If you think that men are recession proof...Think Again!....I don't want to sound like a conspiracy person, but doesn't it seem awkward that as the recession gets older more men find themselves without jobs. Mainly Black Men, but men nonetheless. We hear reports everyday about men getting on welfare, men in unemployment lines and don't be fresh out of school because that is even tougher.

CNN reports that it is getting more and more common for the man to be at home playing "house-dad" while his better half is out making the living. One highlight says "When a man loses his job, his entire identity goes out the window." Advice to the women in the lives of these men, be supportive of him, don't bagger him by putting him down, always be supportive but firm in telling him to get up and do something for himself and be very careful how you speak to him....he is vulnerable...

According to a recent article in Newsweek, you can expect unemployed men, recent victims of the Great Recession, to revert to their lowest common gender stereotype.

That means boorish frat boys decorating their fortresses of solitude with posters of bikini-clad hotties and crushing beer cans against their thick, Neanderthal skulls.

And, for certain, a lot of men are being laid off. Since the economy began to crater in late-2007, four-fifths of the nearly four million people who have lost their jobs have been men.

When a man loses his job, his entire identity goes out the window. Society tells him that he is valued for three main things: an ability to imbibe, seduce women, and earn money.

Of course, the first two are impossible to achieve with out the last one. A man is his job; it is a mirror that reflects his tribal worth. And a laid-off man is a man who becomes a clingy, bratty hermit. He turns into himself and finds flimsy shelter in perverted versions of what he's been programmed to think makes him special.

But wait! Recent popular trend articles point out that some men are reacting to the economic downturn by auto-emasculating, transforming themselves from corporate lumberjacks into bizarre caricatures of 1950's housewives, baking, sewing, and homemaking.

When canned, so says the mass media, men can either become chubby Vikings or anal-retentive Mr. Moms. Can I have more choices please?

Here's what you can expect if your man is enjoying the distinctly humiliating process of collecting unemployment. His libido plummets -- because how can he be sexually desirable if he feels that desire is directly derived by his business card? This man is threatened by his woman's success; profound insecurities are ugly that way. He will seek validation in his friends, or from his Xbox, or from self-loathing.