Sulky Man-Babies? The Psychology of Resentful Entitlement

In last week’s post, I wrote about various myths that are currently being told about how, today, men and boys are enduring a ‘silent epidemic’ of disadvantage and despir. These myths describe an education system which is supposedly biased towards girls’ strengths; a society that apparently fails to adequately celebrate men’s valour in war; and a culture in which men are purportedly discouraged from expressing emotion, and are therefore said to suffer from worse, and more deadly, mental health problems than women. Now, I don’t dispute that many of 2025’s men and boys are sad (although I don’t think that they’re sadder than women and girls). But I don’t believe that the myths above, which are so often marshalled as explanations for that male sadness, are true. Furthermore, not only are they untrue, I believe that those myths of systemic male disadvantage and female bias are actually responsible for worsening male mental health, by inculcating in many boys and men a sense of resentful en…