Feminism Must Include Empathy for Working-Class Men

DrinkingInSunshine · 2024-07-31T21:14:22+00:00

A few things from the article:

"...there’s now a bigger gender gap in education today than there was in 1972. On college campuses, for example, women are further ahead of men now than men were ahead of women when we passed Title IX in 1972."

"The male suicide rate is four times higher than the female suicide rate. It has risen by 25 percent in the last decade and rose very sharply between 2020 and 2021, 8 percent for young men alone. And there wasn’t an increase for women.

"...white women have seen very strong increases in their wages, such that for every dollar earned by a white woman, a black man earns about eighty-four cents, which is similar to the gender gap"

"The single biggest risk factor for dropping out of college, controlling for everything else, is being male."

"Would it be a terrible idea to have a recruitment drive for male teachers? We have a massive recruitment drive for women into STEM and, most recently, women into construction. I’m here for that. But what about the fact that we have emptied out, not only education, but social work and psychology of men?"

It's also worth mentioning how politics is using the idea of masculinity as a polarizing topic to gain political support... but there's very little - to no - policy changes that would help to fix the actual issues listed above.

Edit: Shoot. I just realized what I wrote above was in relation to a different article, which OP's article references. It can be found here: https://jacobin.com/2023/09/boys-men-work-despair-struggling-wages-education

DecrepitAbacus · 2024-08-01T00:13:23+00:00

When did feminism ever represent working class women let alone men?

aerial_coitus · 2024-07-31T23:49:04+00:00

Why? This is like visiting an alligator farm to petition them to become vegetarians. It might sound nice (in theory) to some exceptionally retarded idiots but the fundamental reality is that asking feminists to start giving a shit about men is as pointless as expecting alligators to show up to my kitchen and prepare a nice salad or expecting the Middle East conflict to suddenly and peacefully resolve by tomorrow. Sorry but it just ain’t happening.

g1455ofwater · 2024-08-01T06:08:36+00:00

I hate the way it's written like thinking of men is this awful chore they must do, like it's some kind of punishment. Having said that there was two points that are practically lifted from a Men's Rights post:

Given that this massive disparity was not at all reflected in the numbers at my elite research university, it gave me serious pause. To what extent am I just not seeing men suffer because of my current class status? Would these numbers surprise me were I still in touch with my working-class childhood friends? If my own father had remained a letter carrier rather than climbing the ranks of more remunerative white-collar positions? What does the invisibility of this disparity in my own social and professional circles tell us about the blindness of elite feminism to the broader trends at play in the relationship between the sexes...

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We must be able to hold two truths in our mind: that a small handful of elite men are in nearly complete control of society, and that the vast majority of men are flailing.

I guess it's good this is finally getting through to some people.

Solid-Parsnip-4671 · 2024-07-31T23:46:53+00:00

Nobody cares about feminism anymore. It doesn't care about anyone and was only created by greedy corporations to get more workers and slash wages.

Complete_Category_36 · 2024-08-01T23:34:22+00:00

It's never happened.
They hate all males.

Absentrando · 2024-08-01T00:04:55+00:00

Excellent article. I truly hope feminism shifts in this direction

MannerNo7000 · 2024-07-31T22:18:28+00:00

This is why I vote left wing.

schtean · 2024-08-01T00:21:36+00:00

This might be a pretty hard sell. The idea that the guy in the picture benefits from the patriarchy seems to be becoming more and more ingrained, and trying to be pushed more to the mainstream.

Title	Feminism Must Include Empathy for Working-Class Men
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Date	July 31, 2024 4:35 AM UTC (2 years ago)
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