The latest example of this sort of commentary comes to us via New York magazine’s The Cut, an increasingly parodic vertical covering “women’s lives and interests.” In it, author Kathryn Jezer-Morton expresses her fear that she may be incubating in her home two young men who will grow up to be monsters — i.e., conservatives. Despite having been raised “in a spirit of loving gender agnosticism,” her sons, ages ten and 13, have displayed disturbing tendencies typically associated with men. That isn’t the source of Jezer-Morton’s trepidation. By her own account, she is supportive of her children’s passions, even those specific to American males. What piques her anxiety are the signs that these outward displays of maleness are early indications that her kids will one day succumb to the distorting messages broadcast by the masculinity-industrial complex.

Like the Times before her, Jezer-Morton devotes a disproportionate amount of her essay to establishing her own sterling progressive credentials. Toward that end, she attributes the sort of virility she hopes to discourage in her boys to a variety of left-wing bugbears.