Some of the proposals are just more of the same that got boys into their present beleaguered state. From John Mac Ghlionn at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
Contrary to popular belief, the patriarchy doesn’t rule with an iron fist. Nevertheless, for some perverse reason, the myth of male privilege still persists. Today, only a fool could look around and honestly say that we live in a man’s world. Every 13.7 minutes, somewhere in the United States, a man takes his own life. For every female that commits suicide, there are four men ending their own lives.
Millions of boys and men lead lives of quiet desperation, rotting away inside self-imposed prison cells.
What should these men do? See a medical doctor, perhaps? Maybe visit a psychologist?
As I’ve noted before, the fields of medicine and psychology are, like the men of America, also in crisis. This isn’t to say that all doctors and all psychologists offer nothing of value, of course. This is to say that the institutions creating the doctors and psychologists of tomorrow are, for lack of a better word, damaged.
In the field of psychology, as the science writer Rolf Degen recently noted, approximately 1 in every 10 citations “across leading psychology journals is completely inaccurate, misrepresenting or even contradicting the cited findings.” Still reeling from the effects of the much-discussed replication crisis, psychology now has a crisis of reputation to wrestle with. To compound matters, the American Psychological Association (APA), the main accreditor for professional education and training in psychology, has, for years, demonized masculinity, labeling admirable qualities such as stoicism and competitiveness “psychologically harmful.”
