“We need to be looking after young men a bit better before we start demonising them.” MenMental HealthVulnerabilityMasculinityToxic MasculinityCancel CultureGen ZFragile MasculinityDemonization Author:Matty Healy
“I’m not going to be specific, but I had some early sexual experiences that, as I got older, were really, really difficult to deal with. It wasn’t to do with anything that happened in my family or at home, it was these… different things that happened. So my mental health had come through the negotiation of sex as a teenager and a young man, and romantic relationships.” RelationshipsChildhoodGayMental HealthTraumaTherapyTrauma SurvivorsSexual Trauma Author:Matty Healy
“When I was 17, all the cultural ideas that I was sold were about the future. Being 17 now must be terrifying. You must look at the state of the economy and the world and you don’t know if there’s going to be a future. If I was 17 now and I was having to deal with the things that young people are expected to deal with — you need to be informed on racial issues, how economies work, all this stuff … When I was 17, I was getting stoned, and there was no one shouting at me on the internet that I wasn’t doing my part. It felt like the apocalypse anyway, because of some girl or a lack of weed or something like that. It wasn’t like trying to understand these huge ideas and being expected to have this pre-signed-off opinion on anything.” Mental HealthSocial MediaDigital AgeIndependent ThinkingLiberal EducationMillenialsGen Z Author:Matty Healy