(Charles) Atlas Shrugs

Men are in the process of withdrawing from marriage and society in large numbers.  Driven by the criminalization of young male behavior and reinforced by iniquitous laws that treat men much worse than women, the result is tens of millions of men living permanently at the edge of society.  With nothing to lose, they have no stake in the current order.

CATHY YOUNG: IS THERE REALLY A GENDER WAR?

Some argue that current reproductive rights policies unfairly disadvantage males. A woman facing an unwanted pregnancy can terminate it; a man can be stuck with years of payments. If he complains, the typical response – “you play, you pay’’ – is uncannily reminiscent of pro-lifers’ attitude toward women. This dilemma has no easy answer; but there is a striking blindness toward ways in which men’s individual freedoms are often abridged in the perceived interests of children. Even men tricked into fatherhood, or forced to support children proven by DNA tests not to be theirs, have found no legal relief.
Are such policies anti-male? Is the Obama administration targeting men when it pushes colleges to lower the burden of proof for charges of sexual assault or harassment, making it much easier to expel (mostly male) students on a woman’s word? Apart from a handful of men’s rights activists, don’t expect controversy about a “war against men.’’ Gender injustice is generally equated with injustice against women – which, in 21st-century America, is not always true.

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