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Johnny2X2X

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17. Your post sums up a lot of my thoughts

Reply to meadowlander (Reply #9)

Sat Aug 16, 2025, 10:32 AM

Aug 2025

The young men crisis is really just a leveling of the playing field and when the privileged have to play fair, they cry persecution.

How about we just let women run things for a while? Wouldn't that be something? I'd bet we'd get a more just, fair, and healthy society immediately.

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Young Men Face a Crisis [View all] applegrove Aug 2025 OP

1+ Norrrm Aug 2025 #1

For over a generation females attending two or four years schools exceeded men...the hidden stem economy was lost t JT45242 Aug 2025 #2

Yes. Trans kids have it the worst but the solution applegrove Aug 2025 #4

I concur with your comment re: sports being prioritized Raven123 Aug 2025 #8

I'm sure I'll take flak, but I will say basically all the young men I know spend 8+ hours a day playing video games. meadowlander Aug 2025 #9

Your post sums up a lot of my thoughts Johnny2X2X Aug 2025 #17

Mostly correct, but not #1 RandomNumbers Aug 2025 #18

I read the NYTimes article. Solly Mack Aug 2025 #3

yup Skittles Aug 2025 #11

It's a broken culture. usonian Aug 2025 #5

Blame it on the Stones MrWowWow Aug 2025 #6

I was completely loony-tunes as a young man. hunter Aug 2025 #7

In Japan NEETs: Not in Education, Employment or Training. Hikikomori is the extreme type. betsuni Aug 2025 #10

This issue is not limited by race or nationality Renew Deal Aug 2025 #12

They have plenty of opportunity to become respectable men, but actively choose not to. Incels figured out how to... Lancero Aug 2025 #13

They aren't rushing to the newly available farm and construction jobs? tanyev Aug 2025 #14

One solution for a lonely individual young male is screamingly obvious. JanMichael Aug 2025 #15

"Don't be a creep" has made the world a happier place throughout human history. hunter Aug 2025 #19

I wasn't suggesting university was for everyone. JanMichael Aug 2025 #20

A crisis, eh? MineralMan Aug 2025 #16

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