The End of Men?
Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. Do these trends, both US-centric and global, signal the “end of men”? Probably not — but they point toward an important societal shift worth deep discussion.
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Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t “act like a man.” Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break free of the “man box.”
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December 21, 2010 @ 2:09 am
I am a man born in 1973 and I must say that it is refreshing to hear a woman finally admit what has been obvious to men in my generation since the eighties. All I have ever heard all my life is how girls have it hard and how girls are somehow more deserving, that my “male” tendencies are unacceptable. One need not look further than prime time television to see that men are cast as hapless saps that are somehow defective. The facts are that circumstances, laws, social trends in the US are almost entirely stacked against us. Even the educational and social resources that are designed to aid people are almost exclusively for women. The landscape seems pretty stark for men.
Let’s add to Hanna Rosins post mortem appraisal on the health of men in our society. Men account for 90% of the homeless, they account for nearly 80% of suicides, are by far the predominate victims of violence and murder. Statistics show that men are just as likely to be a victim of domestic assault as women. Being estranged from one’s own society for being born male to answer for crimes of a patriarchal society I never knew is frustrating.
Bottom line is, (even if you think I am unmanly for complaining), is that men need help from society too, and now more than ever. Men are useful, and dare I say we are even needed. There are compelling reasons not to ostracize us from your institutions. There is no reason to handicap us in your schools; call us dumb, or violent.
So when you’re done being giddy about the decimated state of men in this country, we could use some help and attention too. Thanks.