The Gender Expert: Men Are Emotionally Dependent On Women & We're Treating Them Like Malfunctioning Women! Richard Reeves

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 126 minutes

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500,000 men are dying by suicide, and 6% of men are unemployed, is masculinity in crisis? And what is the cure? Richard Reeves is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and President of the American Institute for Boys and Men, an organisation that researches and addresses issues affecting men. He is also the author of the book, ‘Of Boys and Men’. In this conversation, Richard and Steven discuss topics such as, the rising rates of male suicide rates, the health benefits of marriage for men, the toxic impact of Andrew Tate, and the relationship crisis among men. 0:00 (Intro) (01:24) Why Dedicating Your Career To Men's Issues (03:54) What's Your Background? (06:06) The Crazy Stats That Made You Research This Topic (08:07) We're Going Through A Cultural Revolution (12:32) We Need A New Way To Approach This (17:12) Are Men And Women Differently? (21:07) Men Take More Risks (26:17) Unconscious Behaviours Of Men (34:11) Suicide Is The Biggest Killer Of Men (38:44) Why Is This Suicide Increasing? (42:47) Why Do Humans Feel Like They Need To Be Needed? (46:59) Why Men Feel Less Needed (49:43) Does Retirement Kill You? (54:43) We're Losing Connection In Our Modern Society (57:42) The Dating Environment Has Changed (01:05:23) Are Dating Apps Being Unfavourable To Men? (01:09:41) Is Marriage In Decline? (01:12:51) Births Are Increasing Outside Of Marriage (01:13:56) Is Marriage Better For Women Or Men? (01:15:59) Enforced Monogamy (01:17:55) Why Andrew Tate Converted To Islam (01:20:47) Women Economic Power (01:22:56) What Do You Think About The Word Toxic Masculinity (01:27:08) There Is A Friendship Male Recession (01:31:38) Men Shed's Movement (01:33:48) My Experience With Couples Therapy (01:36:30) The Hard Times Of Going Through Couples Therapy (01:40:25) How Masculinity Can Be Expressed (01:47:42) What Advice You'd Give Your Children (01:53:58) Using Our Voices To Make Men Be Heard (02:01:22) The Last Guest Question You can buy Richard’s book, ‘Of Boys And Men’, here: https://g2ul0.app.link/BGBtdbitXKb Follow Richard: Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/8swNmRotXKb Twitter - https://g2ul0.app.link/9iup1brtXKb Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/DOACEpisodes My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://g2ul0.app.link/DOACBook Follow me: https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: Linkedin Jobs: https://www.linkedin.com/doac Colgate - https://www.colgate.com/en-gb/colgate-total Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is pretty clear.
0:01.2	Partnerless men, childless men, they don't do so well.
0:04.9	In fact, they do terribly.
0:06.7	And in modern society, that's a problem.
0:09.2	Richard Reeves is the founder of the American Institute for Boys and Men.
0:13.6	An organization dedicated to researching and tackling the challenges faced by boys and men in modern society.
0:18.8	We're in the early stages of a cultural revolution,
0:21.6	so that women are not economically reliant on men, which is great.
0:25.2	But one consequence of that is that it's put a big question mark next to the role of men,
0:29.2	which used to be filled with a whole script of ways to be a man, ways to be ahead of household, etc.
0:34.0	Because of that, they're struggling.
0:36.0	They're behind in education, wages have stagnated.
0:39.0	You're seeing a massive rise of young men who are single,
0:41.0	and now the suicide rate is four times higher and rising.
0:44.4	They looked at the words that men used to describe themselves before taking their own lives.
0:49.4	And the two most commonly used words were useless and worthless and the most fatal place to end up
0:56.6	in as a human being is to feel unneeded. You said the hardest thing you've ever
1:01.7	done as a man is couples therapy.
1:04.0	Why? I was talking about what I'd done at home and how it's supported her career and my wife said that
1:10.0	you seem to think the problem is that you're not feminist enough. The problem is that you're not feminist enough.
1:12.8	The problem is that you're not masculine enough.
1:14.5	What I came to realize is that men feel like,
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