Bias? What Bias?
20th August 2018
The Guardian over in the UK apparently has a unique feature.
The Week in Patriarchy is a weekly roundup of what’s happening in the world of feminism and sexism.
This particular instance is entitled Men’s fixation on young women is another sign of masculinity in crisis.
This is of course nonsense; men have been ‘fixated on young women’ for at least 5,000 years; something that’s lasted that long is, from an evolutionary point of view, certainly a feature rather than a bug, and thus far from being ‘in crisis’.
What’s actually ‘in crisis’ is the modern hipster female predilection for finding some aspect of men that they dislike and proclaiming it somehow a defect in men that men are somehow responsible for fixing.
Masculinity is certainly in crisis — but the crisis is caused by the disturbing number of women attempting to eradicate it, and by the even more disturbing number of men who are sufficiently confused as to jump on board that effort.
Such men are doomed never to reproduce.
I strongly suspect that Arwa Mahdawi is eventually going to find herself in the same boat.