The "crisis" of manhood

Article here. Excerpt:

'A comment piece on this website this week about a so-called "Crisis of manhood" unintentionly highlighted the paradox of so many women: they say they want men to be more communicative and emotional - yet their dating history shows they're morbidly attracted to men who are neither, otherwise all the men they've loved wouldn't "have trouble sharing their feelings".*

This strikes me as one of the great contradictions of modern sexual dynamics - men are increasingly altering their "traditional" masculine behaviour to suit the tastes of women, who publicly claim to want blokes who are sensitive and thoughtful, yet are privately repelled (or become disenchanted) by the soul-searching and vulnerability this manifests.

Men are just as prone to this cognitive dissonance, pronouncing their desire for articulate, intelligent, strong, independent women and then sleeping with gals whose appearance or youth trumps all other concerns.

The difference between men and women is the majority of blokes accept this. Sure, they might stereotypically complain about their partner's nagging and moodiness, but you don't read too many pieces by male writers exhorting women to change "traditional" feminine behaviour.
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Loneliness, anxiety, and pain are human staples; however, the almost universal Western acceptance of the mantra we're all meant to be "confident, resilient, happy and optimistic" has led us to point where half the industrialised world is medicated because they're not confident, resilient, happy or optimistic.

What would be novel is to hear from articulate men IF they believe there is a "crisis in manhood" and what they think should be done.

To them.

Then again, men don't talk about this stuff, do we?'