The Decline of Men: How the American Male Is Getting Axed, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His FutureWhy are so many of today's supermen super-clueless? Why do so many men prefer the escapist digitized world of Spike TV and Grand Theft Auto to the reality of their own lives? An entire generation of men is slacking off. The struggle to redefine what being a man means in today's world has resulted in widespread male confusion, leading to rampant malaise, alienation, and disconnection. In this eye-opening exploration of this crisis of contemporary American manhood, award-winning journalist Guy Garcia sheds light on a problem that has wreaked havoc on the American family. Packed with startling statistics, informed by pop culture, and narrated in the entertaining style for which Guy Garcia is known, The Decline of Men is an important wake-up call to the distressing reality of the American male |
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... social , emotional , and behavioral attributes that are so different from those of women as to render them almost a separate species . The classic male virtues — physical strength , aggression , self- sufficiency , resolve — that were ...
... social conditioning . ” To be sure , much of the evidence of what some call “ brain gen- der " is grounded in conventional wisdom : boys are rambunctious and competitive , girls are sensitive and demure . It's been noted that little ...
... social pressures to behave and conform to the cultural consensus of what it means to be a “ woman ” or a “ man ” at any given time ? Are gender - bashing feminists out of touch with human nature , or is it the men - are - from - Mars ...
... social sciences , education , psychology , math , and agriculture . Even as the female - to - male рор- ulation ratio in the U.S. has remained stable at about 51-49 per- cent , respectively , the number of women enrolled in ...
... Social Science in the Service of Deception , ” Judith Kleinfield , a professor of psychology at the University of Alaska , noted : " The overrepresentation of males in special education classes and in virtually every other cat- egory of ...
Contents
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Eves Rib | 29 |
Theres Something Terribly Wrong with Me | 60 |
Mechanical Bulls | 92 |
Fight Club | 154 |
Boys Will Be Boys | 190 |
Samson Unbound | 253 |
Acknowledgments | 285 |
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The Decline of Men: How the American Male Is Tuning Out, Giving Up, and ... Guy Garcia Limited preview - 2008 |
The Decline of Men: How the American Male Is Getting Axed, Giving Up, and ... Guy Garcia No preview available - 2009 |