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.
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“more young women than young men with bachelor’s degrees”
Do show the degrees young women are getting. How many more “Gender Studies,” journalism, communications, or ethnic studies degrees does the world need?
United and the other airlines aren't doing this just to grandstand. Sully Sullenberger warned that talented candidates weren't going into flying unless the airlines upped the compensation.
Since the airlines can't raise pay, their only option is to hire less qualified pilots. The public wouldn't accept less qualified white male pilots but if we've learned anything over the last few decades, it's that the soft bigotry of lowered expectations is exactly what happens. None dare call out an underqualified pilot because they'll be labeled as a racist or misogynist.
...and the results will be deadly. Navy Lt. Kara Hultgreen who died after crashing an F-14 in 1994:
https://www.cmrlink.org/data/sites/85/CMRDocuments/CMRRPT09-0695.pdf
Women with degrees will generally not consider marrying men of lower educational status. Even if she just has a degree in “women’s studies” and works as a low-paid HR drone, while he makes a lot more money.
When I went to college in the 50’s, lawyers were the worst dates.
They talked endlessly...about themselves.
I married a chemical engineer.
Well, my axiom would still hold true...” Men are swine, and women deserve no better.”
I was told many years ago that there is such a shortage in the trades that any guy who is intelligent and competent could easily earn 6 figures income just in doing trade work. But somehow, everyone has been brainwashed (or gaslit) into thinking that working with your hands at something actually useful is beneath them, and that everyone should be college material and if you are not, you are of less value than the college educated. Funny because what I see coming out of college these days sure doesn’t support that.
I had a daughter so off to college for her but if I had a college age boy I'd encourage a year off from college( STEM only) and work in a trade. Learning hard work, a skill and punching that time clock. Pay their own rent for a year. Then the decision on college. Hard work clears the mind and after 12 years of indoctrination it might refresh/mature a young mind?
More than anything else, it is just one more of the effects of contraception. Be single, celibate and continent, or be married and have as many children as God will give, in a life of temperance.
Not really given that women find a statistically impossible 80% of men “below average”.
Plumbing is the noblest profession profession on Earth. After all, what separates a superior civilization from an inferior one? Clean potable drinking water and proper sanitation.
I say many trades, but I only directly know about my industry in depth.
Yes, I agree.
Plumbers can make damn good money. They are worth it. I’ve always done most of my own plumbing work, except for the real serious stuff where there is no way of getting around it.
But I’m in my 70s now and crawling around in holes and cramped wet spaces isn’t something I particularly want to do anymore.
“Don’t we know the worth of water when the well runs dry’’.- Ben Franklin.
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