What About Men?
The New York Times bestselling author and internationally celebrated feminist attempts to answer one of society’s most pressing questions: What About Men?
“Irreverent. . . . Eye-opening.”—New York Times Book Review
Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question “But what about men?” And at first, TBH, she DGAF. But when she heard a young man saying he was “boycotting” International Women’s Day because “it’s easier to be a woman than a man these days,” she wondered: Are unhappy boys and men also making unhappy women? The statistics are grim: boys are falling behind in school, are at greater risk of depression and suicide, and are increasingly susceptible to online misogynist radicalization. Will the sixth wave of feminism need to fix things for men if it wants to fix them for women?
Moran began to investigate, talking to the men in her and her daughter’s life, raising very difficult topics and receiving vulnerable and candid responses. So what about men? In this thoughtful, warm, provocative book, Moran opens a genuinely new debate about how to reboot masculinity for the twenty-first century, so that “straight white man” isn’t shorthand for “bad news”—with lots of jokes about testicles and trousers along the way. If men have neither learned to mine their deepest anxieties about masculinity nor answered the question “What about men?” then it’s up to a busy woman to do it.
