We close season 6 with journalist Liz Plank. She’s just written a book about mindful masculinity and tells us about the general scripts we have about men and if these help or hinder our wider conversations. We then delve into her thoughts more. We will be back with a new season in March 2020,…
Liz Plank on Women Who Support Trump
Journalist and author of the book ‘For the Love of Men: a vision for mindful masculinity’ tells us about meeting women who support who Trump, and what this tells us about our attitudes towards men and the role women play in upholding these. We also find out about Dan’s backstory on this show, and…
Imperfect Allies – Repeat
We revisit a conversation from earlier this year where we explored how men can be allies if their behavior towards women has been problematic. Our guest Omar talks about being called out and having to question his role as an ally. We’re on hiatus until October, we’ll be back with another episode before then.…
How Do We Talk About Rape?
Author of the book ‘Rape’ Mithu Sanyal fills us in on ways we can approach talking about rape and giving support, and why consent culture is tricky in societies where we are taught not to express our needs and desires clearly in the first place. Guest: Mithu Sanyal, the author of the book ‘Rape:…
Emotional Labour Returns!
We’re back with a bonus episode during our hiatus to discuss an email we received about none other than everyone’s favorite topic: Emotional Labour! Is emotional labour gendered? Or should we just all focus on doing the right thing and stop segmenting these problems as male or female? Hosts and producers: Nastaran Tavakoli-Far and…
Consent With Ellen Friedrichs
Everyone’s talking more about consent but where does this start? Educator Ellen Frederichs joins us to chat about how consent starts with kids and why we all need to be more specific about our experiences. Guest: Ellen Frederichs, educator and author of ‘Good Sexual Citizenship: how to create a (sexually) safer world” https://www.sexedvice.com/good-sexual-citizenship Hosts:…
Author Jeannie Vanasco Interviewed Her Rapist
We’re back with Season 6. We talk to author Jeannie Vanasco who interviewed a friend from her teenage years who raped her 15 years ago. Vanasco got in touch with him to find out if and how the rape impacted him and wrote about it in her new book ‘Things we didn’t talk about…
Apologies With Hussein Kesvani
Journalist Hussein Kesvani writes a lot about the internet, and about masculinity, and about the intersection of the two. He recently interviewed people about apologies in a piece for The Huffington Post, focusing on men and their understanding of an apology and if many men have been taught how to give one. He was…
Apologies Are Hard
From Aziz Ansari to Eve Ensler to why on earth apologies are so hard, we dive in and also discuss the best way to give an apology. We’re on hiatus and will be back with a new season in October. Another bonus episode will be out next month. Hosts: Nastaran Tavakoli-Far and Daniel Carroll…
Apologies – Final Round
We revisit this important topic just once more to really hammer out the purpose of an apology and some dos and don’ts. We get some tips and insight from Harriet Lerner’s book ‘Why won’t you apologize?’ https://amzn.to/38hWsBz As well as some wisdom from Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s powerful twitter threads which you can delve into…
Esther Perel on What Women Can Do
We talk a lot about what men can be doing right now, but we revisit a chat with Esther Perel on what women can be doing right now, and how we can all best be allies to one another. Guest: Esther Perel, therapist, author of ‘Mating in Captivity’ and ‘The State of Affairs’, host…
Callout: Workplace Sexism and Your Experiences
What sort of sexism takes place in the workplace that we still don’t acknowledge or talk about? There’s been a lot of talk about sexism in the technology industry, and over the past few weeks, several high profile investors have publicly said that they may have contributed to a culture of sexism and harassment…
Leaning Back and Lean In
You’ve heard of Leaning In but how about Leaning Back? Over the past few years, a lot of women have undertaken Sheryl Sandberg’s advice to assert themselves more, to speak louder and to sit at the table. But some women are questioning this and are thinking about the bigger picture of what success means…
Are Women Too Compassionate?
But the downside of someone who is too compassionate is often also someone who lets others walk all over them, or someone who doesn’t hold other people accountable for poor behaviour.
But the downside of someone who is too compassionate is often also someone who lets others walk all over them, or someone who doesn’t hold other people accountable for poor behaviour.
Can Men Fail?
The pressure to achieve is often a big deal for men across many cultures. Notions of success and failure are closely tied in with masculinity.
The pressure to achieve is often a big deal for men across many cultures. Notions of success and failure are closely tied in with masculinity.
Sex and Self-Worth
We explore some differing experiences: From a young man who tried to get respect from men through sleeping with women, to sex in a long term monogamous relationship, to the in-betweens.
We explore some differing experiences: From a young man who tried to get respect from men through sleeping with women, to sex in a long term monogamous relationship, to the in-betweens.