You've Been Lied To About Masculinity - Scott Galloway
TRIGGERnometry
Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The data is pretty stark. |
| 0:04.0 | If any group was killing themselves at four times the rate of the control group, people would |
| 0:07.2 | say, there's a problem here. |
| 0:08.6 | We need to weigh in with economic and social programs. |
| 0:11.0 | A boy, the moment he loses a male role model, at that moment he becomes more likely to be |
| 0:16.2 | incarcerated than graduate from college. |
| 0:19.6 | Men between the ages of 20 and 30 are spending less time outside than prison inmates, |
| 0:23.6 | and 45% of men 18 to 24, have never asked a woman out in person. |
| 0:28.6 | I would argue are evolving a species of asocial, asexual males. |
| 0:33.6 | And the problem is people look at me and say, |
| 0:36.6 | you had a 3,000-year head start. |
| 0:39.1 | So the question is, should we hold a 19-year-old male accountable for my unearned privilege? |
| 0:45.4 | So how do you be a young man today? What is the man code? |
| 0:51.9 | Last summer, Francis and I spent a week with Rolston College students and professors in Greece, |
| 0:57.3 | and learning about the roots of Western civilization in the very place they emerged, was genuinely moving. |
| 1:03.8 | If you like trigonometry, you love the fact that Rolston runs a one-year MA in humanities |
| 1:08.6 | for anyone with a bachelor's degree or equivalent in any discipline, |
| 1:12.6 | and there's genuinely nothing else like it today. |
| 1:15.1 | The program begins in Greece, where students spent two months learning to read and speak ancient Greek, |
| 1:20.0 | while studying the foundational works of the Western tradition, starting with Homer. |
| 1:24.0 | From there, it continues in Savannah, Georgia, with small serious seminars |
| 1:27.7 | on the most important works of the Western Canon. Ideas are tested properly. Arguments are sharpened. |
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