People Are Reluctant To Admit That The Real Societal Problem Is Shitty Parenting

Because, if you say that specific quiet part out loud, your own path to relevance may now lie in tatters.

This one is a complicated topic and every person’s interaction with said topic is very different based on their age, generation, upbringing, belief in success markers, whether they’re a parent or not, etc. I will try to paint the edges here as best I can. And yes, my own sperm is slow and I can’t impregnate my wife and she probably resents me deeply for it and that does color some of my writing, absolutely. I’d admit that upfront for anyone.

Let’s start with a David French column

Opinion | Men Are From Mercury, Women Are From Neptune

French has done some good work since he went to New York Times, as an aside. Better work than a lot of their op-ed columnists.

In that column, he’s talking about gender differences and parenting and whatnot, and this part stands out:

But whenever we lament “kids…