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Lately I\u2019ve been reading about a new phenomenon out there in the world of media sociology: the lack of men working manly jobs.\u00a0 If I\u2019m to believe the statistics, a lot of Help Wanted postings are going unfilled.\u00a0 And the reason, these analysts speculate, is that us men are unwilling to do MANual labor.\u00a0 Ya think?<\/p>\n
Down here in the canary-filled mines of the South End, any manjack of us could have told these sociologists the trend is real.\u00a0 But we could also have informed them that the danger is not as dire as they seem to be suggesting.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been work averse for most of our lives without undue harm to the island\u2019s economic well-being, only to our own.\u00a0 Putting economics aside, the psychological and spiritual benefits of, okay let\u2019s call it male malaise, have been substantial. Sure, divorce rates might have spiked but that only means that the women were freed to take on the work us lazy good-for-nothings left open.\u00a0 A small loss for marital happiness.\u00a0 But a big win for women\u2019s liberation.<\/p>\n
Plenty of women in the \u2018hood here chop their own wood, haul their own water, build their own sheds, keep the hearth fires burning \u2026 and still manage to raise the kids and work a 40 hour week.\u00a0 You think they\u2019re unhappy?\u00a0 Ask any of them and they\u2019ll tell you what liberation is all about:\u00a0 not having some deadbeat husband under foot telling them what they ought to do but not do one damn thing himself.\u00a0 You think they\u2019re looking for a replacement, think again.<\/p>\n
What I worry about and the media sociologists ought to too is the next generation, the kids who think work is anything but <\/em>physical labor.\u00a0 They\u2019ve grown up with video games, smartphones, apps, laptops, computers, digital toys, just about anything that glues them to their chairs.\u00a0 Work?\u00a0 It certainly doesn\u2019t entail sweat or brawn.\u00a0 Those days are history, my friend, relegated to the Cro-Magnon period, the one prior to Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Android Work Force.\u00a0 Male malaise?\u00a0 Why do you think we need immigrants?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lately I\u2019ve been reading about a new phenomenon out there in the world of media sociology: the lack of men working manly jobs.\u00a0 If I\u2019m to believe the statistics, a lot of Help Wanted postings are going unfilled.\u00a0 And the reason, these analysts speculate, is that us men are unwilling to do MANual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5197,5196,5195],"class_list":["post-16134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings","tag-south-end-female-labor-force","tag-take-this-job-and-shovel-it","tag-why-men-wont-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16135,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16134\/revisions\/16135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}