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In this follow-up to "What's Wrong with Men?, Matt and Sam talk with the essayist and critic Phil Christman about his 2018 Hedgehog Review article, "What Is It Like To Be a Man?"—an article that figured prominently in their conversation—as well as two posts responding to the episode published on his always excellent Substack, The Tourist. They discuss how the discourse about men has evolved in recent years, the darker and more deranged consequences of an "abstract rage to protect," some of the ways gender and class might relate to each other, and more about Matt's psyche than you might care to know.

Sources:

Phil Christman, How To Be Normal (2022)

"What Is It Like To Be a Man?" Hedgehog Review, Summer 2018

"Guy stuff. Boy time. Brosephery." The Tourist, June 11, 2023

"Manfulness. Hot guy stuff. Convening a bro-seph bro-dsky reading group." The Tourist, June 22, 2023

Leonard Michaels, The Men’s Club, (1981)

Rudyard Kipling, “If—“ (1941)