This whole topic seques nicely with Dr. Helen’s numerous discussions on men vs. women, men not marrying, the feminization of our culture, etc.
Jim Rockford’s Alpha Male theory is right but there’s other variables at work here. The feminization of society is giving women power and choices and taking them away from men, in fact breeding them out of men. Tradionally, a man looks for a woman like his mother — maternal, good cook, good homemaker. Women are by and large no longer interested in these and certainly not in relation to “taking care of” a man. Mama looks awfully good by comparison with the totally self-absorbed, ambitious, male-disparaging women of today.
And due to the feminization of our culture, many men have lost any incentive to contribute to society through hard work, competition, entrepreneurship, and childbearing. Ultimately, they are weeding their own less-than-Alpha Male genes out of the gene pool.
We’ve been going through a social revolution for well over a generation now and it’s becoming a genetic revolution now as well. A few generations down the road it’s possible there will be a new dynamic of strong, ambitious women and men, both, who stand on a far more equal footing with each other. The fallout on the way to that may be exactly what we are experiencing now with the boomer generation and its progeny.
OTOH I see “Brave New World” down the road, too, with genetic engineering, and pregnancy and childbirth no longer associated with the female body. I can see virtually all women of means refusing to have children the traditional way (I decided at 14 never to have children, when I was part of the early feminist movement). Men refusing to grow up and have families will hasten this change. What this bodes for the human race, one can only imagine.
