There is a particular modern anxiety reserved for men who appear to be enjoying themselves without talking very much. What, we worry, are they repressing?

What feelings are being dangerously stockpiled beneath the surface of a male five-a-side WhatsApp group or model railway club?

A new study by anthropologist Thomas Yarrow in American Ethnologist seems, at first glance, to offer reassurance. Men, it argues, don’t actually want to talk about their feelings. They actively resist the pressure to do so. Their friendships are quieter, more oblique, and that is not a failure but a........

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