Coming soon / Now looking for founding writers
Men.
In their own words.
What Men Really Think is a new home for men from every country and every walk of life to say what they actually think, how they think, and why. No polish, no politics, no preaching. I'm looking for the first men to write for it.
Before launch
Why founding writers matter
The first stories set the tone for everything that follows. When the site opens, yours will be among the first a reader ever sees, and the men who come after you will write because of what you wrote.
There's no experience required and no audience to build. Just something true you've been carrying, told the way you'd tell it.
The short version
- Any man, any country, 18 or older
- Your words are never edited
- You write under a pen name
- Nobody is paid, including me
- You keep the rights to your story
What you can send
A full story
As long as it needs to be. Your life, a moment that changed you, something you've never said out loud.
100 words
A whole story in a hundred words or fewer. Harder than it sounds, and it often hits harder too.
An answer
Pick a question and answer it: What's the best advice your father never gave you? When did you first feel like a man?
An invention
A product that doesn't exist but should, plus the real version a man can do today. For the monthly Catalog.
Write about anything
The rules are short
- I won't edit your wordsYour grammar, your spelling, your voice. It runs the way you wrote it, or it doesn't run at all. If something needs to change, I'll tell you why and you decide.
- Language is fineIf cursing is how you talk, write it that way. What doesn't belong is language for its own sake, with no story under it.
- No politics, no religion as a causeYour faith or your loss of it can be part of your story. Preaching, or arguing which side is right, is not.
- Your own story, your own wordsYour life, written by you. No AI, no borrowed stories.
- Protect people, including yourselfDon't name or identify a private person. And leave out anything that could identify you.
- Hard subjects are welcomeIf your story is about suicide, self-harm or wanting to die, I want to read it. Just leave out how.
Your information is your business
You write under a pen name. Your email stays private and is only used to tell you what happened to your story. Nothing is ever sold or shared, and everything runs on our own servers.
Nobody here is paid
Not the writers, not me. That's on purpose: men write because they have something to say. Everything beyond the cost of running the site goes to men's mental health.
It stays yours
You keep the rights to your story, and you can ask me to take it down at any time.
How to send it
Got something to say? Write it real.
Use the form, or email your story straight to me. Paste it into the email rather than attaching a file. Attached documents can carry hidden details, like your real name, that you'd want kept private.
You must be 18 or older. Every story is read by a person, and you'll hear back from me whatever the decision.
write@whatmenreallythink.com
Put these in the email:
- Your pen name, the name readers will see
- Your country and age range
- Your occupation, if you want to share it
- Which subject it fits, and which of the four ways it is
- Your story, pasted right into the email