I get news tips from other people by accident sometimes.

Someone was listening to Coast to Coast AM, a radio talk show that deals with many kinds of topics, and heard this one night. To be honest this was from a show from February but I don't think anyone here would've heard of it.

[quote]they had this psychologist on, Dr. Leonard Sax, talking about an epidemic of poor performance and underachieving among boys and young men in the industrialized world that has emerged in the last 10-15 years or so and gotten steadily worse. He sees in his practice over and over where there is an [almost] equally smart brother and sister [measuring IQ-wise?]. While the sister is going to med school, the brother is a drop-out. [b]His #1 blame goes to the estrogen mimicking chemicals like bisphenol-A and other plastic and petrochemical estrogen mimicking crap.[/b] He also blames several social conditions but the primary blame is chemical.[/quote]

Focus on being that the primary factor of behavior is chemical, not social. Is this more hoopla to cover up the need to use more ADD drugs? Or is the psychologist encouraging parents to take off exposure from plastic products that are more common with male activities? WTF, this is a strange theory going on.

Here's the book he wrote about it:
[url]http://www.boysadrift.com/[/url]

I have another point to bring about: A lot of young men simply see no point in actively participating in this society we've created. What's the point in marrying some woman who loves to spend money (more liberally than men), buying an overpriced house in the suburbs, working at some senseless menial job, and spitting out a couple of kids who will grow up to the same thing? A big percentage of American women get their standards on relationships through TV.