Run us off and we'll come back twice as irritating

It seems we men are out of fashion.  My ex certainly thinks so.  And we even underperfom relative to Italy in working age men in work. Italy!.  And of course we are nowhere when compared to them as lovers.  We are so screwed.

MELANIE STURM: On masculinity and the War on Poverty. “That there are dramatically fewer men willing and able to safeguard family prosperity is perhaps America’s greatest — and most unrecognized — problem. . . . Women gained all 74,000 jobs added to payrolls in December, and among the world’s seven biggest economies, America is last in the share of ‘prime age’ males working — just behind Italy. Why isn’t widespread male workless-ness a priority for policymakers, given the massive economic, fiscal and social costs?”