Colin Hanks says white men in their 40s need therapy — he’s right

Colin Hanks just said what most therapists have been screaming into the void for decades: all white men in their 40s should be in therapy. Cue the collective clutching of whiskey glasses.

Colin Hanks’ therapy comment exposes a midlife male crisis

The actor-director, promoting his John Candy documentary, casually lobbed that grenade while talking about Candy’s emotional baggage — which, spoiler, every middle-aged man has in some form. Colin wasn’t wrong: Candy carried grief from losing his father as a child, a story that feels uncomfortably familiar to anyone who’s ever met a man raised to believe “feelings are for women and jazz musicians.”

White men in their 40s are the most emotionally closed off species on the planet. They call women dramatic when they themselves yell at the TV during football, rage-tweet about “cancel culture,” and quietly wonder why their marriages feel like HR meetings. They have grown up on stoicism and locker-room wisdom, not introspection. Therapy? That’s what mad people do. Except, newsflash, most of them are walking around with unexamined trauma wearing an expensive watch.

What Colin said wasn’t really a diss; it was a public service announcement. Midlife hits like a badly aimed boomerang, with kids growing up, careers plateauing, hairlines retreating. Without a little mental tune-up, it’s a short slide from “man cave” to emotional landfill.

But of course, the internet had opinions. Some accused Colin of stereotyping, others applauded him for saying what their wives have been hinting at since 2012. But therapy isn’t a punishment — it’s just emotional laundry day. So yes, maybe Colin Hanks went a little hard with his statement but he’s not wrong about the current situation. If more middle-aged men unpacked their feelings instead of their sports stats, the world might be a slightly saner place. Or at least quieter on Twitter.

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