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Okay guys guys I hear you hashtag not all men I think I actually said that in the intro to last week's show. You know, last week's show where I talked about the guy who got arrested for fucking a dead deer by the side of the road. Hashtag not all men would fuck a dead deer by the side of the road. I have been a man all my adult life. I have never fucked a dead deer by the side of the road, nor have I ever had to resist the impulse to fuck a dead deer by the side of the road. But I somehow couldn't resist the impulse last week to succumb to despair about men. And I did suggest that maybe we needed a break for men, which isn't fair to men or to the people who love them. I am one of those people. I love men. That is not a secret. And I know

they're not all bad because I have so many good ones in my life. The problem isn't the existence

of men, as Wally pointed out in the comments about last week's show. The problem is the behavior

of far too many men. By identifying men as the problem, we are taking attention away from the real

causes, and at the same time, making generally decent men feel a kind of background discomfort

simply for being men. None of that helps. Wally is right. Wally, you're right, making all men,

especially boys, feel uncomfortable about being men,

conflating masculinity with toxic masculinity, lumping all men in with the dear fuckers.

It only seems to convince good men to isolate themselves for fear of being perceived to be bad men,

while convincing bad men to go ahead and be their worst selves.

So, for the record, despite what I may

have said at the top of last week show, not all men suck. Some do. News is full of those men,

but some of everybody sucks. Jaze Maxwell, not a man, is in prison where she belongs. For the

sex crimes she aided and abetted,

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