100 Days of Broken Men (and How to Unbreak them) | Punching Up

Miller-Idriss joins to talk about what’s going on with our boys, and her new book, Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism, set to come out this fall.

Endless ink has been spent going over every single detail of Trump’s first 100 days in office (and the previous ~2,500). And endless-amounts-of-ink probably isn’t enough. We need to talk about this chaos, absolutely. If ink is affected by tariffs, we should totally on-shore its production.

But behind Trump’s chaos, his disastrous policy, and his cruelty stands a constituency that backs him 100%. 1000%. It’s a strangely diverse range of demographics, but you don’t have to squint your eyes to see among them an army of disaffected boys and men.

The manosphere is one thing. Creatine, protein shakes, Joe Rogan, shirtless RFK Jr. pounding out push-ups on camera for some reason. Fine. But Maya’s guest, Cynthia Miller-Idriss says that the connection between our new ideals of masculinity and radicalist violence is a lot more robust than many of us would like to think.

Again, this is not to lay the blame for the state of masculinity solely at the feet of men. Men are a part of society, of course, and their problems are society’s problems, whether we care to admit that or not.

And their problems are, well, big. According to some studies, more than 60% of young men are single. Men are vastly more likely to commit suicide. They are quickly becoming a minority of those with advanced education. It’s grim.

So … what’s going on here?

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