The "good man" has died.
According to The Wall Street Journal, while women are out earning degrees, and working their way up the corporate latter, men are prioritizing buddies over babies, and disrupting the logical order our lives are supposed to follow. Men, the article says, have traded in their former dreams of fatherhood and mortgages for video games, dependency, and friends, living in a permanent state of "pre-adulthood." The poster boy for the modern Neverland man, is Seth Rogan's character from the film Knocked Up( he's the one that saves his bong before his pregnant girlfriend during a fire).
Women are labeled, in this article, as the first sex, as opposed to their "traditional" place as the second. Interesting, considering that in that last I checked women made seventy cents for every dollar a man brought home.
Totally not an expert on masculinity, or the recent debate on how 'we are failing our boys,' but is it possible that men and women, or simply people in general are changing. If there are so many women prioritizing their careers and leading financially independent lives, is it possible that they have different priorities then women in previous generations?
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