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Scott Galloway on the Male Crisis No One Wants to Talk About
Scott Galloway lays out a crisis he says our politics refuses to name: young men are falling behind, and neither side of the political spectrum is offering them a workable path forward.
He opens with a striking reframe:
"Men are really struggling. We don't have a homeless problem, we have a male homeless problem. We have an opioid problem, but we really have a male opioid problem."
Three out of four homeless people are men. Three out of four addicts are men. And as he puts it:
"If you had four out of five people killing themselves they were in any one special interest group, we would do something about it."
Galloway argues part of why this goes unaddressed is a lack of empathy rooted in historical context. What he calls "the 2000-year head start we've had on women." He illustrates the asymmetry with a walk through his own workplace:
"If you walk down the halls of NYU you're going to see all these support groups for women. Black women in consulting, golden seeds, women in venture capital. There were no support groups for men."
From there, he turns to the political landscape, and this is where his critique cuts both ways. He doesn't think either side is serving men well:
"I don't think men have a place in our political world. I think the far right is kind of telling men to be, quite frankly, a little bit coarse and cruel. It's toughness and strength gone a little bit overboard. But on the far left, their definition of masculinity and their advice to men is to be more like a woman. That doesn't work either."
He then points out a telling asymmetry in how we even talk about the issue:
"Have you ever heard the term 'toxic femininity'? People don't use that term. But 'toxic masculinity' it's almost like it's become one word."
His prescription is simple, but pointed:
"We need to get out of identity politics and focus on economics."
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