The wussification of Amerika continues....
The world today teaches males at a young age that women have “options”, men have obligations.
I went Galt 15 years ago.
I work alone now.
Well if you take away our ability to do our jobs of being Men and Father’s and tell us we are going to do it the woman’s way then no wonder blokes hang out the ‘Gone Fishing’ sign. If I didn’t love my wife and kids so much I would have gone outside and spent my entire life in the shed or bought a decent boat and gone fishing.
Mel
Society has collapsed. Civilization is dying. The future is going to be very grim. That’s “progress”
It’s a stupid and myopic analysis that takes this long ( that part excerpted) to mention religion, if it gets around to it at all. Remember Max Weber?
Thanks 2D...a few years ago people wondered why fewer men were in college.....now we know...men are not welcome...
From the article: “The rewards for men in the fields of marriage, education, career, and fatherhood are just a lot less than they used to be, and the cost and dangers are just a lot higher. So they’re opting out, and whether people want to believe this or not, it’s happening.”
Yup. Women tend to forget that older men talk to younger men.
I find all the hubbub over homosexual state marriage to be a bit surreal: the real issue that will affect society in the future is that heterosexual men are abandoning it in droves.
American females no longer want men, they want boys. So men are letting them have what they want. What they are upset about that real men still exist who don’t need them. THAT is intolerable, and must be destroyed.
I don’t think I’d call them “men”.
It might be more difficult now to lead women and children, and to meet one’s other responsibilities, but a man finds a way to do his duty even when it’s tough.
Boys don’t.
Taken to the extreme of role reversal, it used to be that a woman who had lost her virginity before marriage was seen as undesirable.
Today, however, male desirability is based on being not just debt free, but having a good job, material wealth, and the willingness to sacrifice it all to a wife and children. His reward being to be seen as conforming to social standards that offer him little else.
Legally, his wife controls their marriage, and if she decides to end it, she gets what he has, and he is obligated to support her and any children they produced, even if he is not left enough to survive.
If he chooses the bath of bachelorhood, he will be bitterly attacked, but he will retain his autonomy and wealth, will be able to live in comfort instead of poverty, and he will be free of the demands put on a married man.
He may even see this as the honorable course. That unless he can support a family, he shouldn’t start one, because that wouldn’t be fair to them.
There are two factors at work here:
1 - Uncle Sam provides for single women with children what men used to provide.
2 - No matter how “perfect” a partner a man is, he’s not appreciated by either his partner or society at large. When you can’t win, why even bother playing the game?
It looks like the introduction to what may be an interesting article. But when he starts to get to the meat did the subject, it says, “To be continued”.
No surprise. You virtually never even really see depictions of solid, old-style masculinity in the culture anymore. Just over-emoting and self-absorbed man-children.
Yet another indication of the impending collapse. A twisted culture that celebrates dope and homosex. Wastrels and deviants. Western civilization committing suicide.
Helen Smith describes very well what is going on with men. My son is 33 has basically become a workaholic playaholic. Doesn’t date has no plan for a family. Works all day at a job he can bring his dog along and plays video’s at night. When he has time off he’ll come home and spoil his nephews and nieces till he gets tired then goes back to work in a few weeks. He has a real well trained dog
Oh good grief.
Women are going Galt as well.
It is a rational response to what is going on in the economy and politics.