Pity the Poor Boys of Today

It wasn’t until I was about 26 or 27 that I had an a very important epiphany while teaching economics in college. What triggered the epiphany was a group of loud, obnoxious, misbehaving 20 something female students. They were rude, arrogant, but above all else, immature. They would talk while I was lecturing. They would whine about the difficulty of math involved. They would plagiarize and then whine when I caught them. No sane man would ever date these shrills.
Then it dawned on me, “Wait! When I was their age, I was slobbering all over them! Did I just NOT NOTICE???”
Of course when you’re in the thick of it, boys or young men have no clue just what a lion’s den they’ve entered. They have no context, they have no hindsight, and worst still, they are misinformed forcing them to operate from incorrect premises. I was taught by my mother that women wanted nice boys to do nice things for them. I was also taught that girls matured faster than boys, let alone, I could not personally believe young women could have such attitudes, be so petty and be so childish. Cementing all this was a simple, nearly impervious logic;
“What is statistically more likely? I’m having trouble with women because there’s something wrong with me? Or I’m having trouble with women because there’s something wrong with all 150 million of them?”
Ergo, there HAD to be something wrong with me, and any kind of notion or theory about “a society-wide entitlement princess problem” was surely laughable.
Of course, as time goes on, you look back and empirical evidence builds, you finally permit yourself the arrogance to say
“No, there’s nothing wrong with you, there is actually something wrong with society.”
not because you are arrogant, but because that’s the sad, depressing reality of the situation.
Now, the price young men and boys must pay to inevitably come to this epiphany is uncalculable. The financial costs of going to night clubs to meet girls, the opportunity costs of time wasted pursuing these 20 something entitlement princesses, not to mention the sheer mental costs boys and men suffer as their brains cannot reconcile this childish behavior with logic or just common decency cannot be tallied. Heck, some guys NEVER figure this out. Thankfully, the “manosphere” and various web sites are slowly coming around to the rescue to provide some kind of guidance or wisdom to young boys and men today so they do not have to suffer the inanity we did and can live better lives. But there is a problem.
It’s getting worse.
And I can only imagine the hell the poor boys of this upcoming generation are going to suffer when their natural male hormones kick in and they’re told;
“There’s something wrong with you, not society.”
“Girls mature faster than boys.”
“Oh, girls your age love flowers and poetry and being treated nice.”
“You’re just not going to the right places to meet girls.”
“Open doors for girls.”
“Girls like sensitive caring men.”
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