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Thousands of my listeners have already secured their network data. Join them at ExpressVPN.com slash men. Well, for a long time, the media have treated American men as sort of an afterthought. In fact, anybody who spoke to American men writ large was considered bad. My friend Jordan Peterson, for example, he speaks to men all over the world, young men who feel lost, and the media hate him for it. They treat him as though he's a very bad person for speaking to young men. But suddenly the media have realized, wait a second, young men, men generally represent, you know, 50% of the American population, and men are falling behind by every single metric. Men are falling behind women when it comes to college degrees. Men are falling behind women, when it comes to job performance, men are falling behind women when it comes to life satisfaction in some measures. Men are falling

behind women when it comes to, for example, opioid use, overdose deaths. All of these are areas

where men are falling behind. And this has raised the question. What exactly is happening to

American men? Now, that question cannot be answered in a vacuum without

explaining what also happened to American women. Because the Bible has a lot of wisdom embedded in.

One of the pieces of wisdom in the Bible is the beginning of Genesis chapter 2. It talks about

the formation of woman. And what God says is that man should not be alone. He needs a help meet.

The word in Hebrew, the words in Hebrew for help meet are Azar Kinecta, which literally means a helper against him. A helper against him. In other words, men and women are two halves of the same whole. And that's also expressed in that same chapter where it says that a man shall leave his father and mother and he shall join his wife and he shall cleave to her and they shall become one flesh. The basic idea here is that men are incomplete without women,

women are incomplete without men. So when you're explaining the shortcomings of modern American

men, you also have to link that with their roles vis-a-vis women because they do not exist in a vacuum.

People do not exist on Desert Islands and men were created complementarily by either

evolution or God or both, depending on your point of view, in order so that men and women can be two halves of one whole. So if there's something wrong with men writ large, there's also something wrong with women writ large. And you can see that in pieces like this one from the Wall Street Journal today. And the reason that I'm bringing this up is because there's a whole issue in Politico about what's wrong with American men. Every single piece in that issue is written by a woman. Every single piece is written by a woman, which is a weird way to ask what's wrong with American men. The fact is that you should presumably have a diversity of viewpoints about what exactly is happening with American men. That might include, you know, some males, but Politico's beginning to notice. Why? Because men are turning away from the Democratic

Party in droves. And it's not just political. It's happening at the Washington Post. It's happening

at the Wall Street Journal. Many people in the media are suddenly realizing, apparently for

the first time in a while, that when American men fall off the train, that is very bad for America writ

large. Now, traditionally speaking, the role of men was pretty simple. The role of men was,

you protect your family, you defend, your country, your values, your community, your family.

You provide. These were the roles of men. Protect, defend, provide. These were the basic roles. And there are a bunch of

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