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Falling behind and failing because, well, look at their violent, greedy, and abusive role models🤷🏻‍♀️

& nothing a/b Musk & Andrew Tate telling them they too can get rich by raping hating women & investing in bitcoin... jesus when did America become so fucking stupid! I give up... let it fucking burn... NYT sucks... hell everybody just sucks! These techbros are evil shits & nobody is stopping them!

Is this an issue? It seems more like evolution is taking place as our culture selects higher performers. Which are usually Women...

What happened to picking yourself up by your bootstraps? All that stupid Ligma Male bullshit and they still whining? Must be hard dealing with so much self inflicted first world problems!

They've been coddled for too long. Sitting in mama's basement playing games instead of going out and getting a job, or 2 if that's what it takes. Thinking they're going to be Justin Bieber with a mansion, a hot wife and jeans hanging off their asses...F*ing grow up.

There's no burden quite like being a man in America....

Women are taking over. Look at the local news and most reporters and anchors are women. Most of today's philosophers are women. Go to a hospital and most of the doctors and nurses and other staff are women. Same with dentists. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I like women dentists.

Wow. The rates among the 75+ is higher than this, but this is a 10-5 years of age focus. Data from here- wonder.cdc.gov/mcd.html Some more info: www.cdc.gov/suicide/fact...

May 2006. The (article's) title is misleading. One group of studies found that poor and working-class boys lag behind girls in reading when they get to middle school, boys in the wealthiest schools do not fall behind, either in middle school or in high school.

Been saying this for years.

They should listen to the song Boys to Men by New Edition

Sweet jebus they were irony quotes.

Use your bootstraps

Young females historically performed less well than their male counterparts simply due to unequal opportunity for learning. The males haven’t dropped back - they were never great.

That’s new ??

Hard work and discipline pay off.

This is not a problem just in the USA but also elsewhere. It is discussed recently in the Nordics. Alas, nobody seems to have a solution as of yet.

*Young men and boys who were never expected to work as hard as their sisters and female peers, *gasps*, fell behind.* Oh noooo…. Maybe instead of enabling young men and boys shitty behaviors and toxic masculinity, you teach them the same work ethic and responsibilities as young women.

Because they are finally getting thrown back at them what girls and women have been dealing with for centuries, and were told to just deal with it.

I think it has a lot to do with the bs their dads spew.

Stop being told by the bros that you’re a victim.You are males with privilege that transcend time.Women fought and fight everyday for their achievements that were part of the DEI.Trump’s stripping away women’s rights including control over our bodies.So get up off your asses & do something useful.

Pobrecitos. Clear your heads. Stop listening to Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate and their ilk.

Deny harder

Been hearing this for decades.

Something something when you listen to Joe Rogen, idolize dictators like trump, see nazi morons like Elon as goals, treat women and minorities as objects and others... it makes it really hard to get an education.

We've turned men into masculine women. Those boys who exist outside popular culture are doing just fine.

You are correct.

Yes! Great role model right? 😣

You are 100% correct.

lmao, this whole comment section is precisely why orange turd is the president you fuckers deserve. tehehe, let us all laugh at the country that never learns anything

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Maybe they should smile more?

Maybe they should work harder. 🤷🏼‍♀️

What happens when watching too much Fox News.

Perhaps because success is no longer their birthright? Women have spent decades working their asses off to get a seat at the table.

CANCEL YOUR NYT SUBSCRIPTIONS 🗞

Also, girls are more mature than boys of the same age typically. So, that’s got to be tough to compare the two. Boys are going to be boys! 😂 They grow up eventually.

No, I hated school passionately because while I like learning, I don't like being forced to memorize things. Also I went to Detroit Public School so half the teachers were literal crackheads.

Misandrist much?

Something about a bootstrap????

Rags to riches myths to justify abuse of the working class. ALL OR NOTHING unacceptable ultimatums everywhere! And the army is no longer a fun, gay alternative with Nazi Republican Mafia turning USA terrorist.

Disappointed, but not surprised, by the number of awful, prejudiced comments from people, especially those who obviously did not read the article. But its points are clearly proven by them.

Men have always had the advantage and now when women are catching up they can't take it. My message to young men is stop blaming others, seek help, respect women in everything, and find a way to positively contribute to society. Real men don't commit crimes, bully people, and blame others.

There's also a correlation between young men being indoctrinated into MAGA. But I doubt you'll print that. And their female peers are surging ahead by leaving these cultists in the rear view mirror. And they wonder why they can't get laid.

Yes.

Toxic masculinity hurts men *as much as* women, yet this issue is being framed as women achieving too much. Men lack healthy support networks because they’re taught it’s shameful to need them. Women have better support networks because they’ve needed them to achieve basic rights and often safety.

Do tramp like figures instill any confidence??? That’s why boys are struggling

Is this a new weekly feature NYT? Perhaps you should name it something. What though? "Poor Men, Again" sounds a little desperate. How about "The Needs of Men Are the Greatest Needs of All" something like that? "Men Make More Money and Hold All the Power but--is that Enough???"

"It's men who fucked this up." What a dichotomous view of humanity where the blame for everything is placed on one group. It reminds me of other dichotomous ideologies. For them, another group is to blame for everything. For them, it's "foreigners who fucked this up." Same limited way of thinking.

... Or they could try some fucking humility, realize what a disaster their cockwagging plundering hegemony has been for the species and for the planet, and work to heal not only themselves but the world by leading with their minds and hearts instead of their penises. They're not gonna do this.

Men could resist sharing the world with everyone else by fighting current shifts in power dynamics. They could use their power (which they essentially have all of right now, and have for 5000 years) to squash those shifts. This seems to be the path they've chosen, and they will fail ...

We have known this for more than ten years now from research from social scientists. All this time, nothing has happened on purpose and this could be neatly kept off the political agenda. That is becoming increasingly difficult. Maybe one day we will work on equal gender opportunities.

Ooh and show up they did

Just maybe the boys & young men are beginning to realize that the special privileges invoked by their gender for all these many eons are over. It's nowhere near a level playing field & yet their advantages are ending. Parents need to educate their sons & daughters about what gender & equality are.

WHERE ARE THEIR FATHERS?! Brothers?! Uncles?! Coaches?! Grown men need to step the hell up and help boys navigate (without being creepy). Get. Off. Your. Phone. And teach your kid how to make friends, be curious, set goals, achieve small things, grow their self esteem. Take responsibility!

And one more thing: education cuts. Washington is hoping for some really stupid people to vote, people too ignorant to understand the Constitution. The question is: why are we not doing anything to stop it??????

When impressionable minds are fed the spewing bile of men like Andrew Tate, they get confused when they try that crap in the real world. Modern girls are on to them, and are distancing themselves smartly. They are focusing on making good lives for themselves and more power to them!

“Behind”? “Ahead”? I don’t trust NYT reporting.

We are seeing the massive negative results of ignoring boys needs while uplifting so many deserving groups. The results will be quite scary.

They are stupid. Boys are fucking stupid.

Right wing media Essentially taking all hope away and replacing it with anger.

And that makes them open to manipulation and brainwashing. Stop This!

Really?

But to that point, girls will read about ANY hero - girl, boy, animal, team. Boys seem to be the ones limited by gender "rules." The problem isn't women/feminism. The problem is men trying to make everyone, including themselves, fit in tiny boxes. (Male nurses STILL get side-eyed, for example.)

Harry Potter is a boy hero, but the books present more of a team feel?

Well, Huck Finn. Hardy Boys. Kids don't read classics as much either. My boys like ensemble casts of heroes (and non-human like dragons and cats. If you want straight up boy heroes, then, yeah, not so common. The main reason boys are "falling behind" is because they had less competition before.

Ever hear of Gordon Korman?

I feel like the fact that so many parents don't restrict 'game" time may have something to do with this. I'm a gamer but I game when the stuff I need to do is done

Wow reading the responses to this post is bleak. The same people calling men losers and babies also turn around and clutch their pearls and act shocked at how anyone could fall into the far right pipeline. I thought guys were making it up when they said the left hate them till I saw this :/

I’m just spitballing here…maybe the problem is the one size fits all education system and instead of taking money away from public education we should be increasing funding to create systems that can support various learning paths/strengths/abilities. Stop pitting one against the other.

but recognizing there are still differences in power, conditions, legal status, self-determination is a step toward finding ways for all to succeed. You can't ignore gender discrimination and just hope it goes away anymore than you could ignore racial discrimination and poof jim crow was gone.

we need to understand and challenge the reasons for difference. I do definitely care that my daughter has less rights over her body than her boyfriend does. I'm not sure why I should move beyond caring about that difference until that difference no longer exists.

Big whoopydoo

i blame podcasts

But if we want to talk literature, men have been talking shit on women in literature for thousands of years. You all literally made women the downfall of man and the reason hm and go to hell in the BIBLE. So… bitching about couch potatoes? … Not really equivalent.

I said “years” not hundreds of years. Television and movies haven’t existed that long.

It’s not that there’s no empathy for boys - as in, children. It’s a call for adult males to step up & model some decency, for parents to proactively raise their boys for the world they actually live in.

So? Men are dumb and lazy, how is that women's fault?

There's only one way to address this issue: Abolish DEIA.

We always have. There’s a reason why women are disregarded and disrespected. Some women don’t realize, we have the power. I’m just going to leave that there.

They were raised by women. Should’ve started respecting us at birth instead of trying to emulate their obviously inferior fathers.

And what is the manosphere doing to help with this problem?

Everybody is doing worse than the past generation. Boys aren't that special actually. If mommies would stop telling them they were and kicked their asses more ....maybe they'd be happier Also be civilized and not a douche, get off the games and be a good person will help

It seems to me society isn't favoring women, it's starting to provide them more parity. No more leg ups guys.

Sounds like men need to lean in and build a better society for their sons! The toxic things being told to them about what it is to be a man can best be undone by men.

I feel like everywhere I go, it is dominated by female employees. Most offices are described to me as being female dominant... Where are the men actually? In their basement's playing video games?

I guess this is why men are currently trying to keep women down and take us back from decades of progress. Maybe they all could just step up instead of trying to drag others down with them.

I've looked at both sides & find it interesting to see who conducted the study & who paid for it. Just a thought.

Why do you think fewer men go into the teaching profession, despite the high salaries and vast public admiration for elementary, middle school, and high school teachers?

I used to have newly arrived student teachers keep a tally on who I called on & interacted with more so I could keep it even. I started making sure that I called on everyone, & & assigning group leadership to rotating through my class list. You know the drill. Don't line up students by gender, etc.

Ok…? As if… it’s our fault? Look to their parents, communities - wtf?

Is their struggle only measured in comparison to women thriving? Because that’s a 0 sum game. There could be other reasons for women succeeding. Maybe we have more to prove and more fear right now and it’s not the natural balance. I wish there was a way to talk about men in a vacuum.