Raising Boys in the Era of Incels, MAGA, and the Manosphere

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Boys today are being told to man up by the right and sit down by the left. Coming of age in the shadow of #MeToo and wading through algorithms rife with manosphere content, many young men are accepting the far right’s simple answers and leaning into traditional masculinity…without realizing it’s stunting their emotional development. Others are letting technology isolate and depress them. What is it about boys' psychology that makes them so vulnerable to the Internet Age? How does patriarchy lead well-intentioned parents to treat their sons less affectionately? When will men have a liberation movement—and do they deserve one? Ruth Whippman, author of BoyMom, sits down with BoyDad Jon to unpack it all.

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1:05.7	We never really fixed all the old problems of masculinity. So all these like old pressures that mean that
1:13.3	boys that are sort of shut down and not allowed to express their feelings and not allowed to be
1:16.7	vulnerable and aren't really taught those skills of friendship. But then there's this kind of newer
1:20.7	narrative that comes mainly from the left, which is like, you know, shut up, you're so privileged,
1:28.7	you don't really have any problems, like time for you to pipe down and everyone else to have a voice, which I think
1:33.4	comes from a good place. But I think that boys now, this sort of generation of boys just feel
1:38.8	very shut down from all sides. It's like man up on the one hand, shut up on the other hand,
1:44.0	and they just don't really
1:45.2	know how to be. You can see the downstream effects of that now.
1:58.1	All right, I'm here with Austin and Emma.
2:01.4	Howdy, John?
2:03.0	For another episode.
2:03.7	Hello, John.
2:04.2	Hello.
2:05.1	How you doing?
2:05.7	I'm good.
2:08.0	So we just got out of taping with Ruth Whitman.
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