6/9/2023 0 Comments Men on Strike by Helen Smith![]() ![]() Helen Smith, PhD, is a psychologist specializing in forensic issues and men's issues in Knoxville, Tennessee. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them? As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren't dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this "man-child" phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. ![]() ![]() Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going "on strike." They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. ![]()
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