It’s a wonder that there are any men out there who still want to get married. From Mark Keenan at lewrockwell.com:
Across the Western world, men are facing a crisis few dare to name aloud. The facts are undeniable: fathers torn from their children, men ruined by divorce courts, and masculine identity hollowed out by a culture intent on rewriting gender itself. Beneath the surface of everyday life, an unspoken war is being fought — not on poverty or crime, but on men.
I never set out to write about men’s struggles. But through my own experience, I realized it isn’t only celebrities like Mel Gibson or Johnny Depp who are dragged through the grinder. Ordinary men everywhere are fighting the same battle — often in silence.
When Mel Gibson’s breakup with Oksana Grigorieva exploded into scandal, custody wars, and financial ruin, it showed that no man, no matter his wealth or fame, is safe from the machinery of the modern divorce system.
We saw the same script play out with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. Years of accusations, media bias, and legal warfare turned Depp’s private life into a public spectacle — a global case study in what happens when a man is presumed guilty from the start. If even a Hollywood star must fight tooth and nail to clear his name, what chance does the average man have in court, facing bias and weaponized accusation without Hollywood wealth to shield him?
This isn’t an exception — it’s a symptom of a much deeper problem, the very war on men that my book exposes.
Like many men, I was simply a man who thought he was in love. She was beautiful, charming, full of “I love you’s.” To the outside world, we looked like the perfect couple. But behind the façade of romance, I found a darker truth.
