We’ve seen quite a few people try to alert the country to this, but usually, they’re shot down as conservative conspiracy nuts, like Jordan Peterson. Here, however, we have former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Young calling attention to what he calls a crisis among American men and boys. This is coming from a place we totally didn’t expect, but his thread is well worth a read.
Men now comprise only 40.5% of college students and are failing in high school at much higher rates. There’s a crisis among American boys and men that is too often ignored and is definitely going unaddressed.
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
Go on …
Boys are more than 2-3x as likely to be diagnosed as having ADHD, five times more likely to spend time in juvenile detention, and are far less likely to finish high school. In many places being good at school is now considered feminine. 70% of US valedictorians were girls in ‘12.
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
It doesn’t get any better when men become adults. Average male wages have declined since 1990 in real terms. At least one-sixth of prime working age men 25-54 are either unemployed or out of the workforce. More men aged 18-34 are living with parents than with romantic partners.
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
Economic transformation hasn’t helped. Almost three-quarters of manufacturing workers are – were – men; the sector has lost about 5 million jobs since 2000. That’s a lot of unemployed men.
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
The sidelining of this many boys and men has massive social, political and economic consequences. Tyler Cowen calls it “the bad men problem.” It’s getting tougher and tougher to not fall into this category. Addressing or at least reducing this is crucial to any positive future.
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
Now we’re wishing Joe Biden had found a place for Yang in his administration.
The fact that this isn’t front and center of any policy agenda is a massive failure of our media institutions and public leadership that struggle to frame boys and/or men as sympathetic figures despite very clear data indicating the need.
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) January 27, 2022
Sorry, but the only discussion on the table about men right now is “toxic masculinity.”
The one and only @CHSommers saw this coming two decades ago https://t.co/E5vcSrk47g
— Emily Jashinsky (@emilyjashinsky) January 27, 2022
@CHSommers has been beating this drum for a very long time. You two should talk. I am a teacher and can say that I agree that boys are not thriving.
— tikilinlin (@tiki_linlin) January 27, 2022
@CHSommers wrote about this a few years back in “The War Against Boys.”
— Clarissa Harlowe (@NyKiLopez) January 27, 2022
You should talk to @CHSommers about this issue
— FIRE OVERRATED CASHMAN (@thetrocch) January 27, 2022
You should definitely be following Christina Sommers if this topic speaks to you at all.
Thank you for speaking up about this.
— Noah Powell โนอาห์ พาวเวลล์ (@NoahPowellll) January 27, 2022
My son, who is a high school kid in a NYC public high school has written an essay about this that he won't share publicly because he's worried he'll be attacked. If you really want to know what's up-ask the high school boys, they'll tell you straight up. It will be eye-opening.
— Zarna Garg (@ZarnaGarg) January 27, 2022
The problem with the conversation about toxic masculinity is that too many people have come to the conclusion that there's no other kind of masculinity.
— Kayrosis🇺🇸⬆️🧢≥ (@Kayrosis) January 27, 2022
Thanks Andrew for being a consistent advocate for men and boys issues.
It’s good to have some non-conservative voices that also speak up for our challenges.
— Jon Munitz 💵❤️💚🗳️🏘️ (@JonMunitz) January 27, 2022
How do those trends line up with a father figure being present in the home?
— Nick (@nickwarner6) January 27, 2022
The comments reveal just how broken western society has become. Stating even factual information indicating a real crisis for men is immediately met with identitarian factionalism by people who spend all day craving a social media fight.
We may be doomed… and deservedly so.
— Jack Frosch (@jackfrosch) January 27, 2022
It’s sad to see so many comments making this about women being recognized, as if it’s zero sum to succeed in high school. People are our most important asset and learning is not a team sport. If we don’t identify and fix root causes for this problem as a nation, shame on us.
— Rina Alexin (@rina_alexin) January 27, 2022
100%. It's one of the greatest crises of our time, and it gets dismissed by people saying "So what? Boys had their time. The future is female.", which is every bit as vile and dangerous as the people saying girls shouldn't be doctors 50 years ago.
— The Only Gary Johnson Stan (@colorblindk1d) January 27, 2022
For example …
Too often ignored? Females have been in crisis, and ignored, for centuries. Boys have never been ignored, but our culture is changing and a sense of doom hovers over all of us.
— Venice Guntharp (@VeniceGuntharp) January 27, 2022
https://twitter.com/KSchroeder_312/status/1486796445336363013
This certainly isn’t something the government or the public school system (or even the military) is going to fix — they’re still singularly focused on the “angry white male.”
Related:
Christina Sommers embarrasses Hillary’s self-professed ‘number 1 fan’ for whining that NK could have a woman leader before U.S. https://t.co/WXOLUGJkTI
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 26, 2020
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