Are Men Bibliophobes? [The Pugcast]
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🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
If men would only read more, especially more fiction, would not political nightmares, such as our current presidential turn, be avoided? The feminized cultural commentators continue to think so. The pugs engage a recent Vox article that takes seriously such a claim, and while the article finds the claim to be built on a questionable statistic, it nevertheless promotes the idea that reading more fiction could save men from their attraction to toxic masculinity. Tom, Chris, and Glenn have a bit of fun with the articles’ working assumptions and key claims, all while noting the detachment from reality needed to take them seriously.
Article: https://www.vox.com/culture/392971/men-reading-fiction-statistics-fact-checked
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Theology Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Great to have you here for this show, and we are getting rolling here in the year |
| 0:12.0 | 2025, and we're glad to have you with us. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm C.R. Wiley, I'm a pastor. I serve a church in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 0:19.0 | I've written a number of things. I had something just come out in World today, a little take on AI. But if you want to check that out, you just |
| 0:27.1 | go to the opinion section of World Magazine and see what I put up there. I also have written |
| 0:32.6 | a number of things, and I'm working right now on a book on artificial intelligence. And the working |
| 0:36.8 | title of that book is |
| 0:37.9 | St. Anthony's Guide to Surviving the AI Apocalypse. Anyway, that's enough of that. So, Glenn, why don't you introduce |
| 0:46.9 | yourself? I'm Glenn Sunshine. I am a professor emeritus, meaning a retired professor of history at Central Connecticut University, senior fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:59.8 | I have my own 501c3 ministry called Every Square Inch Ministries. |
| 1:04.6 | That's at eSquareinch.org. |
| 1:07.0 | And I guess the thing that I would want to emphasize right now is I am leading a historical tour in Ireland coming up in June. |
| 1:16.7 | And if you are interested in that, you can find information for it on my website. |
| 1:23.6 | I imagine Ireland in June is beautiful. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah, it's one of the reasons I pick June is it's one of the least rainy months in Ireland. |
| 1:34.3 | Great, great. |
| 1:35.4 | You're going to be anywhere near where Paul Kingsnorth is? |
| 1:38.8 | I might be. |
| 1:40.1 | I'm not absolutely sure where precisely he's located, but we are going to be going the circuit around the island, so we're probably going to be getting pretty close to him. |
| 1:48.8 | Okay, all right. Well, hopefully he'll listen in. I know he's aware of us now because of the show that we did. |
| 1:54.4 | Well, my guess is that he may not be listening in because he's aware of the show that we did, but that's under matter. |
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