The Problem with Men: When is it International Men's Day? (and why it matters)

June 27th: Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day.

We need to adapt to a world where men are in danger of redundancy. We are being replaced by machines at work, by drones and missiles at war and by turkey basters in the family (women can get rid of us provided they keep a few men willing to be milked for gametes

England is a country originally created by invasion of northern Europeans, our patron saint is the son of a Roman and Palestinian, our flag is copied off the Genoans, our royal banner is three lions (animals indigenous to Africa), the figurehead of the Church of England is a Palestinian Jew, we have a German royal family, our national food is curry

Masculinity is in a crisis of its own making, and toxic masculinity and ludicrous overconfidence in our own ability is harming men, too.

it’s a special kind of person who can get infuriated by someone raising so much cash for victims of domestic abuse. Though, believe me, those very special kinds of people do exist.

In some ways, men actually need to overthrow the patriarchy more urgently than women do.

Notions of masculinity vary so much both historically and culturally that it’s nonsensical to talk about it in absolute terms.

Nobody else has the right balance of madness, pomposity, determination, comedy chops, staying power and hubris to make this quest work. I am cursed, but it has to be ME.

These men are angry at something, but they don’t know what, exactly. It’s easier for them to blame people who are different to them than it is to blame themselves, or more pertinently the system that has encouraged them to bottle up their feelings and made them dispensable.