USA Today maps out the “rough road to manhood.”
Sharon Jayson writes (excerpt):
“Guys know they’re supposed to treat women as equals,” says Andrew Smiler . . . . “But we haven’t changed masculinity and we haven’t taught boys and men how to deal with these women.”
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In his 2007 book Boys Adrift, family physician Leonard Sax of Malvern, Pa., suggests that many young men are becoming slackers, in part because of too many hours of video games and a dearth of role models that undermine male motivation.
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In their early 20s, “around relationships and around careers, women seem more focused and task-oriented and have a better-defined life plan than the men do,” [Michael] Kimmel says. He worries that “that leads men to look more irresponsible or slackerly.”