♪ ♪ >> Tucker: NOW THE FIRST PART OF A SERIES YOU'LL SEE HER EVERY WEDNESDAY IN THE MONTH OF MARCH, FOCUSING ON MEN IN AMERICA. THE SIGNS ARE EVERYWHERE. IF YOU ARE A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, YOU PROBABLY KNOW A PEER WHO HAS KILLED THEMSELVES IN RECENT YEARS. AT LEAST ONE. IF YOU'RE A PARENT, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED YOUR DAUGHTERS AND FRIENDS SEEM A LITTLE MORE ON THE BALL THAN YOUR SONS. THEY GET BETTER GRADES, THEY SMOKE WITH MUCH LESS TO MARIJUANA, THEY SPEND LESS TIME PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. THEY GO TO MORE PRESTIGIOUS COLLEGES. IF YOU'RE AN EMPLOYER, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT YOUR FEMALE EMPLOYEES SHOW UP ON TIME, THE YOUNG MEN OFTEN DON'T. OF COURSE IF YOU LIVE IN THIS COUNTRY, YOU'VE SEEN A HORRIFYING SERIES OF MASS SHOOTINGS, FAR MORE THAN WE EVER HAVE. WOMEN DIDN'T DO THAT. IN EVERY CASE, THE SHOOTER WAS A MAN. SOMETHING OMINOUS IS HAPPENING TO MEN IN AMERICA. EVERYONE WHO PAYS ATTENTION KNOWS THAT. IT'S ON IS HOW RARELY YOU HEAR ABOUT IT PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED. OUR LEADERS PLEDGED TO CREATE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS. MEN DON'T NEED HELP. THERE THE PATRIARCHY, THEY'RE FINE, MORE THAN FINE. ARE THEY FINE? HERE ARE THE NUMBERS. START WITH THE MOST BASIC, LIFE-AND-DEATH PAIR THE AVERAGE AMERICAN MEN WILL DIE FIVE YEARS BEFORE THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WOMAN. ONE OF THE REASONS FOR THIS IS ADDICTION. MEN ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY AS WOMEN TO BECOME ALCOHOLICS. THERE ALSO TWICE AS LOCALLY TO DIE OF A DRUG O.D. IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, ONE OF THE STATE'S HARDEST HIT BY THE OPIOID CRISIS, 73% OF OVERDOSE DEATHS WERE MEN. THE SADDEST REASON FOR SHORTNESS OF LIFE SPAN IS SUICIDE. 77% OF ALL SUICIDES IN AMERICA ARE COMMITTED BY MEN. THE OVERALL RATE IS INCREASING AT A DRAMATIC PACE BETWEEN 1997 AND 2014, THERE WAS A 43% RISE IN SUICIDE DEATHS AMONG MIDDLE-AGED AMERICAN MEN. THE RATES ARE HIGHEST AMONG AMERICAN INDIAN AND WHITE MEN WHO KILL THEMSELVES AT ABOUT TEN TIMES THE RATE OF HISPANIC AND BLACK WOMEN. YOU OFTEN HEAR ABOUT AMERICA'S INCARCERATION CRISIS. THAT'S ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY A MALE PROBLEM TOO. ABOUT 98% OF INMATES ARE MEN. THESE PROBLEMS ARE COMPLEX, BUT WE KNOW THAT THEY START YOUNG. RELATIVE TO GIRLS, BOYS ARE FAILING IN SCHOOL. MORE GIRLS THAN BOYS GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL CONSIDERABLY MORE GO TO AND GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE. SCHOOLS AT EVERY LEVEL, BOYS ACCOUNT FOR THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF DISCIPLINE CASES PAI MAJORITY OF DISCIPLINE CASES PAE MAJORITY OF DISCIPLINE CASES PAD MAJORITY OF DISCIPLINE CASES PAO MAJORITY OF DISCIPLINE CASES PAE MAJORITY OF DISCIPLINE CASES PAS MAJORITY OF DISCIPLINE CASES PAU MAJORITY OF DISCIPLINE CASES PAY MAJORITY OF DISCIPLINE CASES PAF MAJORITY OF DISCIPLINE CASES PAU MAJORITY OF DISCIPLINE CASES PAD THAT FULLY ONE AND FIVE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH SOME FORM OF HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER, THAT'S COMPARED WITH JUST ONE IN 11 GIRLS. MANY OF THEM WERE MEDICATED FOR IT. THE LONG-TERM HEALTH EFFECTS OF THOSE MEDICATIONS, NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD, BUT THEY DO APPEAR TO INCLUDE DEPRESSION IN LATER LIFE. MEN AND GRADUATE SCHOOL, THERE ARE THE MAJORITY OF DOCTORAL DEGREES PRINT THERE NOW THE MAJORITY OF NEW ENROLLEES AND BOTH LAW AND MEDICAL SCHOOLS. FOR MEN, THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILING IN SCHOOL ARE LONG-TERM AND PROFOUND. BETWEEN 1979 AND 2010, WORKING AGE MEN WITH ONLY HIGH SCHOOL DEGREES SAW THEIR REAL HOURLY WAGES DROP ABOUT 20%. OVER THE SAME. MEH, HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATED WOMEN SAW THEIR WAGES RISE, THE DECLINE OF THE INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY DISPROPORTIONATELY HURT MEN. THERE ARE NOW 7 MILLION WORKING AGE MEN IN AMERICA WHO DON'T WORK. THEY DROPPED OUT OF THE LABOR FORCE. NEARLY HALF OF THEM TAKE PAIN MEDICATION ON ANY GIVEN DAY. THAT'S THE HIGHEST RATE IN THE WORLD BY FAR. FAR FEWER YOUNG MEN GET MARRIED THEN JUST A FEW DECADES AGO AND FEWER STAY MARRIED. ABOUT ONE IN FIVE AMERICAN CHILDREN LIVE NOW ONLY WITH THEIR MOTHERS, THAT'S DOUBLE THE RATE OF 1970. MILLIONS MORE BOYS GROWING UP WITHOUT FATHERS. YOUNG ADULT MEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO LIVE WITHOUT APPARENT THEM THEY ARE WITH A SPOUSE OR PARTNER. THAT'S NOT THE CASE FOR YOUNG WOMEN. SINGLE WOMEN BY THEIR OWN HOMES AND MORE THAN TWICE THE RATE OF SINGLE MEN. MORE WOMEN THAN MEN HAVE DRIVERS LICENSES. WHENEVER GENDER DIFFERENCES COME UP IN PUBLIC DEBATE, WAGE GAP COMES UP. A WOMAN MAKES EVERY $0.70 FOR A DOLLAR A MAN EARNS. THAT'S A STATISTIC YOU'LL HEAR A LOT. PRESIDENTS HAVE REPEATED IT, MANY CANDIDATES. IT'S EVERYWHERE. THAT NUMBER COMPARES ALL AMERICAN MEN TO ALL AMERICAN WOMEN ACROSS ALL PROFESSIONS. NO SOCIAL SCIENTISTS WOULD CONSIDER THAT A VALID OR MEANINGFUL MEASURE. THE NUMBER DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING, IT'S INTENTIONALLY MISLEADING. AS A TALKING POINT. ONCE YOU COMPARE MEN AND WOMEN WITH A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE WORKING THE SAME HOURS AND SIMILAR JOBS FOR THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME, THAT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN MEASURE IT. THAT GAP ALL THE DISAPPEARS. IN FACT, IT MAY INVERT. ONE STUDY USING CENSUS DATA FROM THAT SINGLE WOMEN IN THEIR 20s LIVING IN THE METROPOLITAN AREAS NOW ARE AN 8% MORE ON AVERAGE THAN THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS. BY THE WAY, THE MAJORITY OF MANAGERS IN THE WORKPLACE ARE NOT WOMEN. WOMEN ON AVERAGE ARE SCORING HIGHER ON ACCU TEST THAN MEN EVEN PHYSICALLY, MEN ARE FALLING BEHIND. A RECENT STUDY FOUND THAT HALF OF YOUNG MEN FAILED THE ARMY'S ENTRY-LEVEL PHYSICAL FITNESS EXAM DURING BASIC TRAINING. 70% OF AMERICAN MEN ARE NOW OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE. AS COMPARED TO 59% OF AMERICAN WOMEN. PERHAPS MOST BAFFLINGLY AND TERRIFYINGLY, MEN ARE BECOMING LESS MALE FUNDAMENTALLY, MEASURABLY. SPERM COUNTS HAVE PLUMMETED. THEY'RE DOWN ALMOST 60% SINCE THE 1970s. SCIENTISTS DON'T KNOW WHY. TESTOSTERONE LEVELS IN MEN HAVE ALSO FALLEN PRECIPITOUSLY. ONE STUDY FOUND THAT AVERAGE LEVELS OF MALE TESTOSTERONE DROPPED BY 1% EVERY YEAR AFTER 1987 AND IS NOT RELATED TO AGE. IN OTHER WORDS, THE AVERAGE 40-YEAR-OLD MAN IN 2017 WOULD HAVE TESTOSTERONE LEVELS READY% LOWER THAN THE AVERAGE 40 GOLD MAN IN 1987. THERE'S NO UPSIDE TO THIS TREND. LOWER TESTOSTERONE LEVELS IN MEN ARE ASSOCIATED WITH DEPRESSION, LETHARGY, WEIGHT GAIN, DECREASED COGNITIVE ABILITY. NOTHING LIKE THIS HAS EVER HAPPENED TO A POPULATION THIS YOU WOULD THINK WE WOULD WANT TO KNOW EXACTLY WHY, WHAT'S GOING ON, HOW CAN WE FIX IT? YET THE MEDIA IGNORE THAT STORY. IT'S CONSIDERED A FRINGE TOPIC SOMEHOW. NOR IS IT, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, A PRIORITY IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT.
I don't like how his mouth hangs open in a lot of his videos.
It feels like he's pretending to be more shocked than he is.
Way to go Tucker. If you throw enough shit at the wall, some of it is bound to stick.
I am super conflicted about this. He raised many important issues.
But it’s Fox News.
I'm torn on this one. Obviously In support the general topic and message. The down side is this is Fox News and Tucker Carlson. I worry that this is a sign of further polarization of the gender debate. The MRM has struggled for a long time with the misconception (and sometimes intentional misleading) that if Feminism is aligned with the left then the MRM must be aligned with the right.
I worry that if the right claims the MRM as its own, it will quickly be subsumed by the right's traditionalism. There are even shades of this within this video with the emphasis on the decline of traditional marriage. I fear that the MRM will become a useful tool to be wielded against feminism and that actual work on the many legitimate issues men face will continue to unresolved because of it.
I don't like Fox but I'm glad someone it talking about it.
Maybe if this gets some traction it'll spur the left to start courting the male vote by giving a shit about them a little. Honestly, while I'm a labour union style leftist, I think this crisis is bad enough that I would consider voting right wing if they were doing something about this.