Washington Post classical music critic Michael Andor Brodeur is a lifelong lifter, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss his examination of modern masculinity, why the gym took over after the Industrial Revolution, and what building muscle means for healthy — or unhealthy — identities
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Writer and film critic Manuel Betancourt discusses his upbringing in Colombia and how that shaped his views on being a man and his deconstruction of modern male toxicity.
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Frans de Waal discusses challenges to what’s understood about masculinity and femininity and the limitations of gender binary thinking.
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Kevin Mitchell, Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, joins us to talk about current studies on gender differences in the brain.
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This hour, we’ll get to know the people who were instrumental in making the pill a reality with Jonathan Eig, who writes about them in The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution.
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