Men Are Lost

The list is not my own, but a Letsrun classic. I am not sure if it was intended as a joke by Flagpole, but of course, my interpretation is open to scrutiny. I suppose "real men" are confident because they understand life better than the pretenders.

With today's computer technology do you blame them? 🤔

This isn't the old, primitive days of the pre-internet world where those things meant something & had some value.

We live in a world of unprecedented technology that includes social media, video games, dating apps, online porn, etc..

This is the 3rd decade of the 21st century where people want to be entertained without having to take one step out of your home.

Life is meant to be lived, not watched on a screen.

There are morbidly obese women on dating sites with multiple kids looking for partners.

Are they lost?

Yes

Yes...in the old days but not in modern times. 😉

And just wait until holographic images will replace "screens."

Transhumanism with the ever evolving technology.

Was that an article or a book?

One thing hurting men is the education gap.
Women didn’t often seek higher education many decades ago.
But now, most college graduates are women.
And men are buying the talk that college is a bad investment. This lowers the available women if you don’t want your woman more educated than you. It may feel emasculating.

Women are catching up with pay. It’s intimidating for the man to make less.

Berating or physically pushing or hitting your woman is not all acceptable as it may have been in the past. Tough talk isn’t cool either.

Confidence is still sexy and masculine. Cockiness, not so much. Some men confuse the two.
Be good at something and display confidence without bragging.

And try listening to women.

How so

Haha. No.

Meow.

stopped reading when she brought up Jan 6 and right wing extremism early

nah

Men are lost?

Well, today's man is not the same as two generations agao, that's for sure.

Can you imagine "The Greatest Generation" experiencing the "I'm offended" generation?

I don't need validation. I am a man. I pay my own way. I paid my own college tuition while working. I've worked since I was 12 in some way or another. Caddying, dishwasher, waiter, laborer. Finally, teacher and then business owner.

This world does not need for metrosexuals. Women may say they're ok with them. But watch their heads turn when Mark Wallberg looking dudes walk by.. they dream, of a REAL man.

This is a pretty silly list. Military service is for losers or fools or both. “Spirituality/faith” is meaningless and idiotic, as is the use of an oblique when you don’t know what exactly you mean. Volunteering is just random blah. Marriage is just an economic and legal arrangement. If Worker means one who does physical work, those are just the less smart ones.

Who feeds you guys this shîte?

Who told you that? Many women find metrosexuals sexy and beefy muscle a bit much. Human societies are not unchanging with fixed mate selection policies. You seem to living in an outdated world, sort of like still thinking fat and pale skin is attractive like it used to be one time, but the world is the exact opposite now.

It’s rather cute when a woman author blathers on and on in an overlong article about something with which she can’t possibly have had firsthand experience.

Masculinity just is, not good, bad, or toxic or anything, but just a force of nature that evolves.

Don't sell yourself short - you're a real tough guy on the internet.

That article was TLDR.

Aren't there over 4 billion men on earth?
How can they all be lost?
Are the men fighting in Ukraine for the very survival of their country lost?

I agree with a lot of this article, but I think it’ll only get worse.

I coached DI for almost a decade and a lot of the students (both genders) were completely unprepared for life away from their parents. Most had never worked, never dated, never drank, and a lot of them still did not know how to drive.

The lack of life experience lead to tons of issues and kids growing up once they were at college. Irresponsible dating, partying behaviors, depression, no ability to make new friends or connection.

My advice is to challenge young people to live more when they are younger, be more forgiving of mistakes. Too many kids were way way too sheltered and had very unrealistic ideas on how life post high school would go. One kid told me he expected to make 200k annually when he graduated but could not name a job his degree would get him