How do we manage the information that is presented to us as “scientific”? How do we ensure that we are properly critical of how information, positioned as knowledge, contributes to how we think the world already functions? How do we know we are not participating in “Digital Confirmation Bias”? Social Media is meant for fast consumption. Fast response. But algorithms are unconcerned with whether we do or not. Algorithms are concerned with financial bottom-lines.

I was invited into many spaces to discuss “what is/was wrong with men” and how to fix them. In these conversations over a decade ago I saw a trend in these discourses. Everyone wanted men to change.

This series is dedicated to discussing masculinity as more than a simple negative offering a variety of ways to interrogate with questions like - what is positive masculinity? what are ways to approach negative/toxic masculinity? what other kinds of masculinities are there for us to learn from?

This series is meant to be a demonstrative exercise in how to ask good questions of science and knowledge production presented to us. While I’ll primarily focuses on examples in social media, I’ll model tactics and approaches one can use in more formal scientific and research spaces.