Trends in Underachievement
So Steve, do you or do you not think there's anything to this supposed trend?
Impossible to tell. It certainly fits with the current situation in which "educators" and role models convince women that getting married and raising children is nothing but a slow death, but only insofar as it means many more women are going to college with a professional career in mind. This would probably make them more serious about their performance in college in order to look good on a resume.
Attributing some social significance to such a trend is much trickier. A trend, in and of itself, is meaningless. Unless we know what the cause of the trend might be and can have some kind of idea of its longevity, we cannot make any meaningful assumptions. For example, the trend could be mitigated or even reversed in a year or less, rendering it utterly meaningless with respect to any long-term social impact or significance.
...I do think there's something to the rising underachievement of the modern American male.
Well of course there is. We have creeping socialism, which generally leads to underachievement by everyone, coupled with the ever more strident voices of feminists who continue to belabor young men with how useless and evil they are. When one is constantly being told that one is nothing but a shiftless rapist who will inevitably render evil to some woman, one will tend to lose interest in being a productive member of society. Add to that the public education blob indoctrination into victimhood and socialism and you have a virtual factory for beer-addled, aging frat-boy couch potatoes.
The last one is the inevitable result of women reaching more positions of societal authority.
How so?
I'm not sure whether you're asking for evidence or causality, so I'll give you both. For evidence, you only need consider the correlation between the conversion of Western Civilization from a patriarchy to a matriarchy and the rise of nanny-state socialism. For causality, I can only give you my theory. Men tend to be more competitive while women tend toward herd behavior. The security of the herd demands that the behavior of every individual in the herd be tightly controlled.
Impossible to tell. It certainly fits with the current situation in which "educators" and role models convince women that getting married and raising children is nothing but a slow death, but only insofar as it means many more women are going to college with a professional career in mind. This would probably make them more serious about their performance in college in order to look good on a resume.
Attributing some social significance to such a trend is much trickier. A trend, in and of itself, is meaningless. Unless we know what the cause of the trend might be and can have some kind of idea of its longevity, we cannot make any meaningful assumptions. For example, the trend could be mitigated or even reversed in a year or less, rendering it utterly meaningless with respect to any long-term social impact or significance.
...I do think there's something to the rising underachievement of the modern American male.
Well of course there is. We have creeping socialism, which generally leads to underachievement by everyone, coupled with the ever more strident voices of feminists who continue to belabor young men with how useless and evil they are. When one is constantly being told that one is nothing but a shiftless rapist who will inevitably render evil to some woman, one will tend to lose interest in being a productive member of society. Add to that the public education blob indoctrination into victimhood and socialism and you have a virtual factory for beer-addled, aging frat-boy couch potatoes.
The last one is the inevitable result of women reaching more positions of societal authority.
How so?
I'm not sure whether you're asking for evidence or causality, so I'll give you both. For evidence, you only need consider the correlation between the conversion of Western Civilization from a patriarchy to a matriarchy and the rise of nanny-state socialism. For causality, I can only give you my theory. Men tend to be more competitive while women tend toward herd behavior. The security of the herd demands that the behavior of every individual in the herd be tightly controlled.
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