Scott Galloway how to save teenage boys.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except liberal white women are the least happy cohort, so I guess it isn’t working out well for them either….

Can you cite some actual studies? Conservatives love to use this as a talking point, but I've never seen any actual evidence of this. I thought most studies showed that married women with kids were one of the unhappiest groups.

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives/

LOL, this piece. "The Great Awokening?"

For those who don't want to skim it, it amounts to: liberals and/or educated people (the groups are interchanged a bit) are 1) more empathetic to the distress of others, and 2) more likely to think about, admit to, and seek diagnosis for relatively low levels of mental health issues. Also, there's a fun digression about how the more educated someone is, the more likely to decide that behavior directed at them is harassment.

As a liberal, I'm fine with taking this at face value. Yes, the plight of others in distress makes me unhappy! And yes, I think about my own mental health before it reaches crisis levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except liberal white women are the least happy cohort, so I guess it isn’t working out well for them either….

Can you cite some actual studies? Conservatives love to use this as a talking point, but I've never seen any actual evidence of this. I thought most studies showed that married women with kids were one of the unhappiest groups.

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives/

Liberals acknowledging mental health issues doesn't mean conservatives don't have them. They just don't acknowledge it and funnel that into all these unhealthy coping mechanisms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Average to poor white men have always done pretty well in life. Now women would rather be alone and companies will hire someone else.

In the past, there was no other options for partners for white women or for companies to hire into white collar roles. Why? Because the civil rights of women and minorities were stripped. Now white men have learned being average to poor at things (emotionally, academically) will not get them to the same place. Some are taking this and teaching their sons empathy and how to be a good partner AND how to secure a good job. Others lean into MAGA because it makes small, sad men feel powerful again.

Any issues white men/boys are having can also be blamed on the ways patriarchy fails all of us.

ODd how it's the same white men trying to strip DEI initiatives and whatnot.

Says the person who needs DEI to get ahead because they can't compete naturally and win.

DEI is just not giving the bosses son the job, making him compete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really interesting takes on boys and technology. I think he’s right about a lot but off on some things but I think his ideas are worth discussing. Are we failing boy? Have we put girls ahead of boys or have women just put their heads down and figured it out?

Excerpt:

“ …his stats tell a worrying story. In 1950, 50 per cent of men under 30 had children; now it’s 21 per cent (and 60 per cent of young men aged 18-24 still live with their parents). The downstream effects are startling: 1 in 3 men under 30 hasn’t had sex in the past year; 45 per cent of men aged 18-25 have never approached a woman in person (as opposed to online) to ask them on a date.

“No cohort has fallen further, faster than young men,” he asserts. “You ask me about the [Tommy Robinson] march in London? History shows us fascism breeds among sad, lonely, badly educated males who are most susceptible to conspiracy theories. Trump got elected because we have a young man problem. And you want to know why his vote went up among women over 45? I believe they are concerned mothers.”

“It begins with education. Boys’ slower brain development (the male prefrontal cortex matures later than in girls) means they quickly fall behind girls at school. What’s more, higher education is now prohibitively expensive, while manual jobs have disappeared due to globalisation and AI. Even for those working, inflation has devalued wages and housing is increasingly unaffordable.

The social contract is broken,” he says. “The promise that working hard and following the rules means your life will be better than for previous generations is gone. In that landscape of despair, the temptations offered by godlike technology, porn, gambling and conspiracy theories can be irresistible.”

Full article.

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/parenting/article/scott-galloway-how-save-teenage-boys-gckntn7t9

Sorry, but this is BS.

Yea, technology changed. Those changes have also made it easier than ever to get ahead. Our grandparents would have killed for the opportunities we have now.

I became a single mom in 2019 with zero job skills. The career I had gone to college for was gone, and I had been a SAHM for so long my resume was worthless. I figured out what jobs had growth potential, got an entry-level position making minimum wage, and over 5 years worked my way up to making 6 figures. All while raising kids. Every free moment I had was spent on free education (podcasts + YouTube), and any extra money I made went to career development.

It was hard. Was it as hard as our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had it? Absolutely not. There were zero career opportunities for women then, and being a single mom meant poverty for life.

I just don't have much empathy for young men who want to complain life is hard when they've been handed literally every advantage and have the entire Internet, and all the free education that comes along with it, in their pockets. Mr. Beast was making several times more money than his parents by the time he was a teenager. Is every boy going to be Mr Beast? No. But if you work hard and take the time to learn the system, you can succeed.

Isn't it interesting that young white men are becoming increasingly more conservative, the party who believes everyone can succeed if they just work hard? Now that they have to work as hard as everyone else has had to do for decades they're mad about it.

I think this is a complex issue. I understand why white men feel left behind when our culture has historically put them above everyone else. There's a huge culture shift. It's no longer enough to simply be a white man. They need to step up and work as hard as everyone else. I keep seeing the reports of young men not being able to find a partner and the loneliness epidemic. Women don't have to settle for mediocre anymore. They want a partner, not a man child. They can make their own money and don't need to get married in order to support themselves. There's a reason conservatives are pushing so hard against abortion, birth control, paid maternity leave, etc. They need to make women dependent on men otherwise their chances of marriage will continue to decrease (until men learn they need to step it up).

No, it's not interesting or remotely correct. These young men are being told it doesn't matter if they work hard because they don't deserve it, still didn't earn it, and it's someone else's turn. It doesn't matter that if even they are the best or most qualified, someone else *deserves* it more or needs a turn to sit at the table. These boys haven't sat at the table yet but are being told they aren't wanted because it's time to right some wrongs that they had nothing to do with. Even the beneficiaries haven't been wronged, but they are happy to take whatever they can get whether they earned it fairly or not.

This is not correct at all. You are just pulling this narrative straight from the TrustMeBro redpill podcasts. Try coming back to reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except liberal white women are the least happy cohort, so I guess it isn’t working out well for them either….

Can you cite some actual studies? Conservatives love to use this as a talking point, but I've never seen any actual evidence of this. I thought most studies showed that married women with kids were one of the unhappiest groups.

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives/

That's just commentary. The actual study is here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560321000438

This study surveyed adolescents. Not women. Not liberal white women. Kids. So unless there's some other study that conservatives are repeatedly quoting, they are severely misrepresenting the underlying research. Cue my surprised face. /s

[Anonymous]

The DEI thing is kind of a moot point because it doesn’t seem like its removal has actually done anything for white males, at least in the college setting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Average to poor white men have always done pretty well in life. Now women would rather be alone and companies will hire someone else.

In the past, there was no other options for partners for white women or for companies to hire into white collar roles. Why? Because the civil rights of women and minorities were stripped. Now white men have learned being average to poor at things (emotionally, academically) will not get them to the same place. Some are taking this and teaching their sons empathy and how to be a good partner AND how to secure a good job. Others lean into MAGA because it makes small, sad men feel powerful again.

Any issues white men/boys are having can also be blamed on the ways patriarchy fails all of us.

ODd how it's the same white men trying to strip DEI initiatives and whatnot.

Says the person who needs DEI to get ahead because they can't compete naturally and win.

Your fundamental misunderstanding of both DEI and "winning" show your brain rot. You are not living in reality. It's really sad to see men slipping this low.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The rich old white men need to step up their mentorship game, as opposed to expect young women having no standards.

My generation had no standard and we were taken advantage of, but we vented online, guess who was reading those online messages?

He says this.

I wrote above agreeing with this. Even before he published the book, he spent a big time of his podcasts talking about this. Mentoring from older men to younger men is hugely important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rich old white men need to step up their mentorship game, as opposed to expect young women having no standards.

My generation had no standard and we were taken advantage of, but we vented online, guess who was reading those online messages?

He says this.

I wrote above agreeing with this. Even before he published the book, he spent a big time of his podcasts talking about this. Mentoring from older men to younger men is hugely important.

I wonder if there is a direct line from absent or hands off dads to these struggling young men.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except liberal white women are the least happy cohort, so I guess it isn’t working out well for them either….

Can you cite some actual studies? Conservatives love to use this as a talking point, but I've never seen any actual evidence of this. I thought most studies showed that married women with kids were one of the unhappiest groups.

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives/

That's just commentary. The actual study is here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560321000438

This study surveyed adolescents. Not women. Not liberal white women. Kids. So unless there's some other study that conservatives are repeatedly quoting, they are severely misrepresenting the underlying research. Cue my surprised face. /s

Try to understand this... I ask you if you have cancer, you say no. I say oh I had skin cancer and your mole looks similar to mine. Your conservative so you don't bother with silly doctors, so you think you still don't have cancer, but you do.

Now replace cancer with depression and doctor with therapist.

Get it now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really interesting takes on boys and technology. I think he’s right about a lot but off on some things but I think his ideas are worth discussing. Are we failing boy? Have we put girls ahead of boys or have women just put their heads down and figured it out?

Excerpt:

“ …his stats tell a worrying story. In 1950, 50 per cent of men under 30 had children; now it’s 21 per cent (and 60 per cent of young men aged 18-24 still live with their parents). The downstream effects are startling: 1 in 3 men under 30 hasn’t had sex in the past year; 45 per cent of men aged 18-25 have never approached a woman in person (as opposed to online) to ask them on a date.

“No cohort has fallen further, faster than young men,” he asserts. “You ask me about the [Tommy Robinson] march in London? History shows us fascism breeds among sad, lonely, badly educated males who are most susceptible to conspiracy theories. Trump got elected because we have a young man problem. And you want to know why his vote went up among women over 45? I believe they are concerned mothers.”

“It begins with education. Boys’ slower brain development (the male prefrontal cortex matures later than in girls) means they quickly fall behind girls at school. What’s more, higher education is now prohibitively expensive, while manual jobs have disappeared due to globalisation and AI. Even for those working, inflation has devalued wages and housing is increasingly unaffordable.

The social contract is broken,” he says. “The promise that working hard and following the rules means your life will be better than for previous generations is gone. In that landscape of despair, the temptations offered by godlike technology, porn, gambling and conspiracy theories can be irresistible.”

Full article.

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/parenting/article/scott-galloway-how-save-teenage-boys-gckntn7t9

Sorry, but this is BS.

Yea, technology changed. Those changes have also made it easier than ever to get ahead. Our grandparents would have killed for the opportunities we have now.

I became a single mom in 2019 with zero job skills. The career I had gone to college for was gone, and I had been a SAHM for so long my resume was worthless. I figured out what jobs had growth potential, got an entry-level position making minimum wage, and over 5 years worked my way up to making 6 figures. All while raising kids. Every free moment I had was spent on free education (podcasts + YouTube), and any extra money I made went to career development.

It was hard. Was it as hard as our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had it? Absolutely not. There were zero career opportunities for women then, and being a single mom meant poverty for life.

I just don't have much empathy for young men who want to complain life is hard when they've been handed literally every advantage and have the entire Internet, and all the free education that comes along with it, in their pockets. Mr. Beast was making several times more money than his parents by the time he was a teenager. Is every boy going to be Mr Beast? No. But if you work hard and take the time to learn the system, you can succeed.

Isn't it interesting that young white men are becoming increasingly more conservative, the party who believes everyone can succeed if they just work hard? Now that they have to work as hard as everyone else has had to do for decades they're mad about it.

I think this is a complex issue. I understand why white men feel left behind when our culture has historically put them above everyone else. There's a huge culture shift. It's no longer enough to simply be a white man. They need to step up and work as hard as everyone else. I keep seeing the reports of young men not being able to find a partner and the loneliness epidemic. Women don't have to settle for mediocre anymore. They want a partner, not a man child. They can make their own money and don't need to get married in order to support themselves. There's a reason conservatives are pushing so hard against abortion, birth control, paid maternity leave, etc. They need to make women dependent on men otherwise their chances of marriage will continue to decrease (until men learn they need to step it up).

So disingenuous.

If you think my white 13 yo son has it as good as George Bush did, you are an idiot. The world has turned against white males. If anything we have it harder than POC these days.

Confirmed as a troll. Go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rich old white men need to step up their mentorship game, as opposed to expect young women having no standards.

My generation had no standard and we were taken advantage of, but we vented online, guess who was reading those online messages?

He says this.

I wrote above agreeing with this. Even before he published the book, he spent a big time of his podcasts talking about this. Mentoring from older men to younger men is hugely important.

I wonder if there is a direct line from absent or hands off dads to these struggling young men.

More like overbearing, mean and abusive men in the house... like Trump and Musk had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Except liberal white women are the least happy cohort, so I guess it isn’t working out well for them either….

Can you cite some actual studies? Conservatives love to use this as a talking point, but I've never seen any actual evidence of this. I thought most studies showed that married women with kids were one of the unhappiest groups.

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to-understand-the-well-being-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives/

NP. I think this actually reveals something pretty bizarre about our conversation around these issues. There's a lot of trying to figure out who has it worse. This functions both as an appeal for sympathy, as in the discussion around the "male loneliness epidemic, and as an accusation, as in the discussion of mental illness in white liberal women. These roles are often reversed depending on politics, so you might see one person arguing that male loneliness is symptom of something wrong with men and another arguing that rates of mental illness among liberal women mean you should be conservative to be happier.

But if you actually look at the data, in that link you posted, increasing unhappiness is a problem for EVERYONE. The gap between liberals and conservatives that was there in 2005 is still there today (and of about the same magnitude), but everyone is more depressed than the most depressed group was twenty years ago. A lot of men report often being lonely, but so do a lot of women. Pew gives the numbers as roughly equal (https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2025/01/16/men-women-and-social-connections/), other studies show it as a more pronounced problem among men (https://www.americansurveycenter.org/why-mens-social-circles-are-shrinking/) but with both men and women having declines in the number of friends they have.

I'm not just picking on the conservative literature around this, much of which I agree with despite not being a conservative. People who are married and have kids are generally happier than people who aren't. That's true and it's worth saying. But everyone is less happy than they used to be and that's a bigger problem than figuring out which group is the least unhappy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Average to poor white men have always done pretty well in life. Now women would rather be alone and companies will hire someone else.

In the past, there was no other options for partners for white women or for companies to hire into white collar roles. Why? Because the civil rights of women and minorities were stripped. Now white men have learned being average to poor at things (emotionally, academically) will not get them to the same place. Some are taking this and teaching their sons empathy and how to be a good partner AND how to secure a good job. Others lean into MAGA because it makes small, sad men feel powerful again.

Any issues white men/boys are having can also be blamed on the ways patriarchy fails all of us.

ODd how it's the same white men trying to strip DEI initiatives and whatnot.

Says the person who needs DEI to get ahead because they can't compete naturally and win.

DEI is just not giving the bosses son the job, making him compete.

No it’s not. His resume gets tossed aside. The competition is rigged.

[Anonymous]

Here is an NIH study. Summary: Regarding possible implications, it is important to realize the limitations of the current findings. In terms of variance explained, the effect of political orientation on meaning in life was relatively small (effect sizes ranged from r = .09 to r = .21), consistent with the relationship between political orientation and life satisfaction (summarized in Onraet et al., 2013). However, small effect sizes are a common feature of well-being research and the effect sizes were comparable to the size of the effects of income and subjective health on meaning in life.
In sum, we have examined the relationship between political orientation and well-being by considering a more holistic view of well-being that includes evaluative, experiential, and eudaimonic well-being at various reporting periods. Overall, our findings show that conservatives report more meaning in life than liberals, and this effect is stronger and more robust than the effects previously found for evaluative and experiential well-being.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6764755/