By Gorbachev

Feminism has been eating away at the core of American demographics, dating and domestic life for decades. What’s often not understood is that this process is under way all over the world, everywhere industrial economies have taken root.

I lived in Japan, Korea and China, though I have the most personal experience in Korea, where I lived for several years. Feminism is definitely altering the equation for young men and women in Korea. I was able to watch as the social environment was literally percolating and bubbling over. I go back regularly, and from what I can see, the process is only accelerating. Korea is maybe 10-15 years behind the same process in other Asian countries, though, where this trend has been radically changing societies for some time.

In Japan, there is an entire generation of boys that have refused to co-operate with the work-hard, forehead-to-the-grindstone, grin-and-bear-it mentality of their fathers. What’s worse, women have largely elected not to get married and the birth rate in Japan has crashed. We’ve all heard of Japan’s lack of babies and the economic stagnation and aging population, but fewer people have experienced what happens when boys and men simply stop participating in life. Reclusive Japanese “Herbs” have simply withdrawn from regular male pursuits – outside of video games.

In Korea, a growing class of young men are often seen dangling “purses” and spending hours styling themselves, activities their fathers did only on sufferance and at the insistence of their wives. This is contrasted with a shrinking pool of resilient, brash males who are considered domineering, and whose chauvinism is often blamed by women on their terrible experiences as conscripts in the Korean army . These traditional men are no longer the progressive model for youth in Korea. But though they’re a declining species, they haven’t disappeared altogether.

In China, the effects are now being debated with some earnestness.

We can all guess, pretty easily, why the boys and young men are “un-manly” and can’t bring themselves to work at anything they need to do. It’s most definitely not because they’re suffering from an over-indulgence of “male privilege”. Most likely, they’ve been indulged, pampered, and prevented from acting on their hard-wired male programs that push them to compete and excel in aggressively non-feminine ways.

Some highlights from the article sound powerfully familiar. It speaks to the universality of human nature that Chinese researchers would have come to the same conclusions reached by many men outside of China.

A similar academic gender gap also observed in the West and other countries where girls outperform boys, but the situation appears especially serious in China where decades of a one-child policy have focused all parental attention on a single child. It’s also ironic that boys appear especially at a disadvantage in a male-dominated society where many people prefer boy babies.

This general state of affairs the authors and many others attribute to China’s rigid education system that doesn’t accommodate boys’ and girls’ differing physiological and brain development; pressure to perform; overprotection and pampering by parents and grandparents; and an environment at home and school that is dominated by women and lacks strong male role models.

“For years we’ve focused more on girls’ rights to receive equal education. But we unintentionally neglected boys and their worsening crisis,” says coauthor Sun, also deputy director of the China Youth Research Center. If this continues, we will have a new gender imbalance,” Sun says.
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Parents spoil them and coop them up indoors instead of letting them run around outside because they think nature and vigorous exercise are dangerous.

(This is a social phenomenon common to many Asian countries, where physical exercise or work of any kind is frowned upon. Ironically, while China may win many medals at the olympics, its population is one of the most sedentary on Earth)

“In a system that ignores gender differences and demands every student be quiet and obedient, there are heavy shackles on boys who have at least 15 times more testosterone than girls,” he says. “Boys and girls are not parts on an assembly line that have the same size, shape and function.”
Boys’ ability to read and write develops two years later than girls, even nerves in a boys’ fingers grow more slowly than girls, says Sun.
“My son has trouble holding a brush and writing Chinese characters with complicated strokes,” says one man. Girls do better earlier, though boys catch up as their coordination improves.
“But they are required to learn the same thing at the same speed. This is so unfair,” Sun says.

– This is the same old – same old. When you let women and bureaucrats teach your boys, the only option they have is to teach them not to be boys or watch them fail in school.

Turning men into girls is fine – except that you’ll never get any grandchildren, because the women won’t breed with your less masculine son.

Some boys are regarded as slow or silly because they have so much energy and have a hard time sitting still. “This can make them hate school starting in the first grade,” says Sun.
Though boys need to run around, many schools eliminate vigorous and demanding physical exercise for both boys and girls – lest accidents result in lawsuits. Exuberance is generally discouraged.

Most important lesson:

“The education system is more suitable for girls, who are good at memorizing and like sitting quietly to read,” says author Li.

It’s not just American men that labor under the crushing burden of a feminized edu-eaucracy.