It’s better for men to open up than ‘man up’ and stay silent

Man Up is the romantic comedy of the moment, But the phrase ‘man up’ really annoys, Caroline Allen who thinks it sends out the wrong message to men about mental health

BEING a man has changed, to quote a TV advert for a well known fast food chain. However, the perception of traditional roles still runs deeply throughout society.

One of Intel’s newest vice-presidents, Cork native Margaret Burgraff, was recently quoted as saying that her American husband — a stay at home dad — encountered far more discrimination as a father in the homeplace than she did as a woman at work.