That is an excellent article. Thank you for sharing it. I will be thinking of it for months.
My personal background is England and South Africa, whereas you are talking largely N America. The only difference between your north and my south I can think of is that from my persoective it is the women who matter. The precarious vantage of the young woman who ‘cannot have this conversation with a 40 year old man’ took me by surprise. The women I know are not at all that vulnerable; they tolerate men and can do as they are stronger - psychologically and emotionally. AND yet they know they need men.
Both parties are at peace. Sometimes uneasily.
What might this mean for gender relations in N America?
Thank you, Ian. I suppose my essay is meant to raise the very question you ask at the end. I'm not at all sure what this means for gender relations in North America, but if women continue to outpace men in earning college degrees, I don't think it bodes well at all for harmony or equality.
Dear Joshua
That is an excellent article. Thank you for sharing it. I will be thinking of it for months.
My personal background is England and South Africa, whereas you are talking largely N America. The only difference between your north and my south I can think of is that from my persoective it is the women who matter. The precarious vantage of the young woman who ‘cannot have this conversation with a 40 year old man’ took me by surprise. The women I know are not at all that vulnerable; they tolerate men and can do as they are stronger - psychologically and emotionally. AND yet they know they need men.
Both parties are at peace. Sometimes uneasily.
What might this mean for gender relations in N America?
Ian Widdop
Thank you, Ian. I suppose my essay is meant to raise the very question you ask at the end. I'm not at all sure what this means for gender relations in North America, but if women continue to outpace men in earning college degrees, I don't think it bodes well at all for harmony or equality.