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."

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.

We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.

Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.

Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.

The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see them walking down the street is their gender.

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."