Well, they *need* women & have grown up in a culture telling them that any need, any mutual reliance or interdependence, is weakness. So basically every woman becomes a reminder of weakness.

It's all fear. Scared little boys.

And a lot of men who are otherwise on the shit end of our socioeconomic hierarchy were really banking on getting one of those domestic servants/sex workers! That's supposed to be one of the compensations for being low on the totem pole -- at least you get your own little fiefdom.

This, I think, is at the root of our current masculine panic. Guys are realizing that the traditional offering for women -- be a productive member of the workplace but ALSO be a domestic servant for a man -- sucks. It's a shit deal. And if women have alternatives, they'll take them.

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/2 The article and headline don’t arise in a vacuum, they arise on the front page of the New York Times, which has selected a very specific way to approach moral and political issues, characterized by detachment, both-sidesism, and trolling.

I think it's pretty clear that "Gen Z men are turning into Hitler!!" is a very overstated phenomenon, but to the extent that it's true for whatever fraction of Gen Z men are turning fash-curious, it's 90% because of YouTube, we can't deny this.

How many of the people who wrote variants of 'Has MeToo gone too far' editorials for our remaining major newspapers sent or received email from mr epstein