Men No Longer Want to Go to College? Are They Playing Video Games All Day?

And many great jobs have nothing to do with a college education, and many jobs don't need a college education, and a college education is worthless in most instances and damaging in many. So then I don't care. But if they're playing video games, then I do care. They're living in their parents' basement, the proverbial imagery that we offer, that's a bad thing. But otherwise, it's, it's not a bad thing. So I don't know if it's a bad thing because I don't know what men are doing if they're not going to college. Are they working or are they doing a completely unproductive activity? That's, that's a big question. But frankly, I don't blame a guy who doesn't want to go to college where he, from the opening day seminar on the rape culture, telling him two things: he's white, so he's a pig, and he's a male and he's a pig. I don't know why men would really want to go there, and what type of men will even go there. Somebody just sent me a picture of a Harvard guy with, uh, lime green toenails. And, you know, I don't know if this is at all typical. Yes, exactly. That's what they want to know. That's what they would like to know. What's wrong with that? Men painting their toenails. After all, you know, here's a guy who's in touch with his feminine side. Just exactly what America needs more of— men in touch with their feminine sides. So this is a question that needs to be answered. I have no desire for most people, male or female, to go to college. Again, though, the question really revolves around what are guys doing, what are males doing if not, uh, if they are not attending college. So USA Today has a piece on it, I just, I think yesterday, and the gist of it was that men are wasting their time On video games and porn. At least that was part of it. On the other hand, there was another piece in Psychology Today a couple of years ago that I found, Are Colleges Not Welcoming Young Men, where a, uh, I guess he's a PhD in, uh, yeah, professor of psychology at Wagner College. Not familiar with Wagner College, doesn't matter, just noting that. And, uh, he, uh, he, he makes the case that why, why would a guy go? The place is basically male-hating institutions. Young men have not changed, he writes. They're still inquisitive and all this. They still want to make a living. However, the environment has changed on campuses, and men feel less welcome on many, perhaps most, college campuses. A changing faculty, changes in content of programs and courses, the disproportionate male-female ratio causing young men to say no to college life even though they know that not attending may mean being at a disadvantage when applying for certain jobs after graduation and being forbidden from going on for further study in the professions that require a bachelor's degree— medicine, law, nursing, veterinary medicine, dentistry. And tech work. On the other hand, yes, young men have changed because a lot of them are entrepreneurial and they want to strike out on their own. Perhaps they are telling us by their absence on campuses that something is wrong with academe. Boy, no kidding. They are finding a misandric— misandry— misandry or misandry is the equivalent to misogyny, but nobody knows the word because we only know hatred of women, as if there's no hatred of men. It's like we only have names— we have the name Islamophobic, but we have no name for hatred of Christians, like it doesn't exist. They are finding a misandric environment on campuses. Indeed, what does it mean to a first-year male student to have to attend a date rape seminar where they are told they harbor dangerous impulses that must be controlled when they have never for a moment thought about coercing a female or anyone sexually. Or perhaps it is the content of many courses, especially gender studies courses, once called women's studies courses, that draw on many disciplines and often present a disparaging image of males A balanced, all-are-welcome curriculum of content and discussion that honors all perspectives has been the hallmark of university education. Well, it used to be. Whatever the reasons, the fact is that a trend exists— fewer males applying, entering, and staying to completion of the bachelor's degree— and it means something. My thought is that deciding not to attend university No matter the tremendous cost, the certainty of accruing enormous debt over 4 years should not be based on the perception that they are not welcome. Okay, well, they're not welcome. Their money is welcome. They're not welcome. That is correct. So that's the question. 1-800-PRAGER-776. See what you folks have to say. Rachel in Columbus, Ohio. Hello. Hello, Rachel. Sean, are we okay with Rachel?

All right. Thanks for taking my call, Dennis Prager.

Okay. Thank you for calling.

Yeah, I hate to just echo what you pretty much said, but I feel like the new wave feminist culture and the liberal influence in the academia has influenced men to kind of not want to pursue college as much, not want to pursue their goals as much when they're constantly getting berated.

Do you, uh, well, you, you wouldn't, you wouldn't, you're, you're very young, so do you know men who did not go to college?

Yes.

And how have they done in life?

They're doing pretty well. They're doing pretty well. They have their own jobs, and they're still— especially right now, there's such a need for jobs.

And you're 26, right?

Yes.

Are you married?

No.

Are you dating?

Someday. No.

Why not?

Well, I just feel like if I If I seek God and I, I become a woman that he wants me to be, then he'll lead me to the right people and I'll have peace about