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Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker in Simon and Simon "Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" Pete and Pedro" with Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Rufe Davis, Don Diamond and William F. Leicester Alias Smith and Jones "The Reformation of Harry Briscoe" with Ben Murphy, Pete Duel and J.D. Cannon Bruce Campbell and Julius Carry in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. "Bounty Hunters Convention" David McCallum, Robert Vaughn and other actors in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. "The Cap and Gown Affair"

Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Rufe Davis, Don Diamond and William F. Leicester in The Lone RangerThe Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. "Bounty Hunters Convention" with Bruce Campbell and Julius Carry David McCallum and Robert Vaughn in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. "The Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum Affair"

Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Robin Lord Taylor and Chris Coy in The Walking Dead Riptide "The Pirate and the Princess" with Perry King, Joe Penny, Thom Bray, Russell Todd and Cesar RomeroPerry King, Joe Penny, Thom Bray, Russell Todd and Cesar Romero in Riptide "The Pirate and the Princess" First, there was Adam, whose creation takes center stage on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Then, fashioned out of Adam’s spare rib, there was Eve, relegated to a smaller panel. In Michelangelo’s rendition, as in the Bible’s, the first man sleeps through the miraculous creation of his soul mate, the first woman and the eventual mother of humanity. Many of our foundational myths are, in this way, stories about men, related by men to other men. The notion of female equality is, historically, an innovation. “Woman has always been man’s dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shared the world in equality,” Simone de Beauvoir wrote in “ The Second Sex,” published in 1949. “And even today woman is heavily handicapped, though her situation is beginning to change.” Nearly three-quarters of a century later, that change has continued. By a variety of metrics, men are falling behind parity. Is the second sex becoming the better half?

Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Robin Lord Taylor and Chris Coy in Simon and Simon "Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" with Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker The Dukes of Hazzard "Cale Yarborough Comes to Hazzard" with John Schneider, Tom Wopat and Cale Yarborough Dulé Hill, James Roday Rodriguez, John Cena and Sean Rogerson in Psych "You Can't Handle This Episode" It would help if we had a firm grasp on why men are withdrawing from work. Many economists have theories. Eberstadt believes that “something like infantilization besets some un-working men.” He notes the availability of disability-insurance programs (roughly a third of nonworking men reported some kind of disability in 2016) and the over-all expansion of the social safety net after the nineteen-sixties. In 2017, the late Alan Krueger, who chaired President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, calculated that nearly half of all nonworking men were taking pain medication on a daily basis, and argued that the increased prescribing of opioids could explain a lot of the decline in the male labor force. Erik Hurst, an economist at the University of Chicago, thinks that the rapid improvement in video-game quality could account for much of the especially deep drop in work among younger men. Anyone who has recently played (or momentarily lost a loved one to) Elden Ring or God of War Ragnarök can grasp the immersive spell that video games cast. But, in the end, most economists admit that they cannot settle on an exact etiology for the problem of nonworking men. The former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers, who is not known for his intellectual humility, recently surmised that “the answers here lie more in the realm of sociology than they do in economics.” Reeves, too, thinks that we can’t explain the economic decline of men without looking at non-economic factors: “It is not that men have fewer opportunities. It is that they are not taking them.”on me; others push the right buttons for me, or I especially like the actors in them. Everyone's list is different, but The political right has eagerly filled the void. At the 2021 National Conservatism Conference, the Republican senator Josh Hawley gave a keynote speech on the crisis of masculinity, in which he blamed “an effort the left has been at for years now,” guided by the premise that “the deconstruction of America begins with and depends on the deconstruction of American men.” Hawley, who is planning to expound upon his thoughts in a forthcoming book titled “Manhood,” argued that the solution must begin with “repudiating the lie that America is systemically oppressive and men are systematically responsible,” and with rebuilding “those manufacturing and production sectors that so much of the chattering class has written off as relics of the past.”