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32 Facts That Show How Men Are Being Systematically Emasculated In America Today
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
What is wrong with men in America? Why isn't our country producing lots of strong, independent, hard working men of character like it once did? Well, many believe that it starts at a very young age.
When compared with girls, boys in the United States get lower grades, they are much more likely to get into trouble at school and they are much more likely to be put on behavior-modifying drugs. When it comes time to pursue a higher education, most of our young men are ill-prepared to do that. Today, nearly 60 percent of the students enrolled at U.S. colleges are women. And of course it has become much more difficult for men to find good jobs. In fact, less than 65 percent of all men have a job right now. Without a good job, a man is not considered to be "marriage material", but a large percentage of our young men don't want to get married anyway.
Society has told them that it is okay to be a "slacker". Today, far too many of our young men are far more interested in their various addictions (beer, drugs, sex, video games, gambling, etc.) than they are in starting a family. But the truth is that men are far more happy when they have a purpose. When men are raising families, starting businesses or doing something to transform society they feel fulfilled.
Sadly, the message that our young men are getting from our television shows and our movies is that men are idiots. Instead of being portrayed as leaders that are eager to get married and raise strong families, young men are often being portrayed as passive slackers that love to party and chase women.
Start paying attention to how men are portrayed in the media. In particular, pay attention to how they are portrayed in our commercials. Our boys and young men are exposed to thousands upon thousands of hours of this "programming", and it has a dramatic affect on them.
Our system beats up our boys and young men so badly that only a relatively small percentage of them emerge into adulthood as strong, independent young men that are able to take care of themselves and start families of their own.
In America today, the percentage of men in prison is at an all-time high, the percentage of men with a job is near an all-time low and the percentage of children living without a father is at an all-time high.
Do we have a crisis on our hands?
Yes, we most definitely have a crisis on our hands.
The following are 32 facts that show how men are being systematically emasculated in America today...
#1 The labor participation rate for men has been steadily declining over the years...
In the 1950s, nearly every man in his prime working years was in the labor force, a category that includes both those who are employed and those actively applying for jobs. The "participation rate" for men ages 25 to 54 stood at 97.7% in early 1956, but drifted downward to a post-war record low of 88.4% at the end of 2012. (It ticked up very slightly at the start of this year to 88.6%.)
So where have all the men workers gone?
Some went into prison. Others are on disability. And still others can't find jobs and have simply given up looking.
#2 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs. The chart posted below illustrates this stunning decline...
#3 During the last recession, men lost twice as many jobs as women did.
#4 According to Time Magazine, unemployed men are significantly more likely to get divorced than employed men are.
#5 According to the Economic Policy Institute, the "real entry-level hourly wage for men who recently graduated from high school" has declined from $15.64 in 1979 to $11.68 today.
#6 Between 1969 and 2009 the median wages earned by American men between the ages of 30 and 50 dropped by 27 percent after you account for inflation.
#7 Thanks to government policies which are killing off small businesses in America, the percentage of self-employed Americans is at an all-time low today. This has had a disproportionate impact on men.
#8 In 1982, 1.9 percent of all men were receiving disability benefits. Today, 3.1 percent of all men are receiving disability benefits.
#9 According to one very surprising study, "young, urban, childless women" make more money in America today than young, urban, childless men do.
#10 More than half of all middle management jobs in America are now held by women.
#11 More than half of all health care jobs in America are now held by women.
#12 The United States has the highest incarceration rate on the entire globe by a very wide margin. Overall, the U.S. has approximately 25 percent of the entire global prison population even though it only has 5 percent of the total global population. Men make up the vast majority of those that we are holding in our prisons.
#13 Incarceration rates for men in America have been steadily increasing over time. The following is from a recent CNN article...
Looking at those born just after World War II, some 1.2% of white men and 9% of black men had been to prison by 2004, according to Bruce Western, a Harvard sociology professor. But looking at those born 30 years later, some 3.3% of white men and 20.7% of black men had been to prison.
#14 According to the Pew Research Center, only 51 percent of all American adults are currently married. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all adults in the United States were married.
#15 Males account for approximately 70 percent of all Ds and Fs in U.S. public schools.
#16 About two-thirds of all students in "special education programs" are boys.
#17 The average American girl spends 5 hours a week playing video games. The average American boy spends 13 hours a week playing video games.
#18 The average young American will spend 10,000 hours playing video games before the age of 21.
#19 One study discovered that 88 percent of all Americans between the ages of 8 and 18 play video games, and that video game addiction is approximately four times as common among boys as it is among girls.
#20 In 2011, SAT scores for young men were the worst that they had been in 40 years.
#21 According to the New York Times, approximately 57 percent of all young people enrolled at U.S. colleges are women. That means that only 43 percent are men.
#22 It is being projected that women will earn 60 percent of all Bachelor's degrees from U.S. universities by the year 2016.
#23 Once in college, women are much more likely to complete their education and get a degree...
Women born in 1975 were roughly 17% more likely than their male counterparts to attend college and nearly 23% more likely to complete a four-year degree, according to data in Wayward Sons.
#24 Young men are nearly twice as likely to live with their parents as young women the same age are.
#25 Back in 1950, 78 percent of all households in the United States contained a married couple. Today, that number has declined to 48 percent.
#26 The marriage rate in the United States has fallen to an all-time low. Right now it is sitting at a yearly rate of 6.8 marriages per 1000 people.
#27 Today, an all-time low 44.2 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 are married.
#28 The U.S. family is rapidly breaking down. 100 years ago, 4.52 were living in the average U.S. household, but now the average U.S. household only consists of 2.59 people.
#29 At this point, approximately one out of every three children in America lives in a home without a father.
#30 The United States produces more pornography than any other nation in the world. Men consume far more of that pornography than women do.
#31 An astounding 30 percent of all Internet traffic now goes to pornography websites, and one survey found that 25 percent of all employees that have Internet access visit sex websites while they are at work.
#32 In the United States today, political correctness reigns, and any reference to the male gender is being stamped out of our language. For example, all over the country the term "manhole" is being replaced with the terms "utility hole" or "maintenance hole".
So what do you think?
Do you believe that men are being systematically emasculated in America today?
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wait, you mean Man Coulter, Rachel Man-now and Chief Stasi Jan E.T. Napolitano are actually a conspiracy with a reason? OMG
If I have to watch one more Low Testosterone commercials I will puke. If anyone here has played hockey above peewee level and say there are no men left in US well,,,,,, and having balls no more makes you a man then having a V makes you a woman, our rules growing up and I have two older sisters and two younger and all pretty and smart within 7 years of each other, you watch out for your sisters, and guess who was getting his ass kicked or kicking ass every time one said no to a date? I am 57 and used to ride a city bus with a shotgun in a case to go pheasant hunting outside of town. Dad's rules, "you start a fight you deal with me, you run from a fight, you deal with me." Now we got families suited up like the Michelin man to ride a bicycle around the block,,,, really? We climbed water towers when we were kids until one fell,, now it is razor wired like a max security prison. Thrown out of school for talking about guns??? I had many gun options when i was in middle and high school and knew how to use them yet I never went home after getting my ass kicked and went for revenge. Finding out it hurts to get punched in the face puts TV bar brawls in proper perspective. Learning to know when to keep your mouth shut is as much part of being a man as when to step up and put a stop to something. Women cannot teach young men things that future men need to learn. Hooray for the gay boy scout thing? I have to stop now,, blood pressure thing, on that note, "Beauty is only skin deep but ugly's to the bone, Beauty slowly fades away but ugly holds its own."
Actually, it's real. Chemicals in the environment mimicking estrogen have had a negative effect on men.
plasticiser plus the flushing of female contraception through the sewers into the water supply
"Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs. "
In 1950 the male life expectency in the US was 65-66. You worked until you died in most cases.
In 2010 it was 76+
In 1950 the number of people in college was far lower as well.
These two factors alone account for a substantial decrease in the 'number of males employed' - neither are a 'bad' thing.
Several of these points are not valid
"#10 More than half of all middle management jobs in America are now held by women.
#11 More than half of all health care jobs in America are now held by women."
Women make up more than 50% of the population so going by that, then this is appropriate and fair.
Including these points implies that women should not have these jobs... and we should go back to the old days of discrimation against women
We need to go back to the old days when one breadwinner was enough to run a household and the other partner was thus given enough time to look after the children.
Blame the fucking FED for that. Devaluing the dollar and in turn it's purchasing power. Actually blame Nixon for that since the second he took the dollar of the gold standard then FED was able to create money like a drunken sailor creates urine while wages weren't able to keep pace. Stable slow growing dollar in a debt/credit based system needs a natural growth inhibitor to keep it stable relative to wages when it comes to prices and purchasing power. That ever happens and prices readjust you go back to the single breadwinner 3 squares lifestyle our parents had and we are being squeezed to death trying to emulate.
Not when children can be monetized and sacrificed at the alter of Fascism and war.
"It's for the team, bro."
except that no small part of that abundance over 50% is made up of women over the age of 72, by which time half of the men have died off.
Young men are often being portrayed as passive slackers that love to party and chase women.
What's the chances the author is gay?
#30 The United States produces more pornography than any other nation in the world. Men consume far more of that pornography than women do...
Of that I have zero doubt. And may I just add: 3 CHEERS 4 THE INTERWEBZ!
I know a guy whose wife read the 50 shades book and decided to go on a whoring binge, having multiple concurrent affairs with losers and goons. He confirmed everything by hacking her texts and emails and installing a GPS tracker on her car. So he confronts her and she asks him for a divorce. His response? He buys her expensive jewelry, wines and dines her, takes her on expensive vacations, and begs her not to leave him. Against the advice of family and friends, he refuses to see a lawyer to protect his assets. Being a woman, I cannot comprehend how he can stand to be in the same room as her, much less continue to sleep with her. Maybe some of the men on this blog can explain it to me. She is a celebrity-obsessed, materialistoc, shopping addict that is 40 going on 21 (emotionally and mentally). He is fairly successful, physically fit and not bad looking. He should not be desparate. I don't get it.
Sad truth is that very married men are sad losers, you can tell they are so by looking the useless women they marry.
I don't get it.
She may, er, do things, that he, uh, likes.
Back to the article: Chasing a buck is difficult for men and women in this country but many have a far bigger problem in that they can't hang onto their money for shit.
Well, he seems to like that she dresses like a Ho because he takes lot's of photos of her "posing" in her outfits (she wants to be a model) and then she posts them all over Facebooks and the miriad of other social and dating websites she has joined. I suppose he thinks that other men are jealous of his "hot" wife. Having worked around men much of my life and having overheard how they discuss other men's slutty-dressing-and-behaving wives behind their backs, I am shocked that he thinks his friends are jealous that their wives aren't like her. Most men I know would be embarrased if their women were going out in public and dressing/behaving like that. (except maybe those that are insecure, have Napoleon complex, and drive Corvettes). Or am I just wrong? Do men like it when other men discuss their wives as if they were whores?
I'd lose it. I understand the eyes will wander but to (I have no wife) refer to my wife as a whore openly would get a kick in the teeth pretty soon as I could avoid getting jailed for it.
Men, like women, are vain. Men are also insecure. His ego has been shattered, and her many affairs have left him terribly insecure. The more he showers her with gifts and his new found "devotion", the more she will despise him.
I think you must be correct. His self respect seems to have been destroyed. I had a past boyfriend whose sole purpose in live was to spoil me and be my spineless yes-man. First, I kept pushing and started treating him badly to see where the boundaries were. After I found out there were no boundaries, I got bored pretty quickly and ended it. Most women don't want a spineless guy who they can run all over. We want a partner that respects us, who repsects himself and is capable of taking charge, particularly when faced with challenges, but does not abuse us.
My friend also discovered that his whore wife had various affairs in earlier years. It seems to be destroying his self respect and is affecting his work in a very negative way. He owns a company and it is hurting because he spends more time trying to please her than he spends trying to please customers. I can only hope that some day his heart goes numb (as far as she is concerned) so he can cut that cancer out of his life. In the mean time, she dresses like a 21 year old Ho and goes nightclubbing with several of her also-married 30-something and 40-something friends who do the exact same thing.
AGAIN, I argue we need to add 'ho-ciety' to the urban dictionary.
No offense to you of course - only applies to actual ho's.
you probably don't get it because you are a woman, and he is doing all the wrong moves because he is a man with little understanding of women
men love differently, and he is doing all the things that would be useful to ignite's a man's love. if he would do nearly the opposite, he'd probably get her back - what he obviously wants
one super-straight track to this is in your description: "He is fairly successful, physically fit and not bad looking". translated: he is a catch. the very moment he would rub her face in this - i.e. been seen by her with other women, best if younger and better looking than her, chances are she would make a beeline back to him
I know that ZH is fairly anti-authoritarian in spirit, but sorry, from your description what she is missing is cool, give-a-fuck authoritarian male attitude from him, including a lid on her over-girlish excesses. since she does not get this from him, she is following the current cultural pressure of finding elsewhere some excitement. then "girls want to have fun", or much better, "girls want excitement", and he is boring. and reeks of desperation
marriage is an institution. based on society convincing young men into committing and young girls into staying committed. but on a personal level, it's about a man chasing a woman, the woman extracting a committment out of it, and then a role reversal, with the woman chasing the man - because on average his attractiveness will increase and her's will decrease over time
oh, and a female demand for authority. which in the cultural context of the US means he "doing his thing", having his standards and her either complying or getting thrown out
of course this is not something a woman will ever be able to explain - neither to herself nor to a man. because requesting the opposite is part and parcel of testing the validity and solidness of his maleness - which is btw also a test on his capabilities as father and role model for children and his capabilities of "be his own man"
in fact, behaving as a child from time to time is built in, and actually a very endearing part of feminity. and an excellent way to find out if the particular man "has it"
of course all the above is completely against the current culture shift
Well, my friend ran accross a website all about saving your marriage when there is a cheating spouse. It talks about a "love bank" and he seems to think that if he fills up this bank, it will turn her love on. Most uf us are of the opinion that she never loved him in the first place and therefore you cannot turn something back on that was never there in the first place. She confirmed it by telling him exactly that, and that she married him just to get the the United States (he met her while staying in a foreign country for a few months).
Okay. I can admit the thing about women demanding authority. Many of us have our opinions and don't want to be subservient. But that does not mean that most of us want to completely dominate. I have held positions of authority most of my career. However, when I push it, I expect men to have a spine and push back. Too often it does not happen. What I and most of my female friends really want is to be on a fairly equal footing in a relationship - not always in charge. We want a friend, someone that is multi-dimensional, intelligent, educated (self educated - not a parrot who spouts propoganda taught is schools) and whom we can have intelligent conversations with. While sports and cars are fine once in a while (I like both), it gets boring if that is all there is. Chemical attraction is also a must, of course. I know there are women out there that do not feel this way. They want to live in a romance novel and once reality settles in, they are disillusioned. then there are the golddiggers and ladies that lunch, shop and gossip. I sometimes feel like I am an entirely different species from these women.
unfortunately the women who will threaten divorce & bankruptcy at the drop of a hat but never hinted they could be that way before marriage have ruined it for all the women who are too decent to behave that way. A man never knows and once he does he wishes he didn't.
Perhaps he has abandonment issues. Did one or both of his parents take off when he was a kid? That will cause a mind fuck for anyone when they get into relationships as adults. Unless you recognize it and deal with it you will be surprised how much shit the person would eat. I guarantee you if he had a friend in his same circumstances he would tell them to kick her ass out and protect his wealth. I have a brother just like this, we were abandoned by both parents at different times) and he had a similar experience and your friend is mimciking my brother's for going on 25 years!!!! While he could never break away it ate him up inside and he turned to drink and drug and is now as low of a life form as his wife is. Give the guy a couple of years and see how he erodes if this situation stays the same. Hopefully he pulls it together finds his selfworth and walks away from a toxic situation. I wouldn't wish this on anyone that can't leave for whatever reason. The entire family suffers until they themselves decide enough is enough and stop enabling distructive behavior.
No abandonment. Great parents. Not quite "Leave it to Beaver", but close. Old fashioned. Family always sat down to dinner together for healthy meals cooked from scratch and his mother was stay-at-home. He loves his parents and gets along with all his siblings. Unfortunately, he is already erroding from his current situation and it is putting a wedge between him and his family, who all want him to leave her. But he is extremely stubborn and won't listen to anyone nless it is what he wants to hear, just asking all of us to support his decision and forgive her.
One day he will snap. You will know this because his new patio will have tits.
Wow, that is such a sad and gross story, californiagirl.
I hope they don't have kids.
Unfortunately, they do. She threatens to leave and "dump" the 2 kids on him because she seems to consider them a burden. They are young, good kids and the last thing he wants is to be separated from them. That is why I am so confused why he refuses to protect the money. If not for himself, for his kids' future.
dump the kids? He could have a chance to raise them right without her around draining money & ruining their up-bringing?
DO IT. Oh man, do it.
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financial, social & in the end, total proof of natural selection: either he will smarten up and leave or he will prove his entire gene-line unworthy of survival by being detroyed by her greed & impregnation by any of those other men she went whoring off with.
Trust me, there's no way she did that just because of a book. A whore like that has done it before & will do it again.
And that goes for man-whores too. Ladies, don't be trustin' no man-whore, he can't be tamed.
I am glad zerohedge is starting to understand this issue. This is the result, PLANNED, result of the feminist takeover of American cultural institutions, starting with the Universities and the public schools, and shortly thereafter, the major media forms (especially television and print media-- the ignored radio). The first book to read is Daring to Be Bad: A History of Radical Feminism in the United States. This is an inside account of the feminist movement (and the lesbians who ran it) during the 1960s and 1970. They had a plan... to take over the cultural institutions and "raise consciousness," i.e. destroy the family, destroy gender roles, conquer the cultural institutios for women only, and subjugate men. Read the book... it is all in there. There plan worked to perfection, and they have had 2 generations now to influence with their consciousness raising
The second book to read is The War against Boys. This about the effects of the feminist movement on young men in the public schools. The author is a former feminist (and one of the people involved in the feminist revolution), until she had sons and saw the fruits of her radical labor.
There was a quiet revolution in the United States. No one saw it happening, and no one questioned it. Indeed, no one is allowed to question it. The results have devastated the nation. Single-parent families, the welfare state, all of it... is the result of this revolution.
I agree with all the above except one thing: what is/was planned vs the results. we are in ZH: "unintended consequences"
interestingly, lesbians indeed play a major role in third wave feminism, and 3rd gen feminism is about creating a society centered on what women want
the crux of the thing is that men are not that conscious of what they want - and women way less
if you don't believe me, just note how much women talk with each other trying (sometimes desperately) to find out what they really want
and, again, marriage is an institution - based on certain balances. take some of the balances away and the institution changes
A recommended read would be Dauphin: Brothels and Babes.
http://www.classicsireland.com/1996/Dauphin96.html
A boy soley raised by a woman will turn out to be a pussy.
That is how nature works.
If there is no man in the house then a man cannot grow up in that house.
Agree with you. There is a program big brothers big sisters which provides the role model mentoring. It is a most worthy charity and I have seen the difference it makes.
I'm sure your daddy taught you all kinds of important lessons behind the woodshed.
you obviously don't know and you've just proven the point you sought to deride through personal example.
Now run off and tell your approvingly mixed group of metrosexshul friends how your derided homosexuality in order to poke a finger in someone's eye. They'll recommend some therapy for you, but let you wash away your sin, I'm sure. After all, it's okay for YOU to make fun of homosexuality and incest because you are a Caring, Enlightened and Understanding individual.
dude, this is Fight Club. It was a well-played turnaround. Some people just can't handle invisible /sarc /joke /fuckyourselforthesakeofit /etc
And don't forget chem feed induced Low T
let them do a stint in the military
So one can rise to the lowest common denominator?
The Brandenburg Bully http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/the-brandenburg-bully-rope-a-dope/
this whole thing is quite simple-- 1 through conditioning women have come to expect chivelry with out returning male privilage--
2 the false doctrine that making usefull things has become less valuable than tabulating them (paper pushing covers building)
3 women consume more products than men and therefore have a gteater value to the debt economy and are the prefered gender of the oligarcy.
4 Men revolt against authority and tyranny (have a lower threshold for unfairness) more easily than women and are "less safe" for the police and the gov't to control.
5 Life is easy and toughness is irrelavant.
6 When people are obese men and women tend to look alike so in western culture the man is less impotant than in middle eastern or eastern cultures.
its all just modern anthropoligy
@BigJim,
If one looks at Selenius original posts and has a commensurate experience level with women, I can understand his position.
I think the people on Zerohedge are smart enough to know that when you give enough power or advantage to any tribe of people, they will take advantage of them. What is prevalent today is how this has affected women through the efforts of feminism, which is not about equality anymore but more about power.
Selenius cites the lying and manipulative ability of women and how that has turned him off towards them. While I would agree and argue that he should not hate women but should hate the system that corrupted them, I can understand how he came to his perceptions. For the most part, it has been the white-knights who do not understand human nature that have created this monster today, but at some point women have to bear the brunt of their inability to curtail their bad behavior in light of the outsized power they hold over men today.
Women and Men are like children, they keep pushing for more until they are spoiled. The problem is that the men of western civilizations are unable to say "no" to their women. This inability of men today (and since the 60's really), has created an entire generation based on hypocrisy where one minute it is "I am grrrl, hear me roar!" followed by "I'm just a girl, stop making me cry".
There is no social narrative so powerful as the woman today who can adapt to any situation by accusing others of sexism or abuse, or by going to "soft" route and letting the tears flow to get their desires. This engenders a certain resentment in men who are on the received end of this mistreatment, or who have grown enough to understand how the machine works against them.
The great thing about a site like Zerohedge is that it sort of unveils "the matrix" from a financial perspective. It allows us to see through the bull$hit the MSM financial media would like us to be overwhelmed by. If one extrapolates this a bit, it becomes apparent that the "matrix" doesn't end there. We are literally surrounded by a media and narrative that wants us to think in a certain way, and it doesn't end at the financial realm. There are a series of other websites to help men better understand what is happening to society and how we are allowing it to take place. RationalMale is a great website for excellent articulation on social narratives and how to navigate in a world where one's actions are not congruent with one's words, particularly about the opposite sex. Have a look at this specific article to start, but his whole site is full of cognitive gold.
http://therationalmale.com/2011/09/09/operative-social-conventions/
"I am grrrl, hear me roar!" followed by "I'm just a girl, stop making me cry".
There is no social narrative so powerful as the woman today who can adapt to any situation by accusing others of sexism or abuse, or by going to "soft" route and letting the tears flow to get their desires.
Damn right. I now make it a point to identify if I think a girl will play that game and if I think she is, will, or wants to stick to that game she's on the "never date her" list. Period.
Many of these trends are not from the emasculation of men, they are directly from central banking. As inflation from money printing picked up several decades ago, women had to enter to work force because one salary wasn't cutting it anymore to support a family. Then, when two salaries weren't enough to pay for inflation, divorces started rising - money issues are one of the main reasons for divorce.
Unemployment among men is much larger right now because huge waves of men entered into construction during the housing boom because that's where the good money was. Good luck finding a job in construction now.
Ever think that high unemployment for men could also result from shipping our manufacturing overseas? All we have left now is service jobs, where women are most likely more successful. This article appears to play much more to divide and conquer (old vs young) than to attack the root causes of unemployment among men.
Agreed, and no one makes these young men sit in front of a computers and play games all day.
Unforutnately young women are doing better in education for a lot of reasons, women mature earlier, and are often told that an education is a necessity, while young men are being told the opposite and are allowed to gaze at their navels.
Also, our economy long ago switched over from manufacturing to information and services, skills women excel at, this has long been documented, so where is the systemic conspiracy.
If young men and their parents decide that Guns and Ammo and Call of Duty amount to real survival skills
then let the market decide who gets hired. Sounds like the result is more young men swelling the ranks of the nanny state.
Great, we may have a new scape goat for all social ills.
This all sounds like whining to me and not a very manly article at all.
Get a job and figure it out. Thats what a man would do.
Remember that there are no incentives for men today. Have you considered how many programs there exist for girls as opposed to boys?
Have you considered that boys have far more energy and different predispositions than girls? Have you considered that we label these as "diseases" like ADD or ADHD and heavily medicate them? Boys receive FAR more medication than girls do today during childhood.
How many boys grow up without father figures due to a wife divorcing her husband and gaining full custody of children and keeping the father away?
Yes, the answer to the boys is to "man up", but how does one do that when all male role-models have been abolished and while under the influence of big-pharma and an army of media telling them they are worthless compared to girls?
The article assumes the behavior of men and attitudes toward them has changed and that they are no longer starting families.
Perhaps it would be even more illuminating to examine how the behavior of women has changed.
And some things are not really worth mentioning, let alone analyzing:
Duh
I have to teach our young girls that dressing like a slut and trying to be a man at the same time, though that is held up as the ideal, is not empowering, it is the reverse. It is feminity that attracts men. Even a plain-looking woman who is feminine is way more attractive to men than a "hot" modern woman. Women didn't need the vote, they had much more power over men through their femininity -- and we loved it!
Start paying attention to how men are portrayed in the media. In particular, pay attention to how they are portrayed in our commercials. Our boys and young men are exposed to thousands upon thousands of hours of this "programming", and it has a dramatic affect on them.
Pay close attention to the names of those who are producing this garbage. Investigate the names of Madison Avenue advertising agencies. If you have any sense at all, you will notice a definite trend.
There are three main attack vectors that the neo-Bolsheviks use in their war against Western civilization:
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- Attacking the family
- Attacking private property
- Attacking Christianity
Know Your Enemy
to be fair some in the name of christianity have attacked many others.
Who did the Salem witch trials.
Who attacks atheists.
Who is raging holy war on muslims.
Don't get me wrong. I'm atheist but I think real Christians following real words of sharing & peace from Jesus Christ would make great neighbors. I'd happily have THEM as neighbors. Just not the WAR-mongers raging hate & genocide in the name of their god(s).
This is all a result of our nanny state raising our kids and political correctness. Let's be careful not to hurt anyones feelings people.
Let's see how well the women and blacks and jews run this country.
I think it's less about society communicating to young men that they are idiots (which I do not believe is true, at least according to the TV and movies I watch) and more about the pervasive and overwhelmingly aggressive materialism with which young men are bombarded during every waking moment. Young men in this country are being hounded to pursue material things and to structure their lives around acquisition. There is no place for values that might be beneficial to society, or more narrowly to men, so young men are not learning to devote some time and energy to doing things for others. In my view, we must get back to that to have a society that values people in general, and men in particular. Uniquely, I think it is men who have the capacity to disproportionately benefit society by acting for the benefit of someone besides themselves, and when men generally have no inclination to do that, the value of men in society is disproportionately diminished.
Emasculation of men became apparent to me when I first witnessed the burning of the bras, bananas flopping freely on TV was a shock to the young and impressionable, I knew then it was wrong and gross at the sametime. Compare Ozzie and Harriet to today's Married with Children, the male role model has become that of a lap dog. I see the young men around me more interested in vids/games than dating. Ya think somethings in the water? I could go on with more examples but the truth being...women rule, always have from behind the scenes, why they choose to be on the front lines is beyond me and I'm one of them. I helped brake those glass ceilings and rightfully so, but enough already. I miss the men. We need a truce!
I'm in medicine, and, to some degree the increasing presence of women has made things livable, more pleasant. It was pretty rough in the old days, now things are softening up in order to accomodate women and their natural need to think about child rearing when they are in their 20s and 30s.
But let me tell you, in the long run they aren't going to run things well. The primary focus of women is and always has been family particularly children. The jobs come second. And those women who try to put job first end up miserable because they can't advance as far as men, but they still feel the responsibility at home.
I see this all the time.
Glad to see this on Zerohedge, its about time. feminism is a huge problem, issue and threat...maybe the biggest the US is presently facing. All that crap listed above would NOT have happened if feminsts didn't deliberately conspire to do it. And when I say "conspire" don't tune out with the usually tin hat bull...when all tv shows and even commercials start to show males as dim and impotent...um, you've got something going on behind the scenes. Is it good that women have options etc, largely yes, but its not good if they start to use their "power" to hurt and, yes, oppress others. Now, men are starting to respond, there are two camps 1. is already infiltrated with feminists (realize were literally dealing with full time paid activists) that's known as the MHRA and it's homebase is a website called a voice for men or AVFM. If you have any dignity and self respect avoid those losers. They want to make men a victim class like women did for themselves. 2. Although disparate, there is an online community of men that believe in small government, personal responsibility etc...check out The Spearhead -www.the-spearhead.com/ and Angry Harry. Also, youtube channels Pinegrove33 (Bernad Chafin or Chafin's inferno - my favorite), RockingMrE and thatsmarthotguy. I leave you with this, there is nothing wrong with men and boys, we've been the same for eons and continue to be so...there is something very very wrong about the current environment. It's clear as day to me that women can only "rise' by bringing others down, as such, this is a zero sum game. Zero sum means one wins the other loses and the proverbial deck is stacked against men...get wise and join us. feminism can be eradicated overnight if we ever get back to a small and restricted government.
I partially disagree.
It's the purpose of comedy shows to show everyone to be inane, dumb, lazy, hectic, disorganized & generally screwing up.
Because that's what comedy shows do.
So if you're referring to NON-comedy shows that's another story.
For those shows I've still seen strong characters used for main characters, male & female.
Depends on the purpose of the story. Comedy, however, shouldn't be taken too seriously.
"feminism can be eradicated overnight if we ever get back to a small and restricted government"
And this is something I disagree with:
statism is not feminism.
Feminism can include strong female roles & abilities that are unique, personal & helpful for both the single woman & the caring mother / wife / both.
See, a strong woman can do many of the technical things & physical things any man can do & that should be respected. What I wouldn't respect is a woman stomping all over the individuality and/or abilities of men. I wouldn't tolerate men doing that to women either, however.
Doesn't mean I don't want that woman makin' me a sammich in the kitchen, just by choice not because she feels that's her "only rightful place". I'll take my turn makin' sammiches too.
When it comes to statism we need a full out revolution and I mean every country everywhere.
Eat organic and feed your families organic. 90% of the pesticides we spray on our crops are estrogen based. These fucking chemicals are gender bending our kids. Sit in front of a High School and watch the kids walk out. A third of the kids look weird. The boys are puss guts with boobs and the girls lack waists and look angry. I've traveled through Amish territory recently and I don't see any problem with gender identity there.
Probably worse than gender-bending. This stuff in the water is causing fish & frogs to be born hermaphrodites. Species which aren't EVER supposed to do that in nature (some species in nature can do that; that's another story). We're drinking that same water.
Excess estrogen may be related to BREAST CANCER so I'd suggest women be highly concerned about this too.
ZH has touched on one of my pet peeves. Pay attention to how fathers are portrayed in television and in commercials. He's either incompetent, out-of-touch, effeminate of worse. Socialism and feminism have destroyed the natural leader and head of the family and we're wondering why society is turning into shit?
On the economic front he's no longer paid a living wage and hence cannot hold his head up high and support his own family. The black community has been suffering this in spades, (no pun intended, this is serious shit). And now black children born out of wedlock surpasses 70%. Why wonder why? But trust me, amnesty for illegal aliens is going to make this all better for black men. /sarc off/. Where the fuck is Jessie Jackson on this? Al Sharpton? Elijah Cummings? Magic Johnson? Michael Jordan? The list goes on. The fact is the only brother standing up for the black man is Bill Cosby. At least he tells it like it is.
Tyler Durdan said it correctly. We are a nation of boys raised by their mothers looking for our fathers.
..too many nancy boy script writers for ads and Hollywood.....totally agree with your thoughts....and then we have rap music and the music industry has the nerve to complain when their property gets ripped off.
extra kudos for Bill Cosby. I'd argue fascism, rather than socialism, but I'm hitting +1 on this.
Our "leaders" set the tone of what is acceptable....such as BJ's in the Oval Office....awarding no-bid contracts to Halliburton....the obviousness that special interest groups run our Federal government....the lack of consequences if one commits a large enough financial crime....over paid prima donna athletes....over paid prima donna CEO's....the mere presence of Nancy and Bwarney in a position of power....the IRS....
It starts at the top....starting with Lyndon Johnson.......
Some contributing factors:
1) Fewer Jobs. Traditional male blue collar jobs such as factory work,construction etc. are off-shored, automated, taken over by more industrious immigrants.
2) Oxycontin. Young men will take greater risks. Today they can readily get heroin in pill form. I'd have been an addict myself if this stuff was around 40 years ago instead of qualudes.
3) Education. Education has focused on helping "victimized girls" to be successful in a "male dominated society". Boys who naturally are less organized and structured than girls are hence treated by the school system as defectives.
4) There is something chemical happening that has yet to be completely understood. Estrogen, insecticides, something is literally making boys less smart in those areas where they traditionally excelled.
One possible cause may be pyrethrins which I understand is a chemical compound related to sarin gas. Male brains are physically larger than female brains, containing more white matter. Chemicals that attack white matter may in fact be harming males to a greater estent than females.
From Wikipedia: "A 2011 study found a significant association between piperonyl butoxide (PBO), a common additive in pyrethroid formulations, measured in personal air collected during the third trimester of pregnancy, and delayed mental development at 36 months. Children who were more highly exposed to PBO in personal air samples (?4.34 ng/m3) scored 3.9 points lower on the Mental Developmental Index than those with lower exposures."
Bottomline, this article is 100% spot on and it should be considered the most serious societal phenomenon facing us, but it will not because of traditional progressive narratives.
It's antecdotal evidence but I think this all correlates back to the death of chest hair. When body hair became uncool is the day "men" became emasculated. Okay if you have a giant sweater back then you are excluded from this rant but c'mon all these "men" waxing their arms and legs and chest and asses. I love Game of Thrones but how is it centuries ago all of these men didn't have hairy bodies. Even their ass hair is gone. I'm sorry but this is not periodically correct. And the women back then would've barely been seen from the bushes yet all of these women on the show have neatly trimmed landing strips. If your going to be authentic then be authentic!
Seriously it started with the "I want you to be more like Alan Alda" mantra from feminist back in the early 80's and as men typically do, we adapt to what pussy tells us to. Then the women moved away from Tom Selleck chest hair look and like a smoother body so once again the V said something and men just went along with it. Take a look at academic work before the 80's and after. Most used to use the generalized "he" when referring to the student and now it's "she" that predominates the text books. Vagina is king, long live vagina. The late 90's came along then it became a wave of "you stay home with the kids while I work" and the shift happened. So many men did but that fucked with both men and women because men's self esteeme took a hit as they didn't realize how much of their self worth was tied up into what they do and how much they make. Conversely women didn't realize how much they didn't like an unmanly man with low self esteem and also when not checked by their mates they in gereral terms didn't handle the power, responsiblity etc...that comes with being the actual breadwinner. They took on many of the same characteristics that the feminist so despised in men for centuries. Vagina is never happy. It always wants what is not available. "I want someone to treat me nice" as they get on the back of some heavily tattooed Harley riding gangster type.
Now given all of that and having done the stay home dad I would say the role reversal is astounding. If I were a woman and had society expected me to stay home with kids and I didn't feel I had a choice I would've burned my bra decades before. It's a thankless job with no bonuses or promotions. Well the bonus is taking your young children out to dinner, having the waitress assume you must be waiting for mommy to show up, then people comment on how nice it is that you give mommy the night off, and then get praise on how well behaved your kids are and the waitresses always gave free desserts to these perfectly behaved gentlmen. That was the bonus and it felt pretty damned good. The eye opening part, while women were complaining how it was assumed they couldn't thrive in the workforce, at the same time it was assumed I couldn't possibly be raising 3 young boys without the help of their mother. Now that is a form of prejudiced that never got mentioned. Prejudging a man, not being able to manage babies and boys without someone's help.
The secret for men is to not get so caught up in identifying yourself as a man by the power and paycheck. If you are needed or required to be a "stay home" type don't lose the fact that you're still a man and keep your balls and don't start letting your manhood evaporate because the woman in your life is climbing the corporate ladder getting more successful and more powerful. She will need you to check her at home or she will run over you because of the old saying about "power and absolute power". Women are not immune to the same pitfalls that men fell into. And men at home, the secret to finding some type of happiness is to take care of yourself and take a cue from what women have done for years. You stay in shape and do things that make you feel better about yourself and it all works out. It's a balance for sure but it doesn't have to be impossible.
End of rant.
I'm at that point where I'd have to start waxing my ears.
I hear you as you get older hair leaves the head and magically appears in all the wrong places!
Art of Manliness
Public schools have become faggot-factories. The one and only example of outcome is easily illustrated:
10 million fags on an island has a comprehensive lifecycle under 110 years.
UNSUSTAINABLE!
Feeling like a pussy? Thank every faggot you see for making sustainability marginalized and the lowest priority of humanity and governance.
The MSM is loaded from top to bottom with faggots and BFF's of faggots, and they too won't survive (arguably already dead, poisoning the roots of true journalism along with them).
Mark these words, faggots will want to next shape government to force straights to have their babies, because they "deserve" them. WAHHHH WAAHHHH!
This message brought to you by the Huffagton post, and gay-a-day lubricant.
It's all summed up in a book that came out about 4 years ago entitled, The Feminization of the West. No further comment necessary.
Here ya go "ladies" - http://now.msn.com/cambridge-i-need-feminism-photo-campaign-goes-viral
I miss men.
Multi-pronged attack on Males for at least 40+ years, BPA should be added to the list. If you don't know what BPA is, research it. Here's a start, oh yeah, the subtle TV adds that increasingly portray bumbling, dumb, Fathers, and check out Boys Schooling bias:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A
Bisphenol A is an endocrine disruptor which can mimic estrogen and has been shown to cause negative health effects in animal studies. More specifically, bisphenol A closely mimics the structure and function of the hormone estradiol with the ability to bind to and activate the same estrogen receptor as the natural hormone
Bisphenol A is used primarily to make plastics, and products using bisphenol A-based plastics have been in commercial use since 1957.[15] At least 3.6 million tonnes (8 billion pounds) of BPA are used by manufacturers yearly.[16] It is a key monomer in production of epoxy resins[17][18] and in the most common form of polycarbonate plastic.[6][19][20] Bisphenol A and phosgene react to give polycarbonate under biphasic conditions; the hydrochloric acid is scavenged with aqueous base:
Polycarbonate plastic, which is clear and nearly shatter-proof, is used to make a variety of common products including baby and water bottles, sports equipment, medical and dental devices, dental fillings sealants, CDs and DVDs, household electronics, eyeglass lenses,[6]foundry castings and for lining water pipes[ Lining Water Pipes, added to the plastic water bottles most people use, and even found in Baby Bottles, though it may finally have been banned in the US for baby bottles, as it already has been in most countries, also found in paper receipts, dental work, and check the inside of the next can ypu open and check to see if its lined with a white substances, that's BPA ]
Plastic (Not) Fantastic: Food Containers Leach a Potentially Harmful www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=plastic-not...bisphenol-aFeb 19, 2008 – Is bisphenol A, a major ingredient in many plastics, healthy for children and ... baby bottles--leach a chemical that is known to mimic estrogens in the body. ... Since at least 1936 it has been known that BPA mimics estrogens,
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=plastic-not-fantastic-with-bisphenol-a
It's worse than you think. Common water filtration systems are INCAPABLE of removing the metabolic waste of BIRTH CONTROL PILLS.
Now don't get me wrong, I think the pill is a great invention.
I just don't want to fucking drink any of it myself, as a male, in my fucking water supply. But there it is.
Start paying attention to how men are portrayed in the media. In particular, pay attention to how they are portrayed in our commercials. Our boys and young men are exposed to thousands upon thousands of hours of this "programming", and it has a dramatic affect on them.
Our system beats up our boys and young men so badly that only a relatively small percentage of them emerge into adulthood as strong, independent young men that are able to take care of themselves and start families of their own.
I've been saying this for years. There are a bunch of younger guys that I work with who are all into these superhero movies and comics and really childish crap. Sad... So sad...
one does not want a nation of spartans, when one is about to rule in a NWO. calm is good, stay home and avoid security molestations at airports, major events..(to the elite, never kick a sleeping dog should be the golden rule but by nature they will violate it, and then the violence comes..be assured it will come, an old book of an island a doctor and his altered subject animals comes to mind..
Public schools are the real culprit when it comes to feminizing boys. Anyway, who needs men when women can get EBT, Section 8, and their baby-daddy's income? In my kids' high school, the most popular kids were the ones who made sure everyone knew they were gay.
#33 We're all Bernanke's bitches.
Anybody who has been to divorce court understands that men are despised by society, their sexual urges are considered dangerous, their parenting skills and commitment considered non-existent, and their wages are subject to being forfeited for any reason. What guy wouldn't want to get married?
Capitalism .... creates the good life .... and leisure .... leave the profits with our Capitalist winners .... they will do incredible things with it .... tax it away .... and spend it on welfare bums .... and the magic is wasted ! Men and women suffer from Socialist rape, murder and theft ! i I LOVE WOMEN AND I LOVE MY BROTHERS .... I HATE SOCIALISM .... AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DESTROYER !!!!
This article is just a phallusy.
I was in a group of married couples with my wife and we were talking about growing up in the late sixties and early seventies. I used to work in orchards in West Michigan. One of the growers would buy us shotgun shells to shoot the birds that destroyed the sweet and tart cherry crops and also blueberries later in the year. We shot everything that flew legally because of crop damage permits and this included robins the state bird. My God, the stares I got you think I was throwing the gas switches at Auschwitz or something. It was unreal. These were some fairly new aquaintances but I knew two of the men were hunters however all in the group were 15 to 20 years younger than us. I am not changing my story to accomodate how people will react to me. The problem with a whole lot of people in this country is they are more worried about what other people think about them then what the people that really matter think of them. News flash, most people don't think about you at all because they are just as busy trying to keep the wolves from their door as you are. Our teachers drug the boys that won't sit still in class and call it a disease. My middle daughter is a high school teacher and I think there are 7 men out of almost 55 teachers in her school. Women cannot teach young men how to become men any more than a man can teach a young woman how to become a woman. A dad at home can teach a young woman how a woman(mom) should be treated however. Ok,,, don't junk me bro,,,,,,,,,,,, peace.
Don't sweat it brah, we used to play "It flies it dies", too, back in the 80's. Never got a gig so sweet that shells were provided though!
People think that guns are evil, but it's really a hard heart that kills. It's that same hard heart that keeps walking in life when all the other senses say quit.
One day, when the fucking chips are down and the only thing my daughters have to rely upon is themselves, that's when my lessons for them will get cashed in and pay dividend. All those hard, uncaring teachable examples and talks will have turned into useful steel. They'll pull through where others will fail, and that's all I give a damn about, the rest of the astonished, tut-tutting liberals from now and then can all go eat some shit.
in all seriousness quite a few people have figured out netting keeps out birds & that birds spread seeds so letting them eat is sometimes a good thing.
Not my orchards / crops, not my business, but that's how it actually can work.
As for the teaching - yes, the state is over-intrusive & usually wrong, sometimes with dire intent to breed slaves. Slaves only need to be encouraged to breed with so little treats at the behest of the state so why support independence of parents & children, families and THOUGHT? oh no, dear citizen, not for you.
Isn't it obvious? They're all watching porn.
"...able to take care of themselves and start families of their own."
Ok let me see:
1) World overpopulated to the point of collapse.
2) Most marriages end in divorce in 3 years leaving men with the child support bill.
3) Few people are really happy anyway... why not bring more into this corrupt mess?
4) After marriage women don't want sex.
Don't get me wrong, I love being married. Bringing more unhappy children into the world is the part not making a lot of sense to me. Somehow the author of this article thinks he is the rational intelligent one.
The breaking of the strong male role model along with dependence on the family was done so as to increase dependence upon the State, and thus improve the State's control over the population.