We live in a world where men are under attack for existing. It started long ago. By 1985, Madeline Kahn spoke this line in the movie "Clue": "Men should be like tissues- soft, strong and DISPOSABLE" (emphasis added). Men are competing with and fighting each other, and not for any victory. We have become like crabs in a bucket pulling down the whole group to avoid any of the others from escaping the trap. It's no longer acceptable to be a man or you are referred to as "toxic". It's no longer enough to just be a good person, because men are throwing attention and money at women in order to stand out from the wallpaper. Worst of all, men are corrupting each other, competing with each other, and misleading each other to get access to the women they find worthy of pursuing.
For the past 20 years, the world has gradually escalated its war on men. Gen Z is full of emasculated men who eschew manly behavior. In order to placate the complaints of men about "toxic masculinity" and the shaming language concerning the "sins of the patriarchy", many men in the rising generation are avoiding work and dating because they feel like they are not appreciated as anything other than an ATM. Some of them see it as out of reach given inflation both economically as well as ecumenically. Women consider men only if they are 6 feet tall (15% of the male population), earn more than $100K/year (15% of the American population) and also are willing to work all day and then clean and cook and take care of the woman, who often does nothing during the day but shop and post to tiktok. Many men have decided that it's not worth the effort to stand out from the background. It's not worth it to just break even.
Other men complicate the issue by lathering women with undeserved attention and money. Many men, regardless of generation, simp for women. Women are given money so men can watch them talk or react to videos or play video games. Twenty years ago Gary Larson mocked this in The Far Side, but now there are women who show up and are showered with compliments and cash. This inflates the egos of the women who get paid who believe that because they are showered with attention and money that they are high value or valued by men. Simps lead women to believe that they are above average, and now they are not looking for a quiet, simple life. "What makes Christina Christina is instagram". But most of what we see on social media is fake, and so is the perceived value of the women who post to it.
Worst of all, men engage in behaviors that corrupt each other. Pick up artists encourage men to just use women for bedroom fun. Some men discourage others from dating or give them bad advice so that they are not competitive. Right now there is a "black pill" ideology that preaches enmity between men and women. Men are out there corrupting men, encouraging them to engage in behaviors that are regarded as universally repugnant, teaching men to commit the crimes for which women now punish them. Men used to mentor each other, but now they are encouraging men to engage at things in times or to degrees that make them unfit for long term relationships, especially healthy ones. There is nothing healthy about an obsession with your career or the gym, but men are encouraged to "get on their purpose" and that this will somehow lead women to be interested in them or to treat women like they don't care and that this will bring women into their lives who make healthy partners. It's amazing how men are now eating each other for access to the women that remain appealing to men as wives and mothers.
Only the top shelf men will benefit from this. They will continue to get the great share of attention, wealth, and respect, not because they deserve it, but because the rest of men are showing to all the world that none of them are worthy. Whether we defraud each other or shame each other into doing things contrary to our nature, whether we undermine other men by helping their women cheat with us or by pumping up their ego by giving them money and attention for free, men are losing no matter where they turn. In the information age where we are bombarded by information which is shared based on popularity rather than virtue, the most prominent channels and advice actually come from sources that undermine men. Men are making decisions that will make them single. And children will suffer most.
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