Boy Trouble

A man spreads his legs, a woman writes a post, a boy responds. This week Dr Jessica Kean joins us for a discussion of what can go wrong when feminists tell stories about masculinity, and how we can fix it

In this episode we talk to Dr Timothy Kazuo Steains about different experiences of growing up as a mixed race Asian boy. Tim takes us through how mixedrace people live with interraciality through a triangle of identity, family, and desire.

This first episode looks at the phenomenon of the manosphere, a broad label for the online networks that connect pickup artists, men going their own way, involuntary celibates, and men's rights activist, among others. Despite important differences between them, each group promotes the idea that it is men – and not women – who are the real victims of gender discrimination and sexism. This episode features as a guest Finola Laughren, a PhD candidate examining different feminist responses to the manosphere.

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