S4 Ep 13 Good Men Advocate For Women

Daragh Fleming (author of Lonely Boy and A Brief Inhalation) is a
writer from Cork, Ireland. He has work appearing in several
literary magazines including Southword, Crannóg, Stand, Gutter,
and more. He was highly commended for both the Patrick Kavanagh
Award and the Fool For Poetry Prize in 2023, and shortlisted for
the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize in 2024. He won the From The
Well Competition in 2021 and the Ducairn Flash Competition in
2024. Daragh was also recently shortlisted for two Mental Health
Media Award for his TEDx Talk on using creativity to enhance and
maintain our mental health.


Daragh sits with Molly to have a discussion about how good men
can make the world better for women. And Daragh's perspective
might surprise you. Topics covered:


Chloe Koyce incident

Good men helping women/advocating for women's safety

How we socialise boys

Men not being able to cry

Blindboy's episode How to speak to men who have an unhelpful
view of masculinity

evolutionary psychology

Daragh's friend who died by suicide

Grief

Emotional Anadonia

Daragh's Ted X Talk

Advice for men

Creativity

Natasha O'Brien and Aisling Murphy

The Patriarchy

Study on male health gave us the figures of perpetrators of
male violence;


https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/03/one-in-three-australian-men-say-they-have-committed-intimate-partner-violence-world-first-research-finds



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