Marginalium

The real reason male college enrollment is dropping? Author makes a convincing case for ‘male flight’—too many women in a course will make them change course or institution. The corollary is that, with increasing feminisation, college itself becomes less valuable. I’m sure she overstates the case, and the alternative reasons she argues against plays a role. But I’m reminded again of Junger’s thesis that men keep being ‘forced out’ of traditional ways to become men. This article talks a little about how our socialisation of boys contributes to this fearful response. The crisis of masculinity or the young male syndrome seems largely like a failure of us to help them find new ways of being men?