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A new episode of The New York Times’ “Matter of Opinion” podcast featuring Ross Douthat, heaven help us all, has just dropped. It asks the truly most pressing question of our times: "What is the point of men in the 21st century?" Yeah, the Times is "exploring the crisis of masculinity in America," and asking how men might "stay relevant," which is something normal people think about all the time, or at least some of the time.
If any of that makes you want to actually listen to the show or even read the transcript, there is probably something wrong with you; listening to the voices behind The New York Times opinion pages debate what makes men manly is, on the scale of ear-bleedingly terrible things, roughly akin to asking the Kardashians to weigh in on mine safety regulations or listening to Augusto Pinochet talk for an hour about knitted tea cozies.
I will spare you the details from the transcript, other than the Times crew pondering to themselves why women don't like accused rapist and performative misogynist Andrew Tate and do like men who are the complete f–king opposite of that, and what's going to happen to all the little boys who want to grow up and have muscles and girlfriends and sports cars.
