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🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00.0 | The New York Times, a former newspaper, recently ran a story with this headline, quote, |
0:06.0 | Men, where have you gone? Please come back, unquote. The subheadline was, quote, |
0:12.6 | So many men have retreated from intimacy, hiding behind firewalls, filters, and curated |
0:18.6 | personas, dabbling and scrolling, we miss you, unquote. |
0:23.8 | I know what you're thinking. |
0:25.4 | You're thinking, oh, Clavin, you smoking hot hunk of hilarity? |
0:28.6 | A joke is a joke, but do you really expect us to believe that that was a headline in the |
0:32.9 | same former newspaper that has spent the last 40 years denigrating men and marriage and promoting |
0:38.5 | a sexual culture of such degrading perversion that it could only be intended to cause even a |
0:44.2 | fully operational male to recoil horrified from sexual communion, as if he were Ben Affleck. |
0:50.2 | And the moment he suddenly realized he had left the really nice Jennifer for the Jennifer with |
0:54.5 | the admittedly spectacular body, but with the kind of personality that could make even a fully |
0:58.8 | operational male recoil horrified from sexual communion as if he'd spent the last 40 years |
1:04.5 | reading the New York Times. Okay, sure, even I've forgotten where that sentence began, |
1:09.2 | but the point is, no, I'm not making |
1:11.3 | this up. This article, wondering why men had retreated from intimacy into a world of solitary |
1:17.7 | stimulation, utterly devoid of emotional content, was written by racial Drucker, a woman who |
1:23.4 | spent part of her career working for Playboy and its affiliated hardcore porn outlets enticing |
1:29.4 | men to retreat from intimacy into a world of solitary stimulation utterly devoid of emotional |
1:34.7 | content. She writes, quote, and this is a real quote, I'm still not even making stuff up yet. |
1:40.1 | I remember when part of heterosexual male culture involves showing up with a woman to signal something, status, success, desirability. |
1:49.6 | Women were once signifiers of value, even to other men. That dynamic has quietly collapsed, unquote. |
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