"What follows is a snapshot of my own journey to manhood and some questions I have about how Gen Z males are adapting, informed by my understanding of important developments in male psychology. My journey through anorexia occurred in a period before the easy access to porn; I was affected by the trends of the time. Today things are objectively much harder, males are bombarded by social media algorithms, hypermasculine ‘influencers.' Some are being driven to choose emasculation to survive by attempting to transition to female. Understanding how males are being distorted by these forces requires some nuance, rather than simplistic labels like AGP or 'toxic masculinity.'"

"In this podcast discussion, Reeves discusses his experience as a father of three boys, the reasons why he came to write 'Of Boys and Men,' and how it relates to his earlier studies of inequality, including his 2017 book 'Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That is a Problem, and What to Do About It.'"

"Around the world, girls are more likely than boys to get no education at all. But once they are in a classroom, boys usually do worse. The gulf is widest in reading: in almost all countries that collect sufficient data girls are better readers than boys at ten years old. Boys also lag in international science tests, and have mostly given up a long-standing advantage in maths...Why do boys do badly in school?"

"This study reports follow-up data on the largest sample to date of boys clinic-referred for gender dysphoria (n = 139) with regard to gender identity and sexual orientation. In childhood, the boys were assessed at a mean age of 7.49 years (range, 3.33–12.99) at a mean year of 1989 and followed-up at a mean age of 20.58 years (range, 13.07–39.15) at a mean year of 2002. Boys clinic-referred for gender identity concerns in childhood had a high rate of desistance and a high rate of a biphilic/androphilic sexual orientation. The implications of the data for current models of care for the treatment of gender dysphoria in children are discussed."

"Unsurprisingly, young men without college degrees report that they have the least optimism and purpose in life among all the groups of men surveyed by Equimundo. Many have lost a reliable way to earn a living. They also claim to have the least social support, and are uncertain how to have basic relationships—with friends, let alone romantic partners. They feel their low status acutely, but because popular culture aggregates their lives with the men at the nosebleed top, they are told by much of the left that they are privileged and should take a back seat."

"In my own profession, in its guidelines for working with men and boys, [it] essentially pathologized masculinity itself and codified expectations for men to be more like women. The negative and dominated and dominated the zeitgeist for decades now. While I grew up under the tyranny of a masculinity I could never hope to emulate, my clients absorbed the cultural messaging that a male on the classical model was the very last thing you wanted to be."

"It is easy to forget what the transgender debate is really about, cloaked as it is in the Orwellian language of 'gender-affirming care.' In fact, we are castrating men and boys. Despite how grotesque these details are, it is essential that we understand what trans activists and their political allies are talking about when they advocate 'gender-affirming care.' They speak with a vocabulary that is carefully curated to hide the truth. There is nothing 'affirming' about this ‘care.’ Understanding the mutilation that young people are experiencing is necessary to expose the evils of the trans movement, which dominates our cultural debates."

"Young men see feminism as having metastasized from a movement for equality for women into a movement against men, or at least against masculinity.

"Young men are struggling on lots of fronts, especially in terms of education and mental health.

"Young men feel like these concerns are not being addressed, or sometimes even acknowledged, by mainstream institutions."

"Now, Free Press writer Olivia Reingold reports on the increasing number of young men dropping out of the dating pool. Young men today feel they must be six feet tall, make six figures, and have six inches downstairs to get a girlfriend—so many have given up trying. The U.S. marriage rate is the lowest it’s been in over a century, with a quarter of 40-year-olds having never married (in 1980, only 6 percent of adults fell into that camp)."

"Ambition doesn’t just happen; it has to be fired. The culture is still searching for a modern masculine ideal. It is not instilling in many boys the nurturing and emotional skills that are so desperately important today. A system that labels more than a fifth of all boys as developmentally disabled is not instilling in them a sense of confidence and competence."

"What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science. It's a crisis of mental health. It's a crisis of fathering. Boys are growing up with less-involved fathers and are more likely to drop out of school, drink, do drugs, become delinquent. It's a crisis of purpose. Boys' old sense of purpose—being a warrior, a leader, or a sole breadwinner—are fading. So, what is 'The Boy Crisis'? A comprehensive blueprint for what parents, teachers, and policymakers can do to help our sons become happier, healthier men, and fathers and leaders worthy of our respect."

"Straightforwardly addressing the issues faced by boys and men would take the issue away from the culture warriors and put it in the hands of the policy wonks. I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather that. I’ve said quite a few times that one of my goals is to make the issues of boys and men much more boring, by bringing them into mainstream institutions."