While searching profiles recently a guy listed the following book as his current read. I have to admit I was interested and thought I'd share it here (as it seems fitting). I think I may pick it up after I finish my current read. I'll let you know if anything inspiring comes from it.
Manning Up: How the Rise of Women has Turned Men Into Boys
By Kay Hymowitz
"Women complain there are no good men left—that men are immature,
unreliable, and adrift. No wonder. Masculine role models have become
increasingly juvenile and inarticulate: think of stars like Adam Sandler
and Will Ferrell, or the dudes of the popular Judd Apatow movies. There
are no rules for dating and mating. Guys are unsure how to treat a
woman. Most importantly, dating in the pre-adult years is no longer a
means to an end—marriage—as it was in the past. Many young men today
suspect they are no longer essential to family life, and without the old
scripts to follow, they find themselves stuck between adolescence and
“real” adulthood. In Manning Up, Kay Hymowitz sets these
problems in a socioeconomic context: today’s knowledge economy is female
friendly, and many of the highest profile areas of that
economy—communications, design, the arts, and health care—are dominated
by women. Men are increasingly left on the outskirts of this new,
service economy, and take much longer to find a financial foothold. With
no biological clock telling them it’s time to grow up, without the
financial resources to settle down, and with the accepted age of
marriage rising into the late 30s or even 40s, men are holding onto
adolescence at the very time that women are achieving professional
success and looking to find a mate to share it with. A provocative
account of the modern sexual economy, Hymowitz deftly charts a gender
mismatch that threatens the future of the American family and makes no
one happy in the long run."
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