Sept. 29, 2025 5 AM PT
To the editor: This concept that too many people are rooting just for ladies leaves me dumbfounded (“‘Have you considered helping boys?’ The other gender gap,” Sept. 24). Have a bunch of girls landed in CEO positions these days that I’m not conscious of? Have our wages reached equality with males doing the identical jobs, however I didn’t discover as a result of I’m retired? I haven’t checked my newsfeed shortly, so did I simply miss the article on our new feminine president? Was the fitting to make choices about our personal our bodies restored on the federal degree?
If ladies are dominating the ranks of upper levels and sure occupations, it’s as a result of from a younger age, we knew we needed to work tougher, soar greater and scream louder.
Relating to the emotional and psychological well being of males and boys, many ladies are already on their sides. For years, wives and moms have been shouting from the sidelines that it’s not unmanly to cry, that vulnerability isn’t a weak spot, that going to remedy is a constructive factor. From what I’ve seen, messages of poisonous masculinity largely come from different males; it’s their accountability to alter the way in which their sons develop up.
So, right here’s my contribution to visitor contributor Lisa Britton’s name: In the event you’re a person and also you need assistance managing a world through which a fraction of white male entitlement is eroding, or for any variety of points you could be scuffling with, attain out to a therapist — who, sure, could also be a lady. I promise, we already need to assist.
Babs Greyhosky, Los Angeles
