If Straight Men Wanted to be Happy, They’d be Fighting Misogyny, Too

Far gone are the days when a young man would marry his sweet, home-scientist of a housewife, join his local post office as a clerk with a passing certificate from his high-school and manage to buy a comfortable suburban home in a couple of years. The average man is not earning enough anymore. He is not a provider, or a breadwinner, or any other buzz-word we historically associated with large and in-charge men. Today, if an American man — or even couple — can earn $74,580 gross <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-279.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">(the median income of 2022, down 2.3% since 2021)</a>, they are still earning less than the minimum before-tax income required to live comfortably, which is $85,000 <a href="https://smartasset.com/data-studies/salary-needed-to-live-comfortably-2023" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">(or a $68,499 net income considering 20% tax cut, according to this study)</a>. And this is the <a href="https://northmcd.com/world-economy-ranking/#:~:text=The%20United%20States%E2%80%93%20it%20has,(PPP)%20of%20%2427.31%20trillion." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">richest country by a mile in the world</a>. Literally, I just linked you to my source, my dude. <a href="https://medium.com/fourth-wave/what-if-i-said-our-collective-money-problems-could-be-solved-if-we-eradicated-misogyny-55afa74d1abf">Click Here</a>