In the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50. But the explanation is often reduced to one thin phrase: men do not talk. This article looks deeper, exploring how male suicide rates are shaped by masculinity, shame, economic pressure, relationship breakdown, social isolation, substance use, access to lethal means and the crisis of identity that can emerge when men feel they have failed at being men.
Thailand’s sex tourism industry is often treated as an open secret, but its history is not mysterious. It was shaped by war, sustained by tourism, fed by poverty, and normalised by foreign male demand.
When Andrew Tate supporters gathered outside a Miami detention centre and began doing push-ups together, the spectacle offered an unusually literal demonstration of performative masculinity. Psychology has a name for the insecurity beneath the performance: precarious manhood.
Matriarchy is usually imagined as the female version of patriarchy – women ruling over men. But anthropology tells a very different story. Drawing on matrilineal and matrifocal societies from around the world, this article shows how matriarchy is centred on social regeneration, kinship and moral authority, rather than domination. Understanding this difference radically changes how we think about feminism, power and governance.
Hair is never just hair. From Kurdish braids cut as trophies, to girls punished for afros, to women in Iran cutting their hair in revolt, this essay explores women’s hair as the most intimate site of feminist resistance—where power meets the body, and the body answers back.
What happens when motherhood feels like a living death? Drawing on Orna Donath’s Regretting Motherhood, this essay confronts the taboo truth of maternal regret, the erasure of women, and why every woman deserves to know the cost before becoming a mother.
A newborn taken within the first hour. A mother told she failed a culturally biased test. Decades after the Little Danes experiment, Greenlandic children are still being removed by the Danish state. This article exposes how Europe’s newest Stolen Generation is being created — and why the world must pay attention.
When The Way of the Superior Man was first published in 1997, it offered men a spiritual roadmap to purpose, love, and sexual integrity. But over time, it has divided readers — hailed by some as timeless wisdom, dismissed by others as poetic patriarchy. This essay explores both the brilliance and the blind spots of David Deida’s work, tracing its origins in the 1990s men’s movement, its tantric underpinnings, and its enduring influence on modern masculinity.
Based on a true story, the film Carrington profoundly changed how I understand love, identity, and LGBTQ+ acceptance. Through the unconventional bond between Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey, I came to realise that love doesn’t follow rules — it simply finds the soul it recognises. This reflection explores how one film helped me walk in another’s shoes and redefined what it means to love and be loved.
Before Madonna struck a pose, Mae West struck a match. She was the original provocateur — arrested for writing about sex, banned from Broadway for celebrating desire, and censored by Hollywood for refusing to play nice. Yet through wit, glamour, and sheer audacity, she rewrote the rules of womanhood on screen and off. Come Up and See Me Sometime: Mae West and the Making of a Feminist Icon traces how one woman’s defiance shaped modern feminism, queer aesthetics, and the art of female self-invention.