The Masculinity Crisis

I’ve written about “lookism”* — discrimination against the less attractive. Graduating law school in 1970, I wasn’t ugly, but short, which didn’t help my career. On the other hand I was white, and, especially — male. My class had a then-unprecedented 12% women, who had a hard time getting jobs. One female classmate sued.

How things have changed. Today, men are widely deemed a disadvantaged group. Senator Josh Hawley wrote a book bemoaning loss of masculinity. (Though after raising his fist for the January 6 ...