What podcasts say about Richard V. Reeves
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What Richard V. Reeves has said on podcasts
32 statements · 15 positive · 12 negative · 1 mixed · 4 neutral
Several U.S. governors now have serious initiatives promoting boys and men.
“We've got governors, Governor Newsom, Governor Whitmer, Governor Wesmore in Maryland, also Governor Spencer Cox in Utah, all of whom have got pretty serious initiatives now to try and promote boys and men.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 0:40
Democrats lost men, especially young men, substantially in the 2024 election.
“there's no question that one of the things that happened in the 24 election was that Democrats lost men, and especially young men, in a very, very big way.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:42
Political leaders and policymakers are seriously addressing boys’ and men’s problems for the first time.
“it's the first time we've seen serious political figures and policymakers making serious efforts to address the problem.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 3:27
Current boys-and-men policy efforts exceed those available three or four years ago.
“I'm certainly not saying it's enough, but it is a lot more than we had three or four years ago.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 4:14
Virginia may create the first state commission dedicated to boys and men.
“Virginia is, if the new governor signs it, going to create the first commission on Boys and men to sit alongside the Commission on Women and Girls.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 5:20
The cited Supreme Court ruling was a major civil-rights victory for transgender people.
“that was a massive civil rights victory for the trans community.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 9:48
Treating young men as having problems rather than being problems supports constructive engagement.
“you also need young men, especially, to hear that conversation and to feel like we're talking about this stuff in a way that takes them seriously and that says they have problems, not that they are the problem.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 21:02
Mainstream culture largely discusses masculinity only through the label “toxic.”
“mainstream culture just basically gave up the ground and said, like, we're only going to talk about masculinity if we put the prefix toxic in front of it.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 25:25
Young men should be told that society needs them, not merely that it wants to help them.
“What we want to say is we need you. That's the message I think most young men need here, is we need you.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 26:41
An androgynous future will not eliminate the need for cultural messages directed at men.
“it's incredibly naive for anybody to just assume that we can just get to some androgynous future and that we don't have to keep doing the hard work of making sure that there is a cultural message to men.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 38:46
Hands-on fathering has increased more than at any point in roughly half a century.
“we've just seen the biggest increase in the amount of hands on fathering that we've seen for probably half a century.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 41:47
Working fathers and mothers perform roughly equal total weekly work, split between paid and unpaid labor.
“dads are doing about eight hours more paid work a week and mums are doing about eight hours more unpaid work a week. And they're doing exactly the same amount of work”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 44:01
Mental health, social work, and K–12 education are becoming increasingly female-dominated.
“There was no mention of that. And so, actually, I'm very worried about the real feminization problem, which is that a lot of these occupations are skewing more and more female over time.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 50:22
AI systems will outperform both men and women in the legal profession.
“AIs are going to. AIs are better than men and women, so gender becomes irrelevant.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 51:23
The feminist movement is gradually recognizing that demonizing or dismissing men is ineffective.
“slowly but surely the women's movement or feminist movement is coming to realize that demonizing or dismissing men is not a good strategy.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 52:08
Political polarization is influencing dating and mating behavior.
“we do see now that political polarization is affecting dating and mating.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 56:54
Socially sanctioned introductions may be more powerful than algorithmic dating-app matches.
“that coming socially sanctioned, like someone you meet through the workplace, friend of a friend, et cetera, that. That's very powerful, as opposed to someone you just algorithmically got attached to on an app on the other side of New York.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 58:19
Long-term relationship success depends more on becoming a good husband than choosing a wife.
“it is much less about the wife you choose than it is about the husband you become.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:04:33
The causes of fertility decline remain uncertain, so population projections require substantial humility.
“And so it's a really dangerous subject because it is one of those things that we don't know yet. And we should have a lot of humility, by the way, about projecting population trends forward”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:08:40
Rapid population decline is generally harmful.
“I don't think a rapidly declining population is a good thing”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:09:33
Fatherhood positively transforms men and functions as a distinctive male institution.
“it changes men in this massively kind of positive way. This is why fatherhood. Fatherhood is. One of my colleagues put this to me the other way. Fatherhood is the last male institution.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:18:44
Fathers provide distinctive and valuable benefits to children, rather than merely substituting for mothers.
“dads are cool and being a dad and the way dads are with their kids, a bit different to moms, on average, in many ways. Amazing.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:30:22
Evidence about fathers attending births is mixed, so neither choice should be stigmatized.
“The evidence is a little bit mixed. And I think you shouldn't be shamed for doing it or shamed for not doing it.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:31:11
In some states, fathers take new parental leave at rates comparable to mothers.
“There are some states now where the new parental leave policy is as likely to be taken by dads as by moms.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:37:22
Violent crime and boys’ school fighting have roughly halved over recent decades.
“Violent crime is way down. It's halved in the last decades. The number of boys fighting at school also halved in the last few decades”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:38:02
Pessimistic messaging can reinforce the negative outcomes it predicts.
“pessimism is a self fulfilling prophecy.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:39:45
Men have shifted from outperforming women to underperforming them on adulthood milestones.
“20 years ago men were more likely to hit those milestones and now men are less likely than women to hit those milestones.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:41:25
Relationship breakups and unemployment harm men’s well-being more than women’s.
“men are much more affected by relationship breakup and unemployment and so negative economic and social shocks damage male well being more than female well being.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:41:46
There is no evidence that affirmative admissions preferences explain women’s college enrollment advantage.
“There's no evidence that that's happening. Right. There's no evidence that the reason there are more women in college now than men is because there's a thumb on the scale in favor of the women”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:43:47
Marriage decline is concentrated among Americans without college degrees.
“the collapse in marriage has been among those without a college degree. It's a huge class gap.”
Open the episode · The Masculinity Debate Is A Huge Mess - Richard Reeves - #1087Listen at 1:55:04
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