What difficulty's do men face in today society?

Answer 1

I see there are some votes here for the "you can't trust a woman with a pulse" position. But this doesn't help at all.
___Men are morally second class citizens. Crime-definitions lean in a way that makes more male behavior criminal. Boys are brought up without the institutional moral support that girls get. Boys are brought up to think of themselves as wrongly advantaged and intrinsically prone to evil. Boys are brought up in a context that portrays girls as morally superior. Rambunctious, male activity is seen as bad, to the point of banning tag, roughhousing, etc, in emementary school. Girls' emotional bullying was ignored until recently, and even now, has only attracted attention because of the harm it does other girls. But there's no attention to what it does to boys. And girls' emotional and psychic violence is not treated as being in the same ballpark of evil as physical violence. And given that it has been ignored for decades, where is the research into the psychic violence committed by adult women on men? It's still taboo to talk about women being more manipulative than men, but common sense and everyday experience demonstrate that this is a case where society lets doctrine trump empirical evidence.
___Men live 6 years less than women, but the focus of health care is on women. Men are blamed for their shorter life span, but if the tables were turned, it would be called blaming the victim, and there would be all kinds of talk about discrimination. Breast cancer research is funded way more than prostate, despite roughly equal fatality rates, and the women keep marching, patting themselves on the back for their generousity.
___In TV ads, whenever there's a 30 second minidrama involving both sexes, it's the male who turns out to be the bad guy, the buffoon, the mistaken one, or just the silly fool. TV ads are subject to a survival-of-the-fittest winnnowing process in which those that don't connect to the population at large don't last long, and aren't imitated. They are thus a good window on the attitudes of the masses. Given feminism's goals and impacts on the society, it's pretty likely that this blatant sexism is a product of the proliferation of feminism into conventional wisdom.
___In general, boys are brought up devalued, and then blamed for their screw ups as adults. And has anyone taken seriously the increasing numbers of sex offenders, serial killers, etc, and the rise of feminism and its proscriptions for the ways boys ought to be raised?
___We live in a time that's an inside-out version of the Middle Ages. In our time, the definitions of what define "humanity" are biased toward the feminine, so that men are included only in virtue of what they have in common with women not in their difference. Most of what is distinctly masculine is devalued , criminalized, or pathologized, in one form or another. We live in a uterocentric age.
___The saddest part about it is the hypocrisy. The feminists who developed the critique of phallocentrism simply avoided applying it to themselves, and to the conventional wisdom of our time. Is it because to do so would render about 90% of feminism ridiculous? Or did these "radicals" lack the fortitude to weather the cognitive dissonance of thinking a really radical thought?

Answer 2

Men mainly face identity crisis.In the past few decades it was a male dominated society.With women having equal opportunity and independent income and sexual freedom due to contraceptive devices,man as the pillar in family or society is a gone concept.Unmarried mothers are now socially acceptable,resulting in loss of emotional support to men to some extent.The arrangement of living together without formal marriage makes kicking out easier.The development of homosexuality is another problem.Unless men become more proactive and accept a more supportive role,the crisis is likely to deepen in the next decade.The present crisis may result in reduction in birth rate,and an ageing population with so many socio economic problems.

Answer 3

I suppose the same as women, which is unrealistic expectations. Men are expected to be breadwinners as well as to take a back seat for the sake of others. Probably not too much different than woman. I guess being 27, the one thing I've noticed is that I'm expected to only want one thing, and I guess you know what that is, which I think is unfair. I think a lot of men have trouble with that view. Good question but very broad.

Answer 4

I feel nowadays that I can't interact with children because people are so suspicious about men's motives. I have had four kids and six grandkids and I love them all. I find that I have to be on my guard when talking to other children, though, and make sure their parents are around and that I am not being misunderstood. This is, to me, a great difficulty as I naturally want to communicate with kids, but feel I can't.

Answer 5

Answering womens Questions

Answer 6

Lesbians

Answer 7

To have a feeling of equal rights with women. To feel themselves as good as women. Most men actually feel themselves worser as women who are (in average) brighter and kinder than men today.

Answer 8

Finding a school class that has a male teacher.

Finding TV or Newspaper photographers who want to photograph boys looking all elated after passing their A-levels.

Finding a TV sit-com, docu-drama or 'soap' where the men get to say all the witty 'one-line put-downs' and make the women look stupid.

etc.

Answer 9

I've heard that there are many more men than there are women, so I guess having to compete maybe a problem!

Answer 10

Responsibility.
Fidelity
Honesty