Diversity, Kindness, and Inclusion Are Making Men Depressed
The struggle of gender identity in the 21st century.
The values of the nursery and the kindergarten have now been elevated to the paramount considerations and the old traditional and traditionally masculine values of truth-seeking, of argumentation, of reason, evidence, and objectivity have been downgraded.
Amy Wax
Most of the articles written about the roots of contemporary male depression missed the point.
Economic hardship, sexlessness, celibate, or meaninglessness are not causes but consequences of a growing phenomenon rarely addressed for its controversial character.
Yet to solve it, we must discuss it.
We propose that the cause of young men’s unwellness isn’t different from the cause of young women’s and that both can be found in the revolution of the social order that came about throughout the second half of the 20th century.
The sexual and progressist revolutions of May 1968 in France and 1969 in America led to a series of profound philosophical and social changes, from the deconstruction of the traditional family to the end of communities and social obligations, to social, economic, and legal independence of women and their accession to traditionally-male environments.
