Acidman comments on Norah Vincent’s new book, “Self-Made Man“, citing the following excerpt:
“If you did your job or held up your end, and treated them with the passing respect they accorded you, you were all right.” Neither dumb lugs nor proletarian saints, Ned’s bowling buddies are wont to make homophobic cracks and pay an occasional visit to a strip club, but they surprise Vincent with their lack of rage and racism, their unflagging efforts to improve Ned’s atrocious bowling technique and “the absolute reverence with which they spoke about their wives,” one of whom is wasting away from cancer.
Acidman adds:
Why should anyone be “surprised” by a “lack of rage and racism” in a group of men? Why should anyone find that men expressing “absolute reverence” for their wives a remarkable idea? It certainly couldn’t be because these qualities are totally opposite the leftist, feminist, intellectual, New York Times stereotype of men today.
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