Was reading an interesting article called "The Lost Generation" that focuses on demographics in cultural professions like Academia and Hollywood.The tldr; is around 2014 boomer white male execs decided they were going to fix their demographics and rebalance them. And given there were already a lot of white men (them) they decided to fix it not by firing any of themselves but by not hiring any white milennial/zoomer men going forward.The article paints a pretty bleak picture of the results of these policies:https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/> “For a typical job we’d get a couple hundred applications, probably at least 80 from white guys,” the hiring editor recalled. “It was a given that we weren’t gonna hire the best person… It was jarring how we would talk about excluding white guys.” The pipeline hadn’t changed much—white men were still nearly half the applicants—but they were now filling closer to 10 percent of open positions.> With or without quotas, The Atlantic succeeded in hiring fewer of these white males. Since 2020, nearly two-thirds of The Atlantic's hires have been women, along with nearly 50 percent people of color. In 2024, The Atlantic announced that three-quarters of editorial hires in the past year had been women and 69 percent people of color. > In 2014, white men were 31 percent of American medical students. By 2025, they were just 20.5 percent—a ten-percentage-point drop in barely over a decade. “At every step there’s some form of selection,” a millennial oncologist told me. “Medical school admissions, residency programs, chief resident positions, fellowships—each stage tilts away from white men or white-adjacent men… The white guy is now the token.”Anyways, I was wondering what femreppers and ftms feel about this? Or the subset that think men have it easier career wise anyways and women are viewed as less than capable.
>>42066582trans men aren't affected by this
>white-adjacent menLmao. God I hate academic language
>>42066582I'm a mixed gayden and my family runs their own businesses... Why would an adult man want to work under someone else...?
>>42066922Yea in the article they mention the author of Severance got around this by making his own show. Still generally the people who make their own shows have experience elsewhere in the industry first, like it helps a lot.
>>42066582Ftms become cops and work on oil rigs and shit, and I imagine any trans man already in the academic and creative fields this article covers have logically taken advantage of their status as a trans man.
>>42067410>Ftms become cops and work on oil rigs and shitI take it because zoom zoom ftms don't view academia or being a hollywood exec or a doctor or a high power corporate worker as masc coded?Which is kind of interesting and the whole point hmm
>>42067434Maybe they’ve got an unconscious awareness that they’ll be emasculated there.
>>42066582Stop shilling your garbage writing, dude.
