Man Up

On Man Up, host Aymann Ismail invites men and women to tell embarrassing, funny, and sometimes disturbing stories about their lives as they try to figure out what they still have to learn—and unlearn—about being a man. They’ll talk relationships, family, sex, and identity, trying to understand their experiences to help listeners make more sense of their own.

Society & Culture
Relationships
Sexuality
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About Guys Who Insist on Paying the Bill...
23 min
27
The Joy of Quitting Football
31 min
28
How Not to Be a Reply Guy
26 min
29
The Real Threat of Video Games
25 min
30
How a Drag King Parodies Masculinity
29 min
31
The Fear of Male Birth Control
29 min
32
Becoming "Man of the House" Too Soon
29 min
33
Where Mass Shootings Often Start
25 min
34
My First Therapy Session, on Tape
27 min
35
The Trouble With Being an Asian Guy on Tinder
30 min
36
Chefs Don’t Have to Be Jerks
22 min
37
Your Opinions on Her Wardrobe Are Probably Unwe...
18 min
38
Men Try to Attract Women in All the Wrong Ways
20 min
39
An Intervention
22 min
40
Why Men Refuse to Do Yoga
29 min
41
What Brown Men Do to Make Others Comfortable
22 min
42
A Black Trans Man Meets the Police Again
23 min
43
Men Aren’t Doing the Dishes at Work, Either
18 min
44
What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Black Manhood
22 min
45
How Kids Can Change You
21 min
46
A Ghost Story
24 min
47
Let's Talk About Sex
21 min
48
When Fighting Comes First
21 min
49
Introducing Man Up
1 min