Study: Short Social Media Breaks Help Mental Health

Logging off as a wellness strategy. PLUS: A vaccine is defeating cervical cancer, and is Roblox really safe for kids?

In this edition:

• The Rise Of The ‘Performative Male’

• Study Finds Mental Health Benefit to One-Week Social Media Break

• The Common Vaccines That Can Prevent Chronic Disease And Some Cancers

• Australia Set For World-First Cervical Cancer Elimination

• Don’t Fear the Teens

• Smoking Weed Has a Surprising Effect on Drinking

• US Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day, Reports Say

• We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.

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The Rise Of The ‘Performative Male’ (The Conversation)

By Jillian Sunderland: Across TikTok and university campuses, young men are rewriting what masculinity looks like today, sometimes with matcha lattes, Labubus, film cameras and thrifted tote bags.

At Toronto Metropolitan University, a “performative male” contest recently drew a sizeable crowd by poking fun at this new TikTok archetype of masculinity. The “performative man” is a new Gen Z term describing young men who deliberately craft a soft, sensitive, emotionally aware aesthetic, signalling the rejection of “toxic masculinity.”

At “performative male” contests, participants compete for laughs and for women’s attention by reciting poetry, showing off thrifted fashion or handing out feminine hygiene products to show they’re one of the “good” guys. READ MORE

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Study Finds Mental Health Benefit to One-Week Social Media Break (New York Times)

By Ellen Barry: Dialing down the use of social media for a week reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia in young adults, according to a study published on Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open.