While I think "A Clockwork Orange" is terrible, the "Droogs" in it do depict a young male demo, of semi-employed & directionless (often fatherless) guys looking for trouble. I cannot help thinking the economy & esp the pandemic/lockdowns make an already bad situation worse here
One of many big problems with journalism living on social media is it will inevitably skew media interests towards 'people like us'/feminine stories - whereas the past year has seen enormous amounts of wanton public violence by mainly young guys who have little else better to do
If you are a guy esp if you had parents & in a profession/trade etc & some younger guy comes to you for advice/guidance, give them help. It could be you are the older brother they never had. Based on experience of last decade, so many young guys have no one they can ask for help
This thread was inspired by reading the joke tweets about men & "instead of going to therapy", which were on occasion funny, but reminded me of the sheer number of younger guys who never had the guidance they should have had & who often make (bad) choices in their younger years.
Am increasingly open to arguments for reintroducing national service as the one thing the military does well is give youth structure, hierarchy, and people who are, literally, obligated to care about them & their progress. It is not always perfect (at all) but it does a good job.
Anyway, I think of this often, as a guy, and I think all of us who are men should accept that we are our brother's keeper, esp our younger brother, and that many criticisms directed their way are actually indictments of bad fathers & uninterested older guys who should be mentors.
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