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Posted on 07/11/2025 4:38:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
And how to bring them back.
In a recent New York Times article titled, “Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back,” Rachel Drucker laments what she calls “a collective shift” in men, a “slow vanishing of presence.” So many single men, she writes, aren’t “sitting across from someone on a Saturday night, trying to connect.” Instead, they “have retreated from intimacy, hiding behind firewalls, filters and curated personas, dabbling and scrolling.” She adds, “We miss you.”
Ms. Drucker – a single, 54-year-old Chicagoan – hints that pornography is at least partly to blame for this state of affairs. She mentions that she herself spent years working in that field as the custodian of records for Playboy and its affiliated hardcore properties. She worked closely with marketing teams to understand “what cues tempt the average 18-to-36-year-old cis heterosexual man. What drew him in. What kept him coming back.” She learned that it wasn’t intimacy or mutuality, but “access to simulation.”
Now many men, she believes, have “quietly withdrawn from intimacy and vulnerability” into “indifference.” The sexes have moved, she observes, into an era when traditional courting has devolved into “directionless orbiting,” “men circling intimacy but never entering it… ‘seeing where it goes’ without ever going anywhere.” She even mourns the “unscripted contact” of one-night stands.
She concludes by pleading men, “You can still come back. We’re still here, those of us who are willing to cocreate something true… And we haven’t stopped hoping.”
The male retreat from the courting dance of days past is a tragedy, but so is Ms. Drucker’s obliviousness to the reasons for it. Yes, pornography is a huge factor; the ubiquitous availability of the most explicit imagery imaginable (and even unimaginable) to anyone with an internet connection is a terrible scourge in our society – and not...
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It’s not that there’s shortage of good men for marriage but that there’s an abundance of men who know better.
Women don’t want a spouse; they want a sponsor.
Crowd four men into a hut and they’ll make it work. Put two women in opposite ends of a palace and they’ll find reasons to hate each other.
A man and woman have been repeatedly fighting over the steering wheel. The man eventually bails out because he’s the adult.
A woman isn’t single because she’s strong and independent, she’s single because no one wants to deal with her.
I can’t even begin to say how important and wonderful my girlfriends throughout my life, and my sister, have been and are. The BFF relationship is incredible.
All this crap about women hating each other ... I can’t comprehend it.
Men don’t want a spouse; they want a nurse with a purse.
My advice to modern women is to invest in a good 401k.
Internet and Cell Phones will be the downfall of Humanity....
To me, the surge in interest in fantasy settings and fiction speaks loudly for a widespread, if unspoken, desire for a simpler society.
Bourbon…two fingers…neat.
My advice to males out there would be avoid making eye contact with them in public. They could easily go berserk and do the crazy cuckoo right there in the checkout line.
“ The misogyny on this site is out of control.”
Oh please. You be sure to let us know when women lose half of their assets, access to their kids, get tossed out of the homes they paid for, have restraining orders placed against them with zero chance to dispute them, and have their reputations destroyed because their husbands get bored and want a divorce.
Any “misogyny” these days is a direct result of decades of misandry being shoveled on men by women.
“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”
“Toxic masculinity”
“You can have it all”
Need I go on?
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Women believe they’re entitled to dictate the behavior of strangers as long as the strangers are male.
Thank you for being honest and mature.
I’m far from being a feminist, but that double standard has always annoyed me.
Hah!
I wish I could disagree with that statement:)
People genuinely don’t care about men checking out until it starts effecting women. “How dare you go your own way? It’s causing me problems.”
Sadly, you are spot on.
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