We Have to Try to Be Nice to Each Other

A year ago, I asked a question that felt both obvious and unspoken at the time: do men and women even like each other anymore? It wasn’t the answer itself that was surprising — no, of course they don’t — but rather that this answer had already become an unquestioned part of culture. This animosity between men and women had reached a level to where the fundamental reality that we’re supposed to like each other was no longer a given.