On erectile dysfunctions and Michael Jordan jeans – Maureen Dowd in NYT:
‘When I wrote “Are Men Necessary?” two decades ago, the book’s title was meant to be mischievous.
Sure, men and women seemed in a muddle at the dawn of the millennium. As women climbed up, poking their heads into spaces long dominated by men, the shift in power affected romance.
There was an assumption that courtship rituals, where women “trapped,” “landed” and “bagged” a man, waiting to be chased and expecting to have their restaurant tab picked up, would fade as equality grew.
No more games, like the ones recommended by “The Rules,” the 1995 bible that told women to play hard to get. (“Always end phone calls first.” “Let him take the lead.” Don’t stare at men or talk too much.)’
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‘As one post circulating on Instagram grumbled, “The fact that men think they can spend all their good years whoring about & can come back to you in the sunset of their life with their erectile dysfunction, Michael Jordan jeans, & receding hairlines is really just crazy to me.” Literature is filled with women’s keening about the less voluble and less emotional way that men communicate — and their tendency to pull back.’
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‘As Rachel Drucker wrote in a Modern Love piece for The Times, many younger men have been rewired to prefer “frictionless” stimulation. The more time they spend online, she contended, the more men drift away from intimacy and vulnerability toward indifference.’
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‘Women are becoming more like men but men are not becoming more like women. And humans are becoming less human.
Men are necessary and so are women. But they need to get it together.’
Read the article here.
Men will become superfluous. Perhaps the final act of superfluity is still far away.
Also, I agree, the combination of Michael Jordan jeans and a receding hairline is a red light, if ever there was one.
Find a nurse, or become homeless, old man.
Write a poem about your erectile dysfunction; and hand it out in the New York subway. Be less bourgeois, be brave, look for the bottom.