The Crisis Of Modern Masculinity - Nina Power - #429

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hi friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Nina Power. She's a social theorist, philosopher and an author. Between incels and toxic masculinity, man spreading, man splaining, me too, mig tau, red pill and men's rights, working out what men want from life is a question that both men and women are struggling with. Nina is trying to work out whether men have a firm place to stand in the modern world anymore and why masculinity is under attack. Expect to learn Nina's post-mortem on men's role in society. How masculinity's crisis hurts women and their future prospects too. Why Nina disagrees with modern feminism as a long-standing second-wave feminist philosopher. How we got to the stage where fear and mistrust of men is so widespread. Why NoFap ended up becoming called a hate group. Whether the sexual revolution was a good thing and much more. I really, really enjoyed this conversation. I'm aware that having a woman talk about the problems that men face is kind of like a red flag to some unreasonable people. But Nina has thought about this very deeply. She's a feminist philosopher who is now being very empathetic and sensible around her views for men. And there's a question to do with women as well. What does it mean to be a woman in 2022? Women are becoming more masculinized and men are becoming more feminized and no one really understands what their role is anymore. And it's only by having conversations like this that we actually get to hear another side. We actually get to work out that it's possible to have a conversation about this, which is subtle and nuanced and understanding. Yeah, I really hope that you enjoy this one. In other news, this episode is brought to you by The Weight. The Weight is a film about an aging weightlifter that struggles through injury, loss and unrequited love to strive for one last chance at Olympic glory. 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