Misandry and male underperformance

63daddy · 2026-01-27T15:50:50+00:00

Well, we have laws disadvantaging males in education, in job hiring and in business ownership.

Given these, I find it amazing that it’s a mystery to anyone as to why boys and men are underperforming.

nivhsay · 2026-01-27T17:00:35+00:00

This isn’t complicated.

You stigmatize boys, sideline men in education and work, and then reproduce the same bias inside marriage itself — where men are reduced to providers, liabilities, or background utilities rather than equal partners.

Then you act surprised when they disengage, shut down, or stop trying. That’s not “male underperformance.” That’s predictable fallout from sustained exclusion.

When men are systematically devalued, two paths tend to emerge. Some detach completely and opt out of relationships. Others are crushed by prolonged isolation and psychological pressure — a reality reflected in male suicide statistics that the OP already mentioned.

Misandry doesn’t just harm individual men — it corrodes social cohesion. When commitment is framed as risk, marriage as liability, and men as disposable, educated men increasingly choose distance over involvement.

The demographic consequences are already visible. Societies that normalized these dynamics early are now facing collapsing birthrates, aging populations, and long-term decline. Japan isn’t an exception — it’s a preview.

You don’t build a future by alienating half the population. When men disengage at scale, civilizations don’t adapt — they contract.

PracticalSock5373 · 2026-01-27T21:28:42+00:00

I wonder if boys being drugged needlessly in school has any effect on their performance?

When I was a kid we had 95 minutes total time for breaks (recess) during the day. Now students have a total of 55 minutes on average, and that's INCLUDING LUNCH! Boys have testosterone in their blood (even before puberty) and require physical activity periods during the day. They NEED it! Not WANT it, but NEED IT! Girls don't have the same requirements. But we have eliminated the time for breaks for physical activity in schools that BOYS NEED! They are being denied a very basic REQUIREMENT, one they NEED very much! So, after much too much time sitting quietly without any break or required physical activity, many boys become listless, agitated, inattentive, antsy, loud, etc. and are then incorrectly diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, or various other behavioral problems, and are then often medicated to eliminate behavior that even psychology texts say will happen if you deny boys the active time they absolutely need!

Boys are being drugged for behaving like normal boys are expected to behave under the circumstances they are made to endure! Drugged for nothing more than being NORMAL BOYS!

And, since boys are being medicated at rates girls aren't because of this denial of an important physical requirement, I do wonder what behavior altering drugs do to a developing child, and what they are doing to boys specifically. I wouldn't be surprised if this needless drugging of boys is affecting how those boys with NOTHING WRONG WITH THEM are performing in school. And I wonder if the after the effects those drugs have had on their learning process and developing minds for all those years before starting college, if the lower performance up to that point (putting them already behind the girls), also produces further repercussions which affect them onto their college years as well?

We do know that boys didn't USED to do so poorly in school. But they are now. Something that's going on now (which wasn't when boys did well) is clearly causing it. Could drugging many of them needlessly for being normal boys be a part of it, I wonder?

It might not be responsible, but then again, maybe it IS a big part of this problem. Just an odd thought.

NCC-1701-1 · 2026-01-27T20:13:12+00:00

What bothers me the most is that we can talk to guys already into adulthood however they are busy destroying all the K-12 young men who cannot possibly respond in a meaningful way like we can. Learn and adapt, never stay quiet, but don't expect massive change.

World-Three · 2026-01-27T22:14:06+00:00

"wHy DoN't MeN jUsT tALk MoRe"

At some point people need to realize that this is an empty gesture...

Like how your mother would ask if you were hungry or if you had any dishes and would visibly wig the fuck out if and when you said yes. She's saying it so she doesn't feel bad and so you feel like she would even though she doesn't want to. And once you realize she doesn't actually care, you can always say no, and she can always feel good about pretending like she wants to do for you.

People do exactly what they want to do unless they're required to do better. That unfortunate idea is projected onto men, which is why men are almost always forced to do better, so they can never do or be what they want.

burn3rAckounte · 2026-01-28T03:16:09+00:00

Everything's right except the last part. Society asks it out of politeness, not out of a general empathy or willingness to do anything about it (like they obviously were for women's issues)

Ok-Belt7629 · 2026-01-28T11:50:46+00:00

Men are NOT as cunning as women are; men are slow and are NOT awake to how women from birth raised them to be their slaves. This i I s true mothers raise boys not men. The woman was created from the man so how can one made from another raise a boy into a man of which she is made from.

Icy-Abbreviations440 · 2026-01-28T11:13:26+00:00

Its almost like...the patriarchal society we live in has deemed feelings and reaching out for help through therapy as ultimately "feminine"

die_weltschmerz · 2026-01-29T11:13:42+00:00

They do it on purpose

Title	Misandry and male underperformance
Author	TrainingGap2103
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Date	January 27, 2026 3:33 PM UTC (6 months ago)
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