Gender Expert: Men Are Emotionally Dependent On Women, We're Treating Them Like Malfunctioning Women

TL;DR

Richard Reeves argues that the economic liberation of women has left men without a clear script for their role, creating a crisis in education, employment, mental health, and suicide that is largely unaddressed. He contends that men feel unneeded, and that treating masculinity as inherently toxic or trying to make men more like women only worsens the problem.

Key insights

• The most fatal place for a human is to feel unneeded; men who die by suicide most commonly describe themselves as “useless” and “worthless.”
• Men’s emotional dependency on women has been revealed as women’s economic dependency on men has been removed; wifeless, partnerless, childless men do terribly.
• The term “toxic masculinity” is a gender slur; it leaves no positive definition of non‑toxic masculinity (which collapses into femininity), and it drives young men away.