Many men have been on the defensive, arguing against these changes as deleterious to society as a whole. Feminism is a rousing success.īut what about men? Where has my gender been during this century-long transition? Some men have cheered women along on their path toward self-development and societal recognition. This is not without conflict – witness the perennial tussling over women “having it all” – but the dialogue is vibrant and continuing to have an effect. They are CEOs, engineers, national security advisers – as well as holding their original societal roles as mothers, wives and family matriarchs. Women are 51% of the graduating medical school classes in the West. Women have either run or been elected to head the governments of Great Britain, Iceland, Germany, France, the United Stated, Chile, and many more nations. In the past few decades, this progress has blossomed in ways I’m sure the original activists would never have dared dream. All of this was reflected by the popular culture, from the Flapper 1920s to the Rosie-the-Riveter 1940s to the Gloria Steinem 1960s and 70s. You could no longer legally keep women from any profession except for combat soldier (Israel excepted.) Women were no longer to be treated like helpless infants when they went away to school.
You could no longer treat women like children when it came to their own health – especially reproductive health. Laws were written to make women voters, property owners, athletes, and equal partners in the creation of our society. Undeniable progress was made in most countries toward freedom, justice and opportunity for females. The 20th century was a critical time for women around the world. Yes, some are so lost that they create bloody sideshows to express their pain – but the real issue lies in manhood itself. Young men are failing to reach mature adulthood in massive numbers, mostly for lack of role-models and reasonable paths toward success.
We have a crisis of masculinity in America. There are men in the forties and fifties who occasionally show up to shower a public place with bullets – almost always their current or just-past workplace – but those cold visages (of names I shall not mention) are almost all callow and beardless. Gun violence is not the exclusive purview of men in their teens, twenties and thirties, but almost all spectacle public horror shows are authored by hollow-eyed young males, each looking deficient and twisted in their own way. It has been noted in very few places, however, that another trend is formed throughout these massacres – they are almost all perpetrated by young men. In the aftermath of national tragedy, we have been convulsing in a desire to discuss the role of firearms and violence in American society.
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