Of Boys And Men

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

Arts, Politics, Books, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Who's to blame for the crisis of American masculinity? On the right, politicians tell men that they being oppressed by feminists and must reassert their manhood by supporting an authoritarian regime. And on the left, users of social media are often very irritating to people who write airport books. Where to find us: Peter's newsletterPeter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSources: Conscientiousness as a Predictor of the Gender Gap in Academic Achievement...

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0:00.0	Do it, Peter.
0:00.6	Zing us.
0:01.0	Give us a zing about the men and the boys.
0:03.4	Am I doing a boys to men pun?
0:05.3	Or just saying dudes rock and being done with it?
0:08.7	Just keep saying that at like 15 minute intervals throughout the episode.
0:11.6	That's all I need from you as I recite tedious statistics.
0:14.6	Yeah, I can't wait to say dudes rock 25 times while you read to me about like...
0:19.6	Literacy rates.
0:26.3	Yeah. They're dropping out they're angry they're sad i'm ready to get yelled at by everyone it's just like two guys talking about gender
0:31.1	issues maybe that's the no i think this is the first episode we've ever done where we're actually
0:35.4	qualified to talk about the topic like a gay man and a straight man.
0:39.9	Oh, that's a good point.
0:41.2	That's why I didn't do any work for this episode.
0:42.8	I'm a man.
0:43.3	So true.
0:43.9	I can read about men.
0:44.7	All right.
0:45.1	Okay.
0:46.0	Peter.
0:46.7	Michael?
0:47.3	What do you know about of boys and men?
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