Video games causing a "masculinity crisis" claims famed psychologist

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I don't necessarily find anything in the article wrong, but I wouldn't call this a "masculinity crisis." I do think the combination of various addictions and a negative societal view of men, as the article described with  "slobs, undesirable, only wanting to get laid and being inadequate in doing that" can be damaging to the identity of certain group of young males who still haven't found their adult niche in life. I also think we should consider a conflict of old and new societal norms. Most people would be better off choosing one orthe other and then finding their significant other(s) with respect to that. That isn't to say such norms can't be mismatched effectively, but that requires a lot more work and you need to make more compromises. For example, some women seem to want an overtly strong-willed man who likes to control things in a very traditional, gentlemanly way, but also want to be just as dominating (if not more) in the relationship as said strong-willed man, because of advancements in how we perceive genders. Is this not a clash of interests? Would this not lead to conflict if a compromise between these two ideals is not met? Another example is how much people in general (of all sexual orientations even) want to be promiscuous in their relationships, but also have an ideal of a traditional white-picket fence family and house. I view these to be almost inveresely proportional. The more promiscuous you are the less likely you're going to find that ideal traditional family you yearn for, and the more you want that traditional family the less likely you can be promiscuous (without altering the nature of the traditiona marriage/family.) All of this combined with miscommunication (the aforementioned social problems) make long-term relationships even harder than they had been in the past, and porn addiction/single life a lot easier. Now is this necessarily a bad thing? I don't know, it depends on the individual. Although I do agree that education (maybe not from formal sources though) can help people find their own way in the confusion.