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A review by danicapage
The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do about It by Warren Farrell
2.0
I went in hearing vast and unrestrained praise for Of Boys and Men, and I was deeply disappointed by it. And probably not for the reasons many might assume. It cited this book at the outset, and since I expected to like Of Boys and Men, I expected this would be good, too.
After being disappointed in Of Boys and Men, which felt derivative of this book in many ways, I wondered if the source book would be more complete and address the concerns I saw in Of Boys and Men.
So I still went in hoping for a nuanced discussion of a problem I see and have thought a lot about—one that could foster meaningful discussion. Instead, I found cherry picked data points, failure to present counter arguments, failure to present contrary datapoints, sweeping generalizations, and unsubstantiated claims throughout.
I’m highly disappointed. And I feel like there is another layer here the authors never address. For example, he contends that women are the ones in recession and AI safe jobs like teaching and nursing and that we have a lack of men in those fields. But he never gets to what is at the heart of that why.
Anyway, I’ll keep reading along this genre. I read books on my first read with a mission to prove them right and to accept all stats and facts as true. Basically I seek to prove them right but I found some massive holes in the data presented here and in Of Boys and Men.
After being disappointed in Of Boys and Men, which felt derivative of this book in many ways, I wondered if the source book would be more complete and address the concerns I saw in Of Boys and Men.
So I still went in hoping for a nuanced discussion of a problem I see and have thought a lot about—one that could foster meaningful discussion. Instead, I found cherry picked data points, failure to present counter arguments, failure to present contrary datapoints, sweeping generalizations, and unsubstantiated claims throughout.
I’m highly disappointed. And I feel like there is another layer here the authors never address. For example, he contends that women are the ones in recession and AI safe jobs like teaching and nursing and that we have a lack of men in those fields. But he never gets to what is at the heart of that why.
Anyway, I’ll keep reading along this genre. I read books on my first read with a mission to prove them right and to accept all stats and facts as true. Basically I seek to prove them right but I found some massive holes in the data presented here and in Of Boys and Men.