Looks like another version of the United States of American Idle. People are so bent on style(cool, unattached) and completely ignore their own ambitions. Eh, what do I know? I don’t understand this country anymore.
As an educated professional who is currently enrolled in a Graduate degree program, I can attest to this article's verity. The focus of a grand majority of on-campus groups is women. Men are highly under-recognized in academe, and even orientation groups focus heavily on amenities for the women. There are women only study groups and areas of the library. There are ladies' nights at the clubs. There are an overwhelming number of women's groups on campus for everything from outdoor activities to xylophone lessons, and yet men are still being seen as drunken, disorderly reprobates who barely pass through their degree programs. I graduated with a 3.67, thanks much.
And what really fries me is that we are hearing almost daily about men being subjugated, but you don't hear an uprising of men asking for suffrage. No, we float through our lives; we are the high school troublemakers, the collegiate binge drinkers; we are the fraternity pranksters; we are the class clowns; we are the risk takers; we ascend from entry-level work to the corner office in just a couple of decades; and we retire sated with our careers, feeling that we accomplished something. Never once in that process do we have to deal with glass ceilings or pregnancy, but lo be the man who ascends to that corner office after marrying the wrong woman. We are the hardest hit in divorces; we are the least likely to get kids in a custody battle; up until our early 30s, we have a better chance of dying in a bar brawl than a car accident; we pay higher insurance premiums; we are more likely to die before women; mens' cancers don't have entire government arms to shovel money into them for research while women have Breast Cancer awareness month and vaccines for cervical cancer-somehow I think that Prostate Cancer awareness month might not go over well as breasts.
My point in this rambling diatribe is that women have everything they need to live successful, fulfilling lives. This BS about being paid less than men on purpose is complete bunk. If this was knowingly occurring, there would be much gnashing of teeth amongst the NOW groupies. We read stories like the one last week about 40% of live births in the U.S. occur to unwed, single mothers. I'm 29 years old. I've not fathered a child. I've not even thought I was the paterfamilia for any women with whom I've had the pleasure. I am debt free, dating a wonderful, mature, older woman; I am a homeowner; I have a good job that will vault me into a better one; and yet I am still considered a boozer, a reprobate, and apparently, accordingly the likes of Cosmo, I don't know how to find the clitoris.
I'm tired of the male bashing. We are given the tools to make our lives successful. The government in this country does well to leave us alone long enough to make inroads into something propitious. Just because a dwindling number of numbskulls at America's universities are getting into trouble doesn't mean that we're worthless. It means that they need to stop cutting men's programs and try to find a way to either make co-ed mandatory for all on-campus activities or find ways to bring men back to the schools.
If the Gen Yers and their predecessors are the group they're specifically targeting, they're dealing with a lot of kids who started drinking, using drugs, and having sex at 14, 15, 16 years old. College, to these men, is a target-rich environment, and if they are the subjugated class, why bother working hard to make a name if Suzy B. Better is going to be recognized first? Seems like the women's movement has answered more questions than were originally posited.