Written by Jasmine Davis Design by Ellen Stanton If I had a pound for every minute I’ve spent scrolling through social media since lockdown began, I could stop my hopeless search for graduate jobs and retire in sunny Santorini. And I’m not proud of it. I could have used lockdown to my advantage: learned Portuguese, taken up oil painting, or read War and Peace in these excruciating months of forced hibernation; instead, I lay around watching reels, vlogs and TikToks. But hey,

Written by Emily Fernando Design by Zoe Shields ‘Man up. Stop crying. Stop being a pussy.’ Sound familiar? Male pride and expectations of men include being strong, confident, and concealing emotions; it’s been ingrained within boys from a young age to ‘toughen up’ and not be expressive of their feelings, to hide any sign of weakness. How could they protect and provide for their family if they were emotional? Yet, society has evolved from the days of the dominant male. There h