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A “progressive Andrew Tate” isn’t the antidote to male radicalization | Richard Reeves

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Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, The real reasons young men are checking out of society | Richard Reeves: Full Interview ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLIEpbLWWao What if the problem for young boys isn’t radical influencers, but the absence that made them persuasive? Influence doesn’t emerge because someone is loud or offensive; it takes root when there’s no one nearby to push back in good faith or model an alternative worth imitating, says Richard Reeves. Read the video transcript ► https://bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/online-role-models-boys/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube_description © Freethink Media Inc., All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go Deeper with Big Think: ►Become a Big Think Youtube Member Get exclusive classes and early, ad-free access to new releases without leaving Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@bigthink/membership/ ►Become a Big Think Web Member Get the entire Big Think Class library, premium print issues, live events, and more. https://bigthink.com/membership/ ►Subscribe to Big Think on Substack Get all of your favorite Big Think content delivered to your inbox. https://bigthinkmedia.substack.com/subscribe/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Richard Reeves: Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Future of the Middle Class Initiative and co-directs the Center on Children and Families. His Brookings research focuses on the middle class, inequality and social mobility. Richard writes for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, Guardian, National Affairs, The Atlantic, Democracy Journal, and Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Dream Hoarders (Brookings Institution Press, 2017), and John Stuart Mill – Victorian Firebrand (Atlantic Books, 2007), an intellectual biography of the British liberal philosopher and politician. Dream Hoarders was named a Book of the Year by The Economist, a Political Book of the Year by The Observer, and was shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. In September 2017, Politico magazine named Richard one of the top 50 thinkers in the U.S. for his work on class and inequality. A Brit-American, Richard was director of strategy to the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to 2012. Other previous roles include director of Demos, the London-based political think-tank; social affairs editor of the Observer; principal policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform, and research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research. Richard is also a former European Business Speaker of the Year and has a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Warwick University.

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@rodrigoaugusto9492
What a sad circus modern life has descended into
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@lfcbpro
The problem is MEDIA. Good role models, and good men aren't shown - There is no money in it. Tate and his like, 'interest' people, even if in a bad way (like a car crash), but intelligent, courageous, mentally strong men are not 'interesting', so they never get coverage. The most known about man in the world at the moment, Trump, is a rapist, a convict, a liar, a fraud and a criminal, yet he is shown on TV every day, even when not in office. He is arguably the most powerful man in the world. We, (I use that term loosely) idolise sports stars, movie stars, musicians, 'celebrities', YouTubers, influencers, politicians, people who are largely morally bankrupt, selfish and often criminals. Kids in general are taught money = success. Why? Because that is all the media shows. Do kids have a choice? No. So there is no role models because the kids don't know about them.
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@TrulyAmazingPS
Bring the pendulum back from delusional to centered. The loudest get the attention today, and that is the issue.
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@Anthaliel
It's a weird thing, that for you, it was a coach; for me, it was my Biology and Literature teachers. It's not about teamwork or sharing, it's about finding someone who understands your interests and connects with you, because they're also passionate about these interests; and they're older figures you admire. And that's what's weird, or problematic: that these older men that children admire ARE NOT THEIR FATHERS. Because they are absent, working, and don't spend as much time with their boys as these other men/teachers, coachs, do; so boys look for these role models ELSEWHERE, while the fathers are relegated to that serious figure that corrects you and you always fight with -.-
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@coffeehouse44
A good article came out not long ago called - why your son is right wing - David Dennison
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@lauragil9121
Absolutely loving this video. Men truly need spaces to air out their grivances where they are heard and guided, and not being seen as a threat. That way we can grow as a society, with solidarity and empathy.
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@lubnafawzy-qureshi4075
Fathers have generally been absent from their children’s lives even when in the same household. The American family mostly relied on women to deal with children while men worked. Society provided an uneven advantage to men so that a Father’s absence/lack of involvement didn’t affect men’s prospects. Once women gained equal footing in society, men began to struggle to compete on equal footing. Not sure if it’s a Father’s absence as it is how we raise our sons. We’ve failed to prepare them for the world they are growing into. Instead we’re raising them for a world that no longer exists.
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@skins_souls
Wonderfully presented!! ❤
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@coquinarestrepo7769
All this could be summed up with: If we funded schools better so they could have more high quality after school curriculums and funded community centers like libraries better for more youth activities; then boys would likely find better role models in real life + learn to model collaborative relationships.
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@LoraleeStrength-p7c
So glad there is attention on this , I seen this years ago
@DoctorRevers
I was a boy and now I’m a man. Proud not to be scum because it seems like a lot turn out that way. Maybe not totally their fault but a pretty scary reflection of how our society is developing, devolving.
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@llouisero
Everyone/every gender should have access to spaces they’re comfortable in, but to assert that we must cater to antiquated definitions of what it means to be a man is the problem. We need to teach everyone, regardless of gender, how to interact in socially empathetic ways.
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@tomasvrabec1845
“Men, shoulder to shoulder, communicating while doing things. Never stare them in the eye” Funny and comical. Talking qt the urinals or Roman toilets where me sat side by side and talked (it was like a socil event)
@carolgonsoulin
I think, ultimately, it is up to parents to provide guard rails for their children against Internet use until they are at least 17 maybe 16 years of age. Giving children a chance to form enough brain development to be able to discern and have a structure in place of a common morality based on good social norms. But how likely is that to happen? How can Boy Scout leaders and teachers circumvent bad parenting?
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@rt_official_yt
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