Since the end of the second world war, western society has seen a decline in healthy masculine energy and responsibility. This is due in large part to a decline in Protestantism.

Male children and adults not only lack good male role models in their personal lives and in society at large, but the mainstream media and corporate society conspire against their manhood in the following ways:

Young Male children:

  1. Children's TV and films often make the woman the object of the narrative, placing the boy/man in the serving role. Additionally, they also show boys and girls as having no role distinction, promoting the idea that the genders have few differences. Very few TV programs depict the concept of brotherly companionship amongst male friends.
  2. Most primary schools now are co-educational. Boys and girls need education tailored to their biological and behavioural differences, and co-education fails in this regard.
  3. A culture of "everybody wins" is being inculcated in the youth. Men, who by instinct like to compete, are now being told that it is wrong to out-compete others, especially women. This is another argument for separating the education of young boys and girls. It is not acceptable to inculcate these values into young boys: when they are older, we need them to compete, invent and organise (obviously in the spirit of cooperation).

Teenagers:

  1. Most secondary/high schools tend also to be co-educational. This is particularly detrimental for young men who are going through puberty: women instead of work become the part time focus of many young men, which worsens their exam and learning performance. Not to mention that this set-up facilitates pre-marital sex which morally compromises the all individuals involved.
  2. Most teachers in secondary/high schools are women. This is significant. Young men deserve to have male teachers, not only for academics but also moral instruction.
  3. Young men are made to feel guilty for expressing boyish traits e.g. healthy aggression, questioning of authority and ideas, etc. These traits are necessary in the life of the adult man: he needs to channel his energy into his work and the causes close to his heart, and he needs to question the authority figures in society and not show blind obedience to leaders.
  4. Internet pornography contributes to the demasculinisation of society: it encourages men to unduly venerate the female form. The guilt and shame of such a habit also contributes to lower academic performance and sexualises the individual's mind, likely the probability that they will objectify women at a younger age.

Adults:

  1. Hollywood films and soap operas depict weak men and increasingly, strong women. This confuses both the genders and doesn't encourage the young man to take on responsibility. Additionally, dating reality TV shows show the woman as the object/prize and men only as chasers or vain.
  2. Politics today seems to prioritise women's issues: abortion rights, tampon availability, female access to careers and education, women's opinions on masculinity etc. Very few politicians are talking about male suicide, the decline in gender relations, or the lack of workplace opportunities that many men have. It is almost completely one sided.
  3. Many men are absent fathers today. They either impregnate a woman and leave the child to be raised by another man or the mother, or they take no active role in raising their boys to become men, teaching them to take on responsibility and have high moral standards.