The men are weak and the women are conniving. All of them feel special. Few of them are:
“I hired a good number of young lawyers and, frankly, didn’t look for opportunities to hire young men; they had lots of self-esteem and damned little reason to have it. The young women weren’t nearly so cocky nor did they feel so entitiled. Many of the women would, however, try to trip you and beat you to the ground either to try to manipulate you with sex or just to set up winning the sexual harassment lottery. Few have any exposure to any competitive activity and have never been challenged so they really don’t know how to handle challenges. We mocked most upcoming hearings. The person assigned to the case put on the gist of their case and it was open season of them for the rest of the staff. I had several young lawyers just come apart and a couple even quit over their first exposure to having their head handed to them by an experienced advocate. You can come out of even good law schools these days with zero advocacy skill but still feeling very, very superior to mere mortals, especially mere mortals who didn’t go to law school.
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Was it hard telling your parents you’re gay?
Is that the best you can do?
There’s another good comment farther down at #26:
“My personal opinion is too few women are leaders, and <0.1% of women understand men or even care to. A healthy society requires both male and female, recognizing and using the strengths of each and having some forgiveness for the weaknesses. In Susan Pinker's book the Real Difference between the Sexes she points out that many women follow a traditional male career path until the early 40's when they figure out that's not them, and so they make a change. But for 15-20 years they have displaced a male that would want to be there. We are not doing ourselves a service by this behavior, neither societally or individually. I think we will see a snap back to male dominance once the consequences begin to catch up to us. I would not be surprised if women are banned from the workplace to some degree. However, this assumes American can keep some sense of our core values, we may be so far down the road that we can't figure out a fix. We certainly can not talk honestly about living beyond our means or what we are doing to men in our country. No wonder the rest of the world thinks we are nuts."
Those of us who have taken the red pill have been forecasting a snapback for a some time now. It's only a matter of time. Might take the next 50+ years though.
@Old Glory – saw this issue in an article not too long ago – might have been Daily Mail and/or discussed at The Spearhead – regarding physicians in the UK. Snookums decides to become a doctor, displaces a male in medical school – who would be a doctor for 40 some years – and then drops out after practicing for 5 or 10 years for whatever reason. Results in a hole that can never be filled and a shortage of doctors.
This sounds about right.
I know quite a few chicks who have been reduced to tears by their first week of minor office jobs because they actually have to do something and be held accountable.
Haven’t known any dudes who stress their job but none (including me) seem to have all that much ambition- we just need some money and that’s it
Yeah I’ve seen this as well. There’s a huge difference between studying hard and making good grades on tests vs. doing actual work in a competitive work environment. A lot of women who excel at the former can’t handle the latter well at all.
Young men are “entitled”? I’m not even sure what that word means anymore.
Do they believe they deserve the best? That’s not any different than the generation of men who came before them.
Do they believe they deserve preferential treatment over other men? Still not any different.
Do they believe they are destined for success? Still no different.
if anything, men today are less entitled because we actually have to figure out how to make money in a shit economy, when the generations of men before us just had to show up to work and to get a big paycheck.
Ever heard of working from the bottom up? I didn’t just show up to work and make the big bucks. All those words you just wrote is horseshit as far as I’m concerned. Hell my parents with 3rd grade educations came over here and couldn’t speak the language made it. Do you assume they just started making money?
Young men out there deserve nothing. You earn it. Deserve is an overused term and the reason why America is an absolute failure.
In only a mere ten years ago, someone graduating from the top-25 law schools in America had a 33% chance of landing a job at 160K.
Today it’s less than 10%.
This analogy applies to all industries. “Working your way up?” Who wants to be a sucker? It’s easier today to start your own business than it is to work for someone else’s.
I like how older men think they’ve “earned” what they have.
You didn’t earn shit. You were born in the right place at the right time with the right genetic qualities. Get over yourselves.
I’m not in touch with how bad the economy is for you guys now, but us older guys have lived through economic ups and downs too. It’s not as if life for us was all Reagan boom years.
Ya, sometimes money flows easier. I once put myself into the right place at the right time and pulled in over 30k in 5 days at the Woodstock 2000 festival. But not long after my entire business vending impulse items crashed for economic reasons.
I haven’t noticed any economic downturn myself lately, because I now no longer sell impulse items. The way I see it, you have to position yourself much more carefully now, and be creative and learn to live on very little in order that you can spend your time and invest your capitol into your ideas, but opportunities exist now as they always did.
It doesn’t much matter if there is 50% less money being spent in the economy, if you can increase your business by 400% with standard careful business decisions. There are places in the economy that don’t slow down at all.