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Badly educated men have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism (2015)

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Re: Badly educated men have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism (2015)

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trade, technology or feminism

Easiest game of "one of these things is not like the other" ever! I also love the ham-fisted implication that "feminism" is a positive thing that "educated" men should aspire to.

I'm sure all the well read people on here who don't brainlessly follow herd mentality and question the status quo will think for themselves. I'm sure the HN "community" isn't a bunch of back patting glorified redditors.

Downvote away you point slaves.

Re: Badly educated men have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism (2015)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only profession I know that men aren't welcome has been teaching. At least in the US, any man that wants to work with young children is viewed as a potential pedophile. In middle and high school they are subject to calls of sexual predication. RNs and CNAs don't have this problem. Male nurses aren't seen as sexual predators, some simply don't want to do it. And most don't have any visibility into the field to see…

Maybe elementary school teachers, but after about 5th grade the stigma seems to fade.

No, the stigma just changes, slightly. Members of my family who are teachers keep a literal open door policy when it comes to pre/after school meetings and tutoring. Even the accusation of impropriety between teacher and student is a career ender. Some of the teenage girls they teach are extremely manipulative. Some come from broken homes and use the sexual assault accusations as a quick pay day.

Re: Badly educated men have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism (2015)

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I found the article to be insightful and interesting in how it used broad strokes to tie together the social changes (feminism, the welfare state, the contraceptive pill, class and gender differences in attitudes to counselling) and economic changes, (mechanisation, globalisation, the decline of industry, lower pay for unskilled labour) and how these changes impact on well-being (both individual happiness and successful relationships).

The article also highlighted that class is just as relevant as gender: “the fact that the highest rungs have male feet all over them is scant comfort for the men at the bottom”.

Re: Badly educated men have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism (2015)

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I largely agree. It lost me greatly when it stated, > Few women in rich countries now need a man’s support to raise a family. (They might want it, but they don’t need it.) I'm a man, and my wife is back to work after giving birth to our child. Raising a family seems to be a massively two person job. I have absolutely no idea how anyone can manage it alone and keep their sanity and not neglect their job and child. Bla…

> I have absolutely no idea how anyone can manage it alone Not alone. The State (so, everyone paying taxes) is always here to help single parents.

Neither I nor my wife would qualify for any sort of government assistance as single parents. And neither of us has any idea how we'd manage to raise children alone. Money is not the issue.
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