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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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By Stacey Tallitsch | May 17, 2026 Every few weeks the headlines warn about it again. Young men aren't enrolling at the rate they used to. The gap between male and female undergraduates has widened to record levels. The framing in nearly every story is the same: men are
ai-girlfriends
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 16, 2026 Last month Fortune warned that teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for “maximum control, zero rejection,” and that this will leave a generation unemployable. The Institute for Family Studies called the same trend “counterfeit connections.” On Valentine’s Day, AI companion
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By Stacey Tallitsch | May 15, 2026 Every six months the headlines run the same hand-wringing piece. Boys are falling behind in school. Men make up only 42% of college students. Young men are "in trouble" — disengaged, unmotivated, anxious, vanishing. The diagnosis is always the same. Something is wrong
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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