Tom and Janice discuss the path of male friendships and the many changes over the last hundred and fifty years. They focus on what has recently been making male friendships more difficult and some ideas about what men are doing about it.
The media stresses the need for men to have relationships while simultaneously telling men that they need to be more like women to find relationship success. This sums up the misandrist attitudes that fail to recognize men's unique ways of relating and the fact that a man's close friendships are significantly different from a woman.
Stonestreet Article -- https://breakpoint.org/most-men-dont-have-real-friends-but-need-them/?_hsmi=196650157
Fascinating Photo Essay -- https://www.artofmanliness.com/people/relationships/bosom-buddies-a-photo-history-of-male-affection/
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