Michael Ian Black on raising boys at a time when being macho is "literally killing people"
  • 3 years ago
Comedian, actor and author Michael Ian Black discusses his new book "A Better Man," which is a letter he wrote to his college-aged son about the expectations men face and largely, a conversation about gender. Black opens up about how his own relationship with his father and with feminism inspired him to write the book. Watch the episode above to hear more about how Trump’s behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic prompted him to talk to his son about everything that is wrong with masculinity. “Even when it comes to something as elemental as saving your own life, or saving the lives of people around you, the impulse is to reject the thing that is proven to be helpful in that regard, it's more masculine to go, ‘I don't give a s**t about this plague,’” Black said.