Society's Lopsided Focus on Women

Society's Lopsided Focus on Women 

In my lifetime (and perhaps before), the society almost always focused on how change has or will affect women. Typically, how men are or will be affected, if considered at all, is considered only after the media has been saturated with the affects upon women.

When I entered the University of California in 1969 there were many more men on campus than women. The society was obsessed with addressing this imbalance via "affirmative action" and recruitment of women. There was no discussion about how this imbalance might be negatively affecting men.

Today, with most colleges having far more women than men, the media has probably spent more time and effort addressing how this imbalance is negatively affecting women than how the imbalance negatively affects men.

There seems to be a huge focus on the dating pool for women. When things were reversed in 1969 there was perhaps not even a single article bemoaning the dating pool for men. In 1969 nobody seemed concerned that the scarcity of women meant that women controlled the dating culture on campus. Now that there is a scarcity of men on campus and men control the dating culture, this is apparently a huge crisis deserving of immense media and societal attention. Why now and not in 1969?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07campus.html

"Women on gender-imbalanced campuses are paying a social price for success and, to a degree, are being victimized by men precisely because they have outperformed them, Professor Campbell said."

What kind of nonsense is this?  So, I was "victimized" by women at UC Berkeley because the women controlled the dating culture in days of yore? It is not a crime to have a male perspective on dating and there are no "victims" involved. Dating is a free choice. A man is not responsible  for how women choose to behave in the presence of an  imbalance. The fact that a man's dating preference is different than what many women would like does not mean that there is anything wrong with his dating preference.

http://web.nccu.edu/campus/echo/archive9-0708/c-ratio.html
http://time.com/money/4072951/college-gender-ratios-dating-hook-up-culture/