How Our Messed-Up Dating Culture Leads to Loneliness, Anger and Donald Trump

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-30 21:27:54 | Updated at 2024-12-01 00:44:36 3 hours ago

How Our Messed-Up Dating Culture Leads to Loneliness, Anger and Donald Trump
The New York Times ^ | Nov 30, 2024 12:00 PM | Sarah Bernstein

Posted on 11/30/2024 1:22:00 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Joe Rogan. Elon Musk. Representatives of bro culture are on the ascent, bringing with them an army of disaffected young men. But where did they come from? Many argue that a generation of men are resentful because they have fallen behind women in work and school. I believe this shift would not have been so destabilizing were it not for the fact that our society still has one glass-slippered foot in the world of Cinderella.

Hundreds of years after the Brothers Grimm published their version of that classic rags-to-riches story, our cultural narratives still reflect the idea that a woman’s status can be elevated by marrying a more successful man — and a man’s diminished by pairing with a more successful woman. Now that women are pulling ahead, the fairy tale has become increasingly unattainable. This development is causing both men and women to backslide to old gender stereotypes and creating a hostile division between them that provides fuel for the exploding manosphere. With so much turmoil in our collective love lives, it’s little wonder Americans are experiencing surging loneliness, declining birthrates and — as evidenced by Donald Trump’s popularity with young men — a cascade of resentment that threatens to reshape our democracy.

When we think of Prince Charming, most of us probably picture a Disney figure with golden epaulets and great hair. In the Brothers Grimm version of “Cinderella,” he is called simply “the prince,” and neither his looks nor his personality receive even a passing mention. In fact, we learn nothing about him except for the only thing that matters: He has the resources to give Cinderella a far better life than the one she is currently living. Throughout much of Western literature, this...

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Thank you very much and God bless you.

For fifty years the only people it was legal to discriminate against were straight, white males and discrimination against them was required by law.

Those chickens have come home to roost, and the hens are outraged at the nerve of those straight, white males!

To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Those chickens have come home to roost”

Those who ruled the Karenocracy have gotten off very easily.

In less modern times men would not have been so kind.

2 posted on 11/30/2024 1:24:12 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sounds like a childless cat lady

3 posted on 11/30/2024 1:25:53 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)

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