A collection of 48 posts
In the past, we were told that people who were transgender had a deep-seated psychiatric disorder, which no longer is the prevailing view, but for many years it was, which was why so many trans people feel traumatized, especially adult trans people, who were basically told they were crazy.
In 2017, I got the welcome news that I’d been admitted to Princeton University. At the time, I was ecstatic. And I remain humbly grateful for the education I received there. But now that I’ve graduated, I’m not sure the prize was worth the price I paid
Mental hospitals emerged at a time, Foucault argued, when the state was seeking to impose rational order on societies.
Every situation is distinguished by its uniqueness, and there is always only one right answer to the problem posed by the situation at hand.
Social media changes the way people relate to each other whether they use it or not, and whether they use it sparingly or heavily.
The main ethical problem posed by Instagram is that young people are not mature enough to give informed consent to having their preferences harvested and fed back to them by a corporation that specialises in attention manipulation.
Jonathan Kay speaks with Jonathan Haidt about the emotionally destructive effect of social media on many young users.
When grandiose men are humiliated, the fallout turns catastrophic.
Neurodiversity is on the right track, and I support the agenda as it builds upon the civil rights movement.
Victimhood may confer ancient and effective advantages, but researchers are nonetheless alarmed by the scale of digital self-harm in adolescents, and the recent recourse to false accusations more generally.
Discussions today around Gen Z’s mental health occlude this possibility of a lack of adversity in our daily lives.
The higher the suicide rate in the group you’re advocating for, the greater your moral clout.
From genes to hormones to neurotransmitters, plays a role in shaping men’s masculine self-expression is, to say the least, a scientifically untenable position.
Introduction — John P. Wright, Ph.D. John Paul Wright is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on the causes and correlates of human violence. His current work examines how ideology affects scholarship. Follow him on Twitter @cjprofman. Thirteen years in the making,
Endless articles and innumerable campaigns have been devoted to helping men cry, ending the phrase “man up” and, above all, getting men to talk.