Ross Douthat, a man who is somehow regularly published by The New York Times, recently shared an editorial in which he responded to the growing phenomenon of men murdering women because they don’t feel like they’re getting laid enough by thoughtfully stroking his goatee and conducting a thought experiment about the “redistribution of sex.” Among the non-incel factions of the internet, it has not gone over well.
Although he never says “to men” in the piece, that is its overwhelming implication; his preoccupation with satisfying the boners of entitled dudes as the one and only solution to gender and sex-related social issues is unquestionably paramount. While he admitted, in an exhausting “clarification” (read: doubling down) thread...
