Occupation: Writer Birth: 1976
In economies in which women work, men and women in relationships make about the same amount of money, or women make more. Women are 40 percent of bre….
We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less ac….
One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even in the White House. And you could say the s….
Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay to wear lipst….
Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job..
You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart..
Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinner….
Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway..
The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f - k. And now, you know, when actual sexual….
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time..
Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to..
As you get closer to equality, you get more pornography. True patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia do not allow pornography because women are not ….
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 of. On t….
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 attitude to male fr….
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 i….
Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written bo….
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 t….
The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see them walking down the street is their g….
The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us..
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 ….
The research points pretty clearly to the rise of companionate marriage, and I just think it's going to keep being popular, for the very simple reaso….