TheTinMen Podcast

Jordan Stephens is a platinum selling musician, rapper, best-selling author, artist, and advocate, who has emerged onto the men and boys scene as one of the major faces to the movement. Known for his diplomatic, calm approach to discourse, Jordan is one of the few individuals who has managed to straddle the picket lines, with one foot in the men and boys advocacy camp, and another in the feminist...

Eric Clopper is a jewish attorney and children's rights advocate, who has set himself the extraordinary goal of outlawing circumcision within the U.S. in the next 10-15 years. Initially getting him kicking out of Harvard, Eric's undying passion to ensure all children are protected equally under the law, has led him into initiating a multi-state set of lawsuits that asserts that circumcisio...

Emeritus Professor, Dr Don Dutton has worked within family violence for 50 years, to become one of the world’s foremost experts on this issue. Dr Dutton has written nearly a dozen books and hundreds of peer reviewed papers on family violence; as a psychologist he's treated violent men for decades, co-founding the ‘Assaultive Husbands Project’, winning dozens of grants and awards, and acting as...

Suicide remains the number one cause of death for men under 50, with men being overrepresented in suicide deaths every year since records began, and across every country in the world. And yet – Despite annually claiming the lives of more than 700,000 men globally, such a phenomenon remains grossly underfunded, and under researched. Dr Susie Bennett, one of the most seminal, emerging male suicide r...

Duncan Craig OBE is the founder and CEO of We Are Survivors, a world leading charity supporting male survivors of sexual harms. Supporting everyone from male prisoners, to Ugandan men who experienced rape as a tool of war, and even providing care for the victims of Britain's most prolific rapist; Duncan's work has spanned the globe, touching thousands of lives, with fifteen years of passio...

Do we really live in a patriarchy? What on earth is "Mankeeping"? Are homophobia and misandry interconnected? Who is really running UNWomen's socials? And what are some of the best charities worth supporting? George from TheTinMen talks to fathers and men's health advocate, Lisa Britton, about men and boy's issues across the UK and North America,.Follow Lisa at https://x.com/...

After losing his childhood best friend, advertising veteran and film director Ben Akers co-founded ‘Talk Club’ an award-winning charity dedicated to mens mental fitness, that hosts hundreds of self-run talk groups for thousands of men, all over the country. And not just talk groups, but also football, yoga, tennis, paddle ball, hiking groups, online, ofline, you name it, however you want to do it,...

Dr James Nuzzo, is a writer within men's health; focusing on the disparities in funding and research between the sexes. Dr Nuzzo talks about how men and boys, unbeknownst to society, are falling through not only the cracks of health funding and research, but also those of public consciousness and compassion. Here we discuss gendered research around the world, why women were excluded from drug...

Once again, the much misunderstood ‘incel’ phenomenon is back in the crucible of public discussion, following the release of the Netflix smash hit ‘Adolescence’. Public and politician alike have waded into the debate; heaping sympathy, outrage, fear, or distain at the feet of these lonely, deeply unwell, and sometimes violent young men. But behind the glossy production, fantastical screenwriting,...

Suicide is the number one risk to a man's life, each and every day, until he is about 50. Yet, it remains largely in the shadows of political and social advocacy, widely ignored by research, and left out of public debate; as an ugly, inconvenient blemish on the so-called "privileged" gender class of men. It's not getting better. With the latest suicide rates in the UK, being the worst this century...

Dr. Warren Farrell is a man who wears two crowns. Those from the 70s know, in his time, Warren was considered to be the world's most famous male feminist, travelling the globe, advocating for women, opening women's groups, and becoming the first (and only) man to ever be elected three times to the board of directors, at the NY division of the National Organisation of Women – the world'...

With two and a half decades of senior level experience in public policy and public affairs, as well as working at director-level for two national charities; Mark Brooks OBE has been quietly steering the ship of men and boys advocacy, from one success to another. Playing a leading role in the popularisation of International Mens Day, bringing the crisis of boys education and male suicide to the att...

Mary Curnock Cook has a lifetime of priceless career experience within education; that has seen her work across the school system, right to the very top, where she served as Chief Executive Officer of UCAS for several years, and remains one of the UK’s most respected independent advisors within education. During this time, one thing became alarmingly clear to Curnock Cook: that young men and boys...

Much of the political world is reeling from last weeks Presidential verdict, not necessarily by who won, but by how much he won by. Immediately it was clear who clinched the election for the Republicans – men. And so stones of hyperbole, already, have started to be thrown; with outraged Democrats blaming a so-called "racist" and "sexist" electorate, who want to putatively punish women, stripping a...

Chair of the Men and Boys Coalition, and co-founder of the UK Men's Day Committee; Ally Fogg is an iconoclastic journalist, writer, and Twitter troll, who has been working tirelessly behind the scenes of British men and boys advocacy for decades. In this conversation, Ally and George talk about the importance of International Men's Day, the perils of "whataboutery", the tumultuous topic of domesti...

Richard Reeves is a policy expert, and the President of the newly formed American Institute of Boys and Men. His book, Of Boys and Men, which peers into the hidden truth of how far behind men and boys are in education and health, was a huge success; read across the world, and came widely recommended, even by former President Barack Obama himself. Reeves was also recently awarded an unprecedented $...

Emeritus Professor Dr Don Dutton has written, hundreds of peer-reviewed articles, more than eight books and textbooks, won dozens of grants, and served as an expert witness in nearly 100 legal cases, including appearing for the prosecution in the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson. He is arguably the leading expert in family violence in North America. And yet, many have never heard his name, with D...

Welcome to Part 02 of Episode Three. ~ Susie Bennett is a PhD researcher from the Suicidal Behavior Research Laboratory at the University of Glasgow. In early 2021 Susie and myself worked together to capture new data on suicidality in men, capturing the insights of an incredible three thousand men across eighty countries worldwide. Now Susie is back and joining me to share her early findings to he...

Susie Bennett is a PhD researcher from the Suicidal Behavior Research Laboratory at the University of Glasgow.  In early 2021 Susie and myself worked together to capture new data on suicidality in men, capturing the insights of an incredible three thousand men across eighty countries worldwide. Now Susie is back and joining me to share her early findings to help widen the conversation of male...

Erin Pizzey opened the world's first domestic violence refuge for women, exactly 50 years ago. Looking back, her story is one of two halfs. The first is one of admiration, love, compassion and praise, and the other is one of vilification, fear, ostracization and violence. It was Erin's brave advocacy for abused men that separated the two. She refused to see domestic violence as a gendered crime, a...