International Men’s Day 2017 saw the launch in Westminster of the first Harry’s masculinity report. The report found evidence justifying why the general public think men are basically ok, despite the fact that so many academics seem to use men as a blank screen onto which to project their negative feelings about masculinity.

through incredibly innovative technological design, a small, automated device would run complex analyses on only a fingerpick of blood. The idea was to transform healthcare as we know it. [There was only one problem: it didn’t work]

This is the second part of a two-part article. Part 1 can be found here.

“This brings me to a final value of tonic masculinity as I see it emerging. And that is the work to be done of restoring harmony between the sexes, to return relations in the nuclear family and local community to a degree of genuinely democratic responsibility and caring for the other.”

…close inspection of the data reveals not only that most police forces reported smaller numbers of victims in 2020 than expected based on the trend in previous years, but more forces reported a larger percentage of male victims in 2020 than would be expected

…post-war maintenance of an enlarged Civil Service […] led to a strong presence of women in the governance of State endeavours such as the NHS. It also seems that once […] clinical psychologists were allowed to practice ‘talking therapies,’ for which women arguably have a natural aptitude, the floodgates for women in psychology were fully opened.

During that holiday whilst not with me, the oldest boy started self-harming and talked about killing himself. …What do you think was the action of social services at the case conference? Case closed, the children were taken off the At Risk Register. The father was no longer in the family home and now the children were deemed safe.

Legal and administrative violence is the manipulation of legal and administrative resources as an attempt to control or inflict emotional and financial harm on one’s partner

What is to be gained by demonising men, when they are our brothers, sons, grandchildren? How can society function properly with 50% of it branded as toxic?

We should avoid the temptation to apply a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to mental health either to boys and girls or across different cultures.

Inside, there was a huge set of cubicles, all fully closable to give lots of privacy. We walked along the cubicles to a free one, but…

Brazil is plural... There are those who still see masculinity as a Tarzan archetype, which must be rescued. …Many people (especially women) criticise traditional masculinity, but reinforce it.

The most positive news so far this year for the wellbeing of men and boys is the publication of the report, A Boy Today, by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Issues Affecting Men and Boys.

This is the second of a two-part article. In Part 1 we saw that men make up only about 20% of clinical psychologists. For a field so focused on equality, this is a very large elephant in the room. Here, in the second part of this article, efforts to address this disparity - and responses to these efforts - are discussed.

I want to argue in favor of what I term tonic masculinity and what a dose of it might provide society to dispel some of the mystifications and often ironic ambiguities about sex and gender.

Blue collar males in the U.S. are experiencing higher incarceration rates, dying younger, using drugs more, and marrying less than ever before. Why?

Although mental illness has increased since covid-related restrictions began, the suicide rate has reduced. This is welcome news, but why has it happened?

all I could see in his piercing blue eyes was a complex cluster of the various variables of what could only be described as disappointment.

If the situation was reversed, I would never dismiss the contributions from female colleagues purely because they were female and their experiences were different to my own.

I have concerns as to how these inconsistencies and sweeping generalisations about men and boys go unchallenged.

…an attack upon masculinity is an attack upon one’s sense of self, of identity. …What, then, is the right psychological defence against such an attack?