Today I Learned

And they will never be found because they don't call themselves "entwives"

My honest opinion. The right pipeline is meeting boys where they are. The left needs to stop pontificating about shit and get on their level.

It's no different than the fact that the education system as it's been designed is easier for girls to navigate than boys. Look at post-secondary attendance by gender over time.

This is a problem that has been brewing for decades and we have done nothing to stop it and the right wing despite all their faults are actually engaging these boys where they are.

If you are a parent. Hell if you are a mother, you should be scared as shit at how your sons are checking out of society writ large.

I'm a 48 year old dude with 3 kids. My daughter will be fine. My boys on the other hand? I'm doing my best to make sure they're adjusted and successful but it's exceedingly hard.

I spent over a decade thinking “God this sucks, but at least things will get better once the boomers die off.” The worst political blow of my life was realizing that the younger generation also lacked critical thinking skills.

Maybe we should cripple ourselves

Naaaaah

Maybe we can become rich and dominate others

That's what's actually on their mind.

The entire right-wing propaganda goes as: "if you work hard and make smart choices, you'll become rich too and will be able to exploit others for your benefit". The rest are seen as passive doomer mob that just aren't dedicated enough, and so end up subjugated by the alphas who pushed hard to pursue their dream (to dominate others and live a rich life on their backs).

This kind of propaganda works beautifully well on young folks who didn't yet get to experience just how hard and unlikely it is to build a successful business or high-payed career, especially without compromising on one's principles.

The flaws in their culture, where they're expected to be invaded by North Korea at anytime, and nearly all the males -- even pop stars -- are also expected to do military service. Of course the men have become deeply reactionary, what with anti-communist propaganda heavily embedded throughout, and they're not happy with South Korean women being more assertive now than 50 years ago.

It's not helping that South Korea is so much of a horrifyingly thinly-disguised corporate dystopia.

From the article:

The #MeToo movement was the key trigger, giving rise to fiercely feminist values among young women who felt empowered to speak out against long-running injustices. That spark found especially dry tinder in South Korea, where gender inequality remains stark, and outright misogyny is common.

In the country’s 2022 presidential election, while older men and women voted in lockstep, young men swung heavily behind the right-wing People Power party, and young women backed the liberal Democratic party in almost equal and opposite numbers.

Korea’s is an extreme situation, but it serves as a warning to other countries of what can happen when young men and women part ways. Its society is riven in two. Its marriage rate has plummeted, and birth rate has fallen precipitously, dropping to 0.78 births per woman in 2022, the lowest of any country in the world.

Seven years on from the initial #MeToo explosion, the gender divergence in attitudes has become self-sustaining. Survey data show that in many countries the ideological differences now extend beyond this issue. The clear progressive-vs-conservative divide on sexual harassment appears to have caused — or at least is part of — a broader realignment of young men and women into conservative and liberal camps respectively on other issues.