Gender roles hurt everyone. Men die younger than women and the trend is men are dying younger today than last year, the year before ... Why? Why are men dying younger and younger w healthcare more accessible to more but w rising costs. I postulate that itâs b/c of gender roles & the worst healthcare in the industrial world. Think John Wayne & Clint Eastwood as role models: men donât seek help instead struggle in silence b/c anything else would be seen as weak. So men drink like Wayne & Clint characters to take the edge off. All these alleged causes of death that read stroke, heart attack, liver cancer, .. are really substance abuse. Capitalism does not allow most American men to support a family. Yet who is blamed: women, minorities and immigrants for taking menâs jobs. Really thereâs less jobs that pay even a living wage for one. In the 50s & 60s a guy working in a grocery store could support a family. Smart, in charge, competent women are not liked / hired / promoted by men or women b/c women who do not conform to gender roles are seen as especially deviant / rule-breaking. In sociological reviews men are more likely than women to hire a non-gender conforming woman. Speculation: b/c generally men are more ok w rule breaking in general, women more obedient - generally.
Things are bad in general. TMI. People are anesthetizing themselves w food, TV, sex, gambling, alcohol, drugs, luxury this & that anything to keep reality away.
Definitely donât think there are very compelling reasons to attempt to reappropriate or ameliorate some kind of contemporary concept of masculinity to âsave men,â but thatâs consistent with thinking there is a crisis of masculinity, in the sense that some men used to feel comfortable and be bolstered by a concept of masculinity that has slowly withered away, and theyâre now left grasping at whatâs left / wanting something to replace it. The answer to the death of God is secular morality, not another God; but it still makes sense to talk of a crisis of faith.
Gender roles hurt everyone. Men die younger than women and the trend is men are dying younger today than last year, the year before ... Why? Why are men dying younger and younger w healthcare more accessible to more but w rising costs. I postulate that itâs b/c of gender roles & the worst healthcare in the industrial world. Think John Wayne & Clint Eastwood as role models: men donât seek help instead struggle in silence b/c anything else would be seen as weak. So men drink like Wayne & Clint characters to take the edge off. All these alleged causes of death that read stroke, heart attack, liver cancer, .. are really substance abuse. Capitalism does not allow most American men to support a family. Yet who is blamed: women, minorities and immigrants for taking menâs jobs. Really thereâs less jobs that pay even a living wage for one. In the 50s & 60s a guy working in a grocery store could support a family. Smart, in charge, competent women are not liked / hired / promoted by men or women b/c women who do not conform to gender roles are seen as especially deviant / rule-breaking. In sociological reviews men are more likely than women to hire a non-gender conforming woman. Speculation: b/c generally men are more ok w rule breaking in general, women more obedient - generally.
do you despise the Point's new symposium title? =D
Things are bad in general. TMI. People are anesthetizing themselves w food, TV, sex, gambling, alcohol, drugs, luxury this & that anything to keep reality away.
Definitely donât think there are very compelling reasons to attempt to reappropriate or ameliorate some kind of contemporary concept of masculinity to âsave men,â but thatâs consistent with thinking there is a crisis of masculinity, in the sense that some men used to feel comfortable and be bolstered by a concept of masculinity that has slowly withered away, and theyâre now left grasping at whatâs left / wanting something to replace it. The answer to the death of God is secular morality, not another God; but it still makes sense to talk of a crisis of faith.