Newsweek published an article this week about the plight of the “Beached White Male.” It asks, “Can manhood survive the depression?”

What a question! We decided to tackle that one together.

Maya: First of all, let’s be clear who we’re talking about here. This article is specifically discussing college-educated white men ages 35 to 64. Among this group, unemployment has more than doubled since the recession began and is now at over 5%. That’s 600,000 “beached white males.”

Lori: And as the authors of this article go out of their way to point out, men in this “kill zone” have lost jobs faster than any other group, including teenage girls. Did you hear that Maya? Even the silly young girlie ...