TheTinMen - Men In Crisis: Stereotypes Vs Solutions
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Talking points: masculinity, isolation, culture, suicide
Look, Netflix's Adolescence was solid. But like anything Hollywood, it's not the whole picture. The big picture is complex, systemic, and deeply uncomfortable—and we seem to have built a culture that simply doesn't want to talk about it meaningfully and practically. I'm grateful for men like George (aka TheTinMen) who work tirelessly to point out how men's issues are important, complicated, and deserving of attention. Listen in.
(00:00:00) - Intro, and wtf is going on in the UK.
(00:12:28) - How do you actually speak to men's issues, and where the conversation unfortunately goes
(00:21:44) - The collapse of male spaces, and why are struggling men framed as inconvenience?
(00:38:09) - George’s take on increasing levels of loneliness and isolation in men, and possible solutions
(00:44:51) - What people get wrong about male suicide
(00:50:43) - Is it inherently bad/toxic that a man wants to provide for people?
(00:58:51) - Data on how domestic violence and sexual abuse is underreported in men
(00:59:04) - How do you learn what “enough” is, and the psychology of bitcoin
George (@TheTinMen) is a content creator, research, pro-men's advocate and social media influencer. He explores the forgotten gaps of the gender debate, working for compassionate, original, and progressive political advocacy for men and boys.
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Connect with TheTinMen
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-YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTinMenBlog
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Mr. George from the Tin Man. How are you doing? |
| 0:11.1 | Not bad, thank you. How you doing? |
| 0:13.0 | I'm good, man. I feel like Mr. George could be a good, like, either it's like a really good |
| 0:17.6 | butler's name or like a male stripper like a male escort you know welcome |
| 0:21.9 | mr george well i feel like don't butlers become strippers can that be that can be that can be that |
| 0:27.1 | i come in of the drinks high and then boom off comes the yeah away goes the drinks and there yeah yeah |
| 0:33.5 | and the fancy shirt just gets like ripped off and all of a sudden he's you know just didn't like |
| 0:38.3 | well that's the backup plan that's the backup plan. |
| 0:39.3 | That's the backup plan. |
| 0:40.3 | Yes, if all those fails. Yeah. It'll be like, uh, did you ever watch The Gentleman on Netflix? Did you ever see that? Uh, bits of it, yeah, but not enough. That's kind of an insane. I feel like something like that would happen in that movie. |
| 0:53.1 | You know, like it was pretty, it was pretty bonkers. |
| 0:56.8 | Well, a left field way of introducing a podcast that really caught me of God, already talking about me being naked as a butler. And it's like, okay, I've come to expect quite a lot on podcast, but that is got to say that is a, yeah. I that's how we got a that's how we got to get |
| 1:11.1 | things rolling i've had you on the show before and so now you know we're we're friends so |
| 1:16.9 | there's no whole bars right basically i'm talking to you like you just walked into my house goodness |
| 1:21.4 | okay well i'm scared yes um what the hell is happening in the UK? Oh. |
| 1:28.7 | What's going on there, man? |
| 1:31.0 | It seems like a wild climate. |
| 1:31.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.5 | I mean, every six months or year, we have like a hysterical sort of pearl clutching backlash, |
| 1:42.3 | so generally against men, young men especially, white ones. |
| 1:46.1 | And now we've got it all over again. Obviously, adolescence has come out. |
| 1:47.7 | Everyone's gone crazy over it. |
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