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Our newsletter only exists because of your support. Thank you for supporting the work that goes into it, by subscribing or sending it to a friend!! I used to think I was an idiot. I spent years assuming everyone else was smarter than me, which meant I stayed quiet far more than I should have. I wouldn’t speak up in meetings, I’d hold back at dinner parties, and I’d automatically assume the loudest person in the room probably knew the most.

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I write about masculinity so you feel less crazy and more vindicated. Subscribe. First, a huge announcement and honestly a bit of a pinch-me moment for us: Marc Maron is coming on Boy Problems, and we’re doing it live!! Marc has spent decades saying the things most comedians won’t, about relationships, masculinity, grief, addiction, and getting older.

This takes hours of reading, researching, and spiraling so you don’t have to. Subscribe if you appreciate having a professionally concerned friend in your inbox :) Okay, so I’ve been watching the World Cup like everyone else, which mostly means I’ve become a fake expert on 48 countries I maybe couldn’t have found on a map a month ago. I’m rooting for Côte d’Ivoire against Germany because some choices make themselves. And I’m basically spending every match day praying France doesn’t win.