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<blockquote data-quote="Jetset" data-source="post: 1154949" data-attributes="member: 12687">RE: NYT: &quot;If You Let Boys Be Boys, They will Murder their Fathers &amp; Sleep Wit...When I look at that story, it confirms what I saw in his columns and book. Everywhere, in all of his writing, there's a pervasive futility and sadness. Even a short story about a man finding some kind of passion for wild (not, he stresses, domesticated) animals is contrasted with a job helping families watch over the dead, all as part of some kind of rumination on slipping into decay at 40.The subtext is clear. He refers to patriarchy as &quot;hollow&quot; because that's how has experienced his own gender. His life has been a recipe for his own irrelevance and destruction and he knows it, obsesses over it, mourns it. Needing to fuck something that doesn't live in a cage like he does makes perfect sense to him. He rejects feminism because they reject gender identity, but can't seem to figure out what a male identity might be. Google reveals that an old column of his in the New York Times proposed that the solution to the problem of housework was neither for women to do the work nor for men and women to divide it equally, but rather to simply live in squalor because cleaning isn't important anyway, a conclusion that the comments show disgusts his female readers on multiple levels. Even a psychiatrist chimes in, noting that his disregard for his own living conditions is a common mental health indicator.<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/the-case-for-filth.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/the-case-for-filth.html</a>From their body language, his own wife clearly barely tolerates him. Marche is the most lost of lost men.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jetset, post: 1154949, member: 12687"] [b]RE: NYT: "If You Let Boys Be Boys, They will Murder their Fathers & Sleep Wit...[/b] When I look at that story, it confirms what I saw in his columns and book. Everywhere, in all of his writing, there's a pervasive futility and sadness. Even a short story about a man finding some kind of passion for wild ([i]not[/i], he stresses, domesticated) animals is contrasted with a job helping families watch over the dead, all as part of some kind of rumination on slipping into decay at 40. The subtext is clear. He refers to patriarchy as "hollow" because that's how has experienced his own gender. His life has been a recipe for his own irrelevance and destruction and he knows it, obsesses over it, mourns it. Needing to fuck something that doesn't live in a cage like he does makes perfect sense to him. He rejects feminism because they reject gender identity, but can't seem to figure out what a male identity might be. Google reveals that an old column of his in the New York Times proposed that the solution to the problem of housework was neither for women to do the work nor for men and women to divide it equally, but rather to simply live in squalor because cleaning isn't important anyway, a conclusion that the comments show disgusts his female readers on multiple levels. Even a psychiatrist chimes in, noting that his disregard for his own living conditions is a common mental health indicator. [URL]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/the-case-for-filth.html[/URL] From their body language, his own wife clearly barely tolerates him. Marche is the most lost of lost men. [/QUOTE]

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