A Sub-Standard Man is Worse Than Death

What the "Repeal the 19th" crowd fails to realize

As a hyper-literal person, I often have to restrain myself from reducing every interaction and conversation down to the “brass tacks.” Subtext, subtlety, and letting silence speak all have a place. Relations between the sexes is one of the best use cases for these kinds of delicacies, actually.

But they’re only effective if both parties know what is being said in the subtle silence. If one (or both) parties is, for instance, a slack-jawed zoomer without even a hint of social couth or knowledge, then you can’t be genteel about it. You just have to slap the little weirdos in the face with a brusque, direct sentence and endure the emotional fallout.

Which is where I come in.

Actually, that’s a lie. Andrew Tate, the internet’s toxic ex-boyfriend, came in with this take:

Wretched man though he is, Tate has at least three takes a year that hit the mark. In this case, he has accurately called out (in aggressive and overly simplistic language) why many men face rejection from women over and over …