Comments on: American Men, Falling Behind Women … Fast

By: admin

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 02:50:44 +0000

This response applies only to those who are beyond the pressures of below-subsistence life. The greater the extent to which one pursues goals beyond one’s capacity, the greater the psych pressure.

By: Gary G

Gary G — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:11:18 +0000

I find it just a little ironic that all of this is being said by a very successful writer who doesn’t bear the “average man’s” pressures.

just sayin’

By: admin

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:35:49 +0000

Mike:
I stand corrected, but I wipe my brow by blaming my source for the data, the US Dept of ED and Secret Service which gathered the school shooter/violence data.

Grace:
Men’s problem is largely biological. We average men dont fit American as well as we did in, say, 1950, when abundant mfgring jobs paid a living wage enuf to support an entire family. Today’s collaborative economy is better for the average woman than the average man.

By: Mike C

Mike C — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:16:56 +0000

Heard your interview on NPR today. Enjoyed it very much, which prompted me to look up your website. I found a mistake, though. Not all school shooters since 1974 have been male. On January 29, 1979, 16-year old Brenda Ann Spencer killed 2 people (a principal and a janitor) and wounded 8 children. Very famous, because her rationale (I don’t like Mondays) led to the famous Boomtown Rats song of the summer of 1979. just thought you’d like to know.

By: Grace Kewl

Grace Kewl — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:32:36 +0000

Just as women have had to; this presents an opportunity for men to reinvent themselves. It could be that the predominant patriarchal hierarchy to which we all have been overwhelmingly subjected is shifting into a new paradigm towards a balance between the sexes. Or rather, as the statistics may point to, a greater increase in violence from men. The shallow perpetuation of male success equating to breadwinning abilities is a tragedy for the human male, and undervalues and degrades who men are as individuals. Men deserve the right to exist without the same types of stereotypes that have held women hostage for centuries – Namaste