06/04/25, Entry 01
Based on This article and This Reddit Post. I'm not going to say this is quality journalism; because it's not. This is opinionated as fuck.
As a young woman, I never planned on going to college. In South Africa we call these universities, so I apologise if I use the two terms interchangeably. Nothing there truly stuck out to me. I wasn’t interested in STEM because I hate science and math. I took Mathematical Literacy at school to escape the hell that was grade 9 maths and closed basically every door into university and lastly, I don’t want to pursue my hobbies as careers. That is why I won’t go to art school. But I did notice something weird starting to happen in my life, and it started happening in a way where I was wondering what this phenomenon was called.
For the record, this is called “Male Flight.” Similar to White Flight when people of colour move into an area and all the white people leave, it then becomes poorer and has less value. Now apply that logic to when men leave fields because women have started entering it.
The first account I can remember of such an instance was looking at a teaching career. I love teaching about things I’m passionate about. I’ve had a YouTube channel and pretended to make YouTube videos for how long now? I even have this Neocities where I uploaded articles on how I learned HTML and CSS. I love teaching my friends new things and learning, so, perfect opportunity right?
But I realised something.
Teaching pays like absolute dogshit. You work for hours with people’s smelly, dusty kids and they openly disrespect you. That is not a career I want. I realised again that this was a female dominated field. Out of maybe the 50 or so teachers I’ve had going through k-12, only 1 was male. 1 to nearly 50!
I thought about how if men started teaching more, they’d demand to be paid more. But why aren’t men becoming teachers? Because teaching, and empathy, and being helpful is a feminine trait. Their fragile house of cards they base all of their self-worth, confidence and strength into, doesn’t allow female traits.
Masculinity is a man’s biggest weakness. I will die on that hill. He will spend his whole life trying to convince other people and himself that he is a man, instead of embracing the “traits of a woman” and things he actually likes that are feminine. That is why they start flying from fields as soon as it becomes a “feminine” thing to do. It threatens their “masculinity”.
As mentioned in the article, since women entered the teaching field and girls started going to school, they depreciated the career of teaching, because it’s a feminine thing now. Do we say that’s going to happen to college? I think so.
I come from a family where now my parents have money to send me to college/university, but I don’t actually want to go. Back in their days, even if they so badly wanted to go they couldn’t afford it. That’s the argument the men are making to say why they aren’t going and getting further education.
In reality - they just aren’t going. But why? Because getting an education is starting to become feminine. That is a true casualty. When careers and aspects of life hit a 60/40 ratio of women and men, the men depreciate our fields. Like teaching. Like being an interior designer.
This is actually really bad. Why do young men avoid education purely because its "female"? Knowledge never goes out of style, and let me be honest, being stupid, radicalised and reckless is not attractive. Which is what all these young boys are starting to become.
I was actually planning on doing interior decorating because I loved playing Sims as a child and drawing mockups of my parent’s future house, but then I saw that they’ve since discontinued the course. Not even made it cheaper, discontinued!
But it begs the question of where will men go when women invade their fields? Then, they’re probably going to cut us off again. They’re going to strip away our rights, our freedom and confine us to the 4 walls of their kitchen.
Hopefully I’ll be dead before that comes true.