Two Cultures, 1 | Bad people
Peggy Orenstein, in her latest book, finds that young men, although aware of the excesses of masculinity, are still treating women with disrespect and callousness.
“The Daily,” linked to Isaac Chotiner, “Can Masculinity Be Redeemed?”
New Yorker.com (20 Jan 2020), https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/can-masculinity-be-redeemed
Seems that Peggy O. has discovered that people are not what they should be.
Leaves me wondering, is this newsworthy? The New Yorker has popped this into its daily news bulletin ‒
Every afternoon, we’ll send you must-read news, commentary, culture, and humor from The New Yorker,….
The idea can’t be that this is surprising. How?
It has to be, We aren’t there yet. We haven’t yet got all the guides, controls, and reprogramming in place that will make “young men” treat women with respect.
That’s not an idea with any legs in my culture. That we haven’t yet ‘wiped out some sin’ is just dense ‒ an observation from foolishness not intelligence.
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But, you ask, isn’t the point of culture to ‘cultivate the young men’ and train such behaviour out?
It is indeed. Cultivation.
But if you want it stopped, eradicated, then agriculture just isn’t your image. In my culture the tares are not a scandal; shock at the tares is foolish. We aren’t trying to rip the tares out.
