Scott Galloway: The crisis among young men is getting worse!
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- Scott Galloway
- Read time
- ~4 min
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- 2 Oct 2023
- Duration
- 1:55:20
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- 1.5M
KEYPOINTS
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Young male crisis: suicide ~3× young women, loneliness, broke status — producing millions of lonely broke males is ugly for economy and society.
Scott Galloway warns scornful 'just open up' talk fails. Accountability rhetoric without structural fixes worsens shame. Women also pay costs as partner pools and safety dynamics shift.
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Education structures disadvantage boys' developmental tempos — boys ~2× as likely suspended for same behaviour on risk-adjusted basis.
Bias against male developmental patterns is systemic. Ignoring it is societal peril. Vocational respect belongs beside university pathways.
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Mating market + porn asymmetry: cheaper to watch porn than risk rejection, expense, and skill-building of real approach.
He wants dating dynamics taught as skills — approaching while making women feel safe. Effortful real-world practice must outcompete frictionless porn.
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Economic shifts leave low-skill young men without old status pathways.
Purpose vacuum follows. Mentorship, fitness, delayed gratification, and reforms beat only contempt. Fatherlessness and low male teacher presence correlate with worse boy outcomes.
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Solutions mix: vocational prestige, male mentorship, fitness, delayed gratification, educational reform.
Not a single slogan. Mental-health charity conversations he references confirm multi-area crisis.
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Loneliest dangerous profile: young broke male without prospects — scale matters.
Millions of them destabilise. Prevention is economic and social design.
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Stop treating male crisis as purely emotional illiteracy.
Skills, schools, jobs, and mating norms are levers. Emotions matter after pathways exist.
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Teach romantic approach as learnable health skill with consent/safety centre.
Replace porn default with coached competence. Reduce humiliation tax on first attempts.
EXAMPLES
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Young men suicide ~3× young women framing.
Mortality asymmetry headline.
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Boys 2× suspension likelihood same behaviour.
School bias statistic.
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Porn vs real-world relationship effort trade.
Mating-market friction analysis.
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Lonely broke young male as high-risk social product.
Macro warning.
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Fatherlessness / low male teachers correlation.
Role-model gap.
OTHER RELEVANT
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If working with boys/young men: add mentorship, fitness, vocational pride, and dating-skill education with safety ethics.
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Replace scorn with pathway design — jobs, teachers, fathers/mentors.
Personally: delay gratification reps and offline courtship practice over porn.
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Women/allies: recognise structural male failure modes without excusing harm.
Support mixed interventions that reduce both male despair and female risk.