Why Are Girls Depressed? Look At These Men

Article here. Excerpt:

'A growing barrage of reports is showing girls are suffering. A CDC report earlier this year found that a majority (57%) of female high school students reported sustained sadness and hopelessness and 30% said they had seriously considered suicide in the previous 12 months. This compares to 29% and 14% respectively for male students. Everyone is wringing their hands and desperately trying to understand why.

But look at the men leading the world and dominating the headlines. They are the role models for a generation of boys hungry to prove themselves in a money- and power-adulating world. The same boys that girls are looking to as future lovers, husbands and fathers for their children. And they are horrifying images of immature, unethical and uncaring toxic masculinity gone awry.

And we are wondering why girls are depressed? Listening to these men who head up companies that influence millions – in Zuckerberg’s case billions - of lives and livelihoods, through the common spaces in which our online lives are spent, is enough to put any girl off her dinner – not to mention her date.

The rise of toxic male models, teenage boys’ porn-addled notions of romance which lean towards strangulation, the loss (in much of the USA) of their (grand)-mothers’ hard-won rights to reproductive choice, the frog-in-the-boiling-pot era of climate warming, the rise of male autocrats around the planet - depression sounds like a very sane response to reality.'