In this week’s news-and-snark piece, Bill Maher offers a piece that may be controversial, for it’s about how men need to be “men” again. He avers that the loss of masculinity in males is one reason why women are disappointed in men, and why people are having less sex. The data are eye-opening; for example, 44% of Gen Z men say they’ve had no relationship experience at all during their teen years. That means up to age 20! And you might be interested in the new genre of literature he describes: “romantasy”, in which women get involved with animals or half-animals like centaurs.
His solution? Men should “man up”. His example: Taylor Swift being engaged to football star Travis Kelce (“old-school wood”) after writing songs about all the lame men she was once involved with. (He describes songs by other women.) Is he right? I have no idea.
The guests are Jonathan Haidt (not shown), Stephanie Ruhle and Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster (Retired).
Didn’t Germaine Greer tell educated women to marry truck drivers?
That was the advice to lots of PhD students aiming for academic careers. Instead we tended to marry each other, with hilarious (meaning disastrous) consequences. [Sorry not directly related to the masculinity crisis.]
According to the data it seems kids today are virginal, scared of the opposite sex and don’t do the usual things we did for entertainment (smoke, drink, drugs, knocking each other up, etc.).
In fact the most “degenerate” generation has been…. Gen X! (sorry boomers!)
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D.A., 55
NYC