Posted on 02/08/2022 9:07:15 PM PST by anthropocene_x
Boys and men across all regions and ethnic groups have been failing, both absolutely and relatively, for years. This is catastrophic for our country.
Men now make up only 40.5 percent of college students. Male community college enrollment declined by 14.7 percent in 2020 alone, compared with 6.8 percent for women. Median wages for men have declined since 1990 in real terms. Roughly one-third of men are either unemployed or out of the workforce. More U.S. men ages 18 to 34 are now living with their parents than with romantic partners.
More than two-thirds of manufacturing workers are men; the sector has lost more than 5 million jobs since 2000. That’s a lot of unemployed men. Not just coincidentally, “deaths of despair” — those caused by suicide, overdose and alcoholism — have surged to unprecedented levels among middle-aged men over the past 20 years.
Yes, men have long had societal advantages over women and in some ways continue to be treated favorably. But male achievement — alongside that of women — is a condition for a healthy society. And male failure begets male failure, to society’s detriment. Our media, institutions and public leadership have failed to address this crisis, framing boys and men as the problem themselves rather than as people requiring help. This needs to change. Helping boys and men succeed should be a priority for all our society’s institutions.
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It's not the fault of young men that young women don't want them. Social media, Hollywood, academia, have filled women's head with the notion that every one of them is Awesome! and Amazing! and deserving of an equally Awesome! man.
Every woman demands a TALL man, and Great-Looking, and Funny, and Successful, etc. And every woman imagines that she's entitled to such a man, and can get one, if only she won't "settle."
Most men are average and boring, not "Amazing!" Most women are average and boring (though at lot of them are also FAT these days).
In the old days, young women "settled" for an average guy who lived nearby, and they'd start a family. Today, young women "refuse to settle." So they'll never marry. That's not the fault of young men.
The manosphere teaches the 80/20 Rule, which says that 80% of women are attracted to only 20% of men. Most women are sleeping with the same few men, relegating the majority of men to incel status.
In some ways, I'm glad I'm not a young man. Women always had the potential for craziness, but patriarchy (a good thing) kept women in check. Whereas social media fertilizers their craziness.
Agreed.
“Women always had the potential for craziness, but patriarchy (a good thing) kept women in check.”
Many young men aren’t marrying/breeding anymore because the patriarchy kept THEM in check/saddled with responsibilities. Many women miss “the patriarchy” but aren’t allowed to openly say so.
Just now noticing are we WAPO? You’re a good 25 years late. This is one of the big “achievements” of the feminazi movement. Great, so you’ve managed to tilt education, the workplace, divorce and custody, entertainment, etc to be heavily anti male. Great achievement. Its a huge victory for the Sisterhood!
Except......umm......who are women going to marry?
How happy are they going to be when they find themselves without a man and likely without any children at 40?
What kind of future will the country have without many children?
OOPS!
It turns out it takes two to Tango. Maybe, just maybe you should have thought of that before you did things like getting rid of physical education and shop class and more practical subjects in school. Males do not do as well in an environment where they have to sit inside for hour after hour. They need more physical activity.
Maybe you shouldn’t have stuffed universities full of hardcore Leftist administrators who seem to think it their mission to screw men over at every turn. Maybe you should not have these ridiculous kangaroo “courts” at universities in which a mere accusation can get a man thrown out without him ever having the slightest opportunity to defend himself.
Maybe you shouldn’t define masculinity as “toxic” and demonizing men being actual men at every turn. Maybe you shouldn’t try to glamorize effete soy boys which let’s face it, women do not really want no matter what they say.
Maybe you shouldn’t saddle men with financial ruin in divorce proceedings and deny them anything remotely approaching equality in custody disputes if you want men to actually marry women and start families.
Maybe you shouldn’t set government policies to actively discourage and dis-incentivize work fields primarily filled by men such as manufacturing.
Otherwise men will tend to do what they are doing which is opt out. That’s a direct response to policies YOU in the Leftist establishment have pushed. Feminazis were too stupid and short sighted or just too filled with hatred for men to see the disastrous effect their ideology would have on society if implemented. Well, we see it now.
It still does. Get a woman pregnant, pay for life. Whereas the woman can abort, or divorce you and keep the children while living with another man. (But you must still pay for child support, even as the other man raises your kids.)
In the old days, the patriarchy imposed responsibilities on men, but also gave them benefits. If a mother ran off with another man, she lost her children. Father had full custody.
Today, the patriarchy imposes responsibilities on men, but no reciprocal benefits. Whereas the patriarchy continues to protect and support women, while refusing to impose any responsibilities on them.
Can't blame young men for MGTOW.
This has been borne out by the data over and over again. Women rated 80% of men “below average”. Which means what most guys could tell you - its great for the guys at the top who either won the genetic lottery or whose families are rich. Most get ignored by women in their early to mid 20s. A lot of women don’t start finally getting realistic until they hit the wall at 30.
Then a lot of them quickly get desperate and start trying to circle back to the guys who showed interest in them and who they rejected in their 20s. Only now that those guys are starting to get their feet underneath them and gain traction in their careers and who are finally starting to get attention from women do not want women in their 30s - especially not ones who already showed them that they thought they weren’t good enough in their 20s.
And viola! A steadily growing cadre of educated, professional, bitter, childless cat ladies (lifetime Democrat voters) who are in their late 30’s and older is the result.
That is a bull stat.
Well that is a lesson many young men seemed to have learned, as it seems in my limited bubble that unplanned pregnancies are more rare than when I was young; this may be because many young men don’t even date at this point.
I never blamed young men for MGTOW; I’m married with children but we are both from another time/culture. Because we live in an Immigrant Resettlement Zone (NJ), there are plenty of intact families - they are just foreigners.
After my husband left - I had to raise 4 children by myself.
They completed high school and went to work - no college.
They all have houses, money and close connections with each other.
It can be done.
God bless
You forgot "and tattooed". That makes fat girls look SO much more attractive.
BTW, all these years and I didn't know you were a lady!
What followed was the "liberace" generation that avoided fighting/risk/danger and gradually began to assume a more submissive role in society as the safest route.
Now we have the children of those safe twits in power - disguised as Democrats -and they have handed everything to the women.
Nothing wrong with women - but men tend to make actual decisions instead of handing matters to boards/Councils/conferences.
"Men" built this mess all by themselves.
So the guy who made his name by pushing for the UBI has now decided men need to feel as if their work is needed?
I suspect you’ve got it completely backward. It is young men who more likely think they deserve the real looker mate.
Most men who are decent and good providers can do just fine with getting a partner if that’s what they want.
Men have been made docile and weak by the environmental toxins either allowed to or intentionally bringing them down.
Is it feminism's fault that men constantly sell each other out whenever women are involved?
Is it feminism's fault that men are ready to beat each other up or kill each other over any perceived offense, no matter how trivial?
Is it feminism's fault that men commit suicide after being outed for bad behavior, such as what happened when Ashley Madison was hacked?
Is it feminism's fault that men are divorced after screwing around on their wives, or when their marriages are wrecked after other men screw their wives?
Is it feminism's fault that men have billions of dollars to pay for prostitution every year in the US alone, yet won't donate 10% of that to the MRAs who are fighting the discrimination they are always complaining about?
Is it feminism's fault that men won't even defend their own sons against a school system that allows girls to assault them or even kick them in the nuts for no reason, and won't even allow them the right to defend themselves?
Here is an op ed that was written 12 years ago, but tells exactly what the problem is.
Time for Some Male Bashing of Our Own
As to the point that outsourcing manufacturing jobs has hurt men, how many men supported those free trade deals that shipped the jobs out of the country in the first place?
Most men who are merely decent and good providers (and are not in the Top 20%), will at best find a former slut in her 30s, who's deigned to "settle" for him now that she's getting old and was unable to land her top choices (the men she slutted around with in her 20s, but who refused to marry her.)
Such a wife will spend her life resenting her "good provider" Beta Male for not being her first choice. By her 40s, she'll be looking up her former lovers on Facebook, have an affair, and maybe divorce her "good provider" -- who will have to continue to provide under penalty of law.
Meanwhile, she'll blog about her Awesome! life as newly liberated (i.e., divorced) woman. She'll renew her slutting while living in the house that her ex-husband must continue paying for, along with child support.
Bitter much?
That’s the sort of fate that comes to men who go for the most arm-candy they can bag. Hint: folks with similar values tend to find each other.
Both likely need all the forgiveness that one can muster for the other.
I remember the 1980s. Many Reaganite conservatives were into union-bashing, and cheered the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs because it punished "leftist unions" for their greed.
Conservatives were wrong about that. And about NAFTA and GATT in the 1990s (which were also supported by Clinton type, moderate New Democrats).
No surprise. Real males instinctively recognize faggotry and avoid it at all costs, and colleges have become leftwing faggot factories.
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