I’m a man, and here’s what Danny Dyer’s How to Be a Man doesn’t tell you about the ‘war on men’

Is it fair to say there’s a war on men at the moment?” It’s a question poses in the first episode of , a new two-part docuseries fronted by the hardman actor. The programme wades into the sticky and opaque tar pit of modern masculinity, with the star serving as our plain-spoken docent. The hypothetical war is often framed as an incursion from outside: hardline, man-hating feminists throwing rocks and flaming bras at the crumbling fundaments of traditional masculinity. But is it fair? The thing is…in the midst of a war on men. But, like all wars, it’s one orchestrated and carried out almost entirely men.