This article was pretty all over the place, and had too many speculative, opinion based quotes. Shouldn't this problem be handed over to the CDC? The writer briefly alludes to the fact that gender inequity may be related to gender roles, which are a construct. Yes, the CDC should study gender roles.
What I found particularly frustrating about the article was its focus on race, despite the fact that poverty and absentee fathers are the true culprits, with race simply having a correlation to the root cause condition.
I grew up in an impoverished, white rural community, and the boys without fathers go nuts. It's a common pattern that doesn't even call for data. Everyone just knows it.
My wife's father died when she was young, and her mother simply collected social security checks and lapsed into depression. Her sister and her did alright. Both of her brothers dropped out of high school, one of them committed suicide, and the other died at 21 of a medical condition while attempting to earn a GED and working for $8/hour at a gas station. Both were in and out of jail from their teen years and up.
>Shouldn't this problem be handed over to the CDC?
I wouldn't want them handling any male issues. In the 2010 study of intimate partner violence, they specifically used a definition of rape that turned most male rape into contact sexual assault and not rape.
Then in their summary, they focused on rape and non-contact sexual assault. Anyone doing a light reading would have assumed from the study that males did not experience much sexual violence.
Personal anecdote: my experience has been this misunderstanding is the more common than not among those who have done a light reading of the study.
