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How does masculinity turn toxic? What does it actually mean to be a man?

Is the remarkable appeal of a figure like Andrew Tate - the social media influencer - the product of a male malaise in liberal democracies?

His TikTok videos have been condemned as deeply misogynistic but have been viewed billions of times.

He has tens of millions of followers globally - most of them male, many of them very young.

The Today programme鈥檚 Amol Rajan spoke to Mike Thompson, a former English teacher who now runs workshops about masculinity in Lancashire and Richard Reeves, the author of Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What To Do About It..

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