Let’s Generalize About Men

If masculinity is a prison, why have I spent my whole life trying to break in?

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
11 min readAug 24, 2022

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Behold the unbearable prison of toxic gender, well drinks $3 tonight only. Photo by Rythik on Unsplash

It must be hard being a man, too, a woman says to Don Draper in the pilot episode of Mad Men. By the end of the first season, the person saying it — Rachel Menken, Don’s client and soon-to-be-mistress — knows she’s wrong.

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.