The problem with manhood is that it’s a little like fight club: the first rule is that talking about it is kind of unmanly. But here I go talking about it anyway, because the second rule of manhood is not worrying how manly you look to strangers on the internet.
I’m talking about it because everyone seems to be doing so right now. The chattering classes have recently discovered something that was obvious to most of us for years: the war on “toxic masculinity” has not achieved its stated objective. Men have not repented of their aspirations to strength and dominance; they have not relinquished their admiration for daredevils or their fixation on physical courage.
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