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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Same divorce laws for men and women, whatever each state chooses.
Men Going Their Own Way.
It amounts to hiding in a cave under a rock.
Saying that many men are complicit is fair and accurate.
Denying that many women are complicit is neither fair nor accurate.
Please explain what you mean by same.
I am for everyone either sending their daughters and sons to private schools or homeschooling their daughters and sons.
There should be refundable tax credits to facilitate that.
Sounds like you want to go back to making it really hard to get a divorce. If you do that, it just needs to be equal on both sides. But you seemed only concerned about one side of the equation.
Make a proposal.
A good place to start would be in Florida. I bet DeSantis would be all for it.
You’re the one who seems upset with the divorce laws, presumably in your state. It would be for you to propose any changes there.
As I am guessing you know it used to be much more difficult to get a divorce in most states. There may be merit to dialing things back at least somewhat closer to what things were then, though I think the outlet of looser rules in Nevada IIRC was important for many people back then too.
I already made a proposal.
Young men could forsake a career and get married and have babies. /sarc
Again, that’s fine with me as long as it goes both ways—and you don’t somehow count the assets from a marriage as just the gent’s.
Right; it is a deliberate avoidance of fatherhood and the responsibilities that come with it. The elites resent the growing population of young men who can leave jobs at their will (with the corresponding tax responsibilities), and who can move where they wish (including across borders).
I never said some women weren't complicit, but if men are going to spend their lives thinking with the little head, then nothing is going to change.
Not all, but they know who they are.
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