Zibaldone 2024–2025 journal

Journal connection: Notes on boys, fatherhood, masculinity, male development, and gendered social outcomes.
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⬅️ Back to Home · Cross: Social Issues MOC · Politics MOC · Database: Boy Crisis base (file not included in this release)

Why boys and men are falling behind — in school, work, health, and family — the evidence, the causes, the politics, and what to do about it. Every section of the evidence bank is now its own note, indexed below.

Parenting and development

Graduated Independence Builds Capability · Childhood argument map · Position card · Writing brief

The headline numbers

• Male suicides up 40% since 2010 (~40,000/yr); men are 3 of 4 “deaths of despair” → Boy Crisis - Physical Health & Deaths of Despair
• The college gender gap is wider today than 1972 — reversed; girls are 2/3 of the top-10% GPA tier → Boy Crisis - Education
• 1 in 5 fathers doesn’t live with his children; boys suffer most from father exit → Boy Crisis - Fatherlessness
• NEET males (16–24, UK) up 40% → The Lost Boys Notes

Reeves’ framing

“The Left tells men, ‘Be more like your sister.’ The Right says, ‘Be more like your father.’ Neither invocation is helpful. What is needed is a positive vision of masculinity that is compatible with gender equality.” → Of Boys and Men

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The Evidence

• Boy Crisis - Key Stats & Talking Points — the quick-fire debate sheet
• Boy Crisis - Physical Health & Deaths of Despair — suicide · life expectancy · murder · prison
• Boy Crisis - Mental Health — psychology of struggling men
• Boy Crisis - Loneliness — the male friendship recession
• Boy Crisis - Education — the school gap · missing male teachers · redshirting
• Boy Crisis - Economic — wages · NEET · STEM

The Causes

• Boy Crisis - Biological Factors — developmental timing; “the education system is tilted in favor of girls”
• Boy Crisis - Family, Divorce & Providers — divorce · the provider role · the dad deficit
• Boy Crisis - Fatherlessness — the core causal claim: father absence

Masculinity & Culture

• Boy Crisis - Masculinity — "toxic masculinity" · rites of passage
• Boy Crisis - Toxic Influences — the Tate-shaped hole: who fills the mentorship vacuum
• Boy Crisis - Gender Empathy Gap — why male suffering gets less sympathy

Politics & Ripple Effects

• Boy Crisis - Politics — left denial · right nostalgia · AIBM · the double standard
• Boy Crisis - Black Men — the double disadvantage
• Boy Crisis - Consequences — for women · for society · crime · cost on the nation

Solutions

• Boy Crisis - Solutions — education reform · mentorship · national service · Galloway’s three Ps · policy
• Men's Groups — the council-of-peers template
• Galloway's 4 moves — reinvest wasted hours: get fit, make money, join something bigger, say no

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Books & Reports

• Of Boys and Men — Reeves, the modern standard (redshirt the boys · HEAL jobs · fatherhood as institution); full-text annotations → Of Boys and Men _ Why the Modern Male Is S - Reeves, Richard copy
• The Boy Crisis — Warren Farrell: the dad-deprivation thesis
• The Myth of Male Power — Farrell’s earlier case on disposable men
• The Lost Boys Notes — the CSJ report that “sent shockwaves across the UK” (2025)
• Notes on Being a Man - Scott Galloway — Galloway’s prescription for young men
• Flashcards → Anki Collection (Books deck: NEET, fatherlessness, Porsche polygamy…)

📝 The Boy Crisis writing project (essay materials)

Boy Crisis Talking Points · Outline · Outline Sentences · FINAL · Questions for the Boy Crisis · annotations

Debates & Voices

• Dad Brain — Darby Saxbe on the science of fatherhood — paternal brain plasticity, testosterone, hands-on care, couple adjustment, perinatal mental health, and family policy
• Masculinity Debate - Diary of a CEO — Galloway & Ury on the Lost Boys report
• Clippings → Data Reveals How Men Are Falling Behind in School and Work - Bloomberg · Why US Men Think College Isn’t Worth It Anymore · Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane · The Problem With Feminising Society - Helen Andrews · Christopher Rufo on How Conservatives Can Reach Young People
• Sources → @staffFatherlessnessMassShootings2022

Across the vault

• Dating & attraction: Attractiveness · Male-Female Polarity · The Way of Men with Maids - Giff Lasta · The Way of the Superior Man · The Manipulated Man · Women quotes
• Family: Marriage Rates · Parenting MOC · Family Over Career
• Character: Stoicism · Discipline quotes · 60.12 Self-Improvement
• Politics: Scott Galloway's Vision for Democrats and Policy · Ideology & Foundations

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References

No Mercy / No Malice
Logan Ury Dating Coach & Behavioral Scientist
The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway - YouTube
Richard V Reeves | Home
Home - American Institute for Boys and Men
COALITION - WHITE HOUSE BOYS MEN COUNCIL
Reddit - The Reference Book On Men’s Issues
A Cold War Between the Sexes | National Review
Mental Illness, Political Ideology, and Holding False Beliefs

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Handwritten Notebook Pages

Source

• Open The Boy Crisis notebook pages — start at notebook p. 41 (file not included in this release)
• Open Boy crisis notebook pages — start at notebook p. 183 (file not included in this release)

Base index

The Boys Crisis.base (file not included in this release)

• Books & Articles
  • The Boy Crisis Book
    • annotations
    • Book - Boy Crisis
    • Boy Crisis Talking Points
    • FINAL
    • Outline Sentences
    • Outline
    • Questions for the Boy Crisis
  • Notes on Being a Man - Scott Galloway
  • Of Boys and Men _ Why the Modern Male Is S - Reeves, Richard copy
  • Of Boys and Men
  • The Lost Boys Notes
  • The Myth of Male Power
• Attractiveness
• Boy Crisis - Biological Factors
• Boy Crisis - Black Men
• Boy Crisis - Consequences
• Boy Crisis - Economic
• Boy Crisis - Education
• Boy Crisis - Family, Divorce & Providers
• Boy Crisis - Fatherlessness
• Boy Crisis - Gender Empathy Gap
• Boy Crisis - Key Stats & Talking Points
• Boy Crisis - Loneliness
• Boy Crisis - Masculinity
• Boy Crisis - Mental Health
• Boy Crisis - Physical Health & Deaths of Despair
• Boy Crisis - Politics
• Boy Crisis - Solutions
• Boy Crisis - Toxic Influences
• Masculinity Debate - Diary of a CEO
• Men's Groups
• Scott Galloway's Vision for Democrats and Policy
• The Boys Crisis (file not included in this release)