The Trades Are the Last Place a Man Can Be Dangerous — And Get Paid for It
By Stacey Tallitsch | July 24, 2026 Every few months a new headline warns us that boys are a problem to be managed. Too loud. Too physical. Too disruptive. The subtext is always the same: masculinity shows up early, and school’s job is to sand it down. But look at
By Stacey Tallitsch | July 23, 2026 Open any feature on the sports-betting boom and you meet the same character: the young man who can't control himself. He's impulsive. He's chasing a rush. He's another data point in the long indictment of
The ribbons say veterans die of silence and the cure is to get them talking. The VA's own data says otherwise: 61% weren't in its care at all. This isn't a silence problem. It's a severance problem.
Strip away the politics and the supplement grift and a hard, peer-reviewed signal remains: sperm counts and young men's testosterone are measurably falling. That's not a meme. It's a measurement.