well I'll tell you a couple of strange things that that things that I don't really understand the first is when we've done the analysis of the effects of the future authoring program it has had a different differential impact on men and it's had a particularly differential impact on what I would call excluded men and so that would be non-western ethnic minority men or or what majority men who aren't doing very well so for example at Mohawk College the future authoring program had a particularly robust effect on Mohawk college students who were men who hadn't done
very well in high school and who hadn't picked a major that had a destination a career destination at its end so you can imagine those people are they have an ambiguous relationship with the idea of education and they're not oriented specifically towards a goal they're not very motivated now why did it have a differential effect on men that's a good question well first of all the women are doing better so it might just be a matter of the fact that it does better for people who aren't doing as well and at the moment most of
them are men I don't believe I think that might be part of it but I don't believe that's all of it I think that part of the reason that women are doing better is because they're agreeable and so if a system sets out a structure and says here's a pathway to attainment the women won't rebel against that they'll go along with it and that's working very well for them at the moment the men especially the man on the disagreeable end of the distribution and there's way more men on the district disagreeable end of the distribution
than there are women right that's what you get from if you look at overlapping normal distributions so there's the male female distribution for agreeableness male distribution for agreeableness tremendous overlap okay women are higher all the really agreeable people are women all the really disagreeable people are meant and maybe the real differences occur at the extremes right so so and it's it's a very interesting side effect of overlapping distributions so they people can be mostly the same but that can still produce radical differences disagreeable men won't do anything they don't want to do they just say
up yours I'll go home and play video games be with you I'm not listening to your stupid classes and why should I work for you I'll just go have fun I'll do my own thing I don't think they're motivated and so then if you take the men who are like that and you say okay what do you want you can have what you want but you have to figure out what it is so then they write down what they want they think oh hey well that might be worth having so maybe I'll put some effort
into it that's what it looks like to me now you know that's weak evidence and this is a weak argument but I'm trying to stretch out my understanding to account for this but I'll tell you something else that's really weird I don't understand this either so more than 90 percent of the people who watch my videos on YouTube are men now that's weird because about 80 percent of psychology students are women so that is not what you would expect right you'd expect that the majority of them would be women and you might say well it's
because of the political stance I've taken and I thought well that's possible so I went and looked at the demographic data because I have that well before I did any of the political videos 85 percent of my viewers were men so it's actually increased a bit it's increased by six percent and that's not trivial but it was still overwhelmingly meant so that was interesting I thought what the hell why is that exactly and then now I've been watching crowds when I've been talking to them and the crowds that have come to see me in person
this happened at the University of Toronto Free Speech debate and I actually noticed it and commented on it before the debate took place because I was talking about intrinsic differences between men and women and I looked around the room and I thought hmm hey 80 of the people in this room are men so I had all the men's women women stand up and then all the men stand up I said look like here's a natural experiment for some reason 80 percent of the people who showed up to this or man now everybody thought I was
kind of cracked to to do that and it was a risk you know and and I but I thought no there's something going on here and then what's interesting now is that every public appearance that I've made that's related to the sort of topics that we're discussing is overwhelmingly men it's like it's like 85 to 90 percent and so I thought wow that's weird like what the hell's going on here exactly and then the other thing I've noticed is that I've been talking a lot to the crowds that I've been talking to not about rights
but about responsibility right because you can't have the bloody Converse what are you doing you can't have the conversation about rights without the conversation about responsibility because your rights are my responsibility that's what they are technically so you just can't have only half of that discussion and we're only having half that discussion the question is well what the hell are you leaving out if you only have that half of the discussion and the answer is well you're leaving out responsibility and then the question is well what are you leaving out if you're leaving out responsibility
and the answer might be well maybe you're leaving out the meaning of life that's what it looks like to me it's like here you are suffering away what makes it worthwhile right you know you're completely out you're completely you have no idea what you're you it's almost impossible to describe how bad an idea that is responsibility That's What Gives Life Meaning it's like lift a load then you can tolerate yourself right because look at you're useless easily hurt easily killed why should you have any self-respect that's the story of the Fall pick something up and
carry it make it heavy enough so that you can think yeah well useless as I am at least I could move that from there to there well what's really cool about that is that when I talk to these crowds about this the Man's eyes light up and that's very like I've seen that phenomena because I've been talking about this mythological material for a long time and I can see when I'm watching crowds people you know their eyebrows lift their eyes light up because I put something together for them that's what mythological stories do so I'm
not taking responsibility for that that's what the stories do so I say the story and people go click click click you know when their eyes light up but this responsibility thing that's a whole new order of this is that young men are so hungry for that it is unbelievable and one of the things I've been talking to some of the people who've been running for the conservative leadership in Canada and I've been talking to them about well the difficulties they have communicating with young people because conservatives what the hell are they going to sell to
young people right because being conservative is something that happens when you're older they can sell risk responsibility no one's selling it and the thing is for men there's nothing but responsibility you know I was watching The Simpsons the other day I watched the first Simpsons episode and I deconstructed it and so it's really interesting so what happens in the first Simpson episode is that it's Christmas and Homer and Marge are going to buy some Christmas presents but Homer doesn't get his Christmas bonus and so he's absolutely crushed by that and that actually is a recurring
theme in The Simpsons where Homer loses his job or something like that or can't Knight make enough money he's completely crushed even though he's kind of useless bumbling laughing fool of a guy you know the thing that gives that show its soul is that he's still oriented towards his family that's what makes him honorable is that foolish as he is he's decided to adopt responsibility for his family and to try to bear that and so he's not he's a holy fool he's not a complete fool and it's so interesting watching the story because he suffers
dreadfully as a consequence of not being able to fulfill his responsibility well that's for men women have their sets of responsibilities they're not the same right because they're complicated because women of course have to take primary responsibility for for having infants at least but then also for caring for them they're they're structured differently than men for biological necessity even if it's not a psychological issue and it's also partly a psychological issue women know what they have to do men have to figure out what they have to do and if they have nothing worth living for
then they stay Peter Pat and why the hell not because the alternative to valued responsibility is impulsive low-class pleasure and you saw that in the Pinocchio story right that's Pleasure Island it's like well why lift the load if there's nothing in it for you that's another thing that we're doing to men that's a very bad idea and to boys it's like your pathological and oppressive it's like fine then why the hell am I going to play if that's the if that's the situation if I get no credit for bearing responsibility could bloody well be sure
I'm not going to Bear any but then you know your life is useless and meaningless and you have you're not you're full of self-contempt and nihilism and and that's not good and so that's why I think I that's what I think is going on at a deeper level with regards to men needing this direction a man has to decide that he's going to do something he has to decide that
