The Left Goes Too Far in One Direction, the Right Doesn't Go Far in Another

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mat walsh's film a, that he gets a lot right in calling out some of these extremes. But then he seems to kind of push, well then, like in your second chaper in that section, you know, well, we need to get back to the 19 fifties traditional way of separating boys and girls. I don't think teachers are attempting to groom children. i think they're just trying to be super progressive, open liberal. If the child in front of me wants to be trans then that's ok. There's probably some genuine social contagion going on. Tht would have been harder if george floyd was alive today. And what a wonderful world

Shermer and Reeves discuss: • comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries • education • work/labor market • family • marriage • Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support • intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men • intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men • What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) • what the political left gets wrong about boys and men • what the political right gets wrong about boys and men • solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL • fatherhood as an independent institution

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Boys and Men Project and holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It(2017) and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.