Many men are not psychologically equipped for a universe where potential mates are not entirely economically dependent on them. Nor can they handle the burden of freedom from prescribed gender-based expectations. The people least equipped for this are running the country. bsky.app/profile/drjax.bsky.social/post/3miesvd275k25

March 31, 2026 - 18:42 UTC

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I suppose the nature of living through a time of social change is that the young people are simultaneously getting one (outdated) message from their parents/grandparents/elders and another (modern) message from their peers. I suspect their peers will win out in the end.
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I realize that I’m a woke cuck, but how does it not suck to carry the weight of being the sole breadwinner? My wife makes a lot more than me and my company is currently going through PE-driven hell. She’s encouraging me to quit to spend time with our son if it gets unbearable, and that’s awesome!
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Which leads me to believe that for a lot of these guys, being the breadwinner also serves as an excuse to abdicate everything *except* for the winning of bread. It’s an excuse to be the fun dad and/or the grumpy dad but not the dad who deals with bed time and bath time.
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A broader way of making the same point: in a formally egalitarian liberal republic, you prove your value through acts of service and consideration instead of having it handed to you based on inborn traits. That is way too much for a lot of people to handle.
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This concludes the latest lecture in my 1,000-part series, "Why American Public Life Should Be Governed By a Particularly Stern and Demanding Form Of Virtue Ethics"
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This is generally what the "we must solve the male loneliness crisis" is going for, but the solutions are A) teach men to adapt to the new reality or B) shove everyone back into patriarchy and unfortunately B has lots of money and power still, plus manfluencers sell B as thought it's A
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Inborn traits or inherited wealth.
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>That is way too much for a lot of people to handle.

Apparently true, but at what point did their personal problems get treated as if they're valid
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I agree with this, except for the last sentence. The upper class in America, largely white, career oriented and educated, is just fine with women being rich - they have embraced the civil rights attitude except, of course, vis a vis blacks. They don't accepts non-patriarchy among the workers.
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One of the oddities of neoliberalism was the synthesis between a civil rights ethos from the social democratic period and a rabid version of the Washington Consensus on the economic level. Both parts of that synthesis are now under attack. And the whole thing is breaking apart.
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I listened to the new @serialproductions.bsky.social podcast, "The Idiot," and this was a key takeaway.
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