neilfowler.bsky.social
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This article by @lanre-bakare.bsky.social is insightful and provokes thought. I felt it was positioning ‘toxic masculinity’ and Tate-like behaviour at the expense of and in tension with men’s struggles but it brought them together at the end.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Not OK? Booker winner Flesh ignites debate about state of masculinity
Toxic male behaviour of David Szalay’s protagonist reflects real-world concerns about a ‘crisis of masculinity’
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
“First they came for the parakeets, and I did not speak out-
Because I was not a parakeet”
June 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM