Why Men Fail

This article talks about the male species' inability to adapt to the ever-changing world. It refers to men as "immigrants who have physically moved to another country, but have kept their minds in the old one." I can't help but agree with what this comparison is suggesting, overall, men still think they can work in the same way as they did 20 years ago, they will continue to fail. In the present day society, being a hardworking, honest day laborer just doesn't cut it anymore; we are living in the technology age. Therefore, school is definitely more important, and it truly is now more about brain than brawn. Perhaps, this is the reason men are having so much trouble adjusting occupationally. We have gone from a nation that relies on the rough edged workers whose job was to physically build and improve to a nation that relies on engineers behind the machines that are designed to build and improve. Hanna Rosin even claims in her book that the article is about, that sexual roles are being flip flopped. While college has always been seen a man's door to go have one night stands or brief engagements for simply his own enjoyment and reputation, Rosin claims that this lack of relationship expectations allows women to focus more on their schoolwork. If this is true, every aspect of man's life has changed, and we need to adjust. The end of the articles states that men will have to be more like Odysseus, and less like Achilles; we need stop forcing our will on the world, and start adjusting to it.