Richard Reeves, auteur van het boek Of Boys & Men geeft in dit 15 minuten interview heel gevat, onderbouwd en met een vleugje humor het belang van mannenwerk weer.
Het boek is nu ook verkrijgbaar in het Nederlands: ‘Over jongens en mannen’.
Enkele quotes die er voor ons uitsprongen:
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- Focusing on men does not mean we are against gender equality and rights. We have the ability to have 2 thoughts at once and care for both.
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- If young men are given a choice between becoming their grandfather and becoming their sister, no wonder they are lost.
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- They say men don’t have problems, men are the problem. But if we continue to see men as problems, then it’s going to be a very difficult time for us the next years.
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- Toxic vs Non-toxic is not very aspiring. It creates a reactionary perspective because it treats it as if masculinity in itself might have something wrong with it, which drives men away.
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- We lose 40.000 men to suicide in the US each year.
In Vlaanderen en Nederland zijn dat er trouwens 2.000 per jaar (of meer dan 5 per dag)!
- We lose 40.000 men to suicide in the US each year.
- There’s a bigger gender gap on college campuses now than there was in the 70’s, but now it’s the other way around: 40% male, 60% female.