I might be totally off base or this discourse has been discoursed already. I can’t help but notice the sheer and almost coordinated effort on social media to highlight things like male loneliness epidemic, general gender war bullshit, mAn Vs wOMaN lately.
These posts, along with the general upwards trend of minority hate, feel like they serve to ignite a sort of male chauvinism in the USA. I can’t help but feel like the whole endgame here is to groom men into the sort of ideology that would justify fighting in a future war (or hell, even just Iran).
Sorry if my writing is sloppy I did not take the time to draft this post and think about it holistically before posting…
Interesting question, thanks for posting. I don’t have much more to add that hasn’t already been said, but what I would add is that I don’t think this is limited to, or maybe not even intentionally focused on, getting men into the military.
I’d say that’s one of the reasons. There’s been a convenient blend of exploitation for, well, basically as long as civilisation, I guess.
Ensuring that trad roles are obeyed by ‘both’ genders is necessary to continue that exploitation.
Men “wimping out” of joining the military or women “Woking out” of having children is just scratching the surface.