Poor Joe. The answer is sitting right in front of him, but he’s too politically correct to see it. The only thing that has ever kept men working at the macro level (please, spare me the “not necessarily” rebuttals) is the sense that a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Now, thanks to feminism, there is nothing a “man’s gotta do.” Adult males are simply biological units with no particular duties, no gender-driven responsibilities. Humanity has evolved past that. The idea that a man has to work is patriarchal bullshit, a feature of the dreaded “toxic masculinity” that has been squeezed out of men’s testicles by the vise of equality.

The sexes were once anode and cathode, and we all said “vive la difference.” But now la difference est morte, and the battery has no juice. We would call it an “unintended consequence” of egalitarian feminism, but we haven’t even tumbled yet to the fact that it is a consequence. We will, though, and when we do, apologists will hide behind “unintended” as if it meant “unforeseeable,” which it most certainly does not. The two-earner family is obviously a terrible national business model. Anyone with half a brain could see that someday we would have boys who did not learn through observing their parents that men work for money and women work at making money worth having.

So let’s not blame the oppressive corporate culture, ironically once referred to as “the man.” Men are no longer men because women no longer demand that men be men. Modern feminists, like all modern liberals, are careless about what they wish for. They are getting the men they said they wanted, men unencumbered by “manliness.” And somehow, the bastards just don’t seem all that interested in work. Go figure.