I don't have any solutions but one prerequisite for any possible solution is to make it cool to reject digitally mediated socializing, aka touch grass. I work with kids and the most socially adept ones simply don't use their phones in the same way others do.
Back in the 70’s, in the middle of the ‘do everything, accept everything phenomenon’, I learned the phrase, “ if you were not a liberal when you are younger, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative when you’re older, you have learned nothing.” Our media has ridiculed males for the last 50+ years in the bumbling male depiction in many TV shows. After a while, the “crying wolf” joke gets recognized and is ignored. I do hope young men recognize their value as warriors and protectors. Perhaps recognizing that protector role will save women from the lies on gender transition that so many have bought into and has resulted in the decimation of opportunities for women in sports.
This is important. Thank you. My only thought is that it's a more than uphill fight with all the cultural, government and economic key high ground controlled a finance/tech elites whose dominance is validated by woke ideology. Benedict option, anyone?
Jordan Peterson makes a similar point, noting that women being more compassionate and neurotic make better liberals. Higher education exacerbates this as women gravitate to their own kind in the same subjects. It’s not a healthy trend, which sees men and women being increasingly polarised into distinct and opposing camps. It’s not healthy for us individually or socially where we need to blend the two to create balanced children, as well as to balance our own lives.
I don't have any solutions but one prerequisite for any possible solution is to make it cool to reject digitally mediated socializing, aka touch grass. I work with kids and the most socially adept ones simply don't use their phones in the same way others do.
Back in the 70’s, in the middle of the ‘do everything, accept everything phenomenon’, I learned the phrase, “ if you were not a liberal when you are younger, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative when you’re older, you have learned nothing.” Our media has ridiculed males for the last 50+ years in the bumbling male depiction in many TV shows. After a while, the “crying wolf” joke gets recognized and is ignored. I do hope young men recognize their value as warriors and protectors. Perhaps recognizing that protector role will save women from the lies on gender transition that so many have bought into and has resulted in the decimation of opportunities for women in sports.
This is important. Thank you. My only thought is that it's a more than uphill fight with all the cultural, government and economic key high ground controlled a finance/tech elites whose dominance is validated by woke ideology. Benedict option, anyone?
Jordan Peterson makes a similar point, noting that women being more compassionate and neurotic make better liberals. Higher education exacerbates this as women gravitate to their own kind in the same subjects. It’s not a healthy trend, which sees men and women being increasingly polarised into distinct and opposing camps. It’s not healthy for us individually or socially where we need to blend the two to create balanced children, as well as to balance our own lives.
Thx for sharing these stats it coorelates with other similar trends of divergence line % of girls finishing college vs boys etc
Clearly we have significant cultural wedges now well developed and documented that bode ill for healthy marriage and formation in years to come