No Country for Young Men

In my last piece, I critiqued our national narrative about “young men behaving badly.” These are the young men who make headlines for mass murders. Later, when the dust settles, we find that these men are struggling with social isolation and rejection by women. Internet sleuths almost inevitably find that they participated in forums trafficking in misogyny and bigotry.

The narrative that explains young men behaving badly goes like this:

1. Feeling entitled.
2. The inability to achieve what you think you should have.