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What Did Men Do to Deserve This? | the New Yorker
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oung American men are in terrible and unprecedented straits, and those currents are yanking them rightward—but they want to steer the conversation away from demagoguery and misogynist sloganeering and toward a middle ground of respectful debate and technocratic fixes. (via) ^rwhi959170592
The good man of the reasonable center, in Galloway’s view, adheres to a code indistinguishable from that of the Boy Scouts: mental and physical fitness, emotional resilience, hard work, financial prudence, caring for others. Few could object to any of this. But the person it describes—a kind and conscientious sort, who aspires to make a decent living and who looks after their loved ones—seems blessedly gender-free. (via) ^rwhi959170631
men’s biggest problem is, likewise, a feeling—an unreachable itch, or a marrow-deep belief—that men should still rank above women in the social hierarchy, just not as much as before. This belief may be misguided or unconscious, but it is nonetheless insuperable, and it must be accommodated, for the good of us all. (via) ^rwhi959170874