SMALL TALK: Where Are The Male Role Models? With Jack Toohey
19 November 2025

SMALL TALK: Where Are The Male Role Models? With Jack Toohey

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This week, Sarah sits down with Jack Toohey, the content creator behind THAT viral housing-crisis video, author of Better Things Are Possible, and creative production lead at Teach Us Consent.

It’s a rare Small Talk moment: a man in the guest chair. So Sarah dives straight in.


They unpack why men react so defensively to the word “privilege,” what Jack is actually seeing in his algorithm, and how fitness and diet culture have become unexpected gateways into identity and politics for young men.

They also dissect the pressure to be a “provider,” and why the real key to better conversations might be systems literacy.

Jack opens up about modern masculinity and the world men are navigating today.