IT’S BEEN A STRANGE FEW MONTHS to be a man. The publication of Caitlin Moran’s book What About Men? kicked off a mass discourse about the ills of masculinity: even the reviewers who disagreed with her specific analysis of men’s troubles were largely in agreement that there’s something amiss in male lives.
More usually, it’s women who get the chin-scratching social issues treatment, so I sympathise with men who find it alienating to be the subjects of this kind of commentary. Especially because the consensus is so unflattering to men,
