It doesn’t take much predictive ability to see that they likely will. Economic and other events have affected marriage rates in the past and will affect them in the future- because of the great recession and the general rise in marriage age back to (and a bit beyond) historical averages, this cohort will likely marry…
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I really believe that there are many factors which give an ‘average’ guy a greater shot today at a larger circle of women than in the past. Not only did women (or their families in the past) need to focus on men who could obviously support a wife to even be considered, there’s the fact that because most Western women…
Yes! These kind of things are getting worse because they find ‘their community’ on the internet and then feed off each other’s rage. Frankly, I think they should be being watched and when someone starts talking about Saint Rodger and saying that more attacks are coming, they should be getting a visit from the FBI- I’m…
I agree that the number will come down a bit, but likely not all that much. There is still tons of pressure and desire to marry. Fewer people will likely remain married throughout their lives, but divorce has been down over recent decades too, so maybe not. I’d also add that these surveys should include people who are…
If you read that graph carefully, it says that 23% of men 25 and older have never been married. 25 isn’t even the average age for a male to marry, so many of those (mostly younger) people still have plenty of time to get married and bring those numbers down.
It’s in the 538 article I linked to “Some people never get married — as of 2013, 4.6 percent of women and 4.3 percent of men 70 and older had never been married.” It’s actually 95.7% of men have been married by age 70.
If a 20 something boy hasn’t seen women getting harrassed on the street, at school and at work, he is burying his head in the sand. These things haven’t gone away. There are studies on women trying to break into the fields you’ve mentioned as well as fire fighting- they usually include rape statistics. The only men…
Well, based on what I’ve seen on the incel forums (a small, yet apparently indicitive sampling), the guys describing themselves as such and participating there are real outliers based on their rage and mind set. I don’tknow that many of them can ever (without a lot of therapy) get to a place where they would be…
:) I’ve had time on my hands today and thirst for research :)
Can I have a link to your stats?
Love the Voltaire reference- it fits on so many levels.
I wouldn’t argue that no one gives a shit- I read articles all the time about boys developing body issues and have been reading them for close to 30 years. As many as about girls/women? No. But the problem is NOT as big, either in the effect on large numbers of boys or the pervasiveness in the culture.
But this is his subject...and he’s taught at Harvard and the like.
In fact, boys get preferential college admission because there are less of them applying and colleges want as much gender balance as they can get. The only schools where girls get preference are ones which are solely focused on math and science for the same reason. There are way more schools which offer a range of…
These people! They all make the same arguments about boys absolutely not based in any reality. “Boys don’t do well in school anymore because they’re asked to sit for long periods of time.” When the hell were boys NOT asked to sit for long periods of time in school? This has been going on for literally hundreds if not…
I found another stat from US Dept of Health and Human Services- 84% of men and 86% of women 45 and older have had at least one child. This shows that the vast majority of men are not celibate for at least some period of their lives. More importantly, it also demolishes the argument that women are only having…
This reminds of a story a friend told me. She went to a small college and they had a series of attacks by a rapist. The city floated the idea of a curfew for all women after dark. The women responded that they thought it would be a good idea that all the MEN stay home after dark instead. Why is the default always that…
The regulation of booze and tobacco has not made either ‘safe’ from abuse by anyone with personality/desire to do so.
Well, your ‘argument’ on the otherhand is stunning in its brio. What argument would you like? There are many to counter his (and your) idiocy. Nothing he says makes any historical or contemporary sense. There was no time in history when men who were poor AND socially inept AND unattractive (by their own wacked-out…