milktree: (Brain science)
milktree ([personal profile] milktree) wrote2025-05-03 12:13 pm

Why men don't go to college anymore...

This is a fascinating article:

https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-college

I believe it, and it makes sense (given the inside-out-bonkers country we're in now) but it felt like reading about some other place because it didn't match my experience/memory at all.

tl;dr: men aren't going to college because fragile masculinity.


When I was looking at colleges in high school, the M:F ratio was absolutely a consideration, but for very different reasons: More women than men meant it was more likely that you (I) could find someone I liked who liked me back and there could be smooching.

I didn't finish college because I was not a great student, not because I didn't want to be there.
rmd: (morale)

[personal profile] rmd 2025-05-03 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw that article. Definitely makes sense but also wtf, dudes?

[personal profile] i_leonardo 2025-05-04 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
when i started reading the article i had all kinds of rationalizations lined up to explain the phenomenon - stuff like social isolation, etc. - but the author makes a compelling and depressing case.