Today’s Daily Wire podcast mentions the boy crisis. Lifting Mask Mandates: Science or Politics? | 2.12.22. (After today you might have to scroll down to find it. The segment on boys is at the end, if you want to fast forward.)
While I have no doubt that various factors — affirmative efforts to get women into college; the feminization of just about everything, including school; telling boys they’re toxic, etc. — have pushed these numbers into their current, lopsided state, I have mixed feelings about trying to fix it.
Is the solution to try to get more boys to spend too much money on mostly useless college degrees? I don’t think so.
Education is a much bigger problem than simply the anti-boy bias, and it’s very likely that the correct solution is not to get more boys to go to college, but to try to get fewer people in college in the first place.
Based to the podcast, it seems there needs to be more research to ascertain the root cause before much can be done in terms of solutions. In fact, I’m wondering if it’s appropriate to label it a “boy crisis” at this point. Could this just be a shift in society norms that will eventually shift again? Is the right answer to have one of the sexes “dominate” in society or should the focus be on having a balance of influence between the sexes? At this point, there seems to be more questions than answers.
Yet, there was one point that stood out in the podcast…relative to male role models. It’s likely that more emphasis needs to be placed on strengthening the nuclear family and having fathers in the home, being good role models to their sons…preparing them for life and being productive member of society. If that can be done successfully, maybe it will help address the current issue.