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Justice for Men & Boys 
So. Yet again it turns out the majority of people are quite traditional in their thinking about “gender roles”. I was amused by the finding 78% of women like a man “to flash their cash” and respect “alphas”. Of course the vast majority of women think that families do better with a male breadwinner, this is a repeated finding in attitude surveys which usually prompt feminists to demand women are “educated” out of this. Its plain practical given that most women have at least half an eye to time off caring for children and “work/life balance”. Indeed this practical theme runs through the whole thing, the biggest difference between the sexes being on this expectation men protect and provide and women nurture and nest. It isn’t even much of contradiction when women say they also want financial independence, there being a really big difference between protecting and providing for a family and just looking after yourself. Just as though both partners may have a “career” the common pattern is still that it is the man who earns the most and longest hours. Again the period of greatest “happiness” was when it was possible to form a family and secure a home with “one and a half” salaries!
Again not so surprising that neither sex thinks that “extreme” “toxic” traits are desirable, as they get on wit life. Despite the apparent omnipotence of Andrew Tate (yet again non of the influencers he’s “like” get a mention I seriously think because they don’t actually exist).
So the ” research” finds that people aspire to fairly traditional roles, both men and women are tired of the media’s negative portrayals of men and in selecting partners the evidence from the dating industry is true (again unsurprising given they’d make no money if they mis-judged their customers).
What is never addressed is that its precisely those who are privileged who most conform to traditional gender roles. Married, home, secure present and future. Its the poorest whose lives are most divergent from actually achieving their traditional aspirations. As Thomas Sowell showed the descent of “Black” American communities into poverty and crime, man deserts and fatherlessness was and is facilitated by increasing dependence on welfare in a cycle of unravelling of that community. A pattern easily observed in “afro carribean” communities here, and of course poor white communities in the “sink estates” and “abandoned” seaside resorts and coal/industrial towns. For in both countries the dependence on welfare means being subject to policies that explicitly are constructed to favour “families” as “a woman and her children” and create incentives to eject or conceal men at risk of losing “benefits” (specially housing and children’s benefits).
And yet as Sargon observes the people in charge resolutely plough on with an “ideal” that in fact few aspire to and accuse men in particular of “toxic” masculinity when in fact both sexes (who aren’t feminists) are pretty agreed on what a “good man” looks like, and its not different from the same sort of research from decades ago. But of course it will have to be buried because its not the narrative pushed for decades that women want both sexes to be the same and to be alone, childless and end up with cats and weekly community choir sessions.
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