I live in NYC, near a trendy ultra liberal neighborhood where the average age is abut 25. My friend is divorced yet very good friends with her ex husband. He is in his late 40s. Handsome masculine guy. He put up profiles on dating sites and gets lots of hits from early/mid 20s women. He tells them in no uncertain terms he is no sugar daddy. His ex wife pays him alimony. He is jobless. Basically, he's a financial loser. But the young girls don't care. They just want someone who isn't a shrinking violet 'nu-male' (his words) in bed. The girls are supposedly disgusted by their peers. They find men in their cohort effeminate and unmanly. Furthermore, these liberal feminist girls are aggressively submissive during sex, asking to be tied up, spanked, etc....but they don't stick around for a long term relationship with him (something he desperately wants). Women in their 30s don't want anything to do with him.

When young girls have to go after the older broke guys because no one their age knows how to 'man' anymore, I have to ask.....is masculinity in THIS much trouble?