The New York Times Is Late to the Masculinity Crisis

My most loyal readers already know that, as penance for my many sins, I occasionally read the New York Times. It’s painful because its opinion section is home to some of the most spectacularly misguided people I’ve ever encountered. It’s very rare for someone to be wrong about everything. I’m a walking mistake myself, so I know what I’m talking about. But there are columnists there who are always wrong about everything. It’s a real talent. I imagine it takes a lifetime of work: going to a bad school, attending a sufficiently stupid university, listening to unbelievably idiotic radio hosts, and carefully selecting the dumbest and most sinister reading material imaginable. And finally, believing all of it. My admiration goes out to anyone capable of achieving something like that.

Now the Times has discovered that masculinity is in crisis, that the “new masculinity” was a scam, and they’ve recorded a podcast to discuss the issue. It’s amusing that the Times is surprised by the consequences of its own ideas: few newspapers have spent so many years fighting so hard to spread the disastrous ideas that destroyed the male universe.

Some of us have been warning for years that destroying men, as the postmodern left has tried to do, would ultimately harm women far more than men themselves. Today, when the demolition of masculinity is more than complete, the Times denounces the problem as if it were breaking news. The press was invented to report the news before people already knew it. Modern progressive journalism, by contrast, consists of being the last to report it — telling people something only after everybody already knows.

The podcast gets the initial diagnosis right and then, with incredible skill, proceeds to propose a series of truly stupid ideas that, far from solving the crisis of masculinity, practically guarantee the disaster will continue. In short, they believe that social engineering against masculinity has failed and, instead of acknowledging that it failed because it was built on fallacies and ignored natural law, they propose a new form of social engineering. Wonderful: let’s do the exact same thing that brought us here and see whether we get it right this time. In reality, if a majority followed the advice of the two participants in the discussion, 10 years from now the Times would once again be running the headline: “Incredibly, masculinity is still in crisis.”