Male friendship
Audio 48:30
Male friendship: are men less prone to confidences?
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By: Emmanuelle Bastide
1 min
Les évadés, Fight club, Will Hunting, Le Cœur des hommes 1 & 2, The Hangover 1, 2 & 3, The Big Bang Theory ... The list of films and series celebrating friendship between men is still long.
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Hollywood has moreover made it a cinematographic genre in its own right: the "
buddy moovie
" or in French the "
film of friends
".
We discover male friendship in all its aspects based on fights, beer, football match or schoolboy jokes.
Often considered less intimate - are men less inclined to confide in them?
Beyond clichés or fantasies, what is really going on between men?
Can the gang of friends exist without virility?
With :
Christine Castelain-Meunier
, sociologist at the
CNRS.
Author of
Men also come from Venus.
Strong and sensitive, the new faces of virility
.
(Larousse, 2020),
What if we reinvented the education of boys?
Small manual to overcome stereotypes and raise free and happy boys (
Nathan, 2020).
To be published on February 17, with Francis Meunier,
Devenir écoféministe.
15 actions to help the climate
(Deboeck, 2022)
Fabrice Florent,
producer of podcasts in particular “Histoires de mecs” which questions masculinities and previously “Histoire de Darons” on fatherhood
Ibrahim Haïdara
, psychologist in Bamako, Mali, within the
psychology firm Psy2A
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Count on me
- Bruno Mars
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