Key Highlights
- Should we stop trying to make men more like women?
- Gaby HinsliffThe strong and silent masculine image is often derided, but why?
- Perhaps companionship via trains, golf or a quiet drink is enoughIt’s good to talk.
- Or so men are always being told, by everyone from mental health campaigners to the women they live with, bemused by the male tendency to spend all night in the pub with friends they have known for decades and yet come back utterly clueless about whatever is going on in each other’s lives.
- What can they be doing, all that time?


