Monday, April 17, 2023

What's The Matter With Men

Idrees Kahloon, in an article in the New Yorker, states that "In academic performance, boys are well behind girls in elementary school, high school, and college, where the sex ratio is approaching two female undergraduates for every one male. (It was an even split at the start of the nineteen-eighties.). Men have a greater tendency to drop out of the workforce, and have a higher suicide rate than women. 

He also states that how men are faring in school and at work may not arouse everyone’s concern, but how men choose to pursue politics inevitably affects us all. For instance, the turn to support of the Republican Party by Hispanic voters is mostly because of Hispanic men. 

Our studies have shown that as men are being forced to relinquish many of the perks they received from the gender hierarchy, they have not been historically made to cope with such possibilities. They have, instead, relied on control tactics of the hierarchy, not taking responsibility for the results of their actions expecting someone else to pick up the pieces. 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/30/whats-the-matter-with-men?source=Paid_Soc_FBIG_CM_0_DPA_0_NYR_US_Prospecting%28Broad%29_CM_PAC_Facebook_Desktop_Feed_NYR&utm_source=facebook&utm_meduim=Paid_Soc_FBIG_CM&utm_brand=tny&utm_campaign=DPA&fbclid=IwAR1k7wHl7L_x4xuX5B1siCSZM18q-RnY4CLlzejs_y-6MBNiQIjGWWonBvY