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I've done a bunch of college tours this year with my daughter. Its kinda shocking to see so many homeless men on the streets, then the universities majority wom
by rr808 2y ago
I've done a bunch of college tours this year with my daughter. Its kinda shocking to see so many homeless men on the streets, then the universities majority women. I'm kinda hoping she'll go to a school that is 50/50. Georgetown was at 62% female, I think Tulane is 64%.
- Izikiel43 2y ago[flagged]
- halfmatthalfcat 2y agoThis includes men. Men don't care about men. Especially the men who say they do, care the least. What they actually care about is just themselves, not "men".
- handwarmers 2y agothis meme is popular but wrong. nice debate trick tho.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoThis isn't a meme, it's a well studied phenomenon since "Bowling Alone" in 1995: https://melindawmoyer.substack.com/p/the-epidemic-of-male-loneliness https://melindawmoyer.substack.com/p/the-epidemic-of-male-lo... GP just put it in a cynical sense, but it's true. males connect a lot less than females. They are disportionately affected by factors like the fall of The Third Place or social media ruining face-to-face communication and plannings. Feel free to ask for more sources, I've been readin a LOT about this topic in the last year.
- halfmatthalfcat 2y agoFeel free to elaborate on how it's wrong.
- bdangubic 2y agotrump cares about this as much as I care about synchronized swimming
- acdha 2y agoThat’d need a lot more substance to generate a productive debate, starting with how to reconcile “no one cares” with decades of people being endlessly very concerned about it. I’d also expect some comparison of their policies if you’re saying that’s a big reason why he won.
- gruez 2y ago>Its kinda shocking to see so many homeless men on the streets, then the universities majority women This is a strange juxtaposition. Are the women in universities making men homeless? Why are the two sides contrasted with each other when there's seemingly barely any relation between the two? How is this any different than something like "it's kinda shocking to see so many single moms barely making ends meet, then silicon valley filled with tech bro programmers"?
- johnnyanmac 2y ago> How is this any different than something like "it's kinda shocking to see so many single moms, then silicon valley filled with tech bro programmers"? Realism, to be frank. Even a single mom has better odds statistically to find a partner than 90% of males. That's why there's not anywhere near as many homeless males than females. Women still have a cultural option to retreat to the role of a housepartner. Very few men have that option.
- acdha 2y agoLong term homelessness comes down to mental health, substance abuse, or both – not what many men are looking for in a domestic partner.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoSure. I'm just explaining why more men are homeless than women: >Sixty-seven percent of all people experiencing homelessness within the 2018 Point-in-Time (PiT) Count are individuals. There are 260,284 men compared to 106,119 women. Thus, men are the majority of individuals experiencing homelessness (70 percent) followed by women (29 percent). https://endhomelessness.org/demographic-data-project-gender-and-individual-homelessness/ https://endhomelessness.org/demographic-data-project-gender-... From what I see, there is no state that skews so far that women are even close to a majority. The worst cases still almost have a supermajority of homeless men.
- acdha 2y ago
- choilive 2y agoI don't think theres a coed university that is anywhere close to 50/50 right now.
- addled 2y agoIt's only around 6000 students, but Missouri S&T (a mostly engineering and mining school) is still like 75% male.
- tzs 2y agoThere are a few. Harvard 51/49 F/M, UC Berkeley 52/48, Cornell 51/49, Princeton 47/53, Chicago 47/53.
- AnnikaL 2y agoHighly selective STEM schools are both coed and close to 50/50 for undergrads! * MIT is 49/51 female/male * Harvey Mudd is 50/50 * Caltech is 43/57 (the exception, I guess) * Olin is 52/48 Of course, these schools are not feasible options for most people but it is still a relevant counterexample.
- jerkstate 2y agothis is the way it has always been. men make up the majority of both of the tails on the distribution of outcomes. people look at one tail and say, this is inequitable! but they don't say much about the other tail.
- bufferoverflow 2y agoThis is not the way it has always been. Males dominated colleges and universities until anti-male DEI programs were put in place. And now we see 60-75% female colleges/universities.
- jerkstate 2y agoBut now 40% of the population (in the US) attends college, up from 4% a century ago or 0.4% two centuries ago. College no longer represents the extreme right tail of the population, but essentially the above-average.