“Of Boys and Men” with Author Richard V. Reeves
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
While the world is empowering women and girls, the script has flipped for boys. Why can’t both boys and girls feel valued in today’s society? Richard V. Reeves and Michele agree — girls flourishing should not come at the expense of boys and men feeling “useless” or “worthless.”
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| 0:24.2 | Coming up of boys and men, as a young girl growing up in the 70s, I grew up in the era of Title IX, |
| 0:34.2 | and I was given lots of encouragement to pursue my dreams and be athletic and, |
| 0:40.5 | you know, work on math and STEM and all these things. And the future was bright for women. |
| 0:45.4 | And my dad encouraged it and my mom encouraged it. My brother, it was already baked in, right? |
| 0:51.6 | He was a male growing up in the 70s, and of course the |
| 0:54.4 | opportunities were there. Well, this is 2022, just heading into 2023. And it seems as though, |
| 1:01.9 | while we've continued to empower girls and women as we should, maybe we've disempowered men and |
| 1:09.3 | boys. Maybe there's a reason that the number of suicides in men is going up. |
| 1:18.0 | There is a gender gap. |
| 1:20.8 | The script is flipped. |
| 1:22.8 | Is that a good thing? |
| 1:24.9 | If you got a son or a brother or a nephew or any other young male, |
| 1:29.5 | heck, any age male in your life that you love, |
| 1:32.8 | you should want them to succeed just as much as you want girls to succeed. |
| 1:38.3 | I've got one son and one daughter and I have the same hopes for both, |
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