Richard Reeves believes the term "toxic masculinity" is overly broad and harmful.
It lacks specific definition and is used to criticize any male behavior someone dislikes.
This term discourages men from discussing what healthy masculinity looks like, making it counterproductive for raising boys.
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Richard V. Reeves is a writer, scholar and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Men are falling behind in education, employment and family life. They're underachieving in school, dropping out of the labour market and being less useful around the house more than ever. And this isn't simply cultural as it's happening all over the world, the problem is deeper than that - it's structural.
Expect to learn why there are twice as many female fighter pilots compared with male kindergarten teachers, why a male needs to be 24 to have the same impulse control as a 10 year old girl, where the term toxic masculinity actually came from, whether a man's gain is actually woman's loss, the problem of promoting men's issues in the press and much more...