A University of Virginia professor writes - My female students are worried about the state of the opposite sex. The Women who take my “sociology of family” class tell of brothers living in their parents’ basements, boyfriends hooked on pornography, and male peers who don’t pull their weight in group projects. Most troublingly, many of these women say they have never been asked on a date.
The share of young men who are “neither in school nor working
has tripled since 1980. Meanwhile, 60% of young men between the ages of 18 and 24 still live with their parents, and according to Mr. Galloway, 45% of young men have never even approached a woman in person.
A “large and growing cohort of bored, lonely, poorly educated men is
a malevolent force in any society,” he writes, adding that
these unmoored men are vulnerable to “conspiracy theories, radicalization, and nihilist politics.”
The last sentence is quite worrisome to me. Uneducated men with time on their hands is a formula for violence.
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