Madeline
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Fascinating article. Please read the whole thing; most important points emerge on the last page.
The End of Men - Magazine - The Atlantic
The End of Men - Magazine - The Atlantic
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Nah. We can just import China's 30 million excess men. They've been selecting for boys over the past forty years the old-fashioned way: infanticide.Let's just select out one factoid. If parents who can select the sex of child prefer girls by 75%, aren't we going to end up with few too boys eventually?
I don't think any of you are being totally fair to the author. She observes some startling sociological trends and what conclusions she draws she deals with most compassionately IMO. Did you read the whole article?
Let's just select out one factoid. If parents who can select the sex of child prefer girls by 75%, aren't we going to end up with few too boys eventually?
Part of the problem (maybe even most of the problem) has to do with the way teachers are now teaching prior to college. In order to "fix" the perceived societal ill of an overly patriarchal society, the "new" education pedagogy has teachers check themselves to ensure that they call on girls before boys and create an atmosphere accepting and non-threatening to girls. Sometimes this calls for emasculating boys or drugging them and labeling "boy behavior" ADD or ADHD.
Generalizations alert!
A smaller percentage of men are psychologically prepared to fit into the corporate world than women.
Corporations mostly want compliant personalities, and women, by dint of the fact that they tend to be more social and more cooperative, tend do better in positions where subservience is expected from the employee.
The nature of our society is changing.
WE give a lot of lip service to the rugged individual, but the fact is that we don't want those people working for us.
I'd say the feminist view of nirvhana we envisioned in the 1960's and 1970's was a genderless society; people would just gravitate towards whatever they liked and there'd be no judgments about what was appropriate for either sex. The article makes me question if that is, in fact, what we're getting or if there might actually be patterns of behavior hard-wired by gender, at least for some people.