Help me Help Men

On May 17th, I'm riding in The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride for the 4th time. It is a global event raising funds and awareness for men's mental health. With your help, I've raised thousands of dollars over the years. I feel that the need for caring for men, especially young men right now, is greater than ever. Many men have lost the thread. They've abandoned kindness and compassion and confuse crassness for strength, revenge for justice, and belligerent bullying for power. Some of this is on the individual, but it's more than that. It's a policy failure, a cultural failure, and a path we keep choosing by not intervening at scale. We are living in a moment where online grifters have convinced a generation of young men that belligerence is strength, cruelty is confidence, and the highest expression of masculinity is degrading women for online views while steering teenage boys toward gambling or selling them courses about how to get rich selling courses. Incel culture has persuaded…