Welcome to the show everybody. Thanks for watching. Hope you've had a great morning so far.

So I want to get into something I wrote about yesterday. I

wrote a piece yesterday called the

What was it called? Oh the four things that are destroying boys in our culture

Um, and I want to get more I want to talk about that. I want to bring that conversation over to this forum as well because I think it's so important

Um, especially in a society where we hear so much about we hear about two things quite a bit. Um, we hear number one that boys are privileged that men are privileged. There's this, this

mystical male privilege that we're always told about and that's

You know, we rarely see it manifest into anything

Um, into into anything tangible, but we're told that it's there that men are men are so privileged to be in this culture. And then number two, we're told about the persecution and the oppression of women.

Um, and in the midst of all this while we're having this discussion about male privilege and while we've got feminist complaining about oh they're so they're so persecuted.

Uh, they're persecuted because you know female actresses in Hollywood don't make as much a female actress in a movie made only $5 million while a male actor on the same movie made 15 million. Oh my gosh

While we're talking about that kind of persecution or or oh my goodness you don't want to pay for my birth control. Are you kidding me? I'm a press pay for my birth control. So while we're having that conversation

Boys and concentrating specifically here on on boys on young men. Um, they are dying. I mean literally dying in many cases. Um, but also inside guy men are are dying inside. There's this emptiness. This, um, this confusion. This kind of hollowness.

That we are fostering in boys. And so I want to discuss that and talk about the things that lead to that. You know the great, the great the challenges that boys face in our culture or another way of putting it the disadvantages.

There are some unique disadvantages that men particularly young boys suffer in our culture that women either do not suffer at all or they don't suffer at all to the same degree.

So the first thing. Um, and I talked about this in the video I did yesterday as well, but, um, I want to focus on it because I think this is one aspect of the plight of men that isn't focused on nearly enough. But our culture.

Just relentlessly praise upon a boy's weaknesses. We now I just imagine the world that a 13 year old boy inhabits. Okay. Just put your, if you can, just put yourself into the into the world to the mindset. Put yourself into the shoes of a of a 13 year old boy of the average 13 year old boy.

So if you're this boy, that means that, you know, you've long since been exposed to hardcore pornography. You probably watch it regularly. The average age of first exposure to pornography is, I think 10 or 11.

By according to most studies, and I think that that's, I think that's a pretty conservative estimate. I think for many kids, it's much, much younger than that. But let's say 10 or 11. So he's long since been exposed to hardcore pornography. I watch as it regularly probably doesn't really understand what it is or why he's even finds it appealing. But he watches it.

And then puberty hits at right around 13 and his hormones are going crazy. They're going haywire inside his head. His brain is hard wiring itself to focus obsessively on sex. Now that isn't his fault. He didn't even choose this. This is just how he is. This is what this is the biological imperative. There's, there's, there was a study done.

A little while ago that said that men, I forget how it was phrased exactly. But basically men focus more on sex than they do on food. So if a man had to choose between food or sexy would take sex.

Now I think some of that stuff is kind of sensational. I think, you know, if a guy starving to death in the desert and he has to choose between the two things, he's probably going to take the food. I would think. But even if that's a little sensational, we know the reality is that especially for boys when they're going through puberty, there is this intense preoccupation with sex that just kind of hits them.

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