#28 Time for new men? Masculinity, male role models and the patriarchy

CRUDE #28 Misty and Frank in Berlin are joined by special guest Simon to talk about men, masculinity and the patriarchy. Simon discusses his journey of learning to suppress emotions and to open up about feelings, something that is absent from most boys' and men's skills sets, but why?What do men talk about when they talk? What don't men talk about when they meet up? Why don't men have their own feminism?Why don't men even think of themselves as men beyond the male roles they are given?Should gender education be part of school curricula? What would it look like?Simon Fokt holds a PhD in Philosophy and lectures at HTW Berlin. His academic work focuses on aesthetics, applied ethics, and metaphilosophy. His focus on taking complex philosophical concepts out of the scholarly discourse led him to adapt Aristotle’s virtue ethical concepts and apply them to modern masculinity discourse.For more on Simon, visit his Linktree (website, Insta etc) hereSimon on YouTube: Here*What we were consuming*[Video] What is The Man Box?[Statistics] Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK[Statistics] The connection between a lack of male role models on violence, drug abuse and criminality[TED Talk] How masculinity is evolving[Academic article] Changing men, changing masculinities[Philosophy] David Hume: "Reason Is and Ought Only to Be the Slave of the Passions."