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> Unfortunately, the two causes the article cites (dissolution of family structure and rise of single male households) are unaddressed. It's unaddressed becaus

> Unfortunately, the two causes the article cites (dissolution of family structure and rise of single male households) are unaddressed. It's unaddressed because it's the journalist class and their kind that has waged a war against family, gender roles, gender itself and males. At least since the 90s as far as I remember, the predominant message in media is fathers are bad, males are bad and family is bad. Media has discouraged men and women from getting married, having children, encouraged divorce, abortion, etc. When a nation's media pushes nonsense like "toxic masculinity", isn't it about time to declare the media the enemy of the nation? But what's interesting is that the media are just propaganda of the elites. The elites decide the media campaigns and trends which transform and socially engineer society. The question is why? After all most of these elites and many of these journalists are males themselves. One solution is the diversification of the elites, media and society in general. Not in superficial aspects like race, gender, etc, but ideology, thought and values. Seems like there is a lot of incest within the elite/media class. They all seem to think alike and that's not a good thing. Also, these attacks on men are also ultimately attacks on women as well. Ignoring the fact that half of a woman's genetic history comes from a man ( their father ), the attacks on men ultimately harm their future prospects of a husband, family and kids. And their future hopes of happiness. Men's suicide is increasing and women's happiness has been plummeting. https://www.nber.org/papers/w14969 https://www.nber.org/papers/w14969 Add to that the below replacement birth rate of american born women, you'd think there was a crisis in america. But we can't really discuss the real issues here because it's verboten.

notfromhere 7y ago
The inability to understand what toxic masculinity actually is, is so very telling
- tathougies 7y ago
  What a vapid, empty response. I would be ashamed to write something so mindless in response to a well thought out comment. It would make me feel as if I'm resorting to cliche rather than engaging in an intelligent conversation. The commenter is absolutely right that the media is obsessed with articles on toxic masculinity. This is perhaps not a bad thing in and of itself, but media space is limited, and journalists often harp on toxic masculinity to the exclusion of all else. You'd be hard pressed to find a major journalist or sociologist who would be willing to even point out which traditionally male behaviors are not toxic. That and the implicit taboo about criticizing any part of modern womanhood by the media makes it seem as if men (and white people for that matter -- and I am not white so dont play that game with me) are the only class whose toxic traits are written about so openly. The number of articles published praising women for what would previously have been grave vices dwarves the number of articles written that even dare to broach the topic of there being any goodness in traditional masculine roles, which for better or worse, it is clear men are attracted towards.
  - notfromhere 7y ago
    The vapid response is leaning on traditionalism as some kind of end-all-be-all of human relations. As of women having equal standing is some kind of attack against men. Very pathetic
- elfexec 7y ago
  No. I understand perfectly what "toxic masculinity" and its political/social/cultural agenda is. That's your problem. And sadly for you, more and more people are waking up to it and virtue signaling has a very short half life. Did you know that I predicted someone like you would write precisely your comment? You're so predictable. Maybe a few years ago, you might have duped enough people. But I think the tide is turning. Only time will tell.

notfromhere 7y ago

The inability to understand what toxic masculinity actually is, is so very telling

tathougies 7y ago
What a vapid, empty response. I would be ashamed to write something so mindless in response to a well thought out comment. It would make me feel as if I'm resorting to cliche rather than engaging in an intelligent conversation. The commenter is absolutely right that the media is obsessed with articles on toxic masculinity. This is perhaps not a bad thing in and of itself, but media space is limited, and journalists often harp on toxic masculinity to the exclusion of all else. You'd be hard pressed to find a major journalist or sociologist who would be willing to even point out which traditionally male behaviors are not toxic. That and the implicit taboo about criticizing any part of modern womanhood by the media makes it seem as if men (and white people for that matter -- and I am not white so dont play that game with me) are the only class whose toxic traits are written about so openly. The number of articles published praising women for what would previously have been grave vices dwarves the number of articles written that even dare to broach the topic of there being any goodness in traditional masculine roles, which for better or worse, it is clear men are attracted towards.
- notfromhere 7y ago
  The vapid response is leaning on traditionalism as some kind of end-all-be-all of human relations. As of women having equal standing is some kind of attack against men. Very pathetic
elfexec 7y ago
No. I understand perfectly what "toxic masculinity" and its political/social/cultural agenda is. That's your problem. And sadly for you, more and more people are waking up to it and virtue signaling has a very short half life. Did you know that I predicted someone like you would write precisely your comment? You're so predictable. Maybe a few years ago, you might have duped enough people. But I think the tide is turning. Only time will tell.