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#202 The Toxic War on Masculinity, with Nancy Pearcey

The Alisa Childers Podcast

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The Reform Movement in the 19th Century

In 1830, Americans drank three times as much as they do today. The alcoholism peaked in the 19th century. People desperately wanted to keep values like love, relationship,. altruism, religious piety and so on. Those had to be cultivated in the home presided over by women. A lot of the tension between the sexes goes back to that period where women felt like it was their job to hold husbands in check.

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