She is writing about whether men should identify as men. No, read the text and my follow up:
In an article for Public Books, Lisa Wade, a sociology professor at Occidental College (which, I’m embarrassed to say, is my alma mater) recently wrote that “we should reject the idea that men have a psychic need to distinguish themselves from women.” Why? Because “masculinity is toxic.” In fact, we should be “suspicious of males who strongly identify as men.”Frankly, I’d be more suspicious of males who identified as something other than males like, say, toasters, or unicorns, or their great-aunt Mildred’s long-lost cat. It seems to me that those males would be delusional and therefore far more suspicious than males who actually identified as males. Since that’s what they are. It would at least display a much stronger grasp on reality than our dear friend professor Wade.
Would I want a man to identify as a toaster?
You bet, if I were an appliance company. The last thing I want my engineers to do is identify a people with penis and short hair, an absolutely worthless identity in the appliance engineering business.
The Glenn Reynolds crowd is still hung up on with the male castration complex, which is why their politics make no sense. They end up with Moores dictating their male penises when all we wanted was a friggen toaster.
Imagine, Glenn, if every mathematician needed to pull out his penis and show it off before giving a proof.
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