What feels off is your knowledge that this isn’t a thoughtful analysis of a problem someone noticed, but just one random manifestation of the Men Bad Women Good industry that is currently fashionable.
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writer is a stand-up comic, and this would have been better fodder for a standup act than for what passes for serious analysis, there's definitely nuggets of anecdotal insight and truth in there, it's just not solid enough to support the general claims. But sharp jokes, yes.
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There's a commonality there with the simplistic explanations in The Coddling of the American Mind. I can't precisely put my thumb on what it is there. I think it's the sweeping claims based on anecdote, but I haven't got more precise than that.
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There's also deployment of statistics that promise more insight than they actually capture, and the uncritical view of things like "therapy" as providing strong foundations for stuff.
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I think this line is key -- I feel that the self-love axis (regardless of gender) is often neglected in discussions of both toxic masculinity and toxic feminity. Many people only seem capable of seeing our societal sickness through projection onto one gender.pic.twitter.com/KpwrGvnsLc
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Are you an emotional island, dear?
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Check mate, men!
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Article is based on the premise that the meaning of “Friend” is gender neutral
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