What Is the Crisis Among Young Men?

Katie Miller describes a crisis among young men. Fewer are going to college, many are not dating or marrying, and some are withdrawing from the workforce. She asks what happened to men. Gad Saad says one of the most frequent emails he receives from women matches her question. A woman got dressed up, went to a place to meet someone, and no man approached her. She writes, Professor Saad, help me. Women ask where all the good men have gone. He says the men have bought into radical feminism.

He says if you teach men that anything they do is pathological, that they are toxic men, and that a compliment on how a woman looks is a form of compliment rape, then it is not difficult to imagine that most men are going to become reticent to engage in the natural dynamics men and women expect of each other.

Katie Miller asks whether young men are raised that way or whether societal influence is the cause. Gad Saad says maybe a bit of both, but on campus the message is that men are not welcomed. At Ole Miss he saw a lot more women than men, though he does not know the numbers. He says the men have decided to check out, and he calls the result a bad outcome for a sexually reproducing species.