Young Men, Independence, and the Backlash to a Podcast Episode

But the thing that got me, I think the closest to being canceled by my own audience than I ever have been, was I did an episode back in, I think it was 2020, like end of 2020, about the, the problems with young men in our current society.

And in looking back, I don't think I would change much about the episode, but maybe my tone could have been a bit different.

But it was basically breaking down all the stats about young men, about the fact that young men are increasingly not getting driver's licenses.

They're not moving out of their parents' homes. They're not getting jobs.

They're, you know, falling behind in terms of higher education, and women are surpassing them. And the driver's license one was the craziest thing to me because that is such an indicator of a lack of, you know, a, a literal drive to have independence, a drive to be able to go take a girl out on a date and

pick her up. And it, it's just wild to me.

Um, so I basically, I did this episode, and then I said, like, "What, what's wrong?" Like, what is happening? And it was kind of a call to action of if you feel like you are falling into any of these traps or you're part of these statistics,

like I'm just letting you know, you're not alone, but there also is room to...

You know, you can change course. You can change your life. These are small things.

Like, it's really not that hard to go get a driver's license.

That is taking a huge step in your life.

Like going and getting even just like a part-time job is a great thing to add to your life, especially as a young man, to encourage, you know, independence and responsibility, and I have never seen an angrier comment section.

I mean, it was like I was heartbroken. Who's commenting, men or women?

Men. It was all of the men, and they were so- And what were they saying?

They were so, you know, like, "You don't understand us. This is so...

You're so awful. Why would you say this about us?

You don't understand what it's like to be a man in 2022." I mean, so, so angry