OK, I entered the work force in the mid-nineties, have focused on career, and been fairly busy since then. I got into a bad marriage, tried way too long to make it work, became a regular reader here 7 years ago. Thanks to this site, I found a great girl who got me out of my bad marriage and I recently got back with that girl. It's 2016, and I feel like I'm finally in a really good place in my life for the first time ever!
Good times, right? But....the world is a different place from the mid-nineties. I'm reading a Facebook post from my ex brother-in-law. This guy is super smart, co-founded a cloud-based company about eight years ago, which he sold. He's presented at Google and Apple. He's in his mid- thirties. Why he married my ex-SIL, is beyond me. He could do much better.
Anyway, he posts this article on Facebook, which is basically a male-shaming article, pretty much blaming all men for the recent tragedy in FL. The article speaks how men do such horrific things like how we as a collective whole used the atom bomb on Japan and how women wouldn't do such a thing. It's basically blaming all men for any bad thing a single man has ever done. I kind of think there were some women on the Manhattan project, just saying.
Here's some highlights: "The word for what is wrong with men appears momentarily with every mass shooting, but it is never unaccompanied. That word is masculinity...There is something wrong with men — something obviously, undeniably, tragically wrong....Society doesn’t teach us toxic ideas about manhood. It teaches us a toxic idea called manhood."
This author is a male feminist. Why are there even male feminists, it's not going to get them the ladies. I imagine it just gets them friend zoned.
OK, I figure it's a one-off, my BIL is from Portland after all.
But this morning I get an Amazon book recommendation. The book description states "People are talking about the decline of men....crisis of masculinity....". This book concludes "The way of men is a primal survival gang."
I feel like I've been asleep for the past 20 years, just woke up, and I don't recognize this world anymore. What happened guys???
Decline of men? Really? Are we going out like the dinosaur? What's going on?
Article in question:
https://medium.com/@JonahMix/mass-k...ulinity-liberal-men-do-fd03c9a39e9#.s54wgjo8f
Book in question: The Way of Men by Jack Donovan, who coincidently is also in Portland.
Does Portland just hate men?
Good times, right? But....the world is a different place from the mid-nineties. I'm reading a Facebook post from my ex brother-in-law. This guy is super smart, co-founded a cloud-based company about eight years ago, which he sold. He's presented at Google and Apple. He's in his mid- thirties. Why he married my ex-SIL, is beyond me. He could do much better.
Anyway, he posts this article on Facebook, which is basically a male-shaming article, pretty much blaming all men for the recent tragedy in FL. The article speaks how men do such horrific things like how we as a collective whole used the atom bomb on Japan and how women wouldn't do such a thing. It's basically blaming all men for any bad thing a single man has ever done. I kind of think there were some women on the Manhattan project, just saying.
Here's some highlights: "The word for what is wrong with men appears momentarily with every mass shooting, but it is never unaccompanied. That word is masculinity...There is something wrong with men — something obviously, undeniably, tragically wrong....Society doesn’t teach us toxic ideas about manhood. It teaches us a toxic idea called manhood."
This author is a male feminist. Why are there even male feminists, it's not going to get them the ladies. I imagine it just gets them friend zoned.
OK, I figure it's a one-off, my BIL is from Portland after all.
But this morning I get an Amazon book recommendation. The book description states "People are talking about the decline of men....crisis of masculinity....". This book concludes "The way of men is a primal survival gang."
I feel like I've been asleep for the past 20 years, just woke up, and I don't recognize this world anymore. What happened guys???
Decline of men? Really? Are we going out like the dinosaur? What's going on?
Article in question:
https://medium.com/@JonahMix/mass-k...ulinity-liberal-men-do-fd03c9a39e9#.s54wgjo8f
Book in question: The Way of Men by Jack Donovan, who coincidently is also in Portland.
Does Portland just hate men?
