“If I m part of the patriarchy why s my life so sh ?” That would be a more accurate subtitle for Martin Robinson s investigation of modern masculinity – that trait which nowadays generally comes with the prefix, “toxic”. He is a white male millennial who grew up in the era of equalities legislation, yet is acutely conscious of men’s image problem in the era of #MeToo and third-wave feminism. Calling him a dominant male seems a bad joke. His own life has been marked by alcoholism, breakdowns, unemployment, and a profound sense of personal and sexual inferiority. He doggedly agrees with feminist theories about “the patriarchy” and throughout this penitent book insists on his own complicity in it. Yet he can t help looking around at his own “generation rent”, who can t afford houses, have rubbish jobs and are being out-performed at every level of education by women.