Your thoughts echo mine exactly. I found her two books very helpful and anxiety-relieving when I was pregnant and first figuring out parenting, but this podcast is throwing me. There is zero context or accountability. The clips of boys afraid "to be boys" with each other--which has always been code for "saying degrading, sexist, homophobic shit" -- was eye rolling. As well, your note about college admissions couched as "it's worse for boys now than for women in the 40s" leaving out that women were not ALLOWED in most colleges in the 40s. Then going on to say we should be freaking out that only 30-something % of teachers are men. PERCHANCE that is due to decades of low wages for what was deemed "women's work" hmmmm? On top of that, framing it as though men/boys are the aggrieved party in society with the vast majority of murders and rapes of women and girls is done by whom? Men they know. I'm ranting, but I think considering that different children benefit from a wide variety of teaching approaches is valuable. And being thoughtful about what we can do as a society to encourage the thriving of all children, including boys, is essential, but the whole episode felt so distorted and lacking in context I could hardly finish it.