Why doesn’t college grad “Frances Ha” have a credit card? I thought they gave those out like candy to students? Did she wreck her rating already?
The “next generation” will be in bondage because we aren’t raising men, but politically corrected and browbeaten males trained to act like women.
both men and women with better educations are leaving behind men who traditionally were trained for industrial vocations.
Sound like men need to get off their asses and head back to school. Those "traditional" industrial male jobs aren't coming back.
An interesting article, it brings out some stuff we here on FR have discussed over the years. And I agree with most of it in relation to Education and the changing landscape of available work here in the U.S.
But I am perplexed that she has ignored the Elephant in the room. How are the men that should be the young fathers being treated by the women in their lives and the social system they grew up in? How many of them are the result of broken families? How many of them have seen first hand how their fathers were treated by the courts and by their own mothers. Was it good treatment or was it bad? How many of them have seen through the subtle bias of how fatherhood is treated on TV. The smart supremely intelligent and capable woman and the bumbling sub-par father whose pre-teen children are far smarter than he ever will be.
Does he think of how he was as a pre-teen, was he as smart as those actors on TV? Does he wonder how he will be regarded and treated once he becomes an adult and a father? Or does he decide that being a adolescsent is far better and living in Mom’s basement and interacting with the rest of the world by a computer is far preferable to the reality awaiting him outside the doors of her house.
And when the day inevitably comes for the women who brought about the ‘fairness and equality’ of the men in their lives wonder where did the men go. All they need to do is go look in the basement.
The mental and moral islands that are modern men and women; their pronounced attachment to the seeming stability offered by technology and programmimg and the drift away from their selves as the embodiment of their souls has made them less able to peer into their subjective experiences and build satisfying outward purpose. Disinherited of purpose but processing information urgently, nothing is cherished or preserved. Instead, the profound truths are cast off - discarded for ultra-sensory informational input, partaking of nothing - shunned light, shunned truth. They are the property of information masters only because they allow themselves to be so devoid of reason. This is the Winter of our species. That which isn’t building is resting - or gestating, possibly. There’s at least the hope that we will locate again our authentic humanness, not accept a future where all our affinities and aversions are predetermined for us via inaccurate and unreliable carriers, by knowing life only from staring into the bottom of a polished pan of information.
I was fortunate to have myself been born into a cohort of the baby boom in 1960 into a large family and to have suffered the old school of hard knocks, boom dot bust careers and a stable marriage undertaken only after I reached my own “post-adolescent” phase. If I were a “Dad Whisperer” I’d say to modern males to get that Engineering degree or be a great mechanic, not much different today than when I was young.
Rather, they should look at the support gap of psychological and economic accountability for their challenged sisters who have no men around to take paternal responsibility for their children.
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I have some psychological support for them:
Show some self respect and stop having babies unless you are married to a man who can support you and them.