In 1984, women began asking the questions: “Where have all the good men gone, / And where are all the gods? / Where’s the streetwise Hercules / To fight the rising odds?”
Thank you, chart-topping singer Bonnie Tyler, for your musical inspiration!
Tyler’s song “Holding Out for a Hero” first hit a nerve back in 1984 in the movie “Footloose.” And it continues to hit a nerve today as we find ourselves in what many call “a boy crisis.”
Brenda Hafera, a frequent guest on the “Problematic Women” podcast, says this crisis manifests as men and boys are “struggling mentally, physically, academically, economically, and spiritually because of the absence of fathers, the failures of our education system and policies, and changes in both the job market and our culture.”
As employment and IQ rates for men fell in recent years, suicide rates…
