I DON’T WANT TO ALARM YOU MEN, BUT you’re not men anymore.
You can be forgiven for not noticing that men aren’t men anymore, because men are always not men anymore. “Men aren’t men anymore”—like “nobody younger than me wants to work” and “this isn’t real music”—has been said every day in every language since we’ve had days and languages. It’s a particular concern in America, where men haven’t been men anymore from the jump. Almost certainly one of our founding fathers told his son, “Don’t leave this house without your wig, stockings, and frock coat—I didn’t raise a sissy.”
But now, which reads like the title of a very niche gay porn film and has yet to make a single person forget the image of him running away from the encroaching mob on January 6, 2021. Masculinity is a hot conversation.
