His Side: Men Speak Out on Dating, Marriage, and Life in America

“Smith’s book is a central guide for both men and women who are eager to understand navigating our modern world. The book offers great insights into men’s needs and a perspective that is clear-eyed and useful for both genders.” —Salena Zito, Washington Examiner

Men don’t tell you what they really think, but they tell psychologist Helen Smith—and she tells you.

James Brown said that it’s a man’s world. That was then. Today, men are living in a female-centered society that shares and pervades their lives whether they realize it or not. Our modern culture views dating, marriage, and domestic life almost exclusively through women’s eyes and voices; men are simply seen as objects that women can order or reject by swiping on a dating app. Men’s needs and feelings are left out of the equation, or seen as downright undeserved. From the COVID Karens who scold those without masks to the den mothers who run society and the workplace, men are inundated with messages that the male point of view is unwelcome and unheard.

His Side brings previously silenced straight male perspectives to light with in-person interviews by psychologist and men’s rights advocate Helen Smith, author of Men on Strike. These interviews are first-person accounts of how young, middle-aged, and older men experience dating apps, marriage, and work while living in a world that no longer values masculine traits and desires. It is a psychological and political look into the mind of the modern male—terrain that is rarely explored in our female-centered society.

About the Author :
Helen Smith, PhD, is a psychologist specializing in men’s issues in Knoxville, Tennessee. She holds a PhD from the University of Tennessee and master’s degrees from The New School for Social Research and the City University of New York. She is the author of Men on Strike and The Scarred Heart: Understanding and Identifying Kids Who Kill and was writer and executive producer of Six, a documentary about the murder of a family in Tennessee by teens from Kentucky. Additionally, she has worked with men (as well as women and children) in her private practice for more than twenty years. She has been on numerous television and radio shows including Medical Detectives and has appeared on E! Entertainment, Fox News, Discovery, Women’s Entertainment, Biography, Oxygen, and The Learning Channel. Smith has written for numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Review :
“The book’s themes resonate in today’s society, and how it’s helping tell a side of the story higher education, mainstream media and popular culture rarely platform.” “His Side ‘gets it’: If you want to write about what boys and men are feeling [and] build their trust, then ask, then listen, then go deeper and listen again. That's what Helen Smith has done.” “One of the reasons I wanted to talk to you is because so few people today have the courage in the current cultural and political climate to stand up for men.” “Her stance is sure to incite lively debate.”