HAVE WOMEN ever been written off as a class of people in a leading journal of opinion with the sort of summary disdain that appears in The Atlantic’s latest piece, “The End of Men”? Certainly, men have publicly expressed exasperation with women, stating that they were more sentimental than men, and not as smart. Sometimes these statements have been extreme and contemptuous. But has any prominent journalist ever broached the idea in any serious journal that women were unnecessary, that they served no useful social function?

That’s the difference. Male intellectuals have expressed scorn and exasperation with women but as far as I know they have not seriously presented the idea that they were useless.

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