it easier for other podcast listeners to find issues etc. I think I started to sense this maybe 20 years ago. The tide had turned against men, not just the way that men were viewed, but really just the fact that men were men were men was somehow automatically from the very gate a negative.

Imagine that being born male or female.

You're born male and from the very beginning society tells you

that there's something wrong with you.

There's something essentially wrong with you. There's something essentially

wrong with you just because you're a man. How did we get to this point?

Welcome back to issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin joining us to talk about the War on Men, Dr Owen Strain.

He is provost and research professor of theology at Grace Bible Theological Seminary,

Senior Fellow for Family Research Council's Center for Biblical

Worldview, and he's author of several books including his latest The War on Men,

Why Society hates them and why we need them. Dr Strand, welcome back.

Thank you so much.

Thanks for having me back on, Todd.

Describe the plight of men and boys today.

How much time do you have? Men and boys are struggling and the central idea that men and boys hear about their manhood which is a very warping idea to hear is that they are toxic. There's toxic

masculinity all over the place and if you show strength as a boy or as a man you're

participating in that omnipresent culture of toxic masculinity.

Needless to say, that is a very strong claim to make about the nature of manhood itself

and it basically puts boys and men in the cultural penalty box from the outset.

Has this attitude toward men and boys found its way into our society's

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