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Written in 1986.
I had to read the article. It’s amazing how they can bring Trump into that.
It’s all tied to marriage. When American men realized that marriage and children are a sucker bet, they didn’t need to worry about chasing the “American dream” anymore.
Once affirmative action withstood legal challenges, men (at least white and Asian ones) knew they’d do all the work while “preferred minorities” got the money and promotions for their efforts. Having men opt out of raising families was the initial problem; at this point they can’t get them to do the work for everyone else anymore.
One silver lining to all this is that I’ve been able to slow down at work to a woman’s pace; it is like working a part-time job after the years I spent busting my hump working unpaid overtime...
He couldn’t resist blaming Trump. “Reversing social regression is more difficult than causing it. One manifestation of regression, Donald Trump, is perhaps perverse evidence that some of his army of angry men are at least healthily unhappy about the loss of meaning, self-esteem and masculinity that is a consequence of chosen and protracted idleness.”
So men are better off single and not working than married, with a family, and working?
This article is written by an ignoramus with no clue. The jobs are going to H1b immigrants. I used to worked in technology and got replaced by Indians. The economy has never recovered and once your out of work a couple of years..you might as well have Ebola. The middle class jobs are going going gone
When American men realized were indoctrinated to be metrosexualized pink-shirt-wearing poodles who believe that marriage and children are a sucker bet
There. Fixed it for ya.
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Written in 1986.
I am sorry you have had a bad relationship or three. However, the problem is not that, as you put it, “ marriage and children are a sucker bet,” the problem is the destruction of the family and the removal of God and His saving grace from our society. If men followed God’s plan for our lives then there would be no problem.
Modern marriage is a trap for men, which is why fewer men are bothering. And with no wife and kids to feed, it’s relatively inexpensive to live a comfortable life outside of high stress, low quality of life work environments.
And frankly if you are a white male working for a large company, you will hit the diversity ceiling soon enough, so better be prepared.
Feminists have spent decades trying to rip down "the Patriarchy", with most not really realizing what that would do. Note that "patriarchy" does not mean "rule by men", it means "rule by fathers".
Men would strive to become educated in order to become big earners. They would strive to become big earners in order to be able to attract a good woman, and be able to raise a family, and become fathers. This desire motivated men to go work the uncomfortable, physically demanding, and dangerous jobs that need to get done in order to keep civilization running.
In an environment where getting married is for suckers, where men can be stripped of their assets in divorce court, and their children alienated from them by bitter ex-wives, increasing numbers of men are opting out.
A man doesn't need a high paying job to support just himself. He doesn't need to be able to make a mortgage on a big house. If he's just spending for himself, he can get by on occasional work, and have lots of leisure time to go to the gym, pick up girls, play video games, or whatever he desires for personal fulfillment in the post-marriage environment.
I had to read the article. It’s amazing how they can bring Trump into that.
The problem is there aren’t many women left worth putting in the work for. Try finding one who isn’t a fat lazy slob, a left-wing wack job and/or a feminist man-hater. Then try to find one among that group that actually wants to have children before she’s 45 instead of spending all the money on herself.
That tiny pool of decent women gets snapped up very quickly by people who are at the very top of the economic earning ladder. No woman worth supporting is available to a middle-class to upper-middle-class wage earner.
Western women are bred to hate men and resent men. They become social outcasts in this culture if they admit that they might need a man in their life.
So the idea that men should still desire to work and support a family when the women who would both merit such attention and genuinely appreciate him for providing it are a rare and unattainable commodity.