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Campus Manliness Crisis (ft. Dani Paradis)

January 26, 2025 • Big Shiny Takes

Are Canada's universities being feminized? It's a topic that's been consuming Leigh Revers – so much so that he wrote about it at length in the bad takes newspaper of record, the National Post

Men are foregoing higher education and instead chopping wood in the forest and spending all their money on beard oil. This leads to an imbalance in education levels, which fuels the ongoing birth rate epidemic. Or something like that.

Edmonton-based writer and educator Dani Paradis (@DaniParadis) joins us to uncover the depth of this pressing crisis.

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