I think that the Married Man’s issues, while important and enlightening, are far more relevant when applied to the culture in which we are raising our kids, male and female. Those formative years can provide sexual identity stability in which someone identifies and challenges sexism.
With the pervasiveness of the sexist attitudes affecting our childrearing practices as well-meaning dementors try to raise boys into men who are not barbarians, we face a crisis in our schools and other child-rearing institutions.
That boys’ increasing marginalization and academic failure is being blamed on the boys and not on the society is a sign that societal change is needed. Our boys are being hurt when differences are minimized as a misguided side-effect of the worthy goal of gender equality, and stereotypical traits of boys are weighed and found wanting.
But society first has to identify and accept that it is a bug and not a feature.
