This will surprise precisely none of you who have been reading my work for more than six minutes, but I have some very specific views on what being a man entails; what a man should be, how he should behave, how he should treat other people – particularly women. (I’m looking at you, Doug Emhoff, you lady-slapping, nanny-impregnating jerk.)
Turns out Americans in general have some thoughts on the matter as well, and Pew Research recently undertook an effort to determine what those views are. And, I have some thoughts on that, too:
25% say people in the United States have mostly negative views of men who are “manly or masculine.” This is smaller than the shares who say people have mostly positive views of masculine men (43%) or that views are neither positive nor negative (31%).
That’s saddening – that it’s as high as 25 percent, I mean. But maybe it’s not…
