men? men. men!

took a take

Here’s a post from Derek Thompson I found puzzling:

If you read the quote and then read the characterization of the quote, you may also be puzzled. It’s not very inflammatory, is it? She’s not like, my friends and I have a groupchat where we make fun of lonely men, but rather, “the male loneliness crisis,” the talking point. But if you read the article—which is a review by Emily Witt in the London Review of Books—and then come back to this post, you are going to be even more puzzled. One thing that’s clear when you read it is that the people who talk to men like they are pieces of shit who should kill themselves if they have any aims other than pure self-aggrandization, are… male “influencers” like Andrew Tate. The very title of Witt’s review (“Do you feel like a failure?”) references this story about Tate:

Jamie Tahsin and Matt Shea’s Clown World follows the authors through the making of two documentaries, The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate and Andrew Tate: The Man Who Groomed the World…