Who’s thriving?

The concept of ‘patriarchy’ makes some sense, but it needs to be viewed with certain nuances.

We can look at statistics regarding psychopathology and sociopathology and get a sense of who’s thriving in our society. A notable fact is how those statistics are more skewed for the male population than for the female population. In other words, a strata of males does very well in regard to income, wealth, status, educational success, social agency, influence, etc. while a vast underclass of males is clearly less thriving. For the latter, the statistics re: suicide, household abandonment, alcoholism and drug abuse, crime, involuntary commitment to institutions, expressions of resentment (like: voting for Trump) indicate relatively more in the way of languishing and disaffection than is evident for the successful/dominant males or for the female population in general.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/09/27/education-college-crisis-among-american-men

Men still dominate the highest echelons of education and work. But that group is a small slice of all men in America.

More:

https://this.org/2004/09/15/men/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/05/the-war-against-boys/304659/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/27/michael-kimmel-masculinity-far-right-angry-white-men