3 thoughts on “The End of Men”

  1. It would be fun to do scorpions-in-a-bottle with her and Hirshman, after Hirshman made this huge fuss about how the recession was hurting women.
    Rosin has a couple of things going. She is right that the things men have excelled at – physical strength and aggressiveness and ability to go unscathed through tough neighborhoods – do less for you, these days, as motors and surveillance cameras take over a lot of strong right arm functions. The girls are less squirmy in my kids’ classes, and do a better job generally on turning in tidy homework (not my daughter! what a mess her homework is!). So to the extent that greater success at coloring within the lines gets advancement, well…
    Rosin’s Kansas college is suspiciously far away from her audience and tidy in supporting the book she wants to sell, as is the men’s group. Maybe those stories are in the ‘true’ box, and maybe they’re in the ‘ought to be true’ box.
    The things she is talking about have hit black Americans far harder and firster than whites, and she didn’t chose to go there in her talk. Black women are having a dreadful time finding men, the percentages in college are far more lop sided than for whites. Buddy of mine is a builder, and goes to a lot of inspector offices, and he talks about when each of them became a preserve of black ladies.
    Should we be worried about our sons? I worry about how my boys will fit into a declining society, but not a lot more than I worry about my daughter. I am more worried about decline in general than I am about the relative positions of women and men

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