Interview
Gender Expert: Men Are Emotionally Dependent On Women, We're Treating Them Like Malfunctioning Women
- In approximately two years, the cultural revolution regarding women's economic independence will continue to create uncertainty regarding men's societal roles.
- Young men are expected to face stagnant education and wages, leading to a massive rise in the single population among those without college degrees.
- Men's suicide rates are currently four times higher than women's and are forecasted to rise further due to feelings of being unneeded or useless.
- College enrollment for men in the US dropped seven times more than for women during the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- If given authority, plans include hiring male teachers and funding mental health services as part of a future men's health strategy.
- A signal that men are seen, heard, and understood is expected to be the primary social move to address issues without retreating from women's gains.
- Failure to address men's issues is predicted to create a dangerous vacuum filled by reactionary figures and grievance-based movements.
- Young men are expected to learn manhood from real-life figures such as fathers, neighbors, or teachers rather than social media algorithms.
- Dating apps are predicted to leave the bottom 50 percent of men with almost no activity while the top 10 percent receive the majority of interactions.
- The bottom 50 percent of men are expected to increasingly feel useless and not needed, potentially leading them to "check out" or join groups like incels.
- Declining marriage rates among non-college-educated Americans are expected to negatively impact fatherhood unless new models for paternal responsibility emerge.
- Men who are partnerless, childless, or divorced are predicted to suffer significantly, with divorce risk increasing suicide rates by eightfold.
- Relational bullying and exclusion tactics amplified by social media are expected to be defined by some as a form of toxic femininity.
- The term "toxic masculinity" is predicted to act as a slur that drives young men away and fails to offer positive recruitment for better manhood.
- The deinstitutionalization of community relationships like churches and PTAs is expected to create a significant problem for men losing their sense of being needed.
- The share of young men who are single is expected to continue rising as dating is delayed, removing the sense of being called to provide or help.
- Older widowed men are expected to face massive suicide risk if they feel surplus to their community requirements.
- "Men's Sheds" and similar groups are predicted to become necessary replacements for lost institutional frameworks, allowing men to connect shoulder-to-shoulder.
- Recent US surveys indicate men are more likely than women to value getting married, showing a desire for commitment despite economic shifts.
- Without new scripts, young men are expected to be forced into choosing between being feminine or reactionary.
- Top status men with wealth in the future are predicted to revert to having multiple wives or concubines, exposing evolutionary patterns where half of male lines die out.
- Social media algorithms are expected to continue rewarding tribal, simplistic ideas like extreme masculinity or femininity over nuanced positions.
- The workplace is expected to remain a powerful way for men to feel needed, with the lack of this signal post-retirement or unemployment contributing to mortality risks.
- Men who do not feel needed by family, employers, or communities are predicted to experience psychological trajectories leading to addiction, checking out, or suicide.
- The economic relation between men and women is expected to remain dramatically transformed, continuing to destabilize men's sense of purpose until new roles are defined.
- The rise of women as a force for economic liberation is predicted to have achieved its goal but with unintended consequences for men that are currently neglected.
- Mature masculinity is expected to be framed as a positive goal to replace the negative framing of toxic masculinity and encourage improvement.
- Men are less likely to form friendships, with 15 percent of men under 30 reporting no close friends, indicating a male friendship recession.
- The workplace will need to signal to men that they are needed through daily interactions, as past institutional frameworks are no longer sufficient.
- The dating app environment is predicted to continue magnifying men's disorientation as old romantic rules are turned upside down.
- Changes to monogamy norms such as polyamory are expected to complicate the role of men, with uncertainty regarding whether these changes will be better for men.
- Women are predicted to precipitate divorce about two to one, reflecting a new era of exit power for women.
- The rise of childless men is expected to continue, especially as men reach age 40, creating a paradox where more want families but struggle to form them.
- Secular groups like men's sheds are predicted to struggle to replace soft institutions like churches because connecting is hard to do alone.
- Suicide rates among older men are expected to remain high if they are alone and lack perceived necessity in their community.
- The bottom 50 percent of men are expected to feel useless and not very attractive in the current dating landscape, leading to a sense of being benched.
- The loss of the workplace role (e.g., in retirement) requires new ways to assign value to older men as work remains critical for feeling needed.
- The cultural revolution regarding women's independence is still playing out, and the gap in men's roles will persist until new scripts are formed.
- The suicide rate is expected to continue rising if the feeling of being unneeded is not addressed through societal recognition and support.
- Algorithms are predicted to continue preventing nuanced gender conversations from forming tribes, favoring extreme takes instead.
- The decline in marriage does not necessarily mean a decline in fathering, though the two are currently bundled together causing confusion.
- Men's health strategies will require acknowledging that men feel surplus to requirements without new societal structures to provide purpose.
- The rise of the incel movement is expected to continue if young men feel they have two unappetizing options.
- The dating app model is predicted to continue rewarding the top 10 percent of men, leaving the majority with almost no action.
- The economic dependency of women on men has ended, but the emotional dependency of men on women remains unresolved.
- The suicide crisis is predicted to be the tip of the iceberg for a broader sense of men feeling unwanted and surplus to requirements.
- The loss of institutional frameworks like churches will make it really hard for men to recreate community connections.
- The dating environment is expected to leave men feeling disoriented as old rules are replaced by a vacuum filled with negative influences.
- Suicide rates are expected to continue growing among younger men and in rural US areas if the sense of being needed is not restored.
- The rise of women as surplus generators will contrast with men feeling surplus to requirements.
- The suicide crisis is predicted not to resolve unless society stops treating men as second-order problems and addresses their struggles with empathy.
- The decline in marriage is expected to have knock-on effects on fatherhood, though it does not have to mean the end of good fathering.
- The suicide rate among men is predicted to remain four times higher than women's and rising, driven by feelings of being useless and worthless.
- The economic revolution has given women choice but left men adrift without a clear script for their roles.
- The dating app environment is expected to continue creating a huge vacuum for men who feel useless and not needed.
- The suicide rate will continue to rise among men who feel they are not needed by their family or community.
- The suicide crisis is a result of men feeling they are surplus to requirements and not adding value.
- The suicide rate is predicted to continue being four times higher and rising in future forecasts.