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The new crisis of masculinity

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Crisis of Masculinity Intersects With Class and Race

Not all men are experiencing this problem equally. The crisis of masculinity is kind of cross class and cross racial, but maybe presents itself differently in different spaces. I think for sort of bourgeois, fairly well educated men at the top of the ladder, it presents as kind of a psychic problem almost. It's just you're not really sure of how to be a guy on your Ivy League campus. And so you get really into niche and like intellectualize your problems. For working class men, that's where you're seeing, you know, like deaths of despair hitting. This job loss is really hitting there for black men.

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