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The "quiet catastrophe" is particularly dismaying because it is so quiet, without social turmoil or even debate. It is this: After 88 consecutive months of the economic expansion that began in June 2009, a smaller percentage of American males in the prime working years (ages 25 to 54) are working than were working near the end of the Great Depression in 1940, when the unemployment rate was above 14 percent. If the labor-force participation rate were as high today as it was as recently as 2000, nearly 10 million more Americans would have jobs.
The work rate for adult men has plunged 13 percentage points in a half-century. This "work deficit" of "Great Depression-scale underutilization" of male potential workers is the subject of Nicholas Eberstadt's new monograph "Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis," which explores the economic and moral causes and consequences of this:
Is it an aberration, or a harbinger of things to come?
(Score: 1) by Francis on Sunday October 09 2016, @04:25AM
Perhaps, but if that's true, then why are women complaining? They reached wage parity many years ago and yet the bitching and moaning continues.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @10:43AM
then why are women complaining?
Yet another, and possibly the most significant and the root cause of all the others, thing
Francis does not know.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @01:12PM
My three year old daughter likes to complain as well. Maybe they think that if they complain some more they will benefit for the complaints. Seems to have worked for them so far, so why not give it another go.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Sunday October 09 2016, @01:52PM
Precisely. This isn't like the black community where there's a demonstrable achievement gap at virtually every level of society and a relatively understood cause. These are women that have the same opportunities as their male counterparts and receive the same pay as their male counterparts, but insist on whining about it anyways.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @08:23PM
My three year old daughter likes to complain as well.
But not your son, if you have one, I presume? There seems to be more than enough complaining by all our resident (((Men's Rights))) crowd to statistically prove that men complain much more than women. And the whining of the MRAs is more annoying, for we (real men) are men of action, and whimpering does not become us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 09 2016, @09:24PM
That's because the son's genitals are mutilated at birth. When he won't stop crying at night because of the pain, he gets slapped until he learns to shut up. If he hasn't learned to shut up by the time he's three, then you can start bruising his bottom. If that doesn't shut him up, throw him around some and maybe break a bone or two. That'll shut him up.
Yet more areas women don't want equality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @04:19AM
No my son doesn't, not because he's a boy but because he's five.
The point is the whining like a baby, not the gender of the child. Those women who are still whining like children, need to grow up and learn adult ways to deal with any perceived problem. Just don't be surprised when told to STFU as it's not an actual problem.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Hairyfeet on Sunday October 09 2016, @07:14PM
Because third wave feminism isn't for equality but superiority? I can show you example after example of third wave feminists calling in bomb threats to keep a man from speaking on their campus, pulling fire alarms to stop males from using a lecture hall, and using bullhorns to shout down anyone with a differing opinion because ultimately in their minds their opinion matters and yours does not.
To me the really sad part is they are so indoctrinated they cannot even think logically, like a hardcore Marxist who cannot see when their philosophy is creating blatant contradictions. For an example there was a big stink a few years ago about how fewer videogames have female characters in them and I pointed out the reason why is obvious....feminist groups will have a shitfit and call for banning games that treat women equally to men. Of course here came a feminist to argue "That isn't true we'd be happy to be treated equally to men and wouldn't call to ban any game who did that" so I brought up Bulletstorm that had achievements like "grapenuts" for blowing a guy's balls off so I said "Well then you'd have no problem with me getting achievements like 'instant flattie' or 'sex change' for blowing the female parts off a woman then?" to which she replied "you shouldn't be allowed to do that in any game and it shouldn't be sold" and when I pointed out she was proving my very point by calling for a ban on a game that treated a woman equally she just kept saying "No I'm not but you shouldn't be able to do that"...she literally was so programmed she didn't have the capacity to see the failure in her position, that she was ONLY for "equality" if women were protected and treated nicely, if women were treated as shitty as men? Well that just wouldn't do!
So it isn't about "equality" unless "equality" involves safe spaces and coddling and treating them as special, because to them equality is keeping the special treatment women have gotten for thousands of years PLUS the delusion that they are equal to men...as long as they aren't treated as shitty as men are in society.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @11:19AM
so I brought up Bulletstorm that had achievements like "grapenuts" for blowing a guy's balls off so I said "Well then you'd have no problem with me getting achievements like 'instant flattie' or 'sex change' for blowing the female parts off a woman then?"
Your game is just sick and your idea of fun blows, and I ain't a woman either. I guess that one is not about feminism, it is about how some weird shit is thought of as "manly". I don't get many things girls find "fun", but I don't dig this either. However, I don't mind you doing whatever you are doing for fun, unless my balls are on line.
But the good thing is now I think I understand the problem with new wave of feminism grabbing power: Chicks believe we all have to hang together, and then they'll complain either because we don't want to, or because when we do want to, they are grossed, but they still won't give up their Primary Objective, so instead their only remaining option is to oppress us into complete do-over (aka psychological castration). That's why we need to fight for our right to not bend to their world view. Sexes are different and as much as we don't get to tell them how to be, they should not get to tell us how to be either.