Some respite from male-bashing

It's the end of men. Again.

Heather Gilligan offers a perspective very different from Hanna Rosin's views. The gender wars could be mostly media manufactured and escapist in nature - because we find it nearly impossible to tackle the root cause of the job losses affecting men more than women - class inequalites.

This point really resonated with me -

We’ve taken the inevitable ups and downs of unmediated capitalism and turned them into a problem that men have with women, and women have with men. We’re distracting ourselves from asking hard questions about our economic structure—examining why and how our system regularly hurtles members of the middle and working class toward financial disaster. Instead of wondering why an economy that used to support a family on the salary of one worker now requires the work of two, or where well-paying blue-collar jobs went, we snipe at each other in silly, unproductive sex wars.