The Medicalization Of Maleness

Every once in a while I think, what's going on here generationally? Sure, it's modern life, and the average male child can hardly get through kindergarten without a diagnosis. Then there's puberty, and the pro-estrogen crowd are sure to medicate, if they haven't already created little zombies with ritalin. Needless to say there are addictions too, so if you don't end up with something physically wrong with you due to all the interventions, some jerk will still attempt to convict you of something or other.

It's hardly surprising when they actually begin to act crazy, either. Puberty isn't a good time to be messing with hormones, and that's just what most of the food and medications people stick boys on does. Then there's feminism, and churches. Churches, for the most part, are blatantly incoherent on feminism, primarily because even clergy are swayed by the law of supply and demand. Women seem to make up the greater part of the church going public, so pastors shall avoid treading on any feminist toes.

But men drop out. They go invisible when the society isn't working for them. Some of us isolate, some of us actually get sick, some of us try to find some other place where we'll be better off. Now imagine the generation. At first you think, hey it's only few guys. Then you think about the other guys, the guys you don't see anymore but you hear about every now and then. Then you remember the guy or two who've died. Suddenly you are looking at a great big gaping hole in the generation, and it's scary. You can only feel all comfortable and safe by carefully looking only in one direction- only at a few good examples of "successful" men, men who have been labelled so for various reasons, not all of which necessarily reflect reality- look at what's not there, but should be, and you'll get a sense of vertigo.