Around the world, men are feeling more lost, alone, rejected, confused, and angry than ever before.
A study of young men in the US, UK, and Mexico found that most men feel pressure to live in the "Max Box" - a rigid set of ideas about male identity.
A study of American men found that men today have fewer friends than men did 30 years ago.
The idols, symbols, ceremonies, and rituals that young people look to for identifying as "men" are being rapidly disrupted & reimagined by social media.
The Manifold is a platform that enables men to submit their most pressing questions to a global community of men.
The Manifold fosters identity formation & shared understanding through an emergent database of declarative statements.
We seed our platform with questions based on decades of research on masculinity.
[1] Hill,A. L., Miller, E., Switzer, G. E., Yu, L., Heilman, B., Levtov, R.G., … Coulter, R. W. S. (2020). Harmful masculinities among younger men inthree countries: Psychometric study of the Man Box Scale. Preventive Medicine,106185. doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.1061852
[2] Thompson, E.H.,and Bennet, K.M. (2015) Measurement of Masculinity Ideologies: A (Critical)Review. Psychology of Men & Maculinity, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038609
The questions and answers of the global community reveal new and relevant patterns of masculinity.
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