In 2016-2019, I represented at least a dozen dads who won primary or equal custody of their children. I love my Dads.
But the Age of Men passed awhile ago. Most judges in Harris County are female. Soon enough, most lawyers will be female. Women already outnumber men in colleges by about 7 to 3. More women have jobs than do men. Yet, Programmed Media paints a different, dystopian picture: “We MUST! get more of our daughters into STEM!” they drone.
Instead, I say that we need to get more of our sons into jobs that don’t require that they carry shovels, guns and trash.
Men must withstand the very real poison of an angry, unhinged matriarchy. If men don’t demand a place at the table — and fight the Partisan Tripe that imagines ‘glass ceilings‘ and a female majority doesn’t alreadyreceive equal pay for equal work — there won’t be any social hashtag movement to grieve the injustice.
Men don’t whine. Instead, we mollify the shrill, crass majority. We tell each other, Just man up!
We’ll view yet another disingenuous, fawning commercial touting PowerfulWomen! and, ugh, GirlPower! … while our brothers of every color are displaced from opportunity.
But, alas, what about the Dads who don’t seek gainful employment to support their kids? Should anyone care? My sense is, hell yes, we should: the roles of Father and Mother are mystical, not mythical. Each matters. The tie that binds parent and child is not a cliché.
Can you blame any man who acts as if he’s irrelevant? Media, culture and the coarse feminine majority tell him as much throughout his life. It’s standard programming.
He attends preschools and primary schools whose staff and administration is 80% female, where he’s treated like an alien species. As an adolescent, he’s surrounded by media that glorifies remote, fatuous sports and entertainment diversions for grown men and, yet, very positive, meaningful roles for girls and women. He then visits colleges and universities lead by utterly mediocre hominids with sham Ph.D.’s, blathering that he’s toxic.
But it’s the culture that’s toxic. Not really woke, but quite dope(ish), indeed.
Resist the idiocracy: Dads always matter — now, more than ever.