NEW YORK TIMES: WHY ARE WHITE MEN SO PARANOID AND UNHAPPY WITH THE CULTURE?

ALSO NEW YORK TIMES: Requiem For White Men. And yet even this sorry Maureen Dowd piece winds up being nostalgic for what’s lost: “He reflects many of the values that America once proudly stood for: toughness without belligerence, charm without smarminess, loyalty without question. He is masculine yet chivalrous.”

All the stuff that the Dowds of the world wanted to extinguish — because, you know, chivalry was a system, one that demanded certain behaviors of women as well as men. And demanding behaviors of women might limit their options, or hurt their self esteem, or make them regret their life choices, all things that are not allowed.