Men's Feminist Theatrics in Attempt to Impress Progressive Women Skewered Online
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My son does believe that a man needs to modulate their masculinity a bit to be attractive to young women who've been taught to be scared of masculinity. His heroes are people like David Bowie and Prince and thinks you can be a bit androgynous and still look fabulous and he rejects the non-binary aesthetic which he thinks is being an amorphous blob. He would not buy into the ridiculous stuff that this article is talking about.
I'm sure that young women have trouble too but it looks like there is segregation between young men and women these days a lot like segregation between white and black people today. It's not like there are formal laws that say black people can't live in certain neighborhoods but very few of us live in neighborhoods that are integrated and a 23-something who isn't in college can find there are plenty of places where you can encounter people of the opposite sex who are <13 [1] or >33 and plenty of places you can meet people of your gender who are your own age but really eligible singles are scarce. It's at least partially real in that there was a birth minimum for his cohort, and probably people in that age are at the peak of being isolated by social media.
[1] ineligible
I tend to tell LGBTQ+ people that they should not move here because in doing so they throw away their vote and drive up our cost of living, I think they should go to the bluest corner of the purplest state.