Man Bashing, and what Men should do about it

The world today, right this very minute, is as good as it gets

I certainly think that we have to do something to get away from the mindset that every man is a potential abuser of women and get to the reality that very few men abuse women, and that one is presumed innocent untill proven guilty.

very few men abuse women

They young men need to be treated as if they practice equality and non violence until and unless it becomes clear that they don't.

Oh, now I can see what you're talking about, but all this talk of 'letting women run them over', 'still having balls' and 'aren't taken seriously' makes me think you have a much lower opinion of men than do the women you think 'bash' them

Uh, as a few people have said, that's your world view, I don't have the sense that anyone thinks I'm a potential abuser

I sincerely doubt that there is less sex happening per young person now, than say 50 years ago,

I'm having trouble imagining what exactly you are talking about. Do you mean if a woman on her own crosses a street rather than pass close to a group of men drinking on a street corner and risk an inappropriate act or comment, she is pre-judging them? Or do you have a particular experience in mind that pisses you off?

but it has never occurred to me to MODEL myself after anyone

Uh, as a few people have said, that's your world view, I don't have the sense that anyone thinks I'm a potential abuser

Bullshit...Men who dont bend over backwards to be non threatening towards women that they dont know very well are generally shunned. You live in a world where a man whistling at a woman is considered hostile, so get a clue pal.

You live in a world where a man whistling at a woman is considered hostile, so get a clue pal.

but it has never occurred to me to MODEL myself after anyone

Your family life as a kid must have been very strange.

Almost everyone man is greatly influenced by his father,
either motivated to be like dad or to be the opposite of dad,
and yet you say this never entered your mind.

The two most likely reasons are that you family was physically dead,
or else was emotionally dead.

I am not a shrink, but I have stay at a Holiday Inn Express before....

Men, you may have heard, are having a major midlife crisis. They've lost more than 7 million jobs since 2007. Their wages are dropping. Increasingly superfluous, they're now the human equivalents of newspapers: out-of-step with a changing world and struggling to stay relevant, in some limited fashion, before they disappear entirely.

This bad news for the necktie industry, but great news for aspiring men's magazine publishers. Adrift and rudderless in the tricky currents of post-feminism and globalization, men need guidance, mentorship. Established men's magazines like Men's Health and Maxim are struggling to do that, but the instruction they offer is superficial and glib: "Beach muscle now!" "Shave my what?!" "Do you deserve a hotter girlfriend?" The oldest of the old guard—GQ, Esquire, Playboy—are even less tuned to the tenor of the times. Sequestered in their cashmere bubble of designer cologne ads and exquisitely curated layouts of super-premium tennis shoes, they're the cocksure house organs of male privilege, not male crisis. They do LeBron James in $8,000 suits, pithy guides to the world's best beers, in-depth investigative pieces on what Lindsay Lohan looks like in her underwear.

Their complacency leaves an opening for newer, younger voices who face the twilight of the patriarchy head on—and yet also provide a formula to restore men's cultural potency
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Or to put it another way: Out with the chest bumps and in with the hugs. These are men's magazines that nurture, men's magazines that wrap today's downsized, outsourced, overextended, underappreciated males in a cozy but masculine fleece of understanding and sympathy. But such comfort comes at a price. In feeling the pain of today's beleaguered males, these new men's mags also co-opt the dog-whistle decree that has informed women's magazines for years: You're not good enough. Try harder. With these 13 steps you can be a better person

currently -2 voting for a post where I said nothing but document someone else saying roughly what I have been asserting, for my supporting my position. This kind of result calls into question the wisdom of the crowd as Robert likes to say. It does support my early assertion that the new a2k is systemically hostile to truth discovery.

you do realize the the vote down only affects the voter right, not other readers,
i could care less if posts have a billion votes up or down

That article isn't exactly man-bashing, or even describing man-bashing.

It's saying the old guard is out of step.