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In September, a former Cornell student sued the university and seven fraternity members, who she says drugged and raped her. Nobody was arrested; only two were expelled. According to her lawyer, some of the others were allowed to make up for it by writing an essay. All of which is to say: I understand why the phrase “male loneliness epidemic” makes women want to gouge their eyes out.
And still, I’m curious. Men are a lifelong academic fascination of mine. Also, they control everything, so if they’ve all gone off the deep end, I’d like to know. Or, as Luke Kennard puts it in his brilliant Booker shortlisted comic novel Black Bag: “When damaged men have money and influence, that’s a problem for the whole world.”
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