Again, no one "stopped talking to females". That's your projection. And yes, Marines know they're not marriage material.
As for your opinion that it's a "bizarre attempt", well, that's your opinion.
Posted on 09/16/2026 9:48:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Institute for Family Studies (IFS) recently estimated that the gap between unmarried and married men under the age of 40 continues to widen—with 15 million more bachelors than husbands between the ages of 20 to 39 in 2025.
The gap has widened by 12.4 million since 2000, when the gap between married and unmarried stood at 2.6 million.
IFS also reports, according to a General Social Survey, 11 percent of young adults in the early 2000s said they were “not too happy.” That percentage is now at 26 percent. During the same period, the number of married men ages 20–39 dropped by 15 percent.
Leading the unhappiness charge are single men, who are either postponing or rejecting marriage, or not perceived as a suitable marriage partner by single women because of various societal changes.
This is a serious problem for American society.
In his book, “Men and Marriage,” (an expanded edition of his 1973 work “Sexual Suicide”) George Gilder wrote: “Men lust, but they don’t know what for; they wander, and lose track of the goal; they fight and compete, but they forget the prize; they spread seed but spurn the seasons of growth; they chase power and glory but miss the meaning of life.”
Brad Wilcox of IFS agrees with Gilder: “Such men are more likely to be lonely, prone to deaths of despair and unhappy. It’s never good for a society to have large numbers of unattached, dispirited, and unhappy young men.”
A Wall Street Journal article from last year titled, “American Women are Giving Up on Marriage,” touches on several reasons why women are not getting married—whether it be trouble finding a suitable man or choosing a career over marriage.
Disillusioned with the current state of what they perceive to be suitable and available men, they say they are more content with singleness than their male counterparts. A commonly heard complaint is that in their search of a suitable man to marry, they are only finding a world of “man-children.”
So, why has this happened? Why are there so many unmarried young men and why are women having a hard time finding a suitable partner in what would seemingly be an abundant harvest?
First, many of these young men have no idea of what it takes to be a husband or father because they had no one to model that for them. This is just another symptom of the breakdown of the family, a culture of divorce, and a society that has economically awarded single parent families while placing financial burdens on traditional two-parent families.
Secondly, especially among working class men, the jobs that would have traditionally provided for a family have either not kept up with inflation, or in some cases, simply disappeared. In addition, our educational system is no longer providing the needed training for these men to enter the workplace and succeed. Meanwhile, the number of men attending college, the ticket to good paying and stable jobs, continues to decrease.
Finally, numerous voices in our culture have sent a message that women can succeed without having a husband—“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” as the saying goes. But when men are not marrying, there is a ripple effect that impacts all aspects of our society.
For example, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the percentage of children born outside of marriage has risen from 33.2 percent of all live births in 2000 to 39.5 percent in 2024. This means a much higher percentage of young people are growing up in single parent households. And single parent households are often more dependent upon government assistance, with boys who grow up without a father often ending up failing socially and economically.
Those numbers also indicate that we’re hurtling toward a demographic disaster. Married couples not only provide a nurturing environment for children but also are more likely to have children.
It is not that young men have given up on marriage. Pew Research reported in 2023 that 74 percent of teenage boys want to be married someday. The problem is that many have no internal road map or GPS to help them get there.
As a society, we need to equip these young men with the skills, personal discipline, and sense of purpose to make them “marriage material.” It is a time for us, as a society, to return to a time when men have purpose—to be faithful husbands, loving fathers, and good providers.
This is going to be a long process, and it will require a long-term societal investment in affirming healthy, traditional two-parent families with engaged fathers who model such discipline and purpose to their sons. Boys do not have a choice when it comes to the families they are born into, but adults can make the right choices to help them flourish and thrive.
Men, women, and our society will be much better off as a result.
Was that a negative about dating and liking female company for dinner and drinks, you are against it for men?
I’m showing you that even not marrying will not necessarily save the male.
I have nothing against female company, but the system has an issue about even slight socializing by males.
All those young males in the Marines are probably too stupid to follow your advice to avoid females, they will probably continue to enjoy their company and to marry females.
That is their risk to take, I guess.
Or you can be wealthy and marriage is a luxury that you can afford (Trump is on his 3rd marriage.)
The Marines, more than most, know that these women are not marriage material.
Your projections and shame tactics stopped working on men a long time ago. And as I said and you choose to ignore, they're not afraid to talk to women. They'll even sleep with them. They just won't marry these women because these women are not marriage material.
You aren’t reading the thread, they are afraid of them, try catching up with the thread, and your dig at the Marines was pretty stupid, claiming that they “know” that the women they are still talking to, dating, and getting married to “are not marriage material”, your insult to the Marines is too silly to be meaningful.
Just wow. YOU try catching up with the thread, starting with the title: "Why Men Aren't Marrying". It's not "Why Men Aren't Talking To Females and Dating Them".
The LIE is that they're afraid of women. And here you are pushing that LIE either out of ignorance or arrogance.
The climbing STD rates and abortion rates show that men are having sex with women. They just won't marry Pookie or Ray Ray's leftovers. The simps are walking away.
Man after man steps up to the microphone and says exactly why they won't go near some ran-through, high-body count single mother with children from multiple fathers, and the screeching feminazis tell him he's wrong and it's because he's afraid of them - because that's what she was told to say.
For all your goofiness, read the posts, they are afraid of women, like you, but some of them seem to hate them less than the white hot hatred you have for them.
Your angriness has turned into an flurry of postings all of a sudden on FR in the last 1/2 hour or so, you should take a breath, relax.
Stupid? Silly? That's your opinion.
You are the one who tried to play the "True Scotsman" fallacy, that you "guess that the young Marine males" are real men "and are still talking to females and dating them."
For the past seven decades feminization has built in the perfect Catch 22 social convention for anything masculine; the expectation to assume the responsibilities of being a man (Man Up) while at the same time denigrating asserting masculinity as a positive (Shut Up). Whatever aspect of maleness that serves the feminine purpose is a man's masculine responsibility, yet any aspect that disagrees with feminine primacy is labeled Patriarchy, "Male Privilege", or Misogyny.
Well, now the feminists got what they wanted, and it's time for them to "Shut Up and Woman Up". Go out and work harder to keep these debt and tax slavers investments going. As the thread title said, men aren't marrying them to help them anymore. Even the simps are walking away.
The sheer arrogance that you deem it to be anger. So, you're the expert.
And the audacity to tell me, or anyone else, what they should do.
Lol, it was stupid, Marines still talk to females, date them, and marry them, yet you claim that they know they “are not marriage material”, a bizarre attempt at insulting the Marines, really silly.
For all your arrogance to judge whether it's goofy or not.
Belittle it all you want.
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
Keep posting bro ... You’re on a roll ...
Again, no one "stopped talking to females". That's your projection. And yes, Marines know they're not marriage material.
As for your opinion that it's a "bizarre attempt", well, that's your opinion.
Bizarre, you think the Marines are talking to, dating, and marrying females that they know are not marrying material.
Why would they be marrying and having families with women they know are not “marriage material” as you describe their girlfriends and wives?
WUT???
I wrote that they were talking to them and dating them. YOU claimed they were marrying them, not me. I specifically wrote that they were NOT marrying them - just like the article title.
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