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Boys and men are in serious trouble
The Spec ^ | 12/3/22 | Jay Robb

Posted on 12/09/2022 3:10:24 PM PST by anthropocene_x

In all 38 member countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Reeves says there are now more young women than young men with bachelor’s degrees. Forty per cent of 18-year-old women in Britain head off to college, compared to 29 per cent of their male peers.

That gap is one of many warning signs of a male malaise, especially for boys and men at the lower rungs on the economic and social ladders. “Things are worse than I thought,” says Reeves, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. “I knew some of the headlines about boys struggling at school and on campus, men losing ground in the labour market and fathers losing touch with their children. I thought that perhaps some of these were exaggerations. But the closer I looked, the bleaker the picture became.”

How bleak? Deaths of despair from drug overdoses, suicides and alcohol-related illnesses are nearly three times higher among men than women.

(Excerpt) Read more at thespec.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: economy; health; jobs; lackoffathers; mentalhealth; singlemoms
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To: Rummyfan

“What is HEAL?”
Read the article.
Health, Education, Administrative, Literary.
Basically all your service industries women have taken over.


61 posted on 12/09/2022 4:11:59 PM PST by rellic
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To: anthropocene_x

  EYEWASH ALERT!!
Sam Brinton, the nonbinary Department of Energy official charged with theft in Minnesota, has been accused of stealing a second suitcase from an airport in Nevada
  fjb's real genderless it.

male role model of the future.

62 posted on 12/09/2022 4:16:10 PM PST by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict At Large)
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To: rbg81

‘While you can make good money in nursing, I don’t think the profession appeals to men in general.’

for my money, the notion of a male nurse attending to me makes me want to throw up...


63 posted on 12/09/2022 4:16:18 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: G Larry

**At some point Companies will become desperate for POSITIVE RESULTS and start hiring/promoting base upon merit again.**

I hope it happens in my lifetime. Sigh.


64 posted on 12/09/2022 4:16:40 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: anthropocene_x

Feminists and the Left have brought a war to men and many are suffering.


65 posted on 12/09/2022 4:23:53 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Irenic
Toxic masculinity, toxic testosterone, man spread, mansplainin’, the only accepted man is the one that calls himself a woman and needs tampons for his Barbie pouch. These people are destroying society and nature.

Maybe we need to start discussing toxic femininity and the systemic sexism that has caused the disparity in enrollment.

66 posted on 12/09/2022 4:24:35 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Kriggerel

30 :)

lol

but for various reasons I am on a college campus quite often and hear the stories from the girls who cant get dates to dances.


68 posted on 12/09/2022 4:42:44 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: EEGator

That kind of work is shocking.


69 posted on 12/09/2022 4:45:31 PM PST by Degaston (no autocrats please)
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To: Gil4

We are getting beyond talking anymore.


70 posted on 12/09/2022 4:47:10 PM PST by Irenic
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To: anthropocene_x

Maybe the guys are smart enough to know that a $400K doctorate in “bikini inspection” isn’t going to get you a real job.


71 posted on 12/09/2022 4:47:30 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: dljordan

Sorry to hear about the falling glass breaking some pipes on the way down from the broken ceiling. But, what about the people in the room? Some could get lacerated by falling glass.


72 posted on 12/09/2022 4:49:59 PM PST by Degaston (no autocrats please)
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To: anthropocene_x

I still don’t understand why we even let women go to college...but yes, this was bound to result, once we made that fateful choice.


73 posted on 12/09/2022 4:51:57 PM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 24 degrees)
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To: Degaston

74 posted on 12/09/2022 4:55:59 PM PST by EEGator
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To: IrishBrigade
for my money, the notion of a male nurse attending to me makes me want to throw up...

Yeah, I hear ya. Though, luckily, I cannot ever recall having a male nurse. I would never go to a male masseuse either.
75 posted on 12/09/2022 5:06:33 PM PST by rbg81
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To: BobL
I still don’t understand why we even let women go to college..

I doubt you would say the same thing about blacks, Jews or Mormans.

But it is, after all, Friday night. Difficult night for some, even in Texas.

76 posted on 12/09/2022 5:07:43 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: NeverCheney

There is more money in the trades! Send the manly men in that direction. Besides, the more people with college degrees the less they are worth.


77 posted on 12/09/2022 5:11:14 PM PST by bella1 (DeSantis 2024)
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To: Paleo Conservative

“But what’s the breakdown on STEM majors?”

My first thought!

Most women are getting useless degrees, in “studies”. It doesn’t even qualify them to be a barista... especially because they’ll have an attitude that that’s below them since they have a useless piece of paper.


78 posted on 12/09/2022 5:16:44 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: ladyjane

“I doubt you would say the same thing about blacks, Jews or Mormans.”

Them going to college didn’t destroy the culture that we’ve had for the past 5,000 years. Women going to college destroyed the family (at least in enough cases) to now destroy the culture by cutting fertility to next to nothing.

Because of my children, I look at the long term, and my culture, the culture that gave humanity virtually everything it has, is now being WIPED OUT by not having enough children.


79 posted on 12/09/2022 5:20:33 PM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 24 degrees)
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To: anthropocene_x
when a young man gets gang raped, on video, and they don't prosecute THEN you can start your insane premise that somehow boys and men are victims....

follow the crime stats if nothing else....

so women are getting more college degrees....all that means is we have a generation or two or unabitious,lazy, aimless males and btw they are the same males that hate women except for their computer generated sweetie.....

real contact?....too difficult....

80 posted on 12/09/2022 5:33:19 PM PST by cherry
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