"The media are all wrong about men"

[Warren DeMontague]

1. The media loves these made up stories that play on American insecurities.

Like the cavalcade of "you're doing it wrong" mommy books endlessly flogged by Time, etc. last year. Ooooh, "tiger moms are best!" "no, no, disaffected, smoking, cold and unfeeling French bebe moms do it better!"

And 3 months from now there will be another opportunity to pay $19.95 to learn why all your parental instincts are wrong, wrong, wrong, and the fact that manufacturing jobs have all gone to China has nothing to do with soulless outsourcers, dirt cheap labor costs and zero environmental oversight, but rather the fact that YOU DIDN'T MAKE YOUR KID STAND OUTSIDE BAREFOOT IN SUB ZERO TEMPERATURES BECAUSE SHE WOULDN'T PRACTICE THE PIANO FOR FOUR HOURS STRAIGHT!

This "end of men" nonsense is the same shit, although in my experience men are less likely to engage in anxiety and angst driven magazine and book purchases. Maybe that's a generalization, but its what i've seen.