Bold and refreshing, Doug.

I’m supportive of opening up all opportunities to everyone but these insideous insertions of phrases like “toxic masculinity” into our language as if it’s settled science is appalling and smacks of the type of society George Orwell warned us about. However, if by “toxic masculinity” they are referring to shorter male life expectancy (a difference of about six years as of the last decade of the 20th Century) then ok, maybe it’s time to have this conversation. According to Scientific American:

The genetic advantage of females is evident. When a mutation of one of the genes of the X chromosome occurs, females have a second X to compensate, whereas all genes of the unique X chromosome of males express themselves, even if they are deleterious.

Does this sound fair to you? As a male living with the terrible knowledge that my single X chromosome with all it deleterious genes is going to put me in the ground long before Rosie O’Donnell, I have to ask – where’s my parade?

But never mind all that science stuff! Just keep encouraging little Joey that he can grow up to design prom dresses and give his sister a hammer and anvil and tell her how she can be a blacksmith in our bold new society. The next time the beaches of Normandy have to be stormed I don’t see why the tipsy girls majoring is social sciences in the next booth over at Applebees can’t carry the bangalore torpedoes through the machine gun fire while I stay at home watching Lifetime after a challenging day as an aromatherapist.