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All these forms of resentment and the idea that if men gain women lose or if women gain

men lose, I'm very critical of that idea. But we've seen all these discussions of toxic

masculinity and these sort of sweeping claims about basically how all men are evil. I think

this is like really, really unhelpful for everybody. And it's simply not true.

Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantin Kissen. And this

is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people. Our brilliant guest

today is a philosopher, social commentator and the author of What Do Men Want. You know

Paul, welcome to Trigonometry. Thank you. It's good to have you on. Look, before we get

into the interview itself, we're obviously, we've known you for a long time and it's been

a long time coming you coming on the show. But I've always said to you, when you finish

your book, let's get you on. So we know you very well. But for anyone who doesn't know

you, who are you, how are you where you are? What has been your journey through life that

leads you to be sitting here talking to us about this one camera?

Well, I got the train. But before that, I was an academic. I taught philosophy at the University

of Rohampton for 13 years and various other places. I still teach a bit of philosophy largely

to retired adults and also in this brave new world of post or parra academia, which people

are exploring now. So people are signing up for courses on anything that interests

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