When Do I Get to Visit the Enclave of Pornography and Idleness?

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) says men are retreating to an underground world of video games and masturbation. Where is it, and how does one get in?

Jude Ellison S. Doyle

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A man playing video games. At least he’s not… you know.
One of the two most popular activities in the Enclave. Photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash

Men, famously, are a tough gender. They’re solitary; they’re resolute; they tape their fingers back on with duct tape after they’ve cut them off on the table saw they were using to make a nice picture frame for Mom in wood shop. Is this an accurate picture of Men? I have not researched it whatsoever, and have in fact cobbled it together mostly from lazy stereotypes I saw on old episodes of Home Improvement, but sure, let’s say I’m right about this one. I am, at the very least, as right about Men as Republican Senator Josh Hawley.

Josh Hawley (R-MO) is also an appreciator of manly, masculine, tough men, and is concerned that they are not getting enough appreciation these days. Needing to be constantly, vocally reassured about every single little thing you say and do is, as we know, a major need for a strong and self-reliant gender. Men are so tough, says Josh Hawley, that millions of them will lapse into a life of chronic onanism if girls are mean to them.

“How can we be surprised that after years of being told that they are the problem, that their…

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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.