© Alex Pi
For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. — Kipling, Prophet Laureate of Tonic MasculinityFools rush in where angels fear to tread. Being no one's idea of angelic, I will now hold forth on the masculinity question.
Say what you will about the pronounists, they've nailed the zeitgeist in one important respect, that being the widespread confusion about what men and women even are. Somehow, we've found ourselves in a place where a plurality of us, maybe a majority, have no idea what it is to be a man or a woman, an issue that was considered not so much settled as simply obvious to essentially every previous generation. The apparently clear definition of 'an adult human male or female', beloved of big brains in the post-liberal set, doesn't seem at all sufficient. We've got plenty of physically mature humans wandering about who have no real idea of what it is to be a man or a woman. Evidence: just look at them.
It isn't just the gender confused who are gender confused. They're merely the most acute symptom of this societal breakdown, their dangerhair a screaming siren that something has gone seriously wrong not only in their own broken psyches, but in the social disorder that broke them.
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