For a decade the establishment called the old masculinity the disease and sold a softer cure. Now they admit it failed. That's not a confession - it's a relaunch, and you're still the customer.
Experts say HEAL jobs are the safe future for men. But the ILO finds clerical and admin work is the most AI-exposed of all. The HEAL push is a cliff.
The culture says softened, grieving video-game heroes are masculinity finally growing up. I argue the opposite: it's not growth, it's amputation, and the characters audiences actually love prove it.
The headlines are back. Male loneliness epidemic. Men's friendship recession. A crisis of disconnection. The framing is identical to every other "men are broken" diagnosis of the last decade: men have a defect, the defect is emotional repression, the cure is therapy and vulnerability. The story
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 28, 2026 The latest dispatch from the body-image industrial complex landed in early May. Boise State faculty announced a program to “battle” looksmaxxing, gym-bro culture, and “harmful masculinity standards.” Healthline branded the trend toxic. The Conversation diagnosed it as severe body dysmorphia. A Brandwatch sweep clocked
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 27, 2026 Minnesota became the first state in the union to outlaw prediction markets last week. Governor Walz signed the bill on May 19. Within hours, the CFTC sued to block it. The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing the next day on "betting integrity.
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 26, 2026 Open a newspaper this month and somebody is asking how to protect boys from the manosphere. Education Week ran a "School Leader's Guide for Countering the Manosphere" in April. A March 2026 paper in Gender and Education interviewed 117 young
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 25, 2026 Every week another opinion piece warns of the “male loneliness epidemic” and explains, with great patience, that it’s not women’s fault. It’s algorithms. It’s the manosphere. It’s men refusing to ask for help. Mainstream outlets and advocacy organizations have
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 22, 2026 The phrase trended again last week. Deseret News ran an opinion column on May 15 asking who is to blame for the shortage of "marriageable men." The Institute for Family Studies released fresh polling showing 68% of young men still want to
A new academic special issue out this month declares that masculine behavior is bad for the planet. The journal Norma: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, edited by Prof. Jeff Hearn and colleagues, has christened the era the "(M)Anthropocene" — the masculine anthropocene — and assembled 22 researchers across 13
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 20, 2026 Open HuffPost. Open Vice. Open the New York Times. The trending verdict on heterosexual relationships in 2026 has a name: mankeeping. The term was coined by Stanford postdoctoral fellow Angelica Ferrara and Dylan Vergara in a peer-reviewed paper extending Carolyn Rosenthal's 1981
Gallup released numbers in April that the secular press has not known what to do with. Among American men ages 18 to 29, monthly or more frequent religious attendance has climbed to 40 percent — the highest level since 2012-2013, and a seven-point jump in just two years. Forty-two percent of