The Demise of Guys: why boys are struggling and what we can do about it.

• Author: Sullum, Jacob
• Position: Briefly Noted - Brief article - Book review

The demise of social science

The Demise of Guys (TEE) Books) is based on a talk by Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo that was tendentious and unpersuasive at four minutes and only suffers from being expanded into an ebook.

Zimbardo argues that "boys are struggling" in school and love because they play video games too much and watch too much porn. But he and his coauthor, Nikita Duncan, never establish that boys are struggling more nowadays than they were when porn was harder to find and video games were limited to variations on Pong, let alone that xvideos.com and Call of Duty are retarding their social and academic...