The Big Stall: Men are sliding back

Submitted by fathers4fairness on Sat, 2016-04-09 01:31

Article here. Excerpt:

'With their greater education, women are now getting more jobs and more management jobs than men, and closing in on the earnings of males; economists report that their wages are rising faster than those of men. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, among recent college graduates, women earn 97 percent of what their male peers earn. “At the start of their careers, women actually out-earn men by a substantial margin for a number of college majors.”

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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The article has this subtitle:"At school, on the job, and in mating life, young men are making no progress and even backsliding. This isn’t the way women’s advancement is supposed to work."

It's working exactly as intended. The two traditional roles were taking care of the family and working to provide for the family. Women have managed to keep having families while men have been exiled from the family. Women are also taking on the role of the provider, which means men are left without a role. Men either provide just for themselves or for a family they used to have--though some men still play the role of provider for an extant family. Increasingly, however, being a husband and father is risky--there's a good chance the man will be exiled and left to pay for children they can't go home to every night and who are often turned against them.

So the woman's role has expanded but the man's role has contracted. She still gets to go home to a family--and her need to provide for that family is recognized by all. He's a bachelor or a deadbeat dad--no family to go home to and an outlaw.

These results were intended by feminists. They wanted to exclude men from the family; they did this by criminalizing and demonizing men. Now all men are suspect. Women are left with the goodies of life--children and money. A man can't have a family by himself, and his safest bet for making money is to not have a family. But he doesn't need much just to provide for himself. So what motive does he have to work harder?

Patriarchy was based on the idea that men were necessary to the family. Matriarchy is based on the idea that men are not necessary. In fact, men have no role in a matriarchy--and feminists want to create a matriarchy. The results this article discusses were very much intended by the feminists--and made possible by naive social scientists who believed all societal structures worked as well as others. In truth, some work better than others.

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Submitted by el cid on Sun, 2016-04-10 23:34