If a modern, successful woman wishes to know why men are such failures these days ("Where Have the Good Men Gone?," Review, Feb. 19), perhaps she should look in the mirror.
I'm a white male, heterosexual, Christian conservative Republican, Vietnam veteran, married 38 years with four kids. When I was young, we were supposed to get busy and stay busy, get part-time jobs, finish high school and, if qualified, go on to college and beyond. We were taught that it was our responsibility to take care of our families, which meant a wife and kids. All that began to change in the 1960s when women became "liberated" and were given equal access to what had been a man's domain. Like it or not, there are only so many jobs to go around. Given quotas, young men in the workplace no longer had an even playing field.
There are many other factors contributing to young men being overgrown post-pubescent losers: a lifetime of leftist, feminist indoctrination in the schools, a cheapening of the proper meaning of the male-female relationship and the suspension of the draft.
Miss Kay S. Hymowitz (I hate that phony term "Ms.") asks nothing of women, so let me do the job for her: When are women going to accept their God-given roles of being wives and mothers? Men and women are different; let's keep it that way. Feminists may not like my prescription, but then again, they don't like men from the get-go.
Andrew J. MacDonald, Fanwood, N.J.
Many of my single female friends—with M.D.s, Ph.D.s, or both—are highly intelligent, stylish and make double or triple the income of men they date. Picking up the check (and their dates because they don't have cars) gets old. To add insult to injury, the "pre-adult" man can be bestubbled and clutching a bottle of India pale ale, but Maxim culture dictates that the gal must be buffed, shined and "ellipticaled" to the hilt.
More troubling than the evolving nature of men's social roles is the nearly impossible standard expected of young women: a graduate degree or two, a dress size of 2, and two double-Ds. You're going to need more than one beer to deal with that.
Monica Bhargava, M.D., San Francisco
The real reason "pre-adulthood men" (a kid-glove euphemism for "slacker") exist at all: The market allows it. If women would simply say "no" and raise their own value, men would change their behavior in order to afford these suddenly more dear necessities. Women need to set standards and price floors below which they will not transact.
Patrick Meehan, Brandenton, Fla.
Via WSJ: Way to a Man's Heart May Not Be Through an Essay
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