Sexual equality has been a disaster for men – especially when it comes to dating

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'Men are in crisis. So found Danny Dyer in How to Be a Man, a Channel 4 documentary about modern masculinity (part two is on tomorrow night). And, he discovered, it’s young men who are struggling most of all. They complain of being endlessly lectured about the evils of “toxic masculinity”; say they’re victims of “misandry” (anti-male prejudice); and find themselves being led astray by unsuitable online role models such as Andrew Tate.

No doubt there’s some truth in what they say. Frankly, though, I think there’s a much bigger reason why so many young men today feel confused, lonely and inadequate. But we don’t like to talk about it, because it’s just a tiny bit awkward.

Still, let’s be honest for once and say it. The rise of sexual equality over the past 50-plus years has been great for women. But it’s been a disaster for men. Especially in the field of dating.

The uncomfortable truth, at least if you’re a young man, is that women nowadays are free to be an awful lot choosier than they used to. In the days when the sexes were wildly unequal, and women were thus far less likely to be financially independent, many felt compelled to marry the first passable solvent man they met. Settle down at 18, become a housewife, have children. Well, what else was there to do?

Now that young women tend to have things like careers and money, however, they can afford to have higher standards in their choice of partner. And let’s face it, we men haven’t necessarily risen to that particular challenge. Hence the rise of “incels”, or involuntary celibates – that is, men who can’t get a girlfriend.'