Psychology Today: The Big Stall

Submitted by mens_issues on Wed, 2016-03-16 01:28

What is your opinion of this article? It does make some good points, but leaves out some as well. Excerpt:

'As women advance, however, men are stalling in their development, increasingly stuck in place and even backsliding as postindustrial American culture fractures along educational, economic, and behavioral fault lines. Almost daily, reports announce that men are lagging by almost every measure there is—school enrollment rates (71 percent of female high school graduates enrolled in college in 2012 versus 61 percent of males, according to the Pew Research Center), number of graduate degrees (women earned 61 percent of master’s and 51 percent of doctor’s degrees in 2012–2013, finds the National Center for Education Statistics), and labor force participation. As Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, data now show that, uniquely among advanced countries, the physical and mental health of American men has begun to decline, seen especially in rising rates of suicide and accidental death due to substance abuse among white middle-aged men.'

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There is a bigger picture here.

First, where are the men? Men dominate the stress positions: surgery, conducting, CEO, military, engineering, computers, math, etc.

Men dominate the other end (forgive me for the pejorative as I do not mean "lower"): dock workers, construction, mining, oil, etc.

And these will always be male dominated.

Now where are the women? Publishing, Law, advertising, along with biological sciences (general practice M.D.).

Publishing is dead.
Law is dead (law schools inflated the statistics and now students are suing)
Advertising, real estate: automated faster than blue collar
Once nurses can prescribe medicine (that is coming) the general practice M.D. is a dead end)

The fact is that software robots will replace paper pushing before hardware robots replace dock workers.

And let's not forget the men in the military coming home with retirement benefits...

Or males nurses coming back from the battlefield and dominating emergency room medicine.

No, far from it.

Women are growing more depressed than ever: alcoholic, depressed and in the US nearly half are on mood altering pills.

Men are resilient.

Yes, the current group (centered: 30 to 40) are in trouble. I feel terrible. But the future is not grim.

Now... on to schools...

People are worried about male attendance in college.

But the fact is that half of American universities will soon be bankrupt
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/03/03/in-15-years-from-now-half-of-us-universities-may-be-in-bankruptcy-my-surprise-discussion-with-claychristensen/

On line learning
Diminished student population.

There are dark times coming, for sure.

But it's not so bleak.

And yes, biology experiments with male babies. But neonatal care has improved now. And men are dying less in wars. And we are being restrained from excessive drunk driving. And for the first time in history, there are more men on this planet than women.

No, contrary to Hanna Rosin, this is not the end of men. I think it is the rise.

Also, don't forget, men now KNOW it. We see it. We are stumbling into men's rights groups. Yes, we are hounded by feminists, but it is only time now before more men fall into it. The last blockade must soon fall: gay, straight, black, white men will come together.

(In one sense, I support Black Lives Matter: for it is about black men.)

And, finally, while feminists brag that we can now fuse to egg cells to create a viable life, they forget that the same technology can fuse two sperm cells. And at the end of the day, two egg cells can only make a female. Two sperm cells can make a male or a female.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Wed, 2016-03-16 20:21

There are essentially only two male roles: father/husband or bachelor.

Men will be fathers and husbands as long as those roles make sense. Today, more and more, they don't. Both increasingly result in men being treated as criminals: get married, have children, and the next thing you know you're divorced and a "deadbeat dad" who must prove his innocence every month or face criminal sanctions, including jail--or getting shot in the back.

So more and more men are choosing to be bachelors and avoid the legal entanglements of being a husband and father. As a bachelor, they can choose whatever job they wish but they only need to take care of themselves.

The female role has evolved so she gets the family and the job. The male role has evolved so he loses his family but must still provide for the family. Better to not have a family than to lose a family and still have to pay for it.

So men are adapting by taking the role left to them: a bachelor who takes care of himself.

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Submitted by el cid on Thu, 2016-03-17 13:19