How Did Men Get So Broken?

There are 7-10 reasons, and yes, this is a relevant issue we need to consider.

I’ve written about this a lot, and there’s an entire cottage industry on YouTube and TikTok about the same thing, so if you want to find a comprehensive list of reasons, you can do it pretty easily, or with a little bit of light doom-scrolling kink. I will give you the higher levels if I can.

They don’t feel as if they have much purpose or respect

This is the common one you hear from a lot of guys: whether work, home, hobbies, friends, church, etc… they’re not entirely sure what they’re supposed to do or if anyone cares they’re doing it. You can view some of this as how we recontextualized masculinity after #MeToo, without ever putting a specific definition on the type of masculinity we wanted — just the kind we didn’t want. You can view it as women, children, and “job creators” viewing men as sperm donors, task monkeys, and ATMs. You can also view this as a lack of EQ and self-awareness by men, to not get up and pursue that purpose, respect, or both. But this is the catch-all category for most of the rest.

The Friendship Problem