Stephen Marche Quotes
Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.
You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.
Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.
When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home. It doesn't matter if they're male or female.
Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.
Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job.
Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit.
Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.
The problem with the way we discuss gender is that it tends to be "Let's sympathize with women" or "Let's sympathize with men."
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.
Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.
Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.
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