“The Great Feminization” catastrophizes wildly about the future, presumably because what’s happening in the present utterly undermines its central thesis. Eighty-five percent of Republicans in Congress are men. From January to August, an estimated 212,000 women left the American workforce while 44,000 men gained jobs; Black women are being disproportionately—perhaps even intentionally—excised from the federal workforce. According to a new assessment from The Ankler, only four of the top 100 American films in 2025 so far have been directed or co-directed by women. Democrats are currently so desperate for strong male role models to promote as candidates that they’re all tangled up over whether a burly Maine oysterman’s Nazi-symbol tattoo is defensible. As for emotions run wild, Cabinet members brawl in public like rhesus monkeys on HGH: In September, the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, reportedly told the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, Bill Pulte, “I’m gonna punch you in your fucking face,” because Bessent heard Pulte had been talking to Trump about him behind his back. (The anecdote slightly refutes Andrews’s argument that men “wage conflict openly while women covertly undermine or ostracize their enemies.”) Also in September, the “secretary of War,” Pete Hegseth, summoned all of the nation’s generals to Washington and gave an erratic lecture about facial hair and implementing “male standard” for combat roles. In April, a Fox News chyron called Trump’s tariffs “manly” as a roundtable discussed whether they might even be able to reverse the crisis of masculinity, presumably by making soybean farmers so poor that they have to join ICE for the signing bonus.