What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s or even Reagan and Bush, there was a real political backlash against feminism. This is different. This is… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century in France, "the Golden Age of Women." The next wave in the 20th century comes from Sweden, one… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive this. If… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job. — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
The division [between how much housework men and women do] is declining across all advanced economies - not for the reasons that people want,… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home.… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of masculinity and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece, and the only thing he liked to do was horse around with kids when he was back from slaughtering. One thing that feminism revealed is that being a distant patriarchal figure was not something men wanted… — Stephen Marche Copy Share
Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery. — Stephen Marche Copy Share
Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine why a woman would ever call herself anything but a feminist. But a man calling himself a feminist, what does that mean? The answer is he wants to be taken as a good guy. Your choice is between saying you're a feminist and raising a flag at a "Take Back the Night" rally and being a men's… — Stephen Marche Copy Share
When you look at how men and women are living together, there are two processes at work. One, women are rising in the middle… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I don't really mind it when Trudeau calls himself a feminist because, you know, he did the half-female cabinet; that's something to be proud… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
![“What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s or even Reagan and Bush, there was a real political backlash against feminism. This is different. This is a parodic recreation of the destruction of traditional masculinity. Look at…” quote by Stephen Marche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/96e/stephen-marche-15665_80s_what-we-re-seeing-now-is-not-just-a-back_1907173.jpg)
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