A Map To Manhood - by Adder - Map to Manhood

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Men, by and large, do not know what to do with themselves. They are consistently outperformed by women at school and are falling as a percentage of attendees of higher education. They take on the most physically grueling and dangerous jobs and are much more likely to find themselves injured or dead from accidents. Men kill themselves four times as often as women. Millions of men, unable to function by society’s rules, find themselves locked in prison. Millions more find themselves in cycles of addiction and depression, stuck with their habits of consuming alcohol, weed, food, video games, and the dopamine-hit slop of today’s internet. But even the “successful” men are barely hanging on. In the essay “The Men Are Not Alright based on her experience dating men in the Bay Area, the as-yet anonymous author finds that almost every man she meets is lost. Most of these men are fairly successful by the usual metrics — being able to pay rent in the Bay Area is a Herculean task unto itself! Yet

It’s hard to be a man in modern Western society. Men, by and large, do not know what to do with themselves. They are consistently outperformed by women at school and are falling as a percentage of attendees of higher education. They take on the most physically grueling and dangerous jobs and are much more likely to find themselves injured or dead from accidents. Men kill themselves four times as often as women. Millions of men, unable to function by society’s rules, find themselves locked in prison. Millions more find themselves in cycles of addiction and depression, stuck with their habits…

A Map To Manhood - by Adder - Map to Manhood

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