# The Male Inequality Problem

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**Created:** [September 27, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-male-inequality-problem/1023440 "2025-09-27T21:57:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-male-inequality-problem/1023440/778 "2026-05-30T18:45:02Z")

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Pulling this here rather than continuing it is the education thread (which I pulled from here 🙂 )

> [@Preparing young adults for an uncertain future: education](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preparing-young-adults-for-an-uncertain-future-education/1030412/124):
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> Listing getting married and having kids as a marker of ‘success’, especially among people without a potential spouse in mind, can be a marker for problematic attitudes in my experience. Yeah, they may mean it’s a part of the overall life they envisage, but treating it as ‘success’ can very much overlap with the ‘treat women as fungible objects’ attitudes

I find this mindset very troubling, and is part of what feeds into the extreme reactions we see.

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