Labor Premier Jacinta Allan of Victoria, the second most populous state in Australia, announced on Monday that a new position had been created in her government: &#8220;Parliamentary Secretary for Men’s Behaviour Change.&#8221;
Allan selected Tim Richardson, the State Labor MP for Mordialloc, to fill the position.
“Tim Richardson will become Parliamentary Secretary for Men’s Behaviour Change, continuing the Allan Labor Government’s priority to make Victoria a safer place for women and children and work to end the tragedy of deaths of Victorian women at the hands of men,” Allan<a href="https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-05/240528-Statement-From-The-Premier.pdf?utm_source=miragenews&amp;utm_medium=miragenews&amp;utm_campaign=news" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> stated</a>. “This is the first position of its kind in Australia – and will focus largely on the influence the internet and social media have on boys’ and men’s attitudes towards women and building respectful relationships.”
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I want to share with you some pretty big news. Premier <a href="https://twitter.com/JacintaAllanMP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JacintaAllanMP</a> has asked me to serve as the Parliamentary Secretary for Men’s Behaviour Change, a national first. <a href="https://t.co/QJBzJO3UGE">pic.twitter.com/QJBzJO3UGE</a>
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Richardson declared his job would entail “modelling positive role models for boys and men and ensuring we break away from gendered based stereotypes and building respectful relationships.”
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Some pretty hectic reactions here to an important role and Australian first. It will be about modelling positive role models for boys and men and ensuring we break away from gendered based stereotypes and building respectful relationships. As boys and men we need to lead this. <a href="https://t.co/6tLZJS3VsL">https://t.co/6tLZJS3VsL</a>
&mdash; Tim Richardson MP (@TimRichardsonMP) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimRichardsonMP/status/1795786865871904980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“In Victoria, a parliamentary secretary earns nearly $244,991, which includes a base salary of $198,839 plus an extra $46,152 for extra duties,” The Epoch Times <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/victoria-appoints-parliamentary-secretary-for-mens-behaviour-change-5658013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
Earlier this month, Allan <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JacintaAllanBendigoEast/posts/924444456156250/?paipv=0&amp;eav=AfbRJGfnCru83Tcj4SnnIXjy7cLvJGDsexrTnc_KAHpZXOQf2oDQcCQWFePTlgpSe0M&amp;_rdr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “We&#8217;re enshrining in law that every Budget must have a statement on gender equality.”
Victoria has “the most radical policies on transgenderism, children’s gender dysphoria and euthanasia of any state in Australia,” Terry Barnes <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/victorias-absurd-new-minister-for-mens-behaviour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opined</a> in The Spectator, adding, “&#8230; to assume, as Allan has, that all men are toxic perpetrators-in-waiting is both lazy feminist and identity politics, and an insult to the overwhelming majority of men who deplore family violence of any sort as utterly repugnant, and who strive to be kind and loving husbands, partners and fathers.”
Victoria’s health department released a women’s health <a href="https://engage.vic.gov.au/project/lets-talk-about-improving-womens-health-in-victoria/survey/4366#sub-nav">survey</a> last year which stated, “You are invited to complete this survey based on your experiences as a woman or girl managing your health. &#8230; Any references to a woman or women or girl or girls include: cisgender women, transgender women, transgender men, non-binary people and gender diverse people who may be perceived as women, female or feminine (regardless of expression or identity), who may experience similar health issues and/or gender-based discrepancies in care.”

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A debate has arisen on the Right about the value of marriage. There are people on the so-called “red-pilled” Right who have now suggested that marriage is bad for men, that men should not get married.
The case they’re making is not the liberal feminist case that basically men are useless and terrible, that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. The case they are making is that the stakes of marriage have been changed by no-fault divorce, custody arrangements, child support payments, spousal support, and the like.
I agree with the critique of all of those policies. I think no-fault divorce is a disaster area. I think the child custody arrangements that basically always go to the mom no matter what are a serious problem.
But the “red-pilled” Right have taken it one step further. They’re telling young men you should not get married. It’s too dangerous to get married. Don’t get married.
That’s foolish.
Pearl Davis is an anti-feminist. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbuQWb1r-Io" target="_blank" rel="noopener">She states</a>, “A man has no way to have children and those kids be actually his. They’re always hers because the courts give the women custody 90% of the time. And rich men are really the only ones that have the money to fight it and the time.”
She then criticizes people who agree the laws should be changed and women face repercussions of their own for marital failures — but also says men should find a girl who prays and then get married.
“I had this thought, too, until I found a Muslim girl that did the same thing,” she said. “I found a Christian girl that did the same thing; I found a Catholic girl. It’s happening all over, whether you want to believe it or not, it is happening. I don’t care about your religion. I don’t care about your church. This happens everywhere.”
The argument she’s making against all these marital policies is correct. Nobody is disregarding the pain of men who have been wrongfully victimized under these circumstances, where the incentive structure is completely stacked against them. That is true.
But the benefits of marriage are still unbelievable. It does matter who you marry. To pretend there is no difference in the kind of person you marry is not true. You can mitigate the risk of divorce; the person who you marry is the chief mitigation.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is not the solution. Instead, revise the system of laws but also urge men to find a spouse and get married to her.
If that requires shifting away from the state-mandated law and toward a contract arrangement, fine; I agree with many of the critiques of current marriage law. The problem is when you say that the solution for men is to not get married; you’ve created a second-order effect where unmarried men become actual menaces.
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The reality is that men channel their aggressive drives toward building or they channel it toward destroying. A system in which women are unmarried and men are unmarried is what the Left wants. If you acquiesce in that, you end up destroying the very fundamental basis of society that allows for the growing and building of a society beyond leftist principles.
Marriage is a risk. Of course it is. And that risk is disproportionately borne by men at this point. That is also true. But is the reward worth the risk?
The answer in a huge majority of circumstances where both people are committed and have shared values is yes.
With the red pill movement, the diagnosis is often correct and the solution is wrong.
It turns out that there is actually a formula to a successful marriage. It includes being conservative, religious, and highly educated. Seventy-seven percent of college-educated conservative parents are still in their first marriage.
In the community where I live — an Orthodox Jewish community — there are very low divorce rates. Why? Because everyone is religiously committed, because everybody goes into marriage believing it is a sacred bond that actually matters, and because people don’t date for sex. People actually date looking forward to the day when they will have kids together.
Marriage is a risk. But is it a coin flip?
No. It’s a decision you have to make: What kind of person do you wish to date? What kind of relationship do you wish to build? How seriously do you take that commitment in the first place?
Do the laws need to change?
Absolutely.
Should men get married?
Absolutely.
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We are now not supposed to judge people as fully-fledged human beings, which is the natural outcome of a hedonistic society in which the only thing that matters is sex.
The way we used to date is that you didn’t take your clothes off until you were married. When that was the case, you had to fully appreciate the person sitting across the table from you as a fully-fledged human being with thoughts, values, and ideas. You only got to sex after marriage. Now, you get to the sex first and everything else is lost by the wayside. Some people are making the argument that marriage is bad because women are initiating most divorces due to no-fault divorce, which means it’s risky for men to get married.
My answer to that is: Not if you marry the right woman. The way you know you’re marrying the right woman is if you date in the right way. This is why it’s very important when you are dating to avoid what has become current: jumping in bed with each other and then seeing how it goes from there. Instead, it should be precisely as it was in terms of actually appreciating the other human being as a potential life partner. Here’s one reason why: Everything is going to droop and bag as you get older anyway, so you should marry somebody who shares your values.
Modern masculinity does have a problem. More men than ever are committing suicide, more men than ever are addicted to opioids, and more men than ever are not going to college. And there’s a lot of depression. The real reason for that is, men have been deprived of their traditional roles or have deprived themselves of their traditional roles. The original roles of a male were to provide for and protect a family, which meant get married, have kids, protect, defend, provide. That’s what men did. And it gave them purpose and meaning.
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Then we built an entire society around the idea that this was actively bad, that there was a serious problem with doing this. And thus society has fallen apart. Feminism argued in order for men to fulfill their traditional roles, women had to be tertiary or secondary or be treated as slaves, etc. But that was an idiotic assumption. Marriage was always good for women.
The New York Times has an entire article titled: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/24/magazine/caitlin-moran-interview.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Modern Masculinity Is Broken. She Knows How to Fix It.</a> It is an interview with an author who is married with a couple of kids. She is a self-described feminist. The New York Times describes her as “one of her generation’s funniest and most fearless feminist voices.” I always love when people use the word “fearless,” because it usually just means they’re repeating nostrums the Left really, really likes. That’s what makes you “fearless.”
She implies men should just ditch masculinity, writing:
<blockquote>I can walk around leafy liberal North London and see boys in dresses with nail polish who are using mixed pronouns and go, “Look at the progress here.” On the other hand, as soon as I go back to my hometown, I am not seeing boys walking around in sarongs and using mixed pronouns. In those places you would be going straight in at the deep end by starting a conversation about masculinity by going, “Maybe gender shouldn’t exist.” </blockquote>
She’s wrong. The real solution for men is to live virtuously. The real solution for women is also to live virtuously.
Why are men so depressed? Because you’ve said that the only way they can be a real man is to not be a man at all.
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NYT ‘Fearless’ Writer Advises Men To Ditch Masculinity. But That’s Why So Many Men Are Depressed.

NYT 'Fearless' Writer Advises Men To Ditch Masculinity. But That’s Why So Many Men Are Depressed.

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Absalom, the third son of King David, fomented rebellion against his father by providing guidance for his countrymen while David neglected to appoint magistrates who could settle their disputes. Absalom therefore “stole the hearts of the men of Israel” (2 Samuel 15:6) as he listened to their cases, positioned himself against David, and launched an insurrection that wreaked havoc on Israel and nearly ended his father’s reign.
The lack of sound teaching on biblical manhood from modern pulpits has drawn comparisons to the story of Absalom as various cultural icons fill the void left by ministers of the gospel. 
Joe Rogan, a mixed martial artist and comedian, is the most popular podcast host in America, while Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist and DailyWire+ host, is a bestselling author who routinely delivers lectures to packed arenas in cities across the Western world. Both encourage young men to channel their natural strength and ambition in productive manners, while less well-intentioned individuals such as internet star Andrew Tate prompt them to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-hosts-dissect-the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-controversial-internet-star-andrew-tate">embrace</a> their fleshly desires and neglect responsibility for those under their care.
Michael Foster, a pastor at East River Church in Batavia, Ohio, told The Daily Wire that such figures help men “navigate a culture which categorizes them as toxic.”
“Sadly, the bulk of the church is silent or, worse yet, complicit in the widespread misandry of our day,” added Foster, a father of eight. “The church is losing the hearts of young men.”
The void of male counsel occurs as father absence becomes increasingly <a href="https://americafirstpolicy.com/latest/20220215-fatherlessness-and-its-effects-on-american-society#:~:text=Across%20America%2C%20there%20are%20approximately,world%20(Kramer%2C%202021)." target="_blank" rel="noopener">common</a> in the modern United States: one in four American children live without a father in the home, while four in five single-parent households are led by single mothers and two in five children are born to unwed mothers. Even as American culture suffers untold harm from the decline of the family, prominent ministers appear to have misplaced priorities with respect to their teaching on sexuality: Tim Keller of Redeemer Church in New York City, for instance, <a href="https://www.christ2rculture.com/resources/Ministry-Blog/The-Gospel-and-Sex-by-Tim-Keller.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warns</a> that marriage can be an “idol” and <a href="https://www.redeemer.com/r/stages_of_life/single" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts</a> about the fact that “thousands” of their members are single.
Foster is a founder of <a href="https://itsgoodtobeaman.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">It’s Good to Be a Man</a>, a project which offers “positive and practical doctrine” to assist men with cultivating their masculine virtue as described by the Bible. The initiative, which includes a book, podcast, and forthcoming documentary, is one of several emerging from Reformed Christian circles: <a href="https://www.kingshall.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The King’s Hall</a>, a project from Brian Sauvé, Dan Berkholder, and Eric Conn, likewise exists to make “self-ruled men to rule well and win the world” and has based an entire season of its podcast on “father hunger” and its effects.
“If we want to recover masculinity, we need fathers everywhere, and that includes pastors functioning as church fathers, to deeply know what it means to be a man,” Sauvé, a pastor at Refuge Church in Ogden, Utah, and a father of six, told The Daily Wire. “Fathers and pastors need to make a study of these things.”
The essence of biblical masculinity, according to Foster, is simply that “it’s good to be a man.”
“God declares binary sexuality as a good part of His perfect creation. Feminists are wrong. Maleness is not toxic in and of itself, but it has been twisted by sin,” he commented. “Masculine attributes like greater aggression and physical strength can be used to harm others and destroy things. However, those same attributes, when reordered by the grace of God, can provide protection and build a society.”
The Bible, as noted by Foster, says that “the glory of young men is their strength” (Proverbs 20:29) and warns that “the cowardly” are condemned to the lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). 
The ultimate model for biblical manhood centers upon the person of Jesus Christ, who Foster says “confronted all the powers of Hell with the truth of God” in strength and boldness. Foster added that earthly fathers, from whom manhood is “20% taught and 80% caught,” must show their sons how to become men by pointing to Jesus and modeling His virtues in their own lives.
“Nothing teaches sons how to embrace godly masculinity like seeing it in the lives of their own father,” Foster described. “He is their doorway into the world of men. They need to see their dad be brave, principled, and disciplined. He not only teaches them how to throw a ball but how to keep their cool. He is their guide to the spiritual disciplines of prayer and Bible reading. But he also must teach them the physical discipline of ruling over their appetites and being responsible for things under their care. He must chiefly call them to believe the gospel and to live out their masculine design for the glory of God and good of others.”
Pastors also have the opportunity to serve as “examples to the flock” (1 Peter 5:3). Foster contended that modern seminaries, as well as churches throughout history, have ordained men who do not prove themselves able to “manage his own household well” (1 Timothy 3:4).
“How can you lead a church if you cannot lead your own family? You cannot. And how can you lead your family if you cannot lead yourself? Again, you cannot. It’s not a seminary’s job to make boys into men,” Foster continued. “It is not a new problem. It has been a joke for centuries that there are three genders: male, female, and clergy. Pastors have earned this reputation by coming across as soft paper-pushers and catering to women. Masculine men hate that. They check out while at church or check out of church altogether.”
Sauvé concurred that ministers have a habit of lambasting men while avoiding the rebuke of sins common to women. “Part of combating effeminacy in the church is confronting the reality that much of the messaging in the church is essentially that men are really bad sinners, and that women rarely, if ever, sin,” he said. “Pastors need to boldly apply the text of Scripture to sins common to men and sins common to women as they teach and preach. Pastors who hit men over the head and then coddle the women are pastors who will lose the hearts of the men, and in doing so, drive the men into the arms of pagan Absaloms, men like Andrew Tate and worse.”
Beyond the impact of counterfeit masculinity on the souls of young men, the prevalence of weak men in society causes harm to women and children. “Moral weakness is real weakness. A man who does not rule his own spirit well is a weak man, even if that weakness results in the misuse of strength,” Sauvé added. “Violent men have slain their thousands; absent, passive men their ten-thousands. Women can no longer expect to raise children with a present father. This has had massively deleterious implications for society at large, with everything from future criminality to obesity to income potentially adversely affected by an absent father.”
At least some men have turned to voices in Christian circles who desire to offer a robust and practical doctrine of biblical manhood. Foster said that his book was received well beyond a handful of detractors. He added that its readership “cuts across denominational lines” and includes many women who desire to support their husbands or sons.
Sauvé added that men need to “unashamedly embrace the message” that men are the “glory of God” (1 Corinthians 11:7), then strive to live in strength and courage.
“Take risks. Work hard. Conquer, build, and cultivate. And as you do so, be sure the first one conquered is your own spirit,” he recommended. “Vincit qui se vincit: he conquers who conquers himself. Be a self-ruled man, ruled by the Spirit of God the Father, and you will also be a man who rules well in everything else.”
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Does <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender equality</a> include men and women being allowed to publicly expose their breasts?
Well, according to Dorothy Stover — a lifelong resident of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and a self-proclaimed sex educator — the answer to that question is yes.
Stover scored a legal victory this week after Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KVDTiGDZ5k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> an amendment recently passed by Nantucket voters that legalized toplessness for men and women on all island beaches.
She first advocated for the change last spring, proposing an amendment that read, &#8220;In order to promote equality for all persons, any person shall be allowed to be topless on any beach within the Town of Nantucket.&#8221;
According to Stover, the idea first came to her many years ago when she saw a cartoon showing a man and woman with the exact same body, with the male telling the female to cover up.
Her desire to ditch her bikini top legally was hastened again after she realized she couldn&#8217;t do so at a Nantucket beach, despite men being able to walk around bare-chested.
&#8220;I do like to go topless on the beach,&#8221; Stover <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KVDTiGDZ5k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> on a podcast recorded before voters approved the measure, explaining that there was a Nantucket beach where women could bare their upper half without hassle from authorities — even though it was illegal.
Yet she noticed a double standard one day on another part of the island after seeing several males who must have suffered from gynecomastia.
&#8220;I was at a different beach where you couldn&#8217;t be topless and I had this moment when I wanted to be topless,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I realized I couldn&#8217;t and as I looked around the beach, I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Wait you know there are people that there are men that have bigger breasts than I do right now but they&#8217;re able to be topless? Why can&#8217;t I be topless?'&#8221;
Stover apparently doesn&#8217;t see any difference between men&#8217;s chests and women&#8217;s breasts.
“We have the exact same makeup — men have mammary glands and nipples — and so I started reaching more into it and men can go topless but we can’t,” Stover previously <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/05/nantucket-residents-vote-to-allow-topless-beaches/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Not all island residents support her ideas.
&#8220;If I have to go topless to prove I am equal to a male that is something wrong with that concept,&#8221; one woman <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lLJ-E4pnho" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a debate about the proposal last spring.
A man at the time also pointed out that Nantucket has strict laws about everything in hopes of keeping a certain aesthetic.
&#8220;We talk about preservation, we talk about making sure the shingles are gray, yet we&#8217;re going to pass something that could call undo attention to the island for wrong the reasons,&#8221; he said.
Another woman was offended by that comment, saying, &#8220;To the gentleman that just spoke, I don&#8217;t like to be compared to a shingle. My breasts are not shingles.&#8221;
For now, the town is requesting &#8220;everyone to be patient and respectful as the island adapts to this first-of-its-kind bylaw in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.&#8221;
If you have to ask people to be &#8220;respectful,&#8221; isn&#8217;t it a sign that maybe this law isn&#8217;t the best way to achieve equality?
You don&#8217;t have to be a &#8220;sex educator&#8221; like Stover to understand that this will lead to heavy bouts of voyeurism.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-rowe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Rowe</a> told Fox News this weekend that men are becoming soft and lazy in part due to how much time they are spending on screens instead of working.
Rowe made the remarks during a brief interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson during the network&#8217;s &#8220;Patriot Awards.&#8221;
&#8220;So, I&#8217;m wrong about as much as I am right. And it&#8217;s for that reason, I hate to say, &#8216;I told you so,&#8217; out loud, ever,&#8221; Rowe said. &#8220;But for 15 years, my foundation has been talking about this slow, sort of, unraveling of what we loosely call work ethic, whatever that means.&#8221;
&#8220;And I mean, last week, there was an article in The New York Times called something like how to combat the assault on modern work, and I thought it was gonna be an article about coal miners or crab fishermen or, you know, big tough jobs where the danger is real. It wasn&#8217;t. It was an article about everything from paper cuts to the non-existent pet bereavement policies that are being deemed harsh, I&#8217;m not making it up,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And so we are, we&#8217;re in a place where 7 million able-bodied men are not only not working between the ages of 25 and [inaudible]. 7 million able-bodied men are not only not working, they&#8217;re affirmatively not looking for a job. That&#8217;s never happened in peacetime, ever.&#8221;
Rowe said that people are focusing on the wrong thing by looking at the unemployment rate when they should be looking at the number of able-bodied people who do not want to work.
Rowe said that an economist he spoke to told him the thing that those men are doing is spending &#8220;on average, over 2,000 hours a year on screens.&#8221;
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<blockquote>TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: Well, not a lot of people are working right now in the United States. And that&#8217;s a big change. That&#8217;s why maybe you have to use the drive thru because no one&#8217;s inside the restaurant. But not only is the way we work changing, our attitudes toward work are changing, and a lot of people seem to have contempt for work all of the sudden, signs are everywhere, you probably noticed them. Mike Rowe has spent a life thinking about work. He&#8217;s host of &#8216;How America Works&#8217; on Fox Business Network. He joins us on the set of the Patriot Awards, of course, for a long time, the immortal host of &#8220;Dirty Jobs,&#8221; and I think our most frequent and popular guest. Anyway, thank you so much for coming back. Obviously you have noticed the change in attitude toward work, some people sort of mocking the idea of work, what&#8217;s your response to that?
MIKE ROWE: Yes. So, I&#8217;m wrong about as much as I am right. And it&#8217;s for that reason, I hate to say, &#8216;I told you so,&#8217; out loud, ever. But for 15 years, my foundation has been talking about this slow sort of unraveling of what we loosely call work ethic, whatever that means. And now between Nick Eberstadt&#8217;s work, an economist who&#8217;s really drilled down on it. And I mean, last week, there was an article in The New York Times called something like how to combat the assault on modern work, and I thought it was gonna be an article about coal miners or crab fishermen or, you know, big tough jobs where the danger is real. It wasn&#8217;t. It was an article about everything from paper cuts to the non existent pet bereavement policies that are being deemed harsh, I&#8217;m not making it up. And so we are, we&#8217;re in a place where 7 million able bodied men are not only not working between the ages of 25 and [inaudible]. 7 million able bodied men are not only not working, they&#8217;re affirmatively not looking for a job. That&#8217;s never happened in peacetime, ever. And economists like Nick Eberstadt take a dim view of it, they&#8217;re worried. And they&#8217;re trying to inject that into the conversation at a time when we&#8217;re still looking at the unemployment number as the true harbinger of what&#8217;s really going on, but it&#8217;s not. In his view, it&#8217;s a depression era artifact, we&#8217;re just looking at the wrong thing, we&#8217;re looking at not what it means to have a bunch of people unemployed, but what does it mean, to have a bunch of opportunity that nobody gives a damn about? That&#8217;s a different conversation. And it&#8217;s complicated to have, because while that dynamic is clear and present, so too, is the fact that a lot of big companies in Silicon Valley are going to lay off a lot of people. And now you&#8217;re gonna have a bunch of people who aren&#8217;t trained for the jobs that do exist, sort of competing with people who have affirmatively taken themselves out of the workforce entirely. And final point, I asked Nick, &#8216;what are they doing? What are they doing with their time, these able bodied men?  On average, over 2,000 hours a year on screens.
CARLSON: So they&#8217;re just totally hypnotized by a digital world? So at some point, the pilot shortage, for example, well known, one of the reasons it&#8217;s hard to get your plane on time or the cost is going up is because aren&#8217;t enough pilots. But that&#8217;s true for a lot of different jobs. So like, when does it start to grind to a halt?
ROWE: Well, you know, pilots get the press because it&#8217;s the pilot. But when you really follow the delays down, you&#8217;ll find it in the mechanics, you&#8217;ll find it in the flight attendants. How many airports have you been in when the crews simply couldn&#8217;t make it to the next plane? It&#8217;s because they&#8217;re working with 70% of the workforce they had three years ago. You know, 4 million fewer people are in the workforce today than before the lock downs and 4 million more jobs have opened up. It&#8217;s almost a perfect mirror image and the reflection is kind of hideous.
CARLSON: And it&#8217;s just sad because work is meaning as you have spent your life showing. Mike Rowe, the great Mike Rowe.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-rowe-millions-not-looking-for-work-because-of-topography-that-ultimately-encourages-people-to-not-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Rowe: Millions Not Looking For Work Because Of ‘Topography That Ultimately Encourages People To Not Work’</a>

Today – Season 71

Mike Rowe Sounds The Alarm On Men Not Wanting To Work Anymore

Fox News

General

Mike Rowe

A new study from the Hebrew University of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jerusalem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jerusalem</a> found that sperm concentration has fallen drastically among men worldwide since the 1970s, and the drop is accelerating.
The <a href="https://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/23/6/646/4035689?login=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> published in the Human Reproduction Update built on data from a study published five years ago that gathered information on sperm concentration in men from Western countries, The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/15/humans-could-face-reproductive-crisis-as-sperm-count-declines-study-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The newest study looked at data from 57,000 men in 53 countries around the world, finding that sperm concentration dropped 51% between 1973 and 2018, from 101.2m per ml to 49.0m per ml.
Sperm counts dropped 1.2% per year between 1973 and 2000, but the rate accelerated to 2.6% per year from 2000 to 2018, which the study’s lead author, Professor Hagai Levine, called “an amazing pace,” <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/11/15/sperm-counts-decrease-men-health-exposure-fertility/10668233002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to USA Today.
“The key point that needs to be made is that this is desperately bad news for couple fertility,” said Professor Richard Sharpe, an expert in male health at the University of Edinburgh.
Sharpe added, “These issues are not just a problem for couples trying to have kids. They are also a huge problem for society in the next 50-odd years as less and less young people will be around to work and support the increasing bulge of elderly folk.”
While it remains unclear what’s causing sperm counts to fall so drastically in less than 50 years, experts have a few theories. Some point to fossil fuel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/environmentalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pollution</a> as the reason for lower sperm concentration, saying that the pollution even affects unborn children, while others point to health issues related to obesity, poor diet, drinking, and smoking as possible factors.
Levine said the numbers should spark the world into crisis mode. “I think this is another signal that something is wrong with the globe and that we need to do something about it. So yes, I think it’s a crisis, that we [had] better tackle now, before it may reach a tipping point which may not be reversible,” he remarked.
As leftist climate activists argue that the globe is facing an existential crisis of overpopulation, some experts are warning about a decrease in fertility and births, even <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/26/falling-sperm-counts-human-survival" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arguing</a> that falling sperm counts could “threaten human survival.” Troubling drops in birth rates in some of the planet’s largest countries like the U.S., Japan, and China have caused alarm over the past year. The U.S. fertility rate has dropped by about 2% per year since 2014, hitting record lows in 2020, 2019, and 2018, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/overpopulation-fears-give-way-to-another-bogeyman-a-fertility-slump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in July. Meanwhile, Japan saw a record natural population <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/03/japan-low-births-population-decline-2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decline</a> in 2021, and China’s birth rate fell to a record low the same year.
The issue made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/civilization-is-going-to-crumble-musk-on-chinas-plummeting-birth-rate-and-the-need-to-repopulate-the-planet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headlines</a> again over the summer when billionaire Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk commented on what he sees as a global underpopulation problem.
“A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1545046146548019201?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
“Far too many people are under the illusion that Earth is overpopulated, even though birth rate trends are so obviously headed to population collapse,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1545050496230051844" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.

Men’s Health

‘Huge Problem For Society’: New Study Finds Sperm Concentration Has Halved Worldwide, Problem Accelerating

New Study Finds Sperm Concentration Has Halved Worldwide, Problem Accelerating

Health

Israel

Population

Manly men are lacking in the world today — and we need to bring them back. This is something I genuinely believe and often advocate for on my show.
It’s something which, if you’ll remember, I caught fire for saying in response to actor and musician Harry Styles, who wore a dress on the cover of Vogue. 
When was the last time you watched a movie which showed a man who loved his family and went to church regularly? And presented those as being good qualities — not qualities which make him a misogynist or “toxic male,” but an inspiration and role-model? When was the last time you saw any leftist assert the need for strong men in our society at all? 
You can’t remember because it doesn’t exist. Why? Because the Left, which controls all the main levers of society, hates the idea of strong men and the effect they have on their communities.
Because in general, strong men are important for society. Take away good, strong men, and as we’ve seen, the rest of the family begins to crumble. They are the bedrock on which civilizations are built. 
Men in World Wars
During World War I and II, the typical age of the soldier — whether it was Japanese, German, American, or British — was 18 to 20 years-old. 
The typical age for the men storming the beaches of Normandy was age 20. The men in those ships, throwing up due to the tossing of the waves, knowing they would be killed as soon as they landed — they marched on anyway, sometimes using the bodies of others, sometimes by sheer force of will. 20-year-olds. 
Back when my husband and I had Netflix — I hope you’ve all canceled it by now and subscribed to The Daily Wire for the great content and movies we’re in the business of making — there was a docuseries called “World War II in Color.” And it was basically what it sounds like: old footage of the conflict rendered for color. 
The first thought I had when I watched the documentary was how striking it is to truly see how young these men were. You hear it over and over, but then to see it in color makes it more real. 20-year-olds, scared but nonetheless showing a stunning and incredible amount of bravery. 
The second thought I had was how striking it is when comparing this bravery — the bravery of soldiers fighting a true evil in Hitler and the Nazis — to the stunning lack of bravery and cowardice existing in men today.
The Modern-Day Man
There are young 20-year-olds that, when I give speeches, shriek outside the building, upset that I’m being handed a microphone; that I am simply stating opinions they have no obligation to adhere to or even listen to. 
There are 20-year-olds still walking around with masks, scared of a pandemic that statistically barely affected or was dangerous to them. 
There are 20-year-olds who are obsessing over their self-image and who are worried about whether they are man or woman or binary or non-binary, and concerned about the misgendering that might happen if they choose a certain route. 
There are 20-year-olds who refuse to work because they deem it beneath them — they feel they are entitled to wealth. 
And there are manly men who are literally too scared and cowardly — look at who’s speaking up for them currently, a woman — to push back against radical gender ideology and feminism, and assert something which is totally normal and natural; that they are men and they like being men, and they enjoy manly things. 
Are these the men of our future? Are these the men who will build new things, protect their homeland, sacrifice for their loved ones, and raise strong and healthy families? 
The answer is obviously, no. 
The Left’s Anti-Man Agenda
The creation of these sorts of men is not by accident. There is a whole political Left that champions this detachment and dedicates their life to pushing for it — the complete destruction of strong men. 
They know that if there are no strong men, then there will be no strong families, and then there will be no strong free-thinking and brave individuals who come from those families.
Their version of justice and bravery is not heroic self-sacrifice, but a man wearing a dress. Their version of progress is no genders. Their version of the natural is the perverse. 
They hate traditional norms — husband and wife, man and woman — because these norms cut against their ideal world of non-binary, genderless, ruleless, motionless, standardless, ugly individuals. 
Even more than that, the Left knows that more barriers broken equals more easily controlled citizens. The more “gender confused” a person is, the more likely they are to rely on cultural icons and their activist teachers to lead them. The less strong men or strong women who hold Judeo-Christian values of right and wrong, the more citizens that will rely on the government and culture to dictate morality for them.
This is the mission of the Left and, as we’ve seen from the examples of our current modern men, thus far it has worked. 
The Proper Response
Now — I can already hear some conservatives responding with general disengagement at this ideology. That is what conservatives have done for years. Don’t fight the culture war; focus on policy or on foreign affairs, they say. Or simply prescribe the “live and let live mentality” to the whole argument. 
What’s the big deal if adults wear dresses? What’s the big deal if there are a few men who want to be women? Why even engage on such minor cultural items when there are bigger and more adult things to tackle? Who cares if Harry Styles wears a dress? 
The Left will make similarly libertarian arguments when criticized for their radical ideologies. Because suddenly they become less authoritarian and more libertarian in their views when they can’t argue for their position on face value. 
But to answer the question — what is wrong with adults making choices? 
Here’s what’s wrong. “Adults making choices” isn’t the Left’s game. Their game is to destroy cultural standards altogether. Their game is to blow up gender norms. Their game is to oust anyone who disagrees as homophobic, transphobic, or some other &#8220;phobic&#8221; they conjure up. 
And their game hasn’t stopped at destroying men — they’ve moved well past that. They went from breaking down men and “freeing” women to the now very scary gender-indoctrination of children.
To put it another way, this battle is no longer on the outskirts. It’s no longer silly adults making silly choices — it’s in your home now. 
They are now no longer just teaching grown adult men to ignore gender norms and to play God — they are now teaching your children to do so as well. Their mission has become even more sinister.
This ideology is parents forcing their child to wear a dress because their child happened to don it on an off-day. 
This is teachers grooming children in public schools. 
This is government entities and scientific institutions using language like “birthing persons” in their memos and on their official websites. 
This is schools, even grade schools, emailing parents to inform them that “Mother’s Day” and “Father’s Day” will no longer be celebrated because it’s not inclusive enough.  
This is doctors and trans activists injecting hormones into kids at incredibly young ages — drugs that are sometimes used to medically castrate sex offenders. 
In other words, this has become much more than a celebrity wearing a dress, or a few crazy activists on Twitter, or the destruction of strong men. It’s in your home now and it’s taking everyone it can. 
Don’t believe me? <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman">Watch</a> Matt Walsh’s new documentary “What is a Woman?” which is available exclusively to Daily Wire members. Watch as psychiatrists, lawmakers, gender studies majors, and activists refuse to define “woman.” Watch as “doctors” advocate for hormone blockers that destroy children’s bone density. Watch what happens when a whole generation destroys strong men—and therefore destroys gender and the family. 
Ignorance Is Bliss
To ignore this radical ideology is to be a fool. To stay silent is to make the same mistake that conservatives have made for the last 30 years. The only road now — and one which we should have taken a long time ago — is to enter the battle. 
Again, to say that this isn’t a battle or that you don’t like the “culture war” is to ignore what Hollywood and the Left have been doing for years. 
And their tactic is to make you feel like you are crazy, so that you will stay silent. They will call you names and condemn you and say, “Why do you even care?” 
I care because I care about the future of our society. I care about the truth. I care about our children.
It’s time we stopped taking a backseat to the Left’s all-out assault on masculinity — and therefore families. We didn’t start this fight. They did. So jump in, stay alert, be vocal, and bring back manly men.

Owens

OWENS: Bring Back Manly Men

Culture

If we want to win the war for our sons, we have to be willing to stand and fight on the real battlefield: The inextricable connection between boy and man.
Because where boys are, men should lead.
In light of the tragic events at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX, where nineteen children and two adults were gunned down by a deranged mass murderer, we’re often quick to rush to conclusions without considering whether the solutions being proposed actually address the root cause.
“Do something,” is a phrase we’ve all heard ad nauseam over the past several days. And, yet, “do something,” hardly equates to decisions, actions, or legislation that get to the root of the fury, frustration, and fear of our current circumstances.
Like the hamster spinning on his wheel with great fury and never getting anywhere, we need to be cautious of mistaking the current conversation for action.
When you couple this desire for immediate action with ineffective “do something&#8221; solutions—including “common sense gun control”—you’re left with a lot of feel-good buzzwords that have not and will never keep our children safe. 
The simple reality is that many of society’s most outspoken anti-gun advocates are fighting on the wrong battlefield for the hearts, minds, and souls of our young men. And, make no mistake, there is a battle being waged for the young men of this nation.
The real battle for our sons is not over whether they have access to firearms. You could make a similar case for a knife, an explosive, or even the lethal use of a motor vehicle as we’ve seen in recent years. No, the real battle is in how we individually and collectively teach our young men to harness the masculinity that is inherently coursing through their veins.
Without good fathering, our young boys face becoming the literal representation of “The Lord of the Flies.”
Consider some of the <a href="https://www.youngwarriors.org/the-problem">statistics</a> surrounding young men raised in fatherless homes:
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<li>63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (U.S. Dept. Of Health/Census)</li>
<li>85% of all children who show behavior disorders come from fatherless homes (Center for Disease Control)</li>
<li>70% of youth in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1988)</li>
<li>85% of all youths in prison come from fatherless homes (Fulton Co. Georgia, Texas Dept. of Corrections, 1992)</li>
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We’ve been brainwashed into believing the greatest issue we face with regards to our sons is an inanimate object—a firearm—that can only be cured by attempting to remove them from the hands of moral and proficient men.
Until we get to the heart of the matter, there will always be immature young men attempting to make sense of these challenging times. So what’s holding us back? I see it as a lack of righteous and capable men who are in a position to usher our sons into manhood.
And, yet, we ship our sons to government indoctrination camps (public school) for 8-10 hours per day, leaving them to learn from their peers, hoping together they can make sense of their masculinity. When boys don’t “behave,” we shoot enough drugs into them to comply with our own perverted, distorted way of living.
You want to really “do something?” Join the fight for our sons. 
The battlefield is between the walls of your home. It’s on the lake where you’re fishing. It’s on the baseball diamond or basketball court. It’s in the gym.
So, go ahead, do something. Lead. Coach. Father. Mentor. Teach. Guide. Instruct.
And, if you’re not willing to lead in your home, or to coach young men in sports, or serve your community in some meaningful way, then don’t complain saying we must “do something!”
The most important battle is not fought over what tool a disturbed young man may utilize to inflict as much pain as possible. The most important battle is being fought in the souls of young men trying to make sense of the confusing, degenerate society he finds himself in.
Our young men are counting on us. We must not fail them.
Ryan Michler is a husband, father, entrepreneur, Iraqi Combat Veteran, and the Founder of Order of Man, a global movement of men who are reclaiming and restoring masculinity. Ryan grew up without a permanent father figure and has seen first-hand how a lack of strong, ambitious, self-sufficient men has impacted society today. You can find him on instagram @ryanmichler.
 The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Battle For The Hearts, Minds, And Souls Of Our Young Men

We have to be willing to stand and fight for our sons

Fathers

A Mother’s Day ad campaign from Calvin Klein featured a transgender &#8216;man&#8217; as part of the brand&#8217;s inclusive spread. 
“Today, in support of women and mothers around the world, we highlight the reality of new families,” the company shared in the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CdTEVzluOw1/">Instagram</a> description, which included a variety of photos including a mother with just her child and an interracial couple as well. 
“@k.vventzel is a South African painter and mother to Wild. @erikafeeh and @roberto_bete are expecting parents from Brazil. Roberto is due to give birth to his and Erika’s son Noah any day now. @venedaacarter is a prominent fashion consultant. Her family is Bobbi and Weston,” the caption continued.
The pregnant transgender &#8216;man&#8217;  Roberto, also shared the image with around 35,000 followers on the platform. 
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A few days later, the post had generated more than 30,000 likes on the platform. The comments were overwhelmingly supportive, which was likely due in part to follow-up clarification from the Calvin Klein brand in the comments.
“We embrace this platform as an inclusive and respectful environment for individualism and self-expression. At Calvin Klein, we tolerate everything except intolerance— any intolerant commentary will be removed, and any accounts issuing hateful statements may be blocked,” the company posted. 
“We look forward to continuing a positive and inclusive dialogue in partnership with our community.”
Still, some less-than-favorable comments remained on the post.
“I’m really confused,” one person shared. A few echoed this sentiment, genuinely questioning how men could get pregnant.
“Virtue signaling at its finest. None of this has anything to do with clothing,” another commenter wrote.
Multiple people vowed to never purchase Calvin Klein items again.
The campaign came just weeks after Apple was slammed for adding the pregnant man emoji to its platform. Progressives have been pushing the narrative that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-batch-of-emojis-include-pregnant-man-and-pregnant-person">men can get pregnant</a>, with President Biden’s first budget proposal including the phrase “birthing people” in a provision about healthcare in an effort to be more inclusive. 
The AP Style Guide also changed its guidelines on the issue, saying as part of an update, &#8220;Phrasing like pregnant people or people who seek an abortion seeks to include people who have those experiences but do not identify as women, such as some transgender men and some nonbinary people,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ap-style-guide-adds-phrase-pregnant-people-mockery-twitter">reported</a>.

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Calvin Klein Includes Pregnant Trans ‘Man’ In Ad Campaign

Calvin Klein Includes Pregnant Trans 'Man' In Ad Campaign

Pregnant

Angry people trying to censor Joe Rogan skip over one important question: why are millions of people, especially the men who comprise most of his audience, listening to him in the first place?
It’s not just him. Huge numbers of men, especially young men, are tuning in to online figures ranging all the way from superstars like Rogan, <a href="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/">Jordan Peterson</a>, <a href="https://jockopodcast.com/">Jocko Willink</a>, and Ben Shapiro, to men’s self-improvement figures like Brett McKay and his <a href="https://www.artofmanliness.com/">Art of Manliness</a> and Ryan Michler’s <a href="https://www.orderofman.com/">Order of Man</a>, to a host of smaller influencers. These people have female followers, of course, but their audiences skew heavily male.
It’s clear that men aren’t just listening to them for entertainment. They also look at them as authority figures offering clues or guidance on how to live their lives. 
Why look to these people instead of traditional institutions and authority figures? For one thing, those people and institutions have badly failed today’s young men.
Start with the family. The <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/unmarried-childbearing.htm">out of wedlock birth rate</a> today is around 40%, so right off the bat, almost half of children start off without an intact family.  It’s hard to put much trust in family when your own has been dysfunctional. It’s hard to build a relationship with a father when you don’t live with him — or he&#8217;s not even in your life to begin with. Step-parents can be a good substitute, but are often sources of abuse; step-parents or live-in partners are much more likely to be abusers and can be a key source of dysfunction in their own right. As J.D. Vance put it in his memoir, “Of all the things that I hated about my childhood, nothing compared to the revolving door of father figures.”
No surprise then that many men not only don’t look to their own families or fathers for guidance, but they are increasingly skeptical of creating their own families. Especially given that two generations of men have now been raised seeing things like their own father put through a meat grinder by female-friendly divorce courts and are understandably not interested in signing up for that.
Other institutions are too often just making things worse. It’s long been noted that church attendance skews female. But what is the church — especially within &#8216;progressive&#8217; Christian circles — telling men? Too often, it’s angry “Man up!” lectures. They complain about “<a href="https://aaronrenn.substack.com/p/newsletter-3-the-history-of-the-church">boys who can shave</a>,” or berate them with “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkaeAkJO0w8">how dare you!</a>” rants. They often <a href="https://aaronrenn.substack.com/p/newsletter-60-the-pro-life-movements">blame men for nearly every ill</a>, whether that be marital problems, women in military combat roles, or even abortion. They turn the traditional male call to self-sacrifice into an extreme parody, treating men as <a href="https://aaronrenn.substack.com/p/newsletter-28-the-anti-marriage-message">little more than pack mules</a> for their family, saying that they shouldn’t have time for the own hobbies or even complaining that they are going to bed with too much energy. They want young men to continue fulfilling the obligations of yesteryear, but without the rewards they used to bring, and while everyone else gets a free pass. No wonder many men aren’t turning to churches or to their dad’s conservative pundits.
Other institutions have similar problems. Schools are often actively hostile to young men and boys as well. From what Esquire called “<a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the-american-boy-0414/">the drugging of the American boy</a>” with Ritalin in grade school to complaints about “toxic masculinity” to endless special programs for women and girls, it’s easy to see why many young men conclude school is not their friend. We see this especially at the college level, where <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollment-admissions-back-to-school-11630948233">only 40.5% of students are men</a>.
Enter the men’s online gurus. The most important thing that distinguishes them from legacy institutions is that they are actually on the side of the men who listen to them. This doesn’t mean they encourage or validate men in doing whatever those men want. Quite the opposite. Jordan Peterson’s most famous line might be, “Clean your room.” His call is for men to take responsibility for cleaning up their own act first. Jocko Willink calls on men to take “extreme ownership.” In fact, most of these figures seem to call on men to elevate their game and pursue excellence. There’s a reason why so many of them are explicitly self-improvement oriented. But rather than a beat down, the call to self-improvement and excellence is usually in the form of an aspirational challenge. Michler observes, “There are no benchmarks in traditional society, so what we try to do is elevate the expectations of our men.”
While some influencers in the darker corners of the internet promote hedonistic and selfish approaches to life, the majority of the online men’s gurus, especially the bigger names, want men to be productive members of society who provide for their families and try to make their neighborhood and country a better place. For example, Michler’s motto for men is “Protect, Provide, Preside.” But unlike so many of the legacy institutions and leaders, they also want men to flourish personally, to be healthy, successful, fulfilled, and developing their own potential as men in the process. 
They also give men practical information and help to actually improve. Brett McKay’s Art of Manliness is a fountain of useful advice on everything from basic prepping to barbell lifting to rules for hospitality. Michler does a podcast episode every week answering listener questions on very practical topics from listeners ranging from how to build confidence to how to stay connected to your daughters.
The sad reality is that so much of what passes for advice from legacy institutions is just flat out false, and too often shaped by ideology rather than reality. One of the biggest purveyors of disinformation about Covid, for example, has been our public health establishment. From flip flops on masks, to intentionally downplaying the possibility of a lab leak origin for the virus, to overstating the efficacy of vaccines for preventing infection – there’s a good reason why so many people don’t trust them. No wonder people tune in to Joe Rogan and his guests to hear the minority report from credentialed experts like Dr. Robert Malone. They can also see for themselves that Rogan himself appears to be in top physical condition, which helps credentialize him and his show. These online men’s gurus aren’t always right, but they frequently give out very useful advice and information. And as Rogan himself shows, they display a curiosity and willingness to explore for the truth too often missing from the ideological scolds that dominate the mainstream media outlets.
The online men’s sages are also drawing followers because of the courage they show in the face of incredible hostility. Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-berkeley-protest-shapiro-20170914-htmlstory.html">went into the lion’s den</a>, speaking on college campuses in the face of large, and potentially violent crowds that wanted to shut him down. Jordan Peterson <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54">held his ground and responded calmly with facts</a> when faced with a hostile interviewer on the UK’s Channel 4. Joe Rogan has not backed down in the face of calls for his show to be censored. Matt Walsh states simple, obvious truths about the differences — and existence — of two distinct genders, and does it so effectively that media companies have to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hulu-appears-to-remove-matt-walshs-dr-phil-episode">memory hole episodes of TV shows like Dr. Phil</a> where he appeared.
Other people are drawn to these figures by the prospect of community and accountability. Some of these figures don’t just connect men to themselves but often to each other as well. For example, Michler also runs a men’s society called the Iron Council. He says of it, “With the Iron Council, we take brotherhood and camaraderie, and we present it in a traditional masculine wat. We want to help men become more of who they are meant to be.” Ben Shapiro’s college tours likewise helped bring thousands of like-minded young men together.
Of course, credibility slowly gained can be lost in an instant. Rogan, having stood strong after his Covid episodes, may be capitulating to a cancel mob for saying the n-word in the past, even though a slew of figures on the left, <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1490077613787811840">including President Joe Biden</a>, have done the same, dressed in blackface, or even worse. Many friends and people whose careers he built by having them on his show have thus far stood silent while he was attacked, showing questionable manly loyalty. Jordan Peterson, to his credit, has been <a href="https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1490047258582294534">an exception</a>.
A collapse in courage, displays of disloyalty, moral failing and more may fell any number of these people. But for young men today, they can either turn to people who have failed them, have lied to them, want to use them (or even hate them) – or they can turn to people who are pulling for them, want them to succeed, are telling them the truth, building a community that includes them, and show courage in the face of opposition. When we look at it that way, the real question shouldn’t be why young men are tuning into the Joe Rogan’s of this world, but why any of them wouldn’t.
Aaron M. Renn writes about Christianity, culture, and men’s issues at <a href="https://aaronrenn.substack.com/">aaronrenn.substack.com</a>.

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A new kind of ‘gender gap’ is starting to gain attention, but it has to do with boys and the declining numbers of male college enrollment, coupled with more data about how young men appear to be falling behind. 
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang recently <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1486702255910920198">posted</a> a lengthy thread on Twitter about the &#8220;crisis among American boys and men,&#8221; a problem that he says is being widely ignored by the mainstream media and policy proposals. 
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Men now comprise only 40.5% of college students and are failing in high school at much higher rates. There’s a crisis among American boys and men that is too often ignored and is definitely going unaddressed.
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As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/college-enrollment-continues-to-decline">reported</a>, new data provided by the National Student Clearinghouse <a href="https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/">showed</a> that U.S. colleges and universities experienced a decline of almost 500,000 undergraduate students in the fall of 2021, keeping up with a drop that started the fall prior, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072529477/more-than-1-million-fewer-students-are-in-college-the-lowest-enrollment-numbers-">noted</a>.
However, this is affecting men on a broader scale than it appears to be affecting female students. 
According to the <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/10/08/the-male-college-crisis-is-not-just-in-enrollment-but-completion/">Brookings Institute</a>, college enrollment has been declining in recent years, but the decrease was seen most intensely among male students. Overall first-time enrollment for the fall of 2020 was down 13% than the year prior, but the decrease in male enrollment was more than seven times bigger than the decline in female enrollment at -5.1% for men and -.7% for women. 
In the fall of 2020, only 41% of students who are enrolled in a postsecondary establishment were male. 
Young men are also not as likely to graduate from high school and are less likely to graduate from college after enrollment. At every stage of education, women have been graduating at higher rates than men. This is true for high school, two-year colleges, and four-year colleges. 
This has also resulted in men getting fewer degrees than women. According to Brookings, in the 2018-2019 academic year, around 74 men got a bachelor’s degree for every 100 women who received one. In the same time period, women received 61% of the associate’s degrees, 61% of the master’s degrees, and 54% of doctoral degrees. 
The institute pointed out that this wasn’t always the case. While more women have had a BA degree or higher starting with those who were born in 1955 up to those born in 2001, of those who were born in 1954 or before, men held more of the degrees. 
The statistics have almost flipped themselves. 
For those who were born before 1955, and therefore were 65 years old and up in 2019, men were 9 percentage points more likely than women to hold at least a bachelor’s degree. Out of people who were born from 1985 to 1994 — and therefore, were 25 to 34 years old in 2019 — men were 8 percentage points less likely to have attained that level of education than were women. 
There are other gaps that exist between boys and girls that are just beginning to be more widely discussed and referenced. 
More men ages 18 to 34 are living with their parents than their female counterparts. According to a report including <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2016/05/24/for-first-time-in-modern-era-living-with-parents-edges-out-other-living-arrangements-for-18-to-34-year-olds/">data</a> about 2014, 35% of men were living at their parents’ home while 29% of women were doing the same. 
This is potentially partially due to the decline in employment for young men. In 2014, just 71% of men ages 18 to 34 had a job. Their wages have also reportedly been going down since 1970, with a sharp decline from 2000 to 2010. 
Boys are also more than twice as likely to be <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html">diagnosed</a> with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Some research has suggested this could be due to the fact that boys are more likely to exhibit expressive symptoms that are easier to identify, leading girls to be <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3827008/">underdiagnosed</a>. 
Men are also more likely to be incarcerated than girls. Children’s Defense Fund <a href="https://www.childrensdefense.org/policy/resources/soac-2020-youth-justice/">noted</a> that in 2017, the residential placement rate for boys was over five times the rate for girls. In addition, 85% of kids in residential placement were boys. 
As culture continues to focus on the achievements of women and girls, the conversation might begin to shift to the problems arising for young boys as their achievements are sidelined.

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