They told boys to sit still, shut up, and act more like girls. Then they wondered why the boys stopped showing up at all.
Look at the numbers and try — really try — to tell me this isn't deliberate.
Boys are now 20 points behind girls in reading and writing by age 15 (OECD PISA 2022–2025 trend).
Young men (18–29) have crashed out of college: women now earn 60% of all bachelor's and master's degrees in the U.S. and most of Europe.
70% of medical-school entrants in the UK are female; law and psychology are 65–80% female.
Male labour-force participation for 20–34-year-olds has collapsed from 91% in 1970 to 78% today.
One in three men under 30 report zero sexual activity in the past year — triple the rate of 2008 (GSS 2024).
Antidepressant and ADHD-medication use among teenage boys and young men has more than doubled since 2018.
Suicide is the leading cause of death for men under 35 in most Western countries.
This isn't random misfortune. This is the predictable outcome of a 40-year social experiment that declared half the population's natural traits "toxic" and set about suppressing them with policy, pharmacology, and propaganda.
1. The Classroom was the First Battlefield
From the moment a five-year-old boy walks into kindergarten, the system is rigged against him.
Recess has been slashed or eliminated in 40% of U.S. school districts (the only time boys' higher activity levels are accommodated).
Zero-tolerance policies punish rough play and normal male energy as "violence."
80–90% of elementary-school teachers are female, and studies (e.g., Cambridge 2023) show they systematically give lower grades to boys for identical work when behaviour is "typically male."
Boys are diagnosed with ADHD at five times the rate of girls and drugged accordingly, often for the crime of not behaving like quiet little girls.
Result? By age nine, boys hate school. By age fifteen, they've checked out. By age twenty, they've been told, explicitly or implicitly, that their very existence is a problem to be solved.
2. The Cultural Message: "Your Masculinity is the Enemy"
Open TikTok, Netflix, or any university orientation week and the script is identical:
"Toxic masculinity" is the only form of masculinity ever discussed.
Every male hero from Achilles to Tony Stark (Iron man) must now be deconstructed as "problematic."
A boy who wants to be strong, competitive, stoic, or protective is shamed; a boy who wants to be soft, emotional, and compliant is praised as "breaking the binary."
Meanwhile, the same culture that tells boys "you're inherently dangerous" then acts shocked when those boys withdraw, rot on Discord, and swallow the black pill.
3. The Economic Eviction Notice
The jobs that once turned boys into men, manufacturing, construction, mining, trucking, have been offshored, automated, or buried under credentialism and HR bureaucracies that filter for female-preferred traits (verbal fluency, compliance, agreeableness).
A 25-year-old man with a high-school diploma now competes with women who have subsidised degrees and affirmative-action preferences for the remaining "good" jobs. He ends up gigging on DoorDash while she becomes the diversity hire at a Fortune 500. No wonder marriage rates have collapsed. No wonder birth rates are in freefall.
4. The Dating Apocalypse
Feminism sold women the lie that they could "have it all" without men. It forgot to tell men what they were supposed to do once rendered obsolete.
Dating apps are the final humiliation: the top 10% of men get 90% of the attention, the bottom 80% get contempt or silence. The average young man today has fewer realistic prospects for sex, let alone marriage, than his grandfather did at the height of the Great Depression.
5. The Pharmacological Lobotomy
Can't sit still? Ritalin. Anxious about your future? SSRIs. Angry that the world hates you for existing? Here's a testosterone-suppressing antipsychotic mislabelled as an antidepressant.
We are chemically castrating an entire generation rather than admit the emperor has no clothes.
This is Not "Equality." This is Ethnic Cleansing by Another Name.
Replace "boys" with literally any other demographic and the outrage would be instantaneous. Tell an ethnic minority their kids are 20 points behind, drug them at five times the rate, expel them at triple the rate, and tell them their culture is "toxic," and we'd call it genocide.
But when the victims are young men, we call it progress.
The Red-Pill Rage Is Justified
The rage you see online, the Andrew Tate disciples, the 4chan legions, the "looksmaxxing" weirdos, isn't the cause of the problem. It's the symptom of a society that spent four decades kicking boys in the teeth and then acted surprised when they stopped smiling.
Yes, some of the responses are ugly. But ugliness is what happens when you take a generation, strip it of purpose, respect, and a path to adulthood, then blame it for the fallout.
Rebuilding Starts with One Brutal Truth
Young men are not defective girls. They never were.
Stop drugging them. Stop shaming them. Stop designing every institution as if female preferences are the human default.
Give them trades, weights rooms, mentors, and the ancient rite of passage: responsibility that hurts, achievement that matters, and the unapologetic pride of building, protecting, and providing.
Because if we don't, the alternative isn't a kinder, gentler world. It's a civilisation that euthanised its sons and woke up to discover it no longer has a future.
The war on young men isn't collateral damage. It was the plan all along.
And the clock is running out to call it off.