Now it’s their turn!

James Taranto takes issue with the idea that boys and young men (in contrast with girls and women), are failing to behave “rationally.”

Boys and young men are no less rational, or capable of adapting to incentives, than girls and young women are. They are, in fact, adapting very well to the incentives for female power and independence–which inevitably also serve as disincentives to male reliability and self-sacrifice.

Well, why shouldn’t they? Perhaps they know intuitively what Camille Paglia said:

Indeed, men are absolutely indispensable right now, invisible as it is to most feminists, who seem blind to the infrastructure that makes their own work lives possible. It is overwhelmingly men who do the dirty, dangerous work of building roads, pouring concrete, laying bricks, tarring roofs, hanging electric wires, excavating natural gas and sewage lines, cutting and clearing trees, and bulldozing the landscape for housing developments. It is men who heft and weld the giant steel beams that frame our office buildings, and it is men who do the hair-raising work of insetting and sealing the finely tempered plate-glass windows of skyscrapers 50 stories tall. Every day along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, one can watch the passage of vast oil tankers and towering cargo ships arriving from all over the world. These stately colossi are loaded, steered, and off-loaded by men. The modern economy, with its vast production and distribution network, is a male epic, in which women have found a productive role–but women were not its author. Surely, modern women are strong enough now to give credit where credit is due!

I love her sarcasm. Of course they aren’t, and of course they won’t. Certainly not modern feminists. They want to shatter glass ceilings, but only in the corporate boardrooms. Shattering anything in the literal sense remains what they would dismiss as “men’s work.”

In the emerging workplace, women are white collar and men are blue collar.

And what if the latter go on strike?

(I think they already are, but it’s being downplayed for the sake of “productivity.”)