mens-issues
On May 4, JAMA Pediatrics published the first major study tracking what happens to American fathers in the years after their kids are born. Northwestern researchers followed 130,267 babies born in Georgia in 2017 and looked at how many of their dads were dead five years later. The press
masculinity
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 13, 2026 Mainstream coverage of the “toxic masculinity” research program hit another inflection point this month. Oregon State’s Toxic Masculinity Scale — a 28-item, four-factor instrument designed to clinically measure how much of a man is too much of a man — has now been picked up
Sovereignty OS
It's Mental Health Awareness Month, and the same script is running on every channel: men don't talk, men don't seek help, men die in silence, men have a "treatment gap." The prescription is uniform across outlets — get men into therapy. Break the
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By Stacey Tallitsch | May 11, 2026 The Washington Post ran the headline three days ago: "Young and old men are leaving the labor force, fueling a record decline." One in three American men was out of the workforce in April. The frame, predictably, was crisis — sick men, disabled
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By Stacey Tallitsch | May 10, 2026 The U.S. Surgeon General calls it an epidemic. The New York Times calls it a public health crisis. Every glossy explainer in your feed agrees that men are lonely because of something inside them — brain chemistry, fragile masculinity, an unwillingness to "open
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By Stacey Tallitsch | May 9, 2026 The Institute for Family Studies just dropped its State of Our Unions 2026 report. Only about 30% of young adults are dating. The Washington Post called it a crisis and asked, “What went wrong?” The therapists are calling it a confidence epidemic. The trad-pundits
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