Quotation for the Day
31st May 2025
ZMan:
It is not that the suburban dad wants to be a he-man construction worker, so he buys the gear of the he-man construction worker and wears it like a costume, but that men naturally want to be in a world where they make things and fix things. Ten thousand years of selection pressure for that has had its effect and no amount of feminization will extirpate that instinct from the males of our species.
Modernity, however, means most men live lives of quiet desperation, to borrow a phrase from Thoreau. Necessity requires them to work in cubicles and offices, playing office politics and adhering to the highly feminized work structure. They live lives that are at war with their nature. It is no wonder that home improvement is a multibillion-dollar industry that caters to the office drone.