How to be a man
What is it like to be a man in a country that has lost the war? What is it like to be a man in a country where sex is taboo not only for women but also for men? What's it like to be an old-fashioned playboy in the twenty-first century? And what is it like to be a macho man and to be constantly taunted and insulted? Margriet van der Linden looks for answers to these questions in an attempt to understand today's man.
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Ep 1Mexico
Margriet van der Linden is in the northern border area of Mexico, the cradle of machismo, but also an area where drug gangs hold sway. What is it like to be a man in one of the most colorful, yet violent places in the world?
Ep 2Egypt
What is it like to be a man in a country where sex is taboo? Margriet van de Linden is in Egypt, where sex before marriage is prohibited for women and men. More than 90% of all girls are still circumcised, but there appears to be a double standard. Margriet finds a pharmacy that stocks Viagra for women.
Ep 3United States
What is it like to be a black man in the Deep South of the United States? Margriet van der Linden meets fathers and sons. Who are the role models here? What should a black father teach his son differently than a white father?
Serbia
Ep 5England
Margriet van der Linden spends a week at a typical English football club. The players have to work hard, because they don't earn enough to live from football. Everyone has one or two jobs on the side. The charismatic, but unintelligible Scottish trainer does what he can to keep the group together. An excellent place to investigate why the dressing room is the center of their lives for these and many other men.
Ep 6Switzerland
The good, the bad and the confused guy, they are all covered. Margriet van der Linden speaks to the last living playboy of Gstaad, Switzerland, the Man Squad in Ghent, Belgium, and meets quite a few 'Jokers' during a London comic fair. Men in this day and age are forced to look in the mirror and think about #MeToo and their attitude towards the world. And not everyone likes that.
