Make America Male Again? Fifteen years of aggrieved men
It's Been a Minute
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🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Today Brittany talks with Hanna Rosin. Fifteen years ago she started researching what was going on with men. Her groundbreaking book The End of Men was one of the first to note this societal shift for men. Over a decade later, her assessment is more accurate than ever.
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| 0:20.0 | Hello, hello. I'm Brittany loose, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. |
| 0:36.7 | All right. So in the aftermath of this election cycle, I've been hearing a lot about men. |
| 0:43.9 | The role they played in re-electing Donald Trump, how Joe Rogan and podcast bros are a growing political force, and how all of this is connected to the economy. |
| 0:55.0 | And every time I hear one of these conversations, I think about Hannah Rosen. |
| 1:00.5 | Hannah Rosen, welcome to it's been a minute. |
| 1:02.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:03.6 | Excited to be here. |
| 1:04.7 | Because Hannah began reporting about all of this 15 years ago, eventually publishing a book |
| 1:10.6 | in 2012 called The End of Men. |
| 1:14.1 | And Hannah, I don't want to be the one to have to tell you, but there are still men. |
| 1:21.5 | There are still men. |
| 1:23.5 | Some of them live in my house, Brittany. |
| 1:28.2 | Mine too. |
| 1:29.3 | It's wild how that happens. |
| 1:31.4 | What did you mean when you titled your book, The End of Men? |
| 1:34.9 | You know, at the time, I felt like I had discovered something a little bit unsayable that women were surpassing men. |
| 1:43.2 | But if you look at almost any category, race, demographic income, men or boys in that category |
| 1:52.0 | are doing worse than women or girls in that category. |
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