Tough Guy Book Club: Encouraging 10,000 men to embrace reading worldwide

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According to The Guardian, Shay Leighton, founder of the 'Tough Guy Book Club', established the organization to challenge the notion that reading and masculinity are mutually exclusive. Leighton, who started the initiative 14 years ago in a Melbourne pub, emphasizes that the club's primary goals are to read more, talk more, and make more friends. The club, which initially recruited members by placing flyers in barbershops, boxing gyms, and tattoo parlors, now operates 159 chapters in Australia and 42 overseas. Luke Bateman, a former rugby league player and book influencer, argues that men must take the lead in changing societal perceptions, dismantling the stereotype that reading is a feminine activity.