“Are Men Okay?”

No.

Leo Cookman

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I see this phrase a lot. Sometimes above or below some wince inducing spectacle of a boy, man or men making a prat of themselves, as we are all wont to do from time to time. But most often it’s a caption for a video of what is often a cry for help. Young Lads openly weeping but perhaps over something deemed ‘irrelevant’ like sports or a video game. Or making grandiose statements about how they’re heartbroken but undermining the…

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Leo Cookman

Peripatetic Writer. “Time’s Lie” out now from Zero Books.