Editorials & Other Articles

marmar

(77,781 posts) Sun Sep 1, 2024, 02:52 PM Sep 1

Joyful warrior Tim Walz and the last days of patriarchy

Joyful warrior Tim Walz and the last days of patriarchy
Tim Walz drives MAGA men nuts — he's living proof that their tormented masculinity is yesterday's news

By Christopher Cotton
Published September 1, 2024 9:00AM (EDT)

(Salon) In a 2022 op-ed in the Washington Post, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang laid out “one of the biggest problems facing America: Boys and men across all regions and ethnic groups have been failing, both absolutely and relatively, for years. This is catastrophic for our country.”

....(snip)....

Yang and most commentators are clear about the problem and suggest worthwhile solutions, such as making schools better suited to today’s boys, increasing vocational opportunities, subsidizing marriage counseling, increasing the child tax credit. All of these ideas would help boys, men and society as a whole. But where Yang and so many other commentators go wrong is in identifying the causes.

....(snip)....

Boys and men tend toward competitiveness and winner/loser thinking, and they see a war that is going poorly, and may already have been lost. That perception is indeed a crisis.

Boys and men are behaving like a conquered people.

....(snip)....

The joyful warrior of 2024

Much has been made lately about “joyful warrior” Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee. While Walz is indeed skillful and cheerful in attack, there’s one battle hes not ﬁghting, and it drives MAGA men nuts: he doesn’t ﬁght the gender war, yet he does not appear the least bit defeated. His presence suggests that the battle between men and women doesn’t really exist at all. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/01/joyful-warrior-tim-walz-and-the-last-days-of-patriarchy/

1 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Joyful warrior Tim Walz and the last days of patriarchy (Original Post) marmar Sep 1 OP

Last days of the patriarchy. We can hope. CrispyQ Sep 1 #1

CrispyQ

(37,580 posts)

1. Last days of the patriarchy. We can hope.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sun Sep 1, 2024, 03:36 PM

Sep 1

I disagree with him here.

Millions of boys and men have, in fact, come to the conclusion that girls and women are smarter. And not just smarter — now that women are outcompeting men in many professional ﬁelds, women appear to be harder working and more competent.

I think very few of them think that. Look at all the accusations on their side that Harris slept her way to the top. These guys problem is their refusal to recognize & acknowledge the privilege they've had & that that privilege is built into the system.

Boys and men tend toward competitiveness and winner/loser thinking, and they see a war that is going poorly, and may already have been lost. That perception is indeed a crisis.

Boys and men are behaving like a conquered people.

No they're not. They're behaving like jerks.

Alot of these guys think that every affirmative action hire is totally unqualified while the white guy who got passed over is totally qualified & I can tell you from decades of working in corporate that I've encountered way more lazy, incompetent, don't-give-a-shit white guys than any other group & why? Cuz there are more of them in those jobs.

That's finally changing & we're not going back.

Reply to this discussion