RICHARD
WHITMIRE
Voices
HUFFINGTON
10.21.12
How
to End
the End
of Men
O
VER THE PAST DECADE hundreds of articles and
scores of book have chronicled the “boy troubles,”
the odd phenomenon of boys failing in school and
men adrift in life. ¶ That is so yesterday’s story.
¶ Today’s story is about what happens to women
when men fail, and the storytellers are women.
Look no further than the highly publicized The End
of Men and the Rise of Women, by Hanna Rosin.
Rosin’s book followed The Richer Sex: How the
New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love, and Family, by Liza Mundy. ¶
Why shouldn’t women be the ones to write about
ILLUSTRATION BY KYLE T. WEBSTER
Richard
Whitmire is
the author
of Why
Boys Fail