After all, you can argue – argue until you cry – about what modern, codified misogyny is; but straight-up ungentle manliness, of the kind his mother would clatter the back of his head for, is inarguable. It doesn’t need to be a ‘man vs woman’ thing. It’s just stiff between The Guys. Seeing the whole world as ‘The Guys’ is important. The idea that we’re all, at the end of the day, just a bunch of well-meaningschlumps, trying to get along, is the basic alpha and omega of my world view. I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘antigen’. I’m just ‘Thumb sup for the six billion’.

How to Be a Woman