I can’t stop thinking about this tweet from an account with 1.5m followers:
“Men, Do not sleep in a woman's house. Do not even contemplate having sex with her in that house. That is disrespecting yourself and polluting your dignity. Stay in your house. If she wants to come, she will come. Don't lose your sanity because of sex. #MasculinitySaturday”
I tweeted my first thought, which was: “Babe your target audience do not have houses. They have their moms’ basements.”
(The New Yorker: “In the U.S., living with parents is now the most common domestic circumstance for people between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four.”)
Eventually, I remembered an exchange from Frasier, S3E6: Sleeping with the Enemy:
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