A good take on American men & masculinity: the drive to be self-made; the quest for improvement, knowledge, achievement, adventure, purpose; the disdain for limits on any of these imposed by class, credential, or orthodoxy; the centrality of thinking out loud.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1165280201179389952 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Wait are you seriously saying this was a good take?
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Replying to @BridgetPhetasy
The Atlantic piece? Yes. Sure, the writer didn't want to be that guy, but at least he understood that guy.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Hm. Interesting. His audience didn’t really feel that way about it and I thought it was pretty condescending but I see your point.
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Replying to @BridgetPhetasy
Of course it's condescending in the "conservatives in the mist" style. But the writer understood his subject. That's the important part.
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Replying to @BridgetPhetasy
How does that make you feel?
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