Showing posts with label Men. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Men. Show all posts

Friday, June 23, 2023

Great moments in understanding............

Yet five men got into this metal tube and tried to go to the bottom of the darkest depths of the ocean. Again: driven by a game controller. I’ve never more fully understood and yet not understood men than after reading about this tiny submarine controlled by—one more time—a video game controller. There’s a reason men make great and strange discoveries and also have a shorter life expectancy than women. 

-Nellie Bowles, from here

Friday, October 2, 2015

The "modern man" controversy..............


..................The original proposition and first rebuttal are here

One wonders if the original was a satire, although since it was published in the NYT, probably not.  Real men respond to these sorts of things whenever they feel like it, which is not right now.