The Unmanning of America

curious67 · 2012-04-03T16:49:52+00:00

This topic continues to raise the question:

If women are constantly gaining the advantage - at what point do they have the advantage and you can no longer pretend that men do?

It must happen at some point - so when? What are the measures of that and have we already reached them?

TerriChris · 2012-04-03T16:07:51+00:00

Men are wising up, thanks to the internet.

Spending time and money on videos is more satisfying than managing the expensive drama, and risk, of a strong, independent girlfriend.

IHaveALargePenis · 2012-04-03T19:03:49+00:00

Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys

I like the misleading title of that book. A more realistic title would probably be "How narcissistic women have turned men away".

by rewarding girly cooperative virtues like organization, diligence, rule-following, and teamwork at the expense of things at which boys have traditionally excelled — fighting, clowning around, shirking their work, and disrupting class.

I like how she put that. She could have said boy's excel at competition rather than cooperation. And it's not like breaking any of those other virtues is a bad thing, most great things done throughout history involved breaking the rules. As for diligence, and organization. How can those only apply to girls?

dropping out in large numbers, lowering men’s overall life achievement and contributing to the growing prison population.

And women are nowhere to be found because they're obviously not responsible. What were those statistics about % of births being out of marriage and likely hoods of children going to prison/dropping out if raised in by a single parent?

The high-spirited male nature must be disciplined by one means or another, and where rewarding cooperation and empathy is unsuccessful, the application of severe, systematic beatings by both adults and older students has been known to do the trick.

WOW. I can't imagine the reaction if someone said women need to start playing ball again or we'll beat it into them, never mind saying that about girls.

This is what Hymowitz refers to as “the Girl Project” that started in the 1970s — a concerted effort to “create a new breed” of independent women who would no longer need to “rely on husbands as breadwinners.”

I'm sure you wanted to say what was probably actually said back then, "no longer need men", but then why are they screaming for them to "man up" and marry them?

offering a list of reasons that women are more promising drivers of economic growth than men: women are more likely to finish school, save their earnings, make financial sacrifices for their children’s health, send their children to school, and so on.

Hold the fuck up. I don't want to analyze every little fact since there's more article to go, but save their earnings? Really? So when shit like this pops up saying young men save more than everyone else, how exactly are women more likely to save their earnings? Or how about when articles like this show up and women blow through $66 thousand a year after retirement, even the ones making $70,000 a year have virtually nothing in savings. How exactly are these people "saving their earnings"?

The barely veiled presumption is that men the world over beat their wives, neglect their children, and squander their wages.

And women the world over are whores moving from one man to the next the second he falls on hard times or she finds a richer man. Don't ask me for sources, I'm just presuming.

Most shocking among UNICEF’s findings is that, despite pervasive discrimination against women, female-headed households in the poorest countries have, on average, better health and economic outcomes than male-headed, two-parent households. Taken together, these statistics suggest that men are nothing less than a complete waste of national resources;

And which of these two gets government aid I wonder? Sorry for not allowing all of their taxes to be redistributed to women. We truly are failures the world over.

That is to say, more or less, that a good or happy life was inconceivable for women before about 1958.

Is that why women are now more miserable than men?

So all in all, this article written by a woman is based completely on a book written by another woman and her opinions about what's wrong with men, as if there was anything wrong. Is it really that hard for women to comprehend that by simply weighing the options, men have come to the conclusion that women are simply not worth the effort and therefore are to be avoided.

I'm also sick and tired of all this projection. Just because you ladies have a degree, some career oriented job and make decent money, doesn't mean guys will come flocking to you in droves when you're ready to settle in your 30's. But I suppose women are finding that out the hard way, or otherwise they wouldn't bother writing these articles.

MrLOL · 2012-04-03T17:58:12+00:00

So a women's journalist from Harvard uses a single household of 4 guys as her sample for proof that today's women are surpassing men? Sorry toots, you have no idea what you are talking about. It ain't going to be that easy.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-04-03T17:51:17+00:00

So many articles based on the same bad books.

warsie · 2012-04-03T23:22:01+00:00

Some on the right have pointed a finger at an overly feminized education establishment, accusing the schools of waging a “war against boys” by rewarding girly cooperative virtues like organization, diligence, rule-following, and teamwork at the expense of things at which boys have traditionally excelled — fighting, clowning around, shirking their work, and disrupting class

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Title	The Unmanning of America
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Date	April 3, 2012 4:02 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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