Man Problems

There is a long history of journalism chronicling the way women have ruined the pleasures and pursuits men have long enjoyed. In 1929, English theatre critic St. John Ervine wrote, “When the theater was vital and alive, there was no woman either on the stage or in the auditorium.” This, of course, has never been true, but that was not a deterrent for St. John. Over the past many decades, women have been accused of ruining marriage, and their own “charm and femininity” by smoking, wearing makeup, and even worse, pants. Women have been accused of ruining men themselves “making milksops of their men,” and they have ruined the US military and military academies, and even the whole country. They have ruined the sports of tennis and golf and even the morale of toll collectors for the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Most recently, they have ruined the modern workplace, what with their feminism and liberal ideas about equity and fairness.What’s worse than this cultural preoccupation with the…