Raising Boys in the Era of Incels, MAGA, and the Manosphere
July 17, 2025
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Episode 194 · July 17, 2025
Raising Boys in the Era of Incels, MAGA, and the Manosphere
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Raising Boys in the Era of Incels, MAGA, and the Manosphere
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<p>Boys today are being told to man up by the right and sit down by the left. Coming of age in the shadow of #MeToo and wading through algorithms rife with manosphere content, many young men are accepting the far right’s simple answers and leaning into traditional masculinity…without realizing it’s stunting their emotional development. Others are letting technology isolate and depress them. What is it about boys' psychology that makes them so vulnerable to the Internet Age? How does patriarchy lead well-intentioned parents to treat their sons less affectionately? When will men have a liberation movement—and do they deserve one? Ruth Whippman, author of BoyMom, sits down with BoyDad Jon to unpack it all.</p><p>For a closed-captioned version of this episode, <a href="https://youtu.be/yRIr1k6vtfI">click here</a>. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.</p>
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