'The End of Men' by Hanna Rosin is written as an article a magazine called 'The Atlantic' but comes off more like an essay you would find in a high school. The unoriginal title means there is no debate about the position of the author on the topic. Not that you would need one after reading for more than a couple of minutes, the author takes no prisoners when trying to convince the reader that Women will be ruling the world in the near future. Throughout the article she is continuously looking down upon men, even though the examples she chooses to use only raises our views of male morals. One story tells us about a man who is claimed to be a bad father, yet anyone with the slightest sense of sympathy feels bad for someone whose only crime is being crippled by the economic crisis. Another one takes the closest thing you can find to a stereotype of a cowboy and turns him into a seemingly level headed, wise old man, brave enough to change his mind.
The only thing that she uses worse than her stories is her statistics, she very regularly uses statistics that back up the importance of men and then tells us to ignore them with no justification on why. Multiple times just she say that women make up around 50% of this or that, completely ignoring the fact that means that men must make up the other 50%. Many people who have past a certain age would be insulted by this. It also seriously insults her own intelligence that she thinks people won't notice that, it also makes her seem incredibly arrogant since she ignores the statistics completely and just goes on about the supposed importance of women.
She makes the reader listen to all sorts of statistics that proves very little and then relates them in some absurd way so they relate to her point. When I read it, I found very little connection between the statistics and stories she uses and the argument she makes from them.
What also annoyed me about this was the extreme repetition within a very long article, the statistics she used all merged together after around five pages. Not to mention every story she used as an example had the same structure to it. In some part of the world women had less power, opportunity etc. and over the course of a certain amount of time, they got to a point where they were on a level field with men. in none of the stories do women ever gain a strong advantage over men. Neither is there any serious reason to believe that there will be in the future.
Yet, even the title of the article illustrates her point. she is insistent that women are now the dominant force in the economic and political world, but she refuses to look at the actual world around her.
