B. They emotionally withdraw and quietly stew in depression, resentment, and the fear that their contributions will never be adequate. (Or at least never enough to attract a life partner or obtain societal status.) This withdrawal partially explains why sex rates have dropped in young men but not young women.

Helena Norberg-Hodge noted in her study of Asian rural cultures under pressure to modernize, it is young males who most exhibit the strains of this trend.