Ruth Whippman 

@ruthwhippman
Author and journalist. Words in New York Times, Guardian, Time etc. Author of BoyMom, Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity (Harmony/ Penguin 2024) and America the Anxious (St Martins 2016)

So lovely to talk with the brilliant

about boys and modern boyhood

America’s boys are not alright. We’re living in the middle of a full-blown boy crisis, and it’s not getting the attention it deserves. 

Let’s hit the grim stats: boys make up 60% of school suspensions and nearly 80% of all ADHD diagnoses (are they really hyper, or is school just not built for them?). The education gender gap is glaring—ou…

January’s zoom Boymom/ I Blame Society masculinity discussion group is today (i need a better name for this…) is today at 10amPT/ 1pm ET/ 6pm UK. We will be talking about the new Presidency/ men’s turn to the right, and also-if we get to it- the gender essentializing of boys that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. It’s a great, non …

Link for today's discussion group
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The cost of male privilege

Tomorrow on Zillion Trillion

Link for today's discussion group

This is really interesting- the class aspect is such an important and overlooked point in the discussion of men/ male privilege etc.

Our intelligentsia has abandoned our illiterati
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I often get asked for recommendations for children’s books that really think critically about masculinity norms and feature boys that break out of traditional stereotypes. there are some but they are few and far between. Then recently

, author of the bestselling sensation “Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls” got in touch with me. With…

What do fairytales teach us about masculinity?

So much fascinating stuff in here about how we came to the idea of the Good Mother and the misogynistic and suspect social science that underpinned it all. Everyone should read

’s The Good Mother Myth- out TODAY!!

What if Much of What We Believe a "Good Mom" Does is Completely Wrong?
Trump 2. How are we here again?
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’s work on boys is such an important companion to #DisciplesofWhiteJesus (and very important to me personally as a fellow mom of boys!)

“Girls can be anything but boys will be boys.”

I have a new post up about how it is now way more acceptable to talk in essentializing and limiting ways about boys than girls- and the problems with this, particularly when it comes to boys and education.

“Girls can be anything but boys will be boys.”

So thrilled to read this incredibly generous review of Boymom by the brilliant

Cathy reads books: Boymom
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