Why Men Fail (2012)

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13 points·ryanmarsh··7 comments

What are these 12/15 fastest growing professions anyway? I'd like to see a lot more detail about the claims being made and how the numbers to back them up. Saying "there's a lot of evidence" is not evidence.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five men".

Lovely generalizations. I was searching for a /s tag after the first paragraph. Whats with the itch to find something wrong with one sub group or another all the time..

This entire opinion piece is gender-warfare clickbait. The comments might spawn some good discussion but the article itself is awful.

I agree so "flag" it. I did.

> This entire opinion piece is gender-warfare clickbait.

Its very light on opinion, it starts with a fairly factual if perhaps slightly overgeneralized description of beliefs that are widespread as a lead in to a factual (in terms of types of claims, vs. opinion) description of the claims made in a particular book. (The degree to which those claims are substantiated would is a question that would take actually reading the book to evaluate.)

I've never been a fan of David Brooks, but I don't think the educational figures were made up whole-cloth. There's a little speculation trying to link education to skills to unemployment and disability. I can see how this isn't presenting a complete picture. But "gender-warfare clickbait"?

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