Now That’s A Man! Mister Rogers & Men’s Liberation– Dr. Jeffrey Nall-Bradford | July 12, 2026

Many today are aware of the privileges patriarchy affords men and the harm it subjects women to. What is less recognized is the existential price men pay for their privilege, from lower life-expectancy to higher rates of suicide, incarceration, and workplace deaths.

Dr. Jeffrey Nall-Bradford will draw on his research and experience teaching “Men and Masculinities” at Florida Atlantic University, to argue that the painful and destructive price men pay for male privilege almost invariably outweighs what they gain.

The “man box” forged of stereotypes is a prison of fear, pain, and denial; one that not only denigrates women and girls but also constricts and inhibits the full humanity of boys and men. But there is a way out. Feminist thinkers and the unassuming and often overlooked masculinity of men like Fred Rogers–Mister Rogers–offer men and boys a guiding light to liberation.