It's a terrible shame these women find themselves forced to date significantly older men, solely because they are looking for a responsible, secure long term partner. Still, at least you'd hope that the elderly males they're choosing - refuse collectors, parking attendants, waiters, factory workers, vagrants, etc - are having a nice time.
I have to really disagree with this, if women are really so easily adapted to the soul crushing planet destroying world of middle management office work and humorless authoritarian woke HR managers, the problem is women and their go along to get along conformism. Whatever happened to “The Graduate,” and people who mock the future is plastic speech?
I dropped out and live in a wilderness area in a house and land I own outright, the lack of soulless bore laptop class yuppie women in my life is a feature not a bug.
Thanks for the shoutout at the top of the piece--appreciate that. As for the fuck boys thing: there’s some truth to it. That said: online dating turns both sexes into lying, childish imbeciles.
I think you're right about a lot of that, but the one thing I would point out is that we live in extraordinary times; historically speaking, we live in abnormal times. It feels normal, and scholars are ready to give forth evidence to suggest that - to give one common example - people in past generations always felt the younger generation was worse, and that's how it always has been. So therefore, everything's perfectly normal!
But the lion's share of our ancestors would be shocked by what we have become. And I'm not talking about traditional social changes, like women working and all that, or the aforementioned generational disdain. I mean they would be shocked that the genders are so estranged. That women think the concept of men having "needs" is a perverted and/or selfish thing. That women's empowerment means slaving away for a corporation. That men having a desire like the crayon guy, even as a hobby, is weird. The man-babies, in turn, aren't growing up fast enough and exterior forces play a big part in shaping men. None of this is either good or normal, and pretending we live in a normal world is a big mistake.
That being said, I wish the crayon guy luck. But unless he's the Steve Jobs of crayons, in a past time he wouldn't have to make these singular choices. He could do that and have a family and a normal job to support his family until he breaks even. All of that is broken or destroyed. Or meaningless. We ignore all of this at our own peril.
I really enjoyed reading this, and it certainly does describe many young people (Harry, formerly prince), but why am I unconvinced that it is the problem of men in general? My grandfathers and father, it seems to me, did not share this point of view at all. Nor did my brother, for the most part. They were nose to the grindstone types who were far too busy to compare themselves to others. Maybe this is what civilization has largely become (and wasn't so true previously). Or maybe each generation just focuses on different aspects of life. Personally, I believe divorce (or absent parents for whatever reason) is the cause of many of the current ills. I can see clearly that the men in my family were always real men (working for something larger than themselves, doing their duty, serving as pillars) until the current generation. Very interesting to ponder. Something is definitely wrong now, and I'm so glad to see Castalia is working on showing the way back.
Ha! Enjoyed this. Illuminating? Thought provoking.
It's a terrible shame these women find themselves forced to date significantly older men, solely because they are looking for a responsible, secure long term partner. Still, at least you'd hope that the elderly males they're choosing - refuse collectors, parking attendants, waiters, factory workers, vagrants, etc - are having a nice time.
I have to really disagree with this, if women are really so easily adapted to the soul crushing planet destroying world of middle management office work and humorless authoritarian woke HR managers, the problem is women and their go along to get along conformism. Whatever happened to “The Graduate,” and people who mock the future is plastic speech?
I dropped out and live in a wilderness area in a house and land I own outright, the lack of soulless bore laptop class yuppie women in my life is a feature not a bug.
Thanks for the shoutout at the top of the piece--appreciate that. As for the fuck boys thing: there’s some truth to it. That said: online dating turns both sexes into lying, childish imbeciles.
I think you're right about a lot of that, but the one thing I would point out is that we live in extraordinary times; historically speaking, we live in abnormal times. It feels normal, and scholars are ready to give forth evidence to suggest that - to give one common example - people in past generations always felt the younger generation was worse, and that's how it always has been. So therefore, everything's perfectly normal!
But the lion's share of our ancestors would be shocked by what we have become. And I'm not talking about traditional social changes, like women working and all that, or the aforementioned generational disdain. I mean they would be shocked that the genders are so estranged. That women think the concept of men having "needs" is a perverted and/or selfish thing. That women's empowerment means slaving away for a corporation. That men having a desire like the crayon guy, even as a hobby, is weird. The man-babies, in turn, aren't growing up fast enough and exterior forces play a big part in shaping men. None of this is either good or normal, and pretending we live in a normal world is a big mistake.
That being said, I wish the crayon guy luck. But unless he's the Steve Jobs of crayons, in a past time he wouldn't have to make these singular choices. He could do that and have a family and a normal job to support his family until he breaks even. All of that is broken or destroyed. Or meaningless. We ignore all of this at our own peril.
I really enjoyed reading this, and it certainly does describe many young people (Harry, formerly prince), but why am I unconvinced that it is the problem of men in general? My grandfathers and father, it seems to me, did not share this point of view at all. Nor did my brother, for the most part. They were nose to the grindstone types who were far too busy to compare themselves to others. Maybe this is what civilization has largely become (and wasn't so true previously). Or maybe each generation just focuses on different aspects of life. Personally, I believe divorce (or absent parents for whatever reason) is the cause of many of the current ills. I can see clearly that the men in my family were always real men (working for something larger than themselves, doing their duty, serving as pillars) until the current generation. Very interesting to ponder. Something is definitely wrong now, and I'm so glad to see Castalia is working on showing the way back.
As a 24-year-old man-child hit different, thanks
This hit home