George Hahn

Today, however, a dangerous ideology is infecting many young men who see their incel status as inevitable and even embrace it, blaming women instead of trying to better themselves.

Many aren't incels, but V-cells, voluntary celibates who choose resentment over self-improvement.

The challenges young men face are real.

In school, boys fall behind their female peers and are much less likely to become valedictorians and go to college, with the education system biased against them and girls mature faster.

American tax policy increasingly transfers money from the young to the old.

We've adopted a scarcity mindset that only benefits incumbents.

and the rising costs for housing and education that result take an especially heavy toll on young men who are disproportionately evaluated on their economic prospects.

Big tech profits through sequestration and enragement, while digitizing dating has resulted in a winner-take-most environment.

Rather than addressing the problem, leaders on both ends of the political spectrum have inflamed the crisis.

The left ignored young men in the lead up to the last presidential election, espousing the belief that they didn't have a problem.

They were the problem.

The far right filled the void with misogynistic, racist, and otherwise hateful messages, arguing that the answer was to send women and non-white people back to the 50s.

But here's the bottom line.

Nobody is entitled to reproduce, nor obligated to serve another group.

Women are ascending.

It's a collective achievement.

Men need to level up.

Government programs and societal shifts will help, but young men should and will shoulder most of the responsibility, one that most are addressing but too many abdicate as they slide deeper into the darkness of frictionless online relationships.

These young men fail to recognize the agency they have to transform their lives, instead donning an incel badge to justify their sense of victimhood.

My message to young men?