Modern Manhood: The Podcast
This podcast will mostly concentrate on the systemic issues, struggles, and hopes for masculinities. With a pro-feminist viewpoint, we'll investigate how masculinity has changed throughout our lives and what the future looks like for gender. This podcast is supported by NextGenMen (nextgenmen.ca) and the Alberta Podcast Network.
Episodes
David was one of the first person’s I thought of when I thought about making Man V/s Machine because I wanted someone to talk about the weird political climate that was happening online and he didn’t disappoint.In this interview we talk about how we started on the internet since we’re about similar ages, as well as how gender plays into how we think about politics, as well as thinking about how we read the news.
You can find his wor...
There’s a common sentence you hear that the online world is not real. That whatever happens in social media is not real. This is factually incorrect, everything that happens online is part of the world world whether we like it or not. and if we take his statement at face value, this can be dangerous.
Our social lives revolve around the technology we have, s well as our business, our careers, our families, and the shape of what we th...
On this Bonus Episode of Modern Manhood, we give you the full interview with Tyler Prochnow who is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University.
He was my main voice in the Group Chat episode and we spoke a bit to his research in the online gaming and chat space.
His research interests include the social dynamics which drive health behavior. Tyler has also done work with local Boys & Girls Clubs, health districts, gaming communit...
When we think of an all male group chat, does your mind wander to places of toxicity, misogyny and overall bad behavior? or does it go to a place where people find a community, where guys lift each other up, and police their language?
Well it can be both.
Let’s explore how the group chat is today’s digital third place, and how men and boys have found toxicity or a healthy community in them
RESEARCH:
Today on Modern Manhood, a bonus episode for you with Iliana Depounti who is a researcher out of the University of Loughborough. She was one of the main writers of the research around Replika, an AI companion chat bot.
Ever since I thought about doing a season on tech I wanted to do an episode on AI companionship, because it’s so god darn interesting in regards to how people, especially guys operate on the internet. And to the broa...
Ever since the internet has arrived, sex has been the thing that has powered it’s evolution. From how fast the internet goes, to the regulations that policy makers have to make.
however it’s not just sex that’s causing people to turn to the internet, it’s also relationships. and how people use the internet for relationships right now tells us a lot on how gendered it is.
This is a story about chat rooms to AI companion bots with a re...
Alice's YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@AliceCappelle
Alice's Book - Collapse Feminism - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734146/collapse-feminism-by-alice-cappelle/
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Books:
Alice Cappelle's "Collapse Feminism"
Kaitlyn Tiffany's "Everything I Need I get from You"
Links:
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23158503/one-direction-fandom-book-kaitlyn-tiffany
https://www.vox.com/2016/11/23/13659634/alt-right-trolling
https://archive.ph/riYJt
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/02/sam-bankman-fried-found-guilty-on-all-seven-criminal-fraud-counts.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQqJqovXeDg
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
References for this episode:
- https://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.27_en.pdf
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/well/mind/burnout-online-dating-apps.html
- https://doniveson.ca/2015/01/21/the-night-uber-came-to-town/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html
- "Please Unsubscribe, Thanks" by Julio Vincent Cambuto
- Technolopy by Neil Postman
This podcast canno...
Wanted to drop an episode of Cold Takes for you all. If you want to check out the Cold Takes feed, do so here: https://pod.link/1637740882
On this week’s episode, we’re talking about the Oscars snubbing some important movies and recognizing some others, including Women Talking, which we’ll get into. Chris Rock has a new Netflix special out where he finally addresses the infamous slap. We’ll also talk about Creed III and what the mov...
References:
- The Will to Change - bell hooks
- We Real Cool - bell hooks
- Dude You’re a F*g - CJ Pascoe
- Masculinities - Raewyn Connell
- The Mask You Live In - Movie
- Some Men - Michael Messner, Max Greenberg
- The Macho Paradox - Jackson Katz
- https://remakingmanhood.medium.com/the-history-of-the-man-box-e6eed6d895c4 (Man Box History)
- http://paulkivel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/oaklandmensproject.pdf (Oakland Men’s Project)
- https://fivethirt...
Relevant Links:
- https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/proud-boys-far-right-group-1183966/ (Rise and fall of Proud Boys)
- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-secret-history-of-gavin-mcinnes (Gavin Vanity Fair)
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/inside-vice-media-shane-smith.html (Vice history)
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/nyregion/proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes.html (NYT McInnes)
- https://www.splcenter.or...
Relevant Links:
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/02/03/mens-movement-stalks-the-wild-side/83d3e85f-1384-484c-8e43-c4e30e1229f4/
- https://medium.com/the-establishment/meet-the-new-masculinity-same-as-the-old-masculinity-25dc5a65c7df
- https://nymag.com/article/2016/06/how-poet-robert-bly-started-the-drum-thumping-mens-movement-of-the-90s.html
- https://www.the-numinous.com/2015/12/17/why-men-find-it-hard-to-feel/ (M...
Related Links:
- https://gynocentrism.com/2015/12/19/a-word-for-mens-rights-1856/ (A Word for Men’s Rights)
- https://www.bustle.com/articles/65536-7-feminist-moments-from-the-1980s-because-the-decade-wasnt-just-about-spandex-and-hairspray
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement
- http://menstuff.org/columns/overboard/farrell.html
- https://xyonline.net/content/book-review-myth-male-power-why-men-are-disposable-sex-warren-farr...
Relevant Links:
- https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/09/archives/mens-lib-almost-underground-but-a-growing-movement.html (NYT Article 1974)
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/eve7zk/the-mens-liberation-movement-time-forgot (Vice magazine article)
- https://books.google.ca/books?id=RUAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52&source=gbs_toc_r&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false (LIFE magazine 1972)
- https://people.com/archive/womans-lib-marries-mans-lib-a-real-l...
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