#838: Why S’pore Fails Its Men & Gen Z To Blame For SG’s Dead Nightlife? | MenToo Founder
Timbre Group CEO Danny Loong recently started MenToo, encouraging Singaporean men to talk about mental health, loneliness and suicide. As president of the Nighttime Business Association, he's also battling a collapsing nightlife with upcoming plans for some nightlife rebranding.
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(00:00) intro
(02:12) How MenToo got started
(02:57) Why they chose the name MenToo
(04:09) Reactions from women to the name
(05:13) Singapore's male suicide rates
(06:17) Looking back on the name choice
(08:29) Media coverage of masculinity in Singapore
(11:50) Learning from women's groups
(15:22) Danny's own journey with masculinity
(16:24) Moving to Australia and becoming a musician
(18:20) Three things that changed Danny
(19:15) Losing his father and learning to grieve
(20:33) What surprises Danny about Gen Z men
(22:58) Gen Z and the declining desire to get married
(24:10) Shifting narratives around fatherhood
(25:38) Why there's so much negativity about parenthood
(28:14) Looking to Scandinavian countries for balance
(29:01) Pushback: is Singapore really that bad
(29:52) Quiet suffering and spotting men in trouble
(31:20) The How to Grow program
(33:30) Has Singapore society changed over the decades
(34:06) Rise of men's groups and shifting fatherhood ideas
(38:25) Papers on loneliness and counselling for men
(41:00) Media coverage of the Men Too launch
(43:09) Upcoming Men Too activities and the divorce boot camp
(45:04) From men's mental health to nightlife
(45:49) Music, Timber, and Danny's dark days
(47:56) Nightlife also needs help
(48:20) The state of nightlife today
(49:42) Renaming to the Singapore Nighttime Business Association
(51:01) Holland Village Street Festival
(51:49) Transportation and practical nightlife issues
(52:19) Supper culture then and now
(54:14) Covid as the biggest shift in nightlife
(55:31) New nightlife survey with university students
(57:11) Advice for young nightlife entrepreneurs
(58:20) Supporting local brands and jobs
(59:27) Losing cultural connection across generations
(1:00:56) Do policymakers see the bigger picture
(1:01:32) Steps toward better nightlife policy
(1:03:36) Balancing regulation with cultural freedom
(1:06:05) Redefining the Night campaign
(1:09:49) Hoping for more research like the Knight report
(1:10:46) How fatherhood changed his view of nighttime
(1:11:34) Timber Plus Hillview's new playground
(1:13:23) How individuals can support the nighttime economy
(1:17:01) One Shiok Thing
(1:23:36) Post-interview Reflections
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