Pete Zahut—
The role of men has become blurred and hard wired masculine traits that were once thought of as admirable or even necessary, are often deemed as bad or in need of correction.
I marked this in my mind when you first posted it. But you haven’t said what things are being deemed bad or in need of correction. I can’t know what you mean here.
Boys are no longer able to do things that boys like to do as a group without girls being included.
I agree that this is a problem. Certainly women can benefit from getting together without a man—and men without a woman. Private spaces. The public spaces—jobs -have to handle this in other ways. Lines on this have to be clear but practical. Like washing the babies in the tub. For a time the tiny girl and boy get scrubbed together—but there comes a time that they don’t.
Other cultures seem to have handled gender differences better than we have. I agree there is a shift going on in some places for men and women. But l know a lot - a lot- of young couples that are doing just fine.