As the pendulum swings...

Just a few thoughts about a topic that I find to be an almost universal concern among the males of a wide age range I've brought this topic up to: What it means to be a male right now. A concern that I believe had a great deal of influence on the unfortunate outcome of the 2024 election.

Men are confused right now, which is a bad thing, but some of the reasons are good ones, including the fact (opinion, actually) that men's roles needed to be shaken up.

Here are a few links that I found interesting or just fun:

This article "outlines the current state of America’s working class men and describes recent trends in the key areas of employment, earnings, health, and family."

From the article:

- Working class men face alarmingly high risks of dying young, particularly from “deaths of despair” such as suicide, drug overdoses, and alcohol-related deaths. 

- They are also more vulnerable to other health challenges, including workplace injuries and chronic diseases. 

- Young working class men (aged 25 to 34) are more likely to die than middle-aged non-working class men (aged 45 to 54).

- Employment rates for working class men have significantly declined over the past four decades. 

- Black working class men have persistently faced the greatest hurdles in the labor market, while white working class men have experienced the most dramatic recent declines in employment rates.

- Meanwhile, wages for working class men have been stagnant.

- Marriage and family formation rates have declined significantly among working class men. 

- Social isolation is on the rise, with fewer close friendships and weakened social bonds, contributing to a deeper sense of loneliness and disconnection. In the past there was hardly any class gap in marriage and family-formation. Today there is a huge one.

So those are all the problems, but here is one definite solution! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XOt2Vh0T8w

And finally, for those who think there's some advantage or in any way that it’s still better to be a man than a woman, I have two words for you: multiple orgasms.