Diana on the fate of boys - 30 November 2025 -

Question: Is anyone observing the attempts to boost forlorn, guilt ridden, victim claiming white male self-esteem back to "manhood" levels? Manhood missionaries include Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, and Nalin Haley.

Formerly Boy Scouts of America (BSA) forged a path for young men to aspire to the Herbert Hoover ideal. BSA was wrapped in a cloud of aspirational optimism, good manners and Christian ethics. These new guys convey a distasteful "take back what's yours" anger and resentment.

SDT

Answer: Order, Steve. Order. "Boosting" beta-males from their "forlorn, guilt ridden, victim" state neglects the causal questions. How did they get that way in the first place? I've witnessed two major threads of social change that turned the worm: 1) prosperity after the Great Depression and WW2 leading to more generous parenting (as in "They'll never have it as tough as I did"); and 2) Women's Lib, which turned its taste of testosterone toward the total destruction of the male ego. In fact, I was a charter subscriber to Ms. Magazine but quickly caught on to their "all or nothing" mentality, i.e., there was no tolerance for historical perspective or rationality. Shakespeare, for example, was evil and needed revision to be "true."

Upshot: You get somewhat less rugged boys as the result of prosperity taking the "rough and tumble" aspects out of boyhood meeting up with somewhat more assertive girls who demand equal professional privileges to pay for the childcare now required, to the detriment of the rising generation. AND SO FORTH, IN PERPETUAL DECLINE!

I once met a happy young couple about to wed, he the offspring of a fairly typical Mormon family, she the daughter of a Manhattan feminist single-mom. The beaming bride was looking forward to having daughters—but eew! to the very idea of a son. Blah! Fortunately, the marriage lasted less than a year.

A third thread becomes obvious to me here: The blatherization of the educational system. The year I was awarded my Ph.D., only 11% went to women. Now it's 56%. I spent hours in the library verifying suspicious passages in student papers so I could teach them the difference. Now, plagiarizing gets you Ivy League presidencies. Also, the students I taught in the late 60s at the U of U were from a different planet than the demanding dimbulbs of 2005 when I retired, who informed me that since they paid my salary, they owned my time and could thus choose the material I should teach them.

Fourth thread—this has more tentacles than I thought. Since the 60s, boys have been targeted to make them more placid in the classroom. Education coerced medicine into developing ADHD and related pharmacological disorders. Every single male in the last 75 years is entitled to diagnosis, treatment, and reparations (?) paid for from the resources of the unholy cabal.

To fix all this? I'm not hopeful. It seems to me that we have a self-destructive booby-trap built into our system, housed in our genius 1st Amendment. Vandalism becomes Free Speech; mobbing freeways is Peaceful Assembly; beheading wayward daughters is Freedom of Religion. Then there's the matter of legislative and judicial IQ. Not to mention voter IQ. We need an Amendment that requires a 70%-minimum on a test of Constitutional Principles for high school graduation, voter registration, naturalization, or other civic engagement. Then specified standards—NO EXCEPTIONS! (they can study up and try again)—for graduation, licensure, enrollment, etc. If the standards are clear, race and culture CANNOT be exceptions for anyone legally within the USA. Every exception is a dumbing-down. If that's a problem for any American students, the states need to figure it out, not the feds. The test should be widely available so that it's constantly reviewed and reinforced. Just juggle the order of items in every iteration (the head cheerleader at Richfield High missed the weekly 5-item TF quiz, so I changed the order of the items on her version; sure enough, she quickly wrote her T's and F's in the order of the original).

On the more "public spectacle" side, hang someone—anyone—to show there are consequences for malfeasance. (Fauci comes to mind.)

Sorry for bringing it up. My head hurts!

Diana