It would only be fair to say that Brendan O’Neill and a number of his colleagues on Spiked have a poor opinion of MRAs. Nonetheless, they publish some good articles, and Brendan’s latest piece Leave men alone, to which Nigel alerted me, is a gem – to the extent I’ve just taken out a subscription (£5.00 pcm) to Spiked so I can support their work and leave comments. The end of Brendan’s article:

Men aren’t talking about their penises, Caitlin, because they’re busy fighting fires, digging for oil, mending roads, fixing the plumbing and safeguarding society so that people like you can sit back and write fact-life fluff about their lives. The irony is too much: it is their masculinity that sustains the social conditions in which you can moan about their masculinity. You’re welcome.

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